lol....... aw shucks guys...... thanks so much!
i admit there is still part of me that feels like i have to go `um, well, they AREN`T perfect, they have flaws on the surface etc.`because i felt a bit embarassed about where i got them (fuzzy, i got them on eBay! `auction pearls`. they have another strand that is very similiar actually, a bit bigger - largest pearl is 13.7mm, mine is 13mm) i spent about an hour going over them with my loupe today (10x) just to make sure they were REAL (i don`t even know what kind of treatments they could do to tahitians to make them `better` so i don`t know what i was looking for! lol. but i looked in the drill holes etc. they look okay. there was certainly no coating or anything like that on them (they have lots of expensive strands for sale as well. and i figured for the peacocks they only had those two. since peacock is so highly sought after, if they WERE somehow treated, why wouldn`t they ALL be `peacock`, right?) i`m still stuck on french characters!!!!
- jodie -
(and i needed a new avatar to represent my new black rainbows! lol it`s neat, eh?)