Please Don't Judge Me - I know I have a Pearl Problem

[Jeweljunke]

Thanks Pattye. I think so too. I was very pleased.
Now...here is another love in my life (aside from DH). Let me introduce sweet and silly... Trixie:

 

[pattye]

Oh, love those green eyes, and she looks sooooo soft! Cats can be very entertaining!! My neighbor's cat, Felix, visits often, but refuses to pose for a photo. He's solid charcoal gray, very handsome and suave!

 

[Jeweljunke]

She is a sweetie. She sleeps beside my legs every night and when I watch TV or have been online too long, she will come over and tap me with her paw. If I ignore her or don't respond, she gently bites my ankle

 

[syd]

More more more!!!!

 

[Jeweljunke]

Ahh haha Syd, you are gonna REALLY get me in trouble with DH if he sees these postings. Ok, you asked for it. The first pic is tin cup bracelet I made, second pic is souffle pearls 20", third is 2 FW bracelets I made, fourth is chunky baroques from John Tu, which I strung and are so shinny they look like glass, fifth is 8.5/9mm blue akoya from PP, sixth is Gerochristo 18k Gold, Sterling Silver, Pearl and Ruby Byzantine Cross, and seventh pic is my large FW pearls again, just cause I like em. I do have a few more.....

 

[Mary Montpezat]

Besides the pearls - which are all gorgeous - the gold filigree element in the pendant in your first photo is unusual and truly lovely.

 

[Amanda]

that bracelet in the first photo above is gorgeous! And those silvery-blue in the 5th picture are lovely. In fact, they all are!

 

[syd]

Yummy yummy! I love the baroques... are those south sea? What size?

 

[pattye]

More Beauties! Love them all! Your wire wrapping is very nicely done. Isn't it fun to know you can take a pearl creation apart and reinvent it at a whim??

 

[Marianne]

Beautiful colors on the souffle strand!!!!!

 

[Alex]

not surprisingly.... love the humongous tahitian, although I have to sheild my eyes

any picis of Trixie wearing pearls ?

 

[Jeweljunke]

Alex, Trixie would never in this lifetime sit still for such frivolity. Not that I haven't tried. But when I put the pearls on her, they disappear into her long fur and you just can't see them anyway.

Mary M, I looked and looked for settings for this pearl. I did see some I liked on other websites, but you needed to have a resale license, and I just have not sent for one yet, although I do have the paperwork. I really do have to mail it, so I can have more variety to choose from. This particular pendant setting was from Riogrande.com, and in the end, I really do like it.

Syd, That baroque necklace is FW from John Tu, and it is amazing. I have some other photos of it I'll post.

And Pattye, you ain't kidding. I LOVE making my own jewelry. In fact alot of my pieces I would not have if I had to buy it already done. I don't mind at all choosing findings for pearls and knotting my own strands. I've gotten really good at making a tight knot and finishing neatly. I've been doing the wire wrapping for alot of years, got to be over 10, and I'm pretty particular about having it even and having the loops the same size.

Marianne, that souffle strand! I see this photo of mine and I'm in love, but in some lights it seems kinda too gray. Then I look at it again, and see all the colors. It is a real changeling.

Here are more photos, I'm getting to the end, maybe some photos of rings after this, but alas, I'm running out of my personal pearl jewelry to share.

The top photo is a couple of akoya strands I own, and a light pink FW pearl bracelet with 22k vermeil clasp that I made yesterday. Next photo is super shiny small nugget strand I knotted. I bought the pearls from John Tu. Next two pics are of a tahitian and sterling neckace. Next another pic of the akoyas, and one of the pink FW bracelet. Then there is a large gray tahitian set with 14k beads and faceted black garnet disks. I loved the tuxedo look of this one when I made it. Sparkles like crazy. Next is colorful reborn strand I made and another shot of John's pearls.

Then there is another photo of the baroque FW John Tu pearls, and last is a bracelet of John's pearls, but I will be redoing it, I don't like the clasp. Just does not seem to fit the piece.

Boy, I sure hope I am not boring you people.

 

[Alex]

No Yokota Hanadama - or have you changed the clasp...?

well, I had to ask didn't I......

 

[Jeweljunke]

No, these are 7.5mm akoya. They are varying lengths. Still have the Yokota and would never change the flower pearl clasp, but I have it listed in my PG photo album, so didn't t list it here. Can you believe the quality of pearl that John Tu has? I'm pretty lucky to have access to him.

 

[Alex]

yes, you ARE lucky there Dian

"Still have the Yokota and would never change the flower pearl clasp, but I have it listed in my PG photo album, so didn't t list it here"

of course, I has to go and have another look at the Yokotas... my excuse was that I've re-calibrated 'Pearldar' after all the goings-on on PG recently, and wanted to test him out

no squeak squeak squeak this time, just a little pause and then this kind of screaming noise - you know, like a kettle used to make if you left it on the hob...

They are so beautiful, and the size just carries them into that 'truely exceptional' class. Simply stunning

 

[Jeweljunke]

Thank you Alex, you truly are a pearl lover and a joy to "know". I will post some photos of the Yokotas here then. I have other photos of them I didn't put in the album - after I have my Sunday morning coffee in bed.......

 

[Jeweljunke]

I thought it would be interesting to see the 'pre' pics of the strand. The first couple of photos was the 'choosing' process. The vendor sent me several different shots of the two strands I was interested in. I was leaning toward the 'white/silvery' and not the pink. I am pretty pale and although I love pinks, and have many pinkish pearls, they kind of meld into my skin tone. I eventually did go with the white/silvery strand and have absolutely no regrets. They are my FAVORITE pearls. Even photos don't show the luster and beauty. My strand is #2 in the top photo, and the whiter strand in the other photos. Enjoy!

 

[Adeline Leigh]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm coming late into this... I thought I knew 'hanadama' but, pray tell, what's 'yokota'?

 

[Jeweljunke]

No worry Adeline, you have not missed any type of new info on hanadamas. Yokota Pearl is the vendor in Japan where I purchased my hanadama strand. (Way before I joined PG.)

 

[Adeline Leigh]

Ha ha. Thought it was a new pearling terminology Gorgeous, btw.