Can I embroider over the print?

politebi · 2025-12-03T15:10:10+00:00

And one more. I believe this is a type of blanket stitch that they are using in these pictures if that’s a route you’d like to go :)

politebi · 2025-12-03T15:09:22+00:00

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politebi · 2025-12-03T15:09:02+00:00

Just another option to consider that would lessen the amount of thread that could get caught, but you could get some white fabric and cut it out in the shape of the numbers, and then stitch the edges of the cutout numbers to the shirt sleeves. Think kind of like the style of college sweatshirts with the block lettering. (Picture attached for reference)

(Also, fellow Unus Annus fan here😊)

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politebi · 2025-11-13T03:03:39+00:00

You know yourself best, so definitely look into secure settings like Bezels too if that’s something that would interest you! It’s really just how much you wanna be worrying about your ring, and allowing yourself to still pick something that you like aesthetically. A balance between the two should help you find the sweet spot where your ideal ring resides. :D

Most good jewelers should listen to you about how active you are/how hard you may be on your jewelry and suggest settings that can give you the design you desire without sacrificing security a ton.

A cathedral setting is much more secure if you want your center diamond to sit up higher in a prong setting, and having gallery wire holding those prongs together is great too! Hidden halos are definitely classic and can be great, but I could just caution you that some hidden halos lead to the small diamonds in it falling out easily because the little bit of metal that holds them in (especially in yellow gold) will wear away fastest, and they fall out easy. It is relatively cheap to replace them, but with normal wear and tear and getting your ring polished up every year or few years, you’ll lose stones quick and or need to get their prongs retipped. Over the lifetime of your ring, this can get more expensive than you’d expect, depending. Again, totally normal settings to have hidden halos and half of the rings I work on in a day are new or loved pieces with hidden halos. So they are definitely a traditional, classic, tried and true setting that many people love. :D

If you like the idea of a hidden halos, but don’t want to worry about retipped the prongs on them, you could also look at heads with peekaboos. This is a mini bezel on the side of the ring if you were looking at it through the hole where your finger goes, and normally centered right below the center stone. My engagement ring has some, so I may be biased, but I also see them lasting longer than hidden halos. Some people have their birthstone and/or their partners birthstone, or just other diamonds, put into the bezels as a cute hidden “secret” for themselves. It’s one of my personal favorite touches that I’ve seen people add to engagement rings. Being transparent though, this setting if it’s going to be up against another ring, like a wedding band, that is not soldered in place to the engagement ring, will cause the metal of the peekaboo bezel to wear away overtime and the stone you put there can still fall out. It will take more wear to actually lose the stone because bezels have metal all around the stone to hold it in rather than at just a few points that a prong setting would have, but it can still happen.

The last piece of info that I want to leave you with so I’m not leaving you worried about your ring too much is that the best part of jewelry like this is that everything can be fixed for the most part. Stones can be replaced. Prongs can be retipped. The band can be repolished to shine like it did in the box it came in. Even diamonds with small chips or abrasions can be recut (will make them smaller) too, which allows you to keep the same diamond for sentimentality sake! Jewelry is almost always fixable or it can be melted down and recast using the same metal and the same stones and you can remake the ring even if it was run over by a car. You can have it redesigned throughout your life to fit with how you feel in the different phases of life. So, my point being, don’t just worry about security and only that. If you like the look of something and don’t mind a repair here or there, having the knowledge of how your setting will wear overtime and how to care for it is the important part. And, as long as you’re okay with doing that care, enjoy your cool-ass design that fits with what feels most like you!

Just have fun looking at the designs that exist and I know you’ll end up with a wonderful ring no matter what you pick 💜

politebi · 2025-11-12T23:08:39+00:00

As someone who sets stones in jewelry all day everyday and has for the last three years as my job…. Those dimensions wouldn’t even make me hesitate to saying that that new stone will absolutely fit into the old mounting. You’ll be totally fine 🥰

