Hi Pattye,

Possibly, I misunderstood. But there is still no "fair trade" in freshwaters from The Philippines, Hawaii, or India. And for sure not potato-y ones in unnatural colours on top of that. Where are the facilities that dye these freshwaters from Hawaii bright green? Oh, I see, they send them to China and back. Not.

The owner of the store mentioned it was a certified company that, besides pearls, also supplied the gems in her creations. She had an authentic free/fair trade "Tibetan" amber necklace for sale, too. I'm pretty sure that Tibet does not have any real amber deposits and that old Tibetan amber was procured from other places in trades. Authentic traded old Tibetan amber is very costly, rare and not 300 bucks for a necklace(which this person had for sale). Good luck trying to cut through all the BS people will spew about their authentic old Tibetan ornaments, let alone buy some fair trade. Anyway, where is this company that is supplying fair/free trade authentic Tibetan amber and Philippine, Hawaiian and Indian FWPs??

Slraep