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The pearl and the mountain is a really wonderful piece. Very creative!

My first piece-o-fun from the beading lots is shown here. I took the two biggest white rounds and made fabulous monster ear threads with them. The big one is 12.3mm and the smaller 11.5mm. My husband thought it was a close enough match in size for earrings since they're not next to each other...

Callire - I've purchased 2 of the TPO cranberry strands, one as a Christmas gift in December (6.5-7 I think) and one sometime in late summer (7-7.5 I think). Both strands were nice and fairly-priced in my opinion, but when I compared them I was surprised to find that the colors were quite...

Knotty those are amazing! It seems like they'd look wonderful with the November special. Are they yours??? Can we see more pics?

Sheryl - I'll try that (or encourage the hubbie to try that - whichever one of us ends up with the camera next). Thanks for the advice!

I got a strand of tahitian keshis from Pearl Paradise about 4-6 months ago - they are 9.4-13mm. There are a lot of greys with bluish overtones, some coppers with greyish or metallic brown shine. Not as many pinks as Cathy's, but wearing them with a light blue sweater makes them glow blue...

I, also, took this as a compliment. I think there is reference to this in the titles thread. I hope I misunderstood your comment quoted above, because if you're "not exactly sure of the meaning", I don't understand why you would automatically assume it's negative and make accusations when on...

Knotty - they're amazing! I gasped when I saw that pic & the Hubbie came running to make sure it wasn't something that had a price tag associated. :o I'm still very much an amateur but those are some of the most amazing colors and "glow" I've seen, and that's from a pic! I think they have so...

Steve - just wanted to compliment you on the piece in your avatar. The colors are so vibrant and wonderful - did you have it made or did you happen to come across this beauty somewhere? -Carol

On the dye job subject, I have a pair of 6mm black freshwater pearls that are on posts for earrings (with tahitians hanging from them on chains). I've only worn them about 10 times so far, but every time I take them off, I have a little dark circle on my ear from the dye. I always thought dye...

Being an engineer, and having spent years working in a machine shop using calipers to test high-precision parts used for medical devices, I'm SOO excited to see calipers here on PG - my profession and my passion are colliding! It's so cool!:cool: Marc - I'll back you up on the manual calipers...

Was that pearl on the PP web site about 3 months ago? My husband was lusting after a piece that looked just like that - he liked the shark's tooth look. Regardless, it looks great!

My favs are the gold and the black. The black just makes it look spooky, but yellow has more personality than white, IMHO.

Terry, LOL! That's a really funny thought - quite a dilemma when you own a pearl store but the wife is hoping for the infamous "Yes, Dear" answer... See Ladies - there are drawbacks! We'd have to SEE and possibly be able to TOUCH all those sparklies before they get shipped off to make sure we...

Yet another vote for that clasp being wonderful! I never thought of that, but it's such a great way to make a simple clasp look so much more artistic and unique. The colors are truly wonderful. I think multicolor strands have so much more personality! Thanks for sharing, Terry!

Francesca - thanks for the compliment!! The piece in your avatar is really quite stunning. Is it a family heirloom, or were you lucky enough to happen upon it somewhere?

Oooh that's exactly how I feel! It's a good thing I don't have half the money, either, or I'd be PMing you trying to the set up a sharing plan. Kinda like a timeshare. :p Hmmm... I probably can afford 1% of the necklace... only 99 more participants to go. That gives me what - a whole 3.65 days a...

OMG that makes two of us. Those are FABULOUS, especially contrasted against that white shirt. I wonder how much a set of 12-15mm or so (do you think that's about the size?) Tahitian baroques would go for.... will have to research tonight to see if anything is out there! WOW!!

Elisa, The clasp on your vintage akoyas is so lovely!!! Thanks for sharing!

Oooh - now there's a promising idea: a PG Yards sale. (That would be yards of pearls, of course. har har har) Hmm.....