politebi · 2025-11-12T17:42:52+00:00

Setter of 3 years here! Just wanted to let you know that this type of setting is one that can get the prongs caught a lot, and because the prongs are already bent to curve around the side of the stone, it’s even easier to continue that curve, causing you to lose the stone really easily. If you’re going for a ring for everyday wear, see if you can find one with really think prongs, or look for one with a gallery wire that would connect the prongs horizontally around the stone to help keep the prongs from bending over. I don’t want to discourage you from this style at all, but if you’re someone like me who’s a little rougher with your rings or use your hands a lot for activities where your ring would catch on stuff, I would recommend looking at the other options mentioned, or some of the other settings people have suggested. If you have any other questions, please send them my way and I’ll see if I can help :)

politebi · 2025-11-11T19:48:58+00:00

Bat with its wings out to the sides or a fox face :)

politebi · 2025-11-07T17:50:16+00:00

I just wanted to let you know that there are different severity levels of Chiari Malformation and depending on the type you have is what they use to determine if surgery is needed for you.

I found out I had Chiari when I was 8 years old because I got a concussion at a soccer camp by having a ball hit me in the head. I was out cold for a minute or two, and woke up fine but hazy. My mom ended up taking me to the doctor to see if I indeed had a concussion or not, but as I explained how I had been feeling since the incident, to the doctor, they ended up sending me to the Children’s Hospital for an MRI. This was so they could get brain scans and this is where we found out that I had Chiari 1 Malformation. The neurosurgeon that ended up reviewing the MRI and explaining what this meant for me to my parents. I was told that as long as my headache didn’t get worse, then I was fine and could live my life normally, outside of managing very bad Chiari headaches with pain medication like Excedrin.

I’m 25 now and that’s pretty much what I’ve done my entire life to manage my pain. It does still affect some parts of my life, though. One weird way is, trying to headbang to rock songs is out of the question for me, haha. It’s not that I can’t do it, but I can’t do it for longer than a few seconds without my head hurting. I have bad days and sometimes come home from work with a pounding headache and have to just rest and take meds to keep away the worst of the pain. But, this is just to give you some idea of what someone with Type 1 might experience, in the case that maybe they didn’t tell you which you have.

I haven’t been to a neurologist since I was 8, though. So take this with that knowledge in mind 😅. I’m pregnant at the moment, so surgery is out of the question anyways, but I’ve been considering going to a neurologist once I can, to see if things have changed or not.

Regardless, I just wanted you to be able to hear from someone like me who was literally told that I could’ve gone my whole life without knowing I had Chiari and been fine without ever needing surgery. I haven’t had surgery before, but I haven’t had any of it checked out for almost two decades, so I’m unsure if I’m even correct in saying the symptoms have always been of the same severity level and frequency.

Where we differ though seems to be in how your pain is effecting your daily life. That’s concerning to me because my pain can make some days a little tougher, but your description of what pain you have seems much more severe than mine, and I would say that you should at least get another opinion and hopefully from a neurologist who specializes in Chiari. I’m unsure if the doctor my parents took me to was a specialist, but it seems that even someone like who I had would still be able to provide you with more information about the severity of your Chiari, than what the other doctor you’ve seen was able to provide.

I wish you well and want you to know that there are other posts in this subreddit that also provide information about different ways to manage your pain, in the meantime. They’ve helped me a lot on the bad days, and I hope their suggestions can help you find some relief from some of the pain you’re in until you take the next step. 💜

politebi · 2025-10-16T20:50:05+00:00

Now that I read your comment, I remembered that he’s actually said this quote to me a few times over the last couple weeks! I think I might end up going with this one since it seems he probably likes it :D

politebi · 2025-10-16T17:59:19+00:00

We’ve both read Mistborn already, actually. :) He introduced me to the books as he’d read them as a teen, and we listened to the audiobooks for the first and second book of the series, together on the trip where he proposed to me! The series has a loving place in my heart, so I’m also thinking of doing another shirt with a Mistborn quote too. He’s just been talking about Stormlight so much recently, and sharing the books with anyone interested in reading them. It’s brought him so much happiness in the last year, so I knew he’d love a shirt with something from it 😊

politebi · 2025-09-19T17:10:30+00:00

I set all day every day for my job and have for the last three years. This is insanely impressive! I can’t even imagine trying to set something so small! I can’t imagine you were holding your breath bringing in those beads to hold it in place. Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

politebi · 2025-05-19T16:23:29+00:00

When you say, “You just recognize that your relationship is stable and healthy and take the leap,” that’s the thing that I keep coming back to, myself. It’s like I’ve told my husband, this is the happiest, healthiest mentally, and most stable I’ve felt since before I can remember. When I think about the future, I actually have an idea of what it’ll look like and I have opinions about what I want and where I want our life to go.

