How often do you wear pearls?

[lisa c]

Thanks Josh, for that 'visual'...

I wear them every day, always pearl studs, sometimes with drops added, and I wear an endless CFW strand wrapped on my wrist. I love pearls, I love pearl bracelets, I love pearls...

I used to wear an old strand of akoya. I wore them almost everyday for 10 years and they wore out, then the internal beads cracked when I tried to restore the white color with too hot water (sob, but they were worn to a nub by then anyway).

 

[mausketeer]

hey lisa! how are you? josh, still waiting for that photo without the fish in the way - you know - so we can see your pearl choker better (please apologize to your wife for me ...... i showed my boyfriend that photo - he said "ah, THAT'S why you're always on that website!" lol)

i wear something every day too (sleep in it, shower etc - only take them off if i dye my hair)...... they're all pretty cheap so i don't care if i ruin them...... once i get my tahitian "keeper" strand i'll be a lot more careful with them.......

- jodie =

 

[KarinK]

hey lisa! how are you? josh, still waiting for that photo without the fish in the way - you know - so we can see your pearl choker better (please apologize to your wife for me ...... i showed my boyfriend that photo - he said "ah, THAT'S why you're always on that website!" lol)
- jodie =

Jodie! Have a heart! You are embarresing the poor boy so he'll never put up another photo...

- Karin

 

[Josh]

Thanks Karin for sticking up for me. LOL. Jodie that's too funny about your boyfriend.

 

[Marianne]

Here is an idea. The fire fighters around here put out a calendar every year to raise money. Maybe our pearl farmers could put out a calendar of their own. Besides fish for props they could use nets, shells.... Well, they are a very creative bunch

 

[Narcissa]

Thank you, Marianne, I just knew you would suggest that! (& put me on the order list....)

And, in contrast to the glamour of Josh's pearl usage, I wear my SS baroques to water the horses, unload hay, burn branches in a bonfire, and hack away at the beaver dam blocking the drainage ditch. Compared to that, the shower and the sea seem glam - but maybe not so much the lava pit. If I don't wear them for my mundane tasks, how can I convince myself I need more?

Someday I'd like to take them to the opera. Say, maybe, the entire Ring Of The Niebelung, just to make up for their usual rural existence.

 

[Kelly]

josh, still waiting for that photo without the fish in the way -

Not gonna let this go...

 

[Adeline Leigh]

Dragged this out of the archives.

My answer: All the time (even in the shower, ocean, lava pits, outer space, where ever)!

Am I missing something or am I being quite dense here? I can't seem to see any visual ...

My answer to the question: Every day! Here are erhm... some... of my everyday go-to's. And my pearls come off the minute I get home; I learned the hard way. When my girls were little, one nearly ripped my earlobe off tugging on one of my earrings.

 

[Caitlin]

Drooly tool kit. Slobber.

 

[pattye]

Ah, Adeline, a great way to store all those pretty earrings so you can find the pair you want, plus proof you DO have a pair for every day of the month, or is it every day of the year??!!

Marianne, Yes! A calendar would be quite something!

Narcissa, You look gorgeous in the goldens, and hurrah for wearing them everywhere, every day!

Lately I am reaching for pendants; these are on long, sturdy, sterling chains. Usually worn with simple hoop earrings (no pearls).

First, a huge, gorgeous, glowing Kamoka Pearl!!! Near round 15.4mm approx with very
light ring, tons of "Character" and 14k bail!! Lavender halo, with blues, silver, green~my photo doesn't do justice! Josh's farm produces a wide range of colors, including spectacular silvers! Great with winter's sweaters.

Kamoka pearl shown again in the 2nd photo, with a creamy CFWP drop approx 21mm x 11.7mm.

 

[Adeline Leigh]

I swear I am either obsessed or insane. No thanks to all of you, Pattye and Caitlin Handy isn't it my utilitarian storage toolbox storage?

And a 14mm Kamoka, wow, that's a first for me. A beaut!

 

[mausketeer]

adeline - love them all but those hoops are FAB! don't think i've seen any with pearls before (just diamonds)........

- jodie -

 

[Adeline Leigh]

adeline - love them all but those hoops are FAB! don't think i've seen any with pearls before (just diamonds)........

- jodie -

Greek in origin and design, rice pearls are wired along the hoop. Has been 3 years and counting; sadly, seller has disappeared off ebay.

 

[Alex]

Pattye - what a pearl........ just beautiful - I kept going back to look again

 

[newberry]

Pattye I seem to be having major pearl envy over your new beauty.

 

[pattye]

Alex and Newberry,

Ah, thank you! It's pretty special!