New and less new pearls

[annie]

Your collection is beautiful!

 

[pattye]

Wonderful collection, congratulations!

 

[asurazzy]

Wwooww Catherine does good pearls!! Need to check her out!

 

[kojimapearl]

That first necklace of South Sea mixed color/texture is incredible! Beautiful collection. <S

 

[CathyKeshi]

You have a lovely collection, Fiona; thanks for sharing! Those beautiful gold and white SS combinations captured my heart

 

[Naan]

amazing pearls!

 

[Ladonna Rama]

luv your stuff thanks for sharing! those Tahitians make my heart flutter...!

 

[Fiona]

Thank you for your comments. It's funny, I always feel weird saying thank you because it's not like I personally did anything to bring these glorious things into being, but we all know that . Thank you for posting!

I have been at work this week and only just came back to trying to take better photos. I did done with my iPad, thinking that what I lost in clarity I would make up for in mental health given it took ten minutes to get the each photo off my phone and upload to the site. I'm also trying to not misrepresent the colours because some seemed quite over saturated (I didn't post these).

Anyway, I'll give this a try. These photos show a range of Catherine Cardellini pearls. I have a huge number of her strands, just love them. The colours here are closer to life but they have come out a bit dull and unclear. Back to the drawing board with the phone camera!

 

[annie]

Lovely! I especially like the last necklace which looks like a long rope.

 

[Fiona]

Lovely! I especially like the last necklace which looks like a long rope.

Thank you! Yes, it's around 80 inches. I got some good pictures this morning and will upload once I can get them onto my iPad....

 

[Fiona]

I am having One Drive issues! The photos are taking forever. I'm also losing clarity in the process to upload. Anyway, the colours are right. This is a ripple rope from Catherine Cardellini. I just love it, there are heaps of comma shapes that I find really pleasing.

 

[Fiona]

This is another CC ripple strand, it's quite purple in real life.
The colours are leaching out of my neck shots. I'm only including them so you can see sizes.

 

[Fiona]

I'm doing these in no particular order. These are more photos of the large roundish Tahitians from Jan Logan.
Seriously, these neck shots were originally quite colourful. By the way, the last one was just to try and get more pearls in shot!

 

[Fiona]

More of my mixed Tahitian and SS rope. This one is very hard to photograph.

 

[Fiona]

More of the Tahitian/SS rope, and a group shot of some of the strands. I'll come back to these.

-- oops I just saw a double post, sorry --

 

[Fiona]

The first one is the photo I mean to post before.
We then move on to some of my Catherine Cardellini SS strands. The first few are SS keshi. These are apparently quite rare. They go nicely with the new strand that I showed at the start of the thread, the SS new one from Imogene.
The photos then show the keshi with the softer goldens from Catherine Cardellini, moving on to photos of the goldens by themselves and neck shots. The last two photos are the same golden strand.

 

[Fiona]

The first two show the necklace from the first post in this thread. I've been admiring this all week and think it has the best lustre of all my strands. The last photo is a shot of the strand that I took at work this last week.

The third photo shows the stronger golden SS and a white SS from Catherine Cardellini. I showed these nested in a photo at the start of the thread. The yellows are strong on their own and don't suit me, but look great with the whites.

 

[Fiona]

Here is the 80-something inch pink ripple and small rounds/ovals from Catherine Cardellini. I normally wear doubled, but like I said, rope photos are hard!

 

[Fiona]

This is a similar rope, but the discus ripples are pale and the rounds are white. You can't tell from the photos, but the ripples are gently rainbowy, which was lovely to discover.

 

[Fiona]

It's possible you're all a bit sick of these posts but I'm on a roll and will keep going until I burn out!

These are more CC pearls, there are two strands that I wear together. These are baroque SS with pinky roundish FWPs.