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TROPIC • COVER STORY

Join the ‘hint list’

If you think your significant other might
happen to visit The Diamond Hunter
soon – after you’ve inconspicuously
‘left’ this issue lying around the house –
fill out the ‘hint list’ at
thediamondhunter.com.au
What cut are you after?
A simple solitaire or something more
flashy? How many carats? A gold or
silver band? Christina will be armed
with some pre-prepared intelligence
when your partner does drop in!

“From there I worked in retail jewellery
hidden text messages and undercover as a teenager and rather serendipitously
phone calls,” Christina said. have ended up playing with diamonds
“Some laidback clients will proudly again, having never lost my passion, STONE CUTS
profess their partner never reads their despite taking many other paths along
messages and my response is always, the way.”
‘how cute, that’s what my husband After studying business and journalism
thinks too.’” at the University of Queensland, several
Christina’s firm instructions that clients stints in marketing and communications
save her number under an alias, as well in Brisbane, and some time on a Heart Baguette Pear
as delete their messages, is born from a Goondiwindi cattle farm, Christina has
deep appreciation for the sentimentality returned to the Far North – a short drive
of a gifted ring. from her childhood home in Boogan,
“I received my very own piece at seven south of Innisfail. Now in the thick of the
years old – a delicate diamond signet ring Christmas and New Year ‘engagement
my parents had bought for me whilst on season’, Christina is already busy with a Round Oval Cushion
holiday in Hawaii. quickly growing market in Cairns, while
“Even at a young age I understood still working with interstate clients.
how precious it was not only in value, You can visit her at Shop 15, Village Lane,
but sentimentality. by appointment.

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