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Thank you dear Pattye, looking forward to seeing you soon! ❤️💨

Sharing this little collage I made for Pearls By The Bay 2025. Can't wait to share all the fun with you pearls! Cheers, Sarah

It was great to see you both there last year, and hope you enjoy your upcoming travels VERY much! Cheers, Sarah

I just posted two of the lectures from last year's PBTB: Hannah Vera of Wild Ocean Pearls & Douglas McLaurin of Everywhere All The Time :LOL: BOTH ARE FANTASTIC!

You'll be missed! ❤️💨 Sarah

I've heard Croatia is AMAZING! I hope you will really enjoy!

YOU are invited! ❤️💨 PEARLS BY THE BAY MAY 18th 2025 10am-6pm NEW VENUE! This year we are thrilled to invite you to join us at the boutique Acqua Hotel in Mill Valley for the world’s only day-long seminar dedicated entirely to pearls! This marks our 6th year hosting this unique event, which...

I LOVE that piece Purranha.. very creative!

Thank you Douglas for posting about this here! I got so many messages and emails about this! I too saw SCAM right away. No Tahitian pearl farmer would ever sell freshwater pearls on their website! Big NON NON for actual farmers of Tahitian pearls, especially with "generations in the business"...

to be clear.. only answering your question, not suggesting that the entire necklace was freshwater. YES, maybe a another type of marker, I'm still thinking it may have had reverent connotations.

Japanese fresh water tissue nucleated or "keshi" pearls were mostly sold to the Middle East, most likely they were resold as natural pearls.

I extra big ❤️ this thread. Makes me want to do poison pearls in reverse. I've never heard of this before and I am so intrigued. It reminds me of "the Persian flaw" in carpet making. The concept is that, only God is perfect, so the makers would add an intentional flaw to their weavings. I...

I am SURE you will love it.. it's a GORGEOUS suite!

We are planning to hand out custom made "totes" this year, I can't say that they will be safest way to carry your treasures but they will be readily available. There is a luggage store on 4th street in San Rafael, I just looked them up and the prices are WOW, mmm I couldn't recommend. For...

We were all sitting around the table, hungry and tired.. we heard a rainstorm rumbling/maybe a giant truck/and then the super old amazing house started shaking .. I jumped up and started running around gathering my things and preparing for a night's sleep in the forest.. everyone else just...

❤️💨 see you soon!

thanks Cathy.. we really had SO much fun!

Thank you so much! Appreciate your help with that! See you soon! Cheers

Fresh off the heels of our whirlwind trip to Lake Kasumi ga Ura, Japan.. we are now in FULL tilt last minute preparations for Pearls By The Bay! Can't wait to see you all! As always, please reach out if you have any questions, or need any recommendations for accommodations. PEARL ON!

In case you missed the whirlwind live event we had last week at the shores of Lake Kasumi ga Ura, featuring the Pearl Paradise dream team, Mr. Kiyoshi Yoneguchi: the last remaining freshwater pearl farmer in Japan, and yours truly CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RECAP! This was SO fun to be a part of...