Who is going to the Hong Kong Trade in March 2017?

[SunSeeker]

Thank you. Will add instagram link in a bit.

Will try to blog n update instagram when I'm there. Thankfully Wordpress has a great app so it's not that hard to blog on phone/ipad. Hopefully no technical glitches. I'll add fb if I've time and figure out how to create a page (it took me a week to add the blog to my domain omg).

I am mad about Mad About Pearls and now following Icyjade!

 

[SunSeeker]

Hope you feel better, Wendy. It's been a germ battlefield at work...

 

[pearlescence]

The link in my signature seemed to have disappeared. Hopefully now reinstated. Yes. much better by the day although only three breaths in the pearl drilling room felt like it was going to have finished me off! In spite of the state of the art filtration!

 

[Katbran]

My eyes crossed at the thought of sorting those teeny weeny pearls ! So many lovely pearls and what a fabulous trip ! Cant wait to see what you do with them ! Did you buy the GSS WSS mix necklace you posted ? Very pretty!

Hope your are feeling better !

 

[Pareltje]

I wish you a speedy recovery, Wendy. I saw your pictures on FB, love them. I wish I had been in the factory also.

 

[Pareltje]

Has anyone read the latest PP blog? those pearls in Hisano's hand. Sigh, they are huge! I wonder if the oysters didn't choke because of them.
Are we soon wearing ginormous pearls? Oh my neck!
http://blog.pearlparadise.com/

 

[pearlescence]

I saw those too - I whipped out my calipers and snapped this

 

[BWeaves]

Holy cow, those are door knockers. I can't actually see wearing those. The need to be on a beautiful jewelry cabinet as the door pulls.

 

[Katbran]

Good grief !! Be perfect for a focal bead in a gemstone necklace !

 

[Pareltje]

I saw those too - I whipped out my calipers and snapped this View attachment 49896

That's a quail's egg, Wendy! Oh no, bigger!

 

[pearlescence]

This cute little SS fella was a bit smaller but did come home with me. I think he will find a home sitting on my computer with a blob of blutack.

 

[jshepherd]

Has anyone read the latest PP blog? those pearls in Hisano's hand. Sigh, they are huge! I wonder if the oysters didn't choke because of them.
Are we soon wearing ginormous pearls? Oh my neck!
http://blog.pearlparadise.com/

Those pearls were insane. All of them were over 40 mm, and they were asking $35,000 per pearl!

 

[BWeaves]

This cute little SS fella was a bit smaller but did come home with me. I think he will find a home sitting on my computer with a blob of blutack.

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He's glaring at me.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Those pearls were insane. All of them were over 40 mm, and they were asking $35,000 per pearl!

That figure boggles my mind.

 

[pearlescence]

He's glaring at me.

He's too cross eyed to glare!

 

[Pearl Dreams]

He's too cross eyed to glare!

Haha, I see it!

 

[Purranha]

Those pearls were insane. All of them were over 40 mm, and they were asking $35,000 per pearl!

Jeremy I'm curious about those pearls - are they left in the oyster for eeeeextra long for them to get this big (and if so approximately how many years), or are they freak of nature and some sort of mutation? Any insights?

 

[pearlescence]

Here he is in position, watching me. He tells me his name is Alphonse.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Alphonse! I love it.

 

[BWeaves]

I don't know. He looks like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

But he does look like an Alphonse.

I just love naming pearls. I don't name my other jewelry, just the pearls.