I feel your pain. Although yesterday I found out from my appraiser that an Ebay ring I bought for $250 is worth nearly $3500 [!!!!!] thanks to the rising value of gold and gemstones, today I went to a sale at a local jewelry store and *had* to have a bracelet by this artist:
http://www.kayseurat.com/kayseurathome.html
so I'm with you over on the "broke" bench...
(it looks like this one, only with smaller oval stones where the squares are, and more turquoise color as opposed to brown:
http://kayseurat.blogspot.com/
It's gorgeous. I'm going to look fabulous in debtors' prison.)