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OOoo, the SoC keshi arrived. I'm starting to get ideas. I also have some loose gemstones taken from some gold jewelry I recently sold. I'm open to ideas. Let's brainstorm. NOTE: The colors of the pearls are much brighter and colorful in person. (Two Tahitian keshi necklaces from Kojima...

PJs and pearls today. I can't be bothered to get dressed, but I can be bothered to put on pearls! Two Kasumi pearl pendants that I wear on my Mom's hoop earrings. One from Kojima, and one from a PP Live event with Sarah from the Kasumi pearl farm. Large colorful freshwater pearl pendant...

For newbies, JEG made those bears!!!!~! And of course, they're wearing pearls!

The pearls you are considering are equivalent in price to a vintage strand of Assael pearls from Pearl Paradise. https://www.pearlparadise.com/products/christina-assael-select-akoya-strand If you think "your" pearls are really nice looking, and they have a diamond clasp marked Tiffany, then...

Wow! Great finds. Love the "Biwas." They glow. The ripples are pretty good, too.

Hi Merrily: It's not a woven cord. It's a gold chain. In weaving it's called "Viking Knit." The thin gold wire is "knitted" like I-cord and then pulled through holes until it is the desired thinness. Viking knit (also known as Trichinopoly chain) is an ancient wire-weaving technique...

And I had to wear my new pearls today. Blue baroque akoya pearl dangle necklace and BBBA ring (Big Blue Baroque Akoya) from Takahashi Pearl and Pearl Paradise. Dyed Chinese freshwater pendant, and mismatched pearl drop and jade earrings from Kojima Pearl. South Sea pearl birds ring from...

NEVER shine a UV light on in your eyes. NEVER shine a UV light in anyone else's eyes. But if you shine a UV light at pearls, only the Sea of Cortez pearls glow red. SoC pearls from Perlas del Mar de Cortez and Pearl Paradise. Other necklaces from Kojima Pearl.

And this just arrived. Too stinking cute. South Sea pearl ring. Gold plated silver with CZ accent and an adjustable shank. From SeaBeautyShop on Etsy. Not every pearl purchase has to be "little black dress" ready. Sometimes you need "jeans and a T-shirt" pearls. Takahashi probably would have...

WOWZA! BBBA arrived! Big Blue Baroque Akoya ring from Takahashi. It was from a PP Live back in April, and Takahashi was going to resize it for me, since I need a size 9. And then I was away in Germany, so it only just arrived. It's amazing. The luster, the orient, the SIZE. And it's...

Visiting Dad today. Natural color freshwater keshi pearls from Kojima Pearl. The big pearl is even more colorful in real life. I dub thee The Devine Sarah.

Make sure your granddaughter understands that she's getting VERY good pearls.

Yeah, I usually have to try my asymmetrical earrings on twice to figure out which way they look best.

Jade and freshwater pearls from Kojima. These felt lightweight and summery. It's 90F today and stormy. My ears aren't exactly parallel to the ground, so having one earring longer than the other really works for me.

According to the acknowledgments in the back of the Pearl book, "I thank, too, Laurent E. Cartier, co-founder of the invaluable Sustainable Pearls project, for his generosity in providing the superb images of Kamoka Pearl Farm, French Polynesia." So I googled Laurent E. Cartier and found this...