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Actually the Dazzle Stik stuff shined up the little bit of silver in the "not a clasp" just fine, so I didn't feel the need to break out the silver polish, or worse THE DIP. Yesterday, the Pomme de la Mer SS pendant from PP. Golden SS and Tahitian earrings from OceanRhyme. And today, my...

Trying some other pearls with Merrily's vintage baroque akoya necklace from Kojima. BBA's. Blue baroque akoya pearls. Can you see the colorful soap bubble like luster in the video? BBA pendant from Takahashi Pearl in Japan. My camera is not doing the pearls justice. Dyed freshwater pearl drop...

Merrily's photos don't show off how PISTACHIO her Tahitians are. And her Kojima Kasumi pendant really glows in real life. The colors were more intense in person. I also love her mismatched abalone earrings.

Possibly naturals. Maybe.

WOWZA! Those colors are unreal.

I finally met DEX, the supermodel cat. We compared pearls. He's wearing a colorful freshwater tin-cup with chunky amethyst beads. I'm wearing Sea of Cortez and feather pearls. DEX lives with Merrily, and owns the catwalk. Then, a little bit of swapping pearls between friends. Merrily's...

Visiting Merrily today and meeting DEX the supermodel cat for the first time in person. Freshwater feather pearls from Kojima Pearl. Sea of Cortez keshi tin-cup necklace in a custom design from Hisano Shepherd of Pearl Paradise. Sea of Cortez ring. Pearl from Douglas at Perlas del Mar de...

And you never know if the keshi is going to be a GOOD keshi. A nice, plump, interesting shape, with good luster. 99% of them are crap.

I agree with everyone else, the dark pearls are dyed freshwater pearls from China. They don't look remotely like Tahitian pearls. Wrong shape, color, etc. The white ones are also freshwater pearls from China.

These are bad quality, and some don't even look like pearls. I don't think they're sellable for jewelry. Maybe sell them in bulk as fish tank gravel, or for vases to make flowers stand up?

I agree with PD. Cultured, dyed, freshwaters from China. They were cultivated with a piece of mantle tissue, but no bead. They were 100% pearl nacre.

I think there's just not much out there in the way of SS keshi. So trying to MATCH a LONG strand of them, is going to be really hard because by their nature, they're not going to match well.

Pearly-Whites, I know what you mean about the camera not capturing all the colors of the pearls. Those faceted pearls are so cool. Did I overdo it? I think I might have overdid it today. Dyed freshwater pearls, jade, and various other gemstone beads. All from Kojima Pearl. I love mismatched...

Thanks Pearl-Whites. I'm really pleased with how the SoC necklace turned out. It has no clasp. I just pop it over my head. I didn't see a point of having a clasp if I was never going to use it. Also, I LOVE pearls with turquoise and yellow gold. I think turquoise looks so much better...

I have a LONG rope of mixed pearls I call the Everything Bagel rope from Kojima, because it has every kind of pearl in it. It's about 52 inches long. No clasp. No knots. Just those little bumpers on beading thread (not wire). It's great. It's not stiff at all.