Cees found me another treasure, a new golden south sea strand!

[BWeaves]

Ah, now the goldens can shine by themselves. Gorgeous! Good match, too.

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you BWeaves, I'm really happy with my new studs.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

What a beautiful gold color!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Pearl Dreams, it is a gorgeous color. I have been wanting to have some bigger deep golden south sea studs for a while, I have those gorgeous 7,5mm deep goldens from Oceanscove. They are gorgeous and goes well with most strands but are a bit small for my new golden strand.

 

[CathyKeshi]

Wow, that's a golden dream, Charlotta ... lovely

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you CathyKeshi.

 

[Charlotta]

Finally some decent photos of my new treasure, the deep golden south sea studs from Pearlescence. The pearls are 11,2mm round with wonderful color and luster. It goes great with my new big deep golden south sea strand from Cees as well. First just the studs.




Then with my frog pendant from Pearlsociety. That frog is magical, or maybe it's my grandmothers goldchain that are magical. When I was a child my grandmother was my favorite person in the whole world. I would have done anything for her. After she died my mother gave me this chain that she got for her 50:th birthday and didn't remove ever. So I treasure it. Anyway the pearl on the frog is stunning.

With my deep golden south sea strand from Cees.





The strand on it's own.

With my gorgeous deep golden 7,5mm south sea studs from Oceanscove.

And here you can see why I think that those smaller studs goes better with my wavestrands and why my new bigger studs goes better with my new big strand then the wavestrands.


Since I was going to take photos anyway I brought most of my golden pearls with me, also I am impatiently waiting for my new golden and white south sea ripples from Pearlescence and wanted to play with my golden pearls for a bit. Most of my south sea studs.

Golden south sea strands.

Also one with greenish south sea pearls from Kongspearl and silvery blue akoyas from Pearlescence. This one is rather cooltoned and not very golden, but pretty.

The green and blue strand goes great with the green south sea studs I bought from Pearlescence last year.

I can use the champagne south sea studs from Tahitipearldesigner. It's such a difference don't you think?

The champagne south sea studs from Tahitipearldesigner goes better with this baroque light golden south sea and vintage akoya strand.

Finally my latest project that I might change. Greenish golden south sea pearls from Kongspearl and ivory freshwaters from Pearlunar. But I broken the tread and needle...

 

[pattye]

Great pearly combinations in these last ropes! Well done!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Pattye, the last rope I have just remade, adding some pale peach metallic freshwaters and a more random placement. I have to check it out in daylight but it looks good now.

 

[Charlotta]

I wore those golden studs for over a week, really lovely studs.

The last couple of days I have worn my rainbow strand with an asortment of earrings, the forest green tahitian studs, the pink and green tahitian studs and my colorchanging edison huggies all from Pearlescence. Yesterday I took some more photos of my new golden strand, last week I forgot to show the difference between the new strand and studs and the copper green tahitian earrings from Cees. I don't think south sea pearls can get such a deep color, but maybe I am wrong. It really is a deep golden color. These earrings goes with pretty much everything.


And my new deep golden south sea strand really is colorsaturated. A photo with my sunset rope.

I cannot believe that I own something this gorgeous. I promise not to rearrange these ones.


Lucky for me they go well with my complexion, always troublesome when ordering online, especially with golden south seas. I don't like to return anything ordered outside sweden.

 

[Charlotta]

The newly remade golden south sea wavestrand and my deep golden south sea strand from Cees.

