[Pearl_dreams]

About storing them, there was a thread recently about how people store them, with some good ideas/photos:

Thread: "How do you care for your freshwater pearls?"

http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2198

[Nerida]

Well, I'm a Scorpio, so we're back on the water signs. ALWAYS loved pearls!! Also, happiest when I'm near water/overlooking water/in water...

My pearls get stored in silk bags, stacked in drawers in my closet - 1 strand flat in each bag. I spent yesterday at a major gift and homewares trade fair and saw the most amazing jewellery boxes - 3 huge drawers - top one sectioned for bangles, but with 16 spots for earrings (each about 2"x2") - bottom 2 drawers with endless long (about 18inches) individualized compartments for bracelets and necklaces. Perfect for the pearl collection....

[lisamla]

Three years to collect all those rubies, that's dedication. It is gorgeous.

[barbie biggs]

Bodecia:
Truly lovely designs. (Sigh.) I've been spending my time flipping back and forth between the first picture with its dual colored pearls and the fourth picture with the rubies, my favorites in the world.

Now the bad news, you probably already know, addictions like alcohol, can only be gotten over by being given up completely. That's why so many people have trouble losing weight, you can't give up eating.

Good news is; having a true passion gives life flavor and purpose. Don't go through life without any passion. Teach your daughter to embrace her passion, should she share it with you. Teach her restraint, and boldness. You already have both. I hope your daughter grows up to create beautiful work like yours.

Your fellow cancer,
barbie

[GemGeek]

I just loooove that we can bare our souls and not suffer embarrassment or ostracism! YES, I'm mad for pearls and proud of it!

Muah hah ha!

What element is Libra? I know it's not water. Air?

[Satine De La Courcel]

Originally Posted by GemGeek

What element is Libra? I know it's not water. Air?

Yes Libras are AIR elementals.. me too I am affriad. Doomed I mean in love with pearls like the rest!

cheers
Ash

[olmander]

Hunting for a good jewelry box where I can safely store all the objects of my obsession became recently an obsession by itself. I know that silk bags are perhaps better but too many silk bags is too confusing, I would never be able to get the right strand out of the pile.

So, here comes the box, just found it last Saturday. Really BIG and with at least 18 spacy compartments for all the necklaces. And OK, it is not silk and does not breath... but I can walk the pearls out opening the box during the day / Gives me a chance to look at my small beauties every time I pass by

[jerin]

Are the stones garnets?


Sorry for "degrading" the rubies to merely garnets.

However, what a lovely colour the have! You must be very proud to own such lovelies...

[jerin]

Originally Posted by olmander

Hunting for a good jewelry box where I can safely store all the objects of my obsession became recently an obsession by itself. I know that silk bags are perhaps better but too many silk bags is too confusing, I would never be able to get the right strand out of the pile.

So, here comes the box, just found it last Saturday. Really BIG and with at least 18 spacy compartments for all the necklaces. And OK, it is not silk and does not breath... but I can walk the pearls out opening the box during the day / Gives me a chance to look at my small beauties every time I pass by

What? You are not buying more pearls then for these 18 compartments, LOL? Lovely box, where can you store it without it drawing too much attention to strangers?

[olmander]

That's the whole focus-pokus: each compartment is big enough for a couple of strands

Where am I going to store it... that's a question... maybe in the bedroom under the bed? Let everybody think that this is my grandmother's old trunk with worthless rubbish

Just kidding. It can easily stand in a wardrobe, or just on a little chair next to it.

[Pearl_dreams]

I recently bought this 3-drawer "Goliat" unit from Ikea for $39.99:

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/40103685

I have a desk in my bedroom in a location where there is really no room to use a chair, so there was this handy space under the desk (where the chair should have been) to place this unit.

That is where I currently have my PP pearl boxes. The drawers are large enough that I can subdivide the drawers in the future to create more individual spaces for pearls.

I also have a large, older style multi-drawer jewelry chest-- solid wood-- that I picked up at Salvation army for a song! That one is on top of my dresser.

And I still have several of the old-fashioned padded jewelry boxes in my dresser drawers-- the kind that, when you lift the lid, a tray pops up inside. Not so much room for clothes in my drawers, LOL!!

[Bodecia]

Thanks for all the kinds words about my designs. Very much appreciated.

At least I do know that I am not the only one who has an obsession with pearls, and we all have our beauties to look at, admire and drool over

Bodecia

[Bodecia]

Hi jerin,

Sorry for "degrading" the rubies to merely garnets.

That's okay Garnets are beautiful in their own right and some much over-looked. I personally love garnets and spinels, often much more beautiful than rubies.

Bodecia

[boo]

So, here comes the box, just found it last Saturday. Really BIG and with at least 18 spacy compartments for all the necklaces. And OK, it is not silk and does not breath...

The box doesn't look like those drawers have an airtight seal. Why would you say it does not breathe? I always assumed it was things like safes and tightly closed boxes that do not breathe, but that things like wooden boxes (where the lids rest upon each other, rather than into a groove) and chests of drawers do in fact breathe. My rational is that if (imaginary) light can escape from the container it is not airtight, and therefore breathes. I would be interested in hearing what other people think. I would hate to find out that I am not caring for my pearls as tenderly as I think I am

[Sueki]

Olmander,
Trust me, that box soon won't be big enough.....