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My 3 strand choker I designed back in 1986. PP helped me lengthen it from a high dog collar to a choker length. Dog collar is the actual name for those Edwardian chokers that sat high on the neck. Two pendants from Kojima that I wear on my own earring hoops. Summer Rainbow and Winter...

Sarah had several of those chokers in different colorways, and I love the one that JEG bought.

I usually wear what I'm going to wear, jewelry wise, and wear it for everything, so I'm not bringing extra stuff. I've also used that slightly grippy matting that you put in drawers, laid my jewelry on it, and rolled it up and put it in a shoe sock. I wouldn't store my pearls that way, but it...

Mabe pearls are normally made by placing a shape, like a half dome, against the inside of the mollusk's shell and letting a thin layer of pearl nacre build up over the shape. When the pearl is harvested, it is cut out of the shell and the shape is removed. The empty space is filled with resin...

Flat clasps with gemstones or designs on the "top" always flip over, because of gravity. I really don't understand why clasp designers don't add some weight or volume to the back of the clasp to prevent this. Or make the clasp double sided. Well, I do know. It makes the clasp double in...

Perfect travel pearls. One of a kind, blue and white, baroque Tahitian strand from PP I bought at my last Ruckus. The orbit clasp is easy to sleep in on a plane, and the colors go with everything. Mikimoto earrings are also easy to sleep in on a plane. I want to say they are very secure, but...

And extra thanks to JEG for arranging reservations and transportation! Here's some of my photos from the event and the following day when the old Ruckus crew descended on Kojima. The speakers. At Kojima.

They look like baroque SS pearls to me, too. Great price. Cute clasp. Enjoy!

Per Jeremy, the new PearlsAsOne course has new information, since it's been 10 years since the course was first offered and freshwater pearls in particular have changed a lot. There's more and better videos. The course was originally designed for jewelry sellers, but morphed into pearl...

The new PearlsAsOne course dropped right before Pearls By The Bay, so it should be on the PearlsAsOne website. I haven't looked yet. It's PJs and Pearls today. My new jade and freshwaters with The Queen pendant from Kojima.

Oh, these are lovely! Thank you for sharing your photos.

Natural color akoya pearls compared with akoya pearls that have been bleached and pinked. Most akoya pearls come out of the oyster a greenish or yellowish color. Then then go through maeshori, a secret pre-process to tighten the nacre, remove moisture, and increase luster and whiteness. The...

Yesterday was Kasumi earrings (Kojima) and Chinese ripple necklace (Pacific Pearls). They are even more colorful in real life.

Wearing some of my new pearls today. All from Kojima. Freshwater pearls and jade, plus some other gemstones. Herkimer diamond (quartz), tourmaline, labradorite, moonstone. amethyst. The earrings make me feel like I should be walking around Pompeii in a toga. I love the asymmetry of the...

I agree with PD.