My pearls

[Gemandpearlover]

Beautiful sunny strands Charlotta. Happy Easter to you as well.

 

[Happy Huku]

Happy Easter to you too Carlotta.
Love looking at your pearls, so beautiful, all of them.
And love the pansies too, one of my favourite flowers, they look like doubles?

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Gemandpearllover and Happy Huka. I agree pansies are such pretty sweet flowers. I don't know which kind they are, just bought the pretty frilly ones.

 

[Charlotta]

I remade some pearls yesterday. First I made a peacock and white south sea bracelet. The tahitians are from Druzydesign. The photos aren't all that good, but you get the idea. The bracelet is about 8 inches.

Then I cut apart my vintage triple golden akoya necklace and made a mixed 37 inches golden rope. There are lots of different colors of golden south sea pearls as well as two giant white south sea pearls. The pearls are between 4-13,8mm. I really didn't use that triple akoya necklace anymore.

 

[pattye]

Another lovely mixable rope, so pretty, looks like sunshine! Ruffled pansies, new to me, I hope I can find some here.

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Pattye. There have been ruffled pansies in sweden for some years I think. I haven't bought them before. But so pretty. Hopefully you can find some. These last couple of months I have felt myself drawn to sunny happy colors, might also be because daffodils are my favorite spring flower, followed by pansies. So I have mostly made pearly projects with golden south sea pearls. They have such sunny happy shades. I still love my tahitians, so easy to wear with both my skintone and my wardrobe, and my white south sea pearls, that goes with everything. The only pearls happier and sunnier than golden south sea pearls have to be my rainbow strand. The golden south sea pearls in that strand are stunning. Some daffodils.

 

[Charlotta]

Wendy at Pearlescence found me another gorgeous circled golden south sea strand. This one is medium gold and huge, 12-16,5 mm.



The biggest pearls are gorgeous.

With deep golden south sea studs from Pearlescence.

With champagne south sea studs from Tahitipesrldesigner.

With really big baroque south sea studs.

With my ombre circled golden to White south sea strand from Pearlescence.

With my vintage akoya tassel.

With my vintage akoya and green south sea strand.

 

[Charlotta]

I made some more bracelets with the rest of the circled south sea pearls from Wendy, from the three strands that I used for my ombre circled strand. I made än additional deep golden one and a white one. The ombre bracelet I made some weeks ago. I have some better photos of a circled peacock tahitian and white south sea bracelet that I also made recently. So from 0 to 5 bracelets, there is also a light golden south sea one recently. I find that I enjoy Pearl bracelets only if they aren't to dainty. I prefer to have bigger pearls in them. It should be lovely with a rainbow bracelet as well.









The are of course linkable.

I have some pearls leftover. Mostly beautiful medium golden big south sea pearls. Maybe a slightly mismatched pair for earrings?

 

[Gemandpearlover]

Charlotta- the bracelets are beautiful! Love how the colors of the SS and Tahitian pearls are so vibrant.

 

[pattye]

Gorgeous bracelets; you'll enjoy them so much, Charlotta!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Pattye. I do love my bracelet and added a pearl to two of them, just so that they sit better on my wrist. I have been very busy lately, so I haven't had time to catch up. I did make another bracelet and a 38 inch rope some days ago. Normally I cannot make tahitians, white south sea and golden south sea pearls look good in the same strand. They look garish somehow, but I know that it's possible. So I started arranging pearls on my beading board, cut some strands apart and generally made a pearly mess. I found that any color looks good if I made a transition to the next color. So an ombre rope and bracelet it is. It was great fun and took my mind of the world for a couple of hours. There are circled pearls, drop pearls, wierdly shaped pearls and some almost round one, in lots of different sizes. I used pearls from Cees, Pearlescence, Druzydesign, Wen Pearls, Kongspearls and some south sea and tahitian ones I don't remember where I got them from. I have rather many small very circled tahitians that I think I bought as bracelets years ago for example. Anyway the rope first.



They go from deep golden to lighter golden south sea pearls...

greenish south sea to white...

white to pale silver, I don't remember if those pale silver ones are south sea or tahitian...

silver to aqua tahitian to blueish grey tahitian...

to darker grey tahitians...

to really dark to peacock...

to brownish gray and green tahitians...

to coppery tahitians...

and back to deep golden south sea pearls


I made the bracelet in similar fashion but had to limit the variety some.

I had also run out of some pearls,but found two small coppery drop tahitians to add.





I love my new rope and bracelet. So many fun colors

 

[Incik Boncuk]

Gorgeous! You did a fantastic job on the ombre transitions in the rope. I do not have the patience for organizing beads into a nice arrangement so really admire your talent in doing so!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Incik Boncuk, sometimes I just leave a pile of pearls on the beading board for days and randomly sort them when I pass the board, I usually leave it on a counter in the kitchen. Ombre everything is my go to arrangement but today I made a strand of vintage graduated golden akoyas with five huge circled golden south sea pearls. I kept the graduation and put the big pearls in the center and then 8 pearls apart. I think that it will layers well with other south sea pieces. It's basically monocrome since the golden south sea pearls and the golden akoyas have the same color and shade. I also added some small white south sea pearls to a strand of silvery blue akoyas and larger baroque white south sea pearls. I share a photo next time I have good pearl light.

