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Thanks for the kind words PearlSailor (you too Lisa, LBoone and Patty!). Glad you are loving your Water Lilies necklace. Nice job getting the colors to pop, those keshi's can be tricky! Wear them well! Appreciate the kind words on our quality and point of view Caitlin, hope we have...

I'm in if you are in Jeremy :)

Nothing wrong with Twitter Ms. T... it just takes a bit of getting used to.

They are almost certainly freshwater from what you are saying. They are not "circled" to mimic, it is just one of the many natural shapes that Freshwater Pearls occur in. As for the color, a recent trend has been to dye these pearls to get an array of colors that do not occur naturally. This...

I think the first one goes too far... while it might get attention, it also might get you on a fashion miss list. The second one is very popular right now, but I have to say that the third is unique yet classy... bet that gets some good attention for you. Like the idea of putting them in the...

Seems like TPP tends to shut off the conversation when it gets too far out of whack... wish it didnt come to that, but what can you do...

Just finished reading the entire site... eating my words as we speak... Sorry TPP :)

I am about halfway through the site and I have to eat my words... while I still dont agree with the need for anonymity for anyone other than the sources, most of my problems are with commenters who hide their identity and not The professor...

You really think so... I'd argue that he might not have gotten that info if his sources werent anonymous, but why does he need to be. There is an industry site, nationaljeweler.com where people say some truly horrible things under the guise of anonymity and it can often lower the level of...

That is the good kind of scuttlebutt :) Nothing wrong with being excited about an official first!

The lifeblood of a certain kind of blog is scuttlebutt... in my mind the right kinds of blogs are more about creating quality content for a targeted audience. It's a more challenging goal, but the end results are usually better for everyone. I've peaked at his blog from time to time, but...

Good, glad we are not alone! Besides Facebook wont let us change our page name from Honora Freshwater Pearls anyway... Guess we are just going to have to stick with it :)

Sorry, saw your posts after my comment posted... It definitely read as a specific market and think it was a bit on the dramatic side to try and post it as something spanning the entire industry. As for the pain in suffering in schlocky and commercial Akoya... I just dont see how it can compete...

I just pull him into my Google Reader as I always forget to get over to that site. The pearl world is certainly feeling the pinch just like everything else in Jewelry, but there are still some people making things happen... Honora, PP, etc. As for what you were suggesting about your friend...

Anyone else read this latest Pearl Professor piece... http://www.pearl-professor.com/2009/08/playing-taps-for-us-pearling.html Times are certainly tough and consumers/wholesalers are more conscious than ever, but to say that the US Pearl market is dead as a duck... this seems to be an...

Engineers, Architects and Artist always have so much in common, it is clear from your father's handy work that he had an amazing eye and talent!

I'm not having trouble seeing the pictures at all... that is strange. As for the little girl, I did not post that on this page, she is on our Flickr site though (link below). Enjoying the Cat's with pearls photos, too cute! Sorry about the broken string PearlEscence...

Hey all, I had a customer request on our FB page that Joel and Ralph in our office will have thoughts on Monday, but was curious what the forum thought. A customer asked me what is the single rarest pearl in the world. Is there a definative answer to this or is there just a variety that we...

PurlGurl - I love hearing passionate FW pearl stories like that... and by the way, there is nothing wrong with selling the microcord necklaces (I'm always going to be a bit partial here as Honora really was the first to use this with pearls after Jeffrey Roberts brought it to diamonds!)...

Gotta love it... Even when a company like that loses, they win!