 

[Charlotta]

I am contemplating all of lifes big questions today...where is smallest kittens favorite toy mouse (again and please not under the shower cabinet) and why is it that golden south sea pearls are either very dark or rather light. Is it the color itself? For example red has less seeable colors than blue, mostly they blend into each other. Or is it that I just ever did see dark or rather light golden south sea pearls. I mean there isn't that many golden south sea pearls to see in sweden...except for mine....when I squint they sort of blend together, the shades that is. Also almost lost a contact lens trying to squint... Well I can see the subtle difference in shades and overtones. I should probably get an index of every golden south sea shade there is, preferebly in a strand. But collecting shades of golden south sea pearls isn't all that easy. The description online mostly says deep golden, golden, medium golden or champagne. I show you what I mean in photos. First some strands. The circled strand is rather light, my new deep goldens from Cees are very deep, the greenish golden south sea and akoya wavestrand have some rather different pearls in it, but even the darker ones have very green overtones, then my ripple south sea rope have beautiful luster and some different shades but not really in between dark or light and then my deep golden south sea and vintage akoya wavestrands are rather dark golden as well. Now if you squint the colors blend into dark or light golden...

The greenish wavestrand looks dark next to the ripples but

Then they look green next to the deep golden strand.

The darling frog is medium golden. This is a lovely color and clearly lighter than the deep goldens.

They all blend together next to these dark beauties.

But they are of course not south seas, haha. They are tahitians. There is an obvious color graduation in my rainbow strand

But if you squint... The only warmer tone south sea pearl I got is in this champagne enhancer. My greenish south sea pearls were suppose to be this color...

I forgot, I also have these champagne studs.

These ones are really green.

The color on this one is described as golden.

Very light compared to these deep golden south sea studs from Oceanscove.

This rather rambly post is more of a question really, is there any shades in between that aren't obviously dark or light or might I have gone bonkers?

 

[multichrome]

Beautiful strands. The clasps are perfection. We’re missing the sun today, so the golden lights of your newest photos is a real pick me up! Thank you for sharing!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you multichrome. It's been sunny here today, but still not many hours of daylight.

 

[Charlotta]

My quest for golden south sea colors continues. Today I made a mess of all of my golden south sea pearls, trying to evaluate the colors. I did forget my two favorite deep golden south sea studs, so I added those later. They are the same colors as their matching strands though.













There are to many pieces to add a description of every one of these. Ask if you want to know the specifics of any one of them. After seeing them all together I still have a suspicion that I lack the medium colored pearls. Mostly they look light or dark. The quest continues, all in the name of science...

 

[Charlotta]

Some recent photos of my golden south sea strand.


The studs I bought from Pearlescence are wonderful.


With rainbow strand from Pearlescence and golden south sea frog from Pearlsociety.

Same frog, white south sea strand and copper green tahitian earrings from Cees.

South sea enhancer from Pearlsociety, if I want to flip the strand around and add a pendant or such.


A golden twist.

 

[amti]

The new earrings are a very nice, dark golden color! At one time PP sold their gssps as 24k gold, 22k, 18k...

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you amti. I don't know what karat value my studs and strand would have, Wendy and Cees don't use karat value in their description of golden south sea pearls. They qre described as deep goldens only. I find it difficult to separate gold based on karat value. In sweden by tradition we use a redish 18 karat gold, it's not rosegold only less yellow. When I lived in italy many years ago they prefered a more yellow gold. I remember thinking that it didn't look like real gold. But then I was only 18. Now I like both colors. I cannot see any difference between 9k, 14k or 18 k, I have some vintage pieces. Is there a visual difference? I would love to know what my golden pearls would classify in the karat scale. And what about the lighter goldens?

 

[pattye]

This discussion of colors of GSS is interesting. In the ropes of very special GSS at the Ruckus a few years back, there was a clearly range of colors, including some silver-blue keshi. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to purchase any of them. I do have a strand of GSS which was from Druzy Design back about 2004. I also got a strand if GSS keshi which I added to lengthen my necklace and make a bracelet. I'd say the color of my pearls is 14K, but your deep color pearls with their overtones are beyond 22K or even 24K.

As we see in the Tahitian pearl harvests, the pearls can range from rich black to silvery white, with most being in the mid ranges. My understanding is that in a SS/GSS harvest, there will be a range of colors, a few even very dark. The bracelet of baroques has the best example of colors.

 

[CathyKeshi]

Ooh, Pattye those center drilled keshi are dreamy ...