 

[Charlotta]

I also got a purple freshwater strand from Lipearls, like Gemandpearlover. It is a lovely color and I just hope that it woun't fade. With my purple edison huggies from Pearlescence.

With my blue green, sometimes purply tahitian studs from Pearlescence.

And with my aubergine tahitian studs from Oceanscove.

 

[Charlotta]

Whilst drinking my pitch black tar like espresso this morning I sorted some photos on my newish phone. The last phone unexpectedly lost the battle of me sanatizing it, or maybe it was something else. It's impossible to get it to work, it's just dark. Anyway most of my photos were lost, since I somehow forgot to do something to my memorycard last time I changed phone. Had to take new photos. They are now securely saved on both memorycard and Google something. I even organized them in maps. That took days. Anyway, enough rambling and maybe less espresso? I found some photos of my favorite tassel, the one I made out of a tasselhead and a vintage graduated akoya strand that I didn't ever use. If anyone is has time on their hands this is a fun project. I have a description somewhere in either this tread or my akoya redos tread. It's a glorious tassel, everyone needs one and it's great with jeans. Why wear anything uncomfortable? First with the tahitian drop tincup I also made.

With my ombre golden to white circled south sea strand from Pearlescence. I love that strand.

Funny that if I arrange pearls mh hands tries to make them ombres or waves. With my deep golden south sea strand from Cees.

And with new huge circled golden south sea strand from Pearlescence and another akoya project, a vintage graduated strand with four added greenish south sea pearls.

I hope that this will cheer you up. If not, there is always more espresso. I have also finally mastered my favorite take out combo. Sometimes I have to do everything myself, most annoying. Bangkok beef I mastered on the first try, it's delightfully super hot. Got a nice red tone in not-husbands face after eating it. The crispy orange chicken, that is the perfect thing to eat with that hot dish, took something like seven tries, countless Googled recepies and some you tube watching. But finally, better than the take out place I cannot go to at the moment. I think I might have a nibble for breakfast. Be safe.

 

[Charlotta]

Recently Wendy posted a photo on her Instagram page of a pair of mismatched circled south sea earrings that looked perfect for my new circled south sea strands and bracelets. So of course I had to buy them straight away, and yesterday they arrived. They are indeed perfect. I love the finding on this pair. Just like Queen Elisabeths everyday earrings, except for the huge diamond and natural pearls part... First Wendys photo

My photo capture the luster on the pearls, but since veing at home cannot capture the colors really. I get some better photos this weekend. I have tried every rome, angle, time of day...

Such gorgeous earrings, and comfortable as well. Usually I wear my deep golden south sea studs from Pearlescence with my circled strands.


One think that my champagne south sea studs from Tahitipearldesigner would be better, but somehow the combination makes the earrings look washed out.

I have to show you this funny photo of my huge circled golden south sea strand and some gorgeous vintage akoya pearls. It's funny that sea pearls can be so different size wise. The akoyas are 4,5mm.

You can never guess what smallest kitten was just trying to do...she tries to flush the toilet. She accidentally did that one day when she was being wild and basically was everywhere at once. Now she tries to repeat the interesting noise...she is such a clever cat. She already nows how to light the bedroom over bed lights. Luckily they cannot start a fire, being screwed into the wall.

 

[SydK]

Fabulous new earrings, Charlotta, and your kitten sounds so clever!
That last photo is funny and an excellent example of the range of pearls available and just how much volume is added by a few mm difference in circumference.

 

[AzFlyGirl]

Charlotta, love your new earrings. They are lovely. They look fantastic with your strand ! Very pretty

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you SydK and AzFlyGirl, I have worn the earrings today. They are very comfortable.

 

[Charlotta]

Very nice pearl photo light this morning, very overcast. I got some better photos of my new mismatched circled south sea earrings I got from Pearlescence earlier this week.

With my big circled golden south sea strand, also from Pearlescence.

With my ombre golden to white circled south sea strand, I just had to add those five big circled golden south sea pearls that I had leftover and couldn't decide what to do with. The ones I made a bracelet with (and some added green south sea pearls for lenght). So some days ago I remade the ombre strand, the ombre bracelet and the green and gold bracelet was no more. I removed one pearls from the strand and added it to the bracelet, added the five pearls that was leftover and one from the bracelet. Rearranged a few pearls, reknotted the strand and bracelet. Now the strand is 25,5 inches long. I cannot add all the pearls from the ombre bracelet to the ombre strand, some of the golden pearls are to small, it would look wierd. Sure the white and the deep golden pearls could be added, but not the golden ones. Here is the newish ombre strand with the earrings.



I love these earrings, very comfortable and I didn't have anything like them, and I do have some earrings already. The ombre strand and bracelet.

The strand and the three circled bracelet I made from the three strands that I bought from Wendy.

I have gotten a lot of use out of those circled pearls. I have a big one in my new ombre tahitian and south sea rope as well, it's sort of the center pearl, but since it's endless it could end up anywhere. The remade bracelet.

I could pair the earrings with lots of other pearls. Like the deep golden bracelet.

Or the deep golden south sea strand from Cees.

I also took a photo of all my south sea earrings.