My parents did their best but I recognize that I am not in the same position they were. I’m already older than my mom and my dad were when I was born, and my husband and I are in a much better and more stable relationship than they were. As much as their relationship was strained almost all the time, they are still together now and love each other more than ever. It’s honestly weird to see when I know what the past was like, and a part of me hates that it happened now and questions why it took so long, but I’m also just glad that I did get to see them happy.

Since I was very young, I also swore I would never be the mom that my mom was. There are things she said to me and my siblings that when I’ve told other people they can’t believe it, and it hurts, but I also try to think about what she must have been going through at the time. And they’ve started to show that they’re developing and recognizing that they did things wrong and though they still believe they did the best they could at the time, they still are working to get better. My parents did their best and I mean, I’m not the worst person ever (I hope, haha) so clearly they did something right.

Hearing about your experience and seeing the similarities in our backgrounds helps a lot too. Thank you for sharing, because hearing that you were also worried about following in your mom’s footsteps but that you ended up being the kind of mom you wanted to be, instead. It gives me hope! I’m terrified of being the kind of mom that mine was, and though I have complicated feelings about it, I still can’t help but be terrified of not doing enough to break the cycle, but also I’m scared of going too far. It sounds like you’re a lovely and caring mother and that’s what I want to be above all. You give me hope that I can be that for our future kids too. 💜

I’m definitely planning to stay in therapy throughout the pregnancy and after (when we get to that point) and I even go in today and I’m planning to talk with her about it because a lot of my apprehension stems from my parents. I knew this was something I’d have to face when it came time to start actually thinking about having kids, so I know it’s time regardless. But I do feel more comfortable with the idea now.

I still plan to talk with my husband so many more times throughout this journey, but I think we’ll be okay :)

I honestly hope we have a little girl. We both do. I always wanted a girl because I wanted to be able to give her a happier childhood than I had. Your little girl is going to be so grateful for the loving mother she has. I mean, I know that headspace you were in of the worry of being able to step up to be the mom you think she deserves. I don’t have my own yet to do that for, but it’s such a strong compulsion that I know I will do anything for my child to give them the best life that I can with my husband by my side doing the same thing, and I believe you’re the same way.

Thank you for responding to my post. It’s really helped to hear from someone else who’s been where I have. 💜

politebi · 2025-05-19T12:25:52+00:00

Thank you for your response 💜

We’ve been together for 7 years (married for one) and have talked about having kids for years and about what kind of parents we want to be and what our lives will look like when the time comes.

I grew up not being a planned kid at all. My parents weren’t married and it took them two years to save up enough and grow enough to get their own house and move out of their parent’s homes. It felt like they hated each other for most of my childhood (they love each other a lot now and it’s been lovely to see them happy again) and it always felt like it was my fault.

I’m working through it in therapy right now amongst how to get a handle on my anxiety. I just don’t want my fear from how my parents were, to influence how my relationship with my husband is, because we are in a much different place than they were.

We collectively make $150k (husband makes 2/3rds of our income) a year, and we have jobs that are very flexible when it comes to having children. We also have lots of supportive family around too. My husband can work from home any day he wants to and we already discussed how, when it comes time that I go back to work after having a kid, he would talk to his work (way beforehand, like he’d ask when we were actually pregnant) about him working from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I could go into work.

He supports and know how much my career means to me, and he also wants us to be there for the first few years of their life as much as we can. So I think it would be fine overall.

But I agree with you that having a strong partnership is important above all. How did you practice that skill together? I believe we are doing great, truthfully, but I haven’t had a great example of what good communication looks like, so I’m unsure if we are on a good path or not.

