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Some pics from Tucson of the Friday night GIA event. “A Night at the Museum”. This event was held at the Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum at the University of Arizona.

What a fun weekend of pearls, pearl education and news, and pearl friends! I am posting all the pics in the “Other” thread. You will need to log in to view the pics there.

Congratulations to Jeremy Shepherd, on becoming the new CPAA President! Other board members you will recognize: Douglas McLaurin Sarah Canizzaro, Kojima Pearls Peggy Grosz, Assael Joshua Israileff, ASBA USA

I visited Mikimoto Pearl Island as a kid, but I really only remembered the statue and the Ama divers, so it was a great experience to revisit the site. Even my non-pearl friends enjoyed the museum and learning more about the cultured pearl process. We also had a very nice lunch in their...

I posted the same pics in The Show Us thread, but I am duplicating it here to have its own place. I was able to visit the Takahashi Pearl office in Kobe, meet the wonderful people behind the pearls, and to see their facility and experience the pearl processing. What a wonderful and very special...

Thanks Jeremy and Douglas for providing all those links! I tried to reply on that thread but it said I have “insufficient privileges to reply on this thread”. :oops:

Aloha! We are back in Hawai‘i! I wasn’t going to post this trip, but I have seen so many pearl embellished things that I decided to take pictures. I will post those later. First, it’s all about the snow people! Traveling pearl Shell necklace and PP Tahitians Shell necklace and Kojima boke...

I’m on vacation in Hawaii! It’s a favorite destination and I am here a lot. I thought I would take you window shopping with me on this trip. First, let me introduce you to the traveling pearl. This was a PP purchase from around 10 years ago. Jeremy coined it the traveling pearl because it has...