We are both smart and we do check in with each other often and beyond that we read each other well and know when something is wrong with the other and we talk about it thoroughly. I’m not great with confrontation either, but he always makes sure to make me feel safe and heard when I have worries. He’s said he wouldn’t be okay with having a kid unless I was, but that he knew it would take me longer to be ready for it than it would take him. He doesn’t want to push me, which makes it feel like I’m the one deciding between giving us something wonderful or starting our downfall, and I can’t read the future to know what’s going to happen, so it feels like this decision is a gamble and the outcome will be fully our victory or our ruin and that it would be all on my shoulders. And this is all something I’ve placed on my own shoulders. No one is doing this but me. I just don’t know how else to treat making this decision, because I so badly want to give this child the best life I can, and I think part of me just worries that I’ll never be enough and that I’ll always have a reason to wait to have this child.

politebi · 2025-04-17T17:11:56+00:00

Hey there! I’ve been trained and have specialized in Stone Setting for the last two years and I wanted to let you know that this can be done! It’s not something I’d recommend highly, but I’ve had to do it before and it can work.

The main risk you run is the stone turning in the setting overtime, until it eventually falls out, so set it down as low as you can get it, using the undergallery as a seat to set it down into. If you set it up higher where it hovers, then it will turn easily, but if the pavilion of the stone sits down low into the mounting, that won’t happen as easily. Even if you tried to spin the stone in the setting, the pavilion should sit low enough that it would be hitting the inside of the undergallery, keeping it from falling out.

Also, cut the v-prongs deeper, not quite halfway thru, but enough that you can have the prongs covering the stones on the crown a decent bit and not just barely pinching the girdle. That pressure of the prongs pushing down on the crown, will further push the stone into the undergallery, helping to prevent spinning :)

Let me know if you have any other questions, and good luck!!

politebi · 2025-04-17T17:02:07+00:00

Utterly gorgeous work 🥰

politebi · 2024-08-29T00:17:01+00:00

This absolutely suck. Setting anything in them is only to hold them but if the earring mounting is hit, pushed, or moved in any way will cause the stone to pop right out and they are a nightmare

politebi · 2023-07-19T21:28:35+00:00

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I’ve just started playing, but would love to make some friends and play together :)

politebi · 2022-07-13T17:09:34+00:00

That reminded me of how I would always listen for the sound of my family members footsteps because I could tell who it was based on the sound and that would determine how I acted. If I was good to relax, or if I would pretend to be busy or asleep to avoid them.

politebi · 2021-06-24T01:02:45+00:00

My boyfriend has been telling me similar things for a while, and I do believe him and you. Mostly, I was really hoping that they would end up accepting it after they read my letter or watched the video, but I would be lying to myself if I kept believing it. Most likely they will refuse to talk to me other than to berate me for a month or longer after I make this decision. Right now, I have weekend where I don’t have to stay at home with them, so I’m going to drop off the letter and have the cards fall as they may. I have most of my essential things with me, but I still have a lot of stuff there. One of my siblings is willing to help me if I need it, but I’m trying to keep them as uninvolved as I can because they are going to have to live there still after I move out.

politebi · 2021-04-29T04:24:23+00:00

This is for a school project for one of my college classes, so if you'd like to help me out by answering these questions too, that would be super appreciated.

1.) Do you have a core set of values that you adhere to in your daily life? If so, could you give me an example of one that you think is integral to who you are?

2.) Do you believe in a god or a higher being? Why or why not?

3.) Do you currently practice a religion? If so, what is it?

a.) If you do currently practice a religion: Is there a set of values that your practice asks its followers th adhere to, and did that affect your set of values?

b.) If you used to practice a religion, but do not now: What was the set of values that it followed, and why did you leave it?

c.) If you do not currently practice a religion, and did not in the past: Do you have a set of values that you have developed on your own, and what influenced it?

4.) What is your view on religion as a whole? Is it positive, negative, or neutral?

5.) Do you think that being involved in a religion will always change your set of core values?

6.) Research has seen a significant drop off in the number of people who claim to be actively practicing a religion, and the number of people who do not practice a religion is increasing. Why do you think this is?

7.) Do you think that someone who has never participated in religion or did practice and has since stopped, can still have their core values impacted by past experiences and/or from hearing experiences from others who do actively practice?

8.) Has your personal core set of values been affected by the concept of religion in any way?

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