[Raisondetre]

Coiled pictures of the strand. They are mostly round, but may appear off-round in the pictures.

[Raisondetre]

Higher zoom pics, or so I think.

[Eugenie]

Raisondetre, congratulations on your new pearls, they are beautiful! The colours are redolescent of autumn... harvest, fruits (plums maybe), the sun which still shines but doesn't burn...nice! And they must look wonderful on you.

[Nerida]

Lovely lavenders .. gorgeous. Also love the pendant - very classic and elegant! I had a strand of Carolyn Ehret from Druzy Design's bead nucleated FW here - the pale pink is exactly that - pretty fairly floss pink! You would love it!

[Raisondetre]

I just had to put up some pics of the exotics I got. Jeremy's are the multicolored ones on the right. Lighting isn't the best since I took it under fluorescent at night. Will try again tomorrow. I think the ones I got might be just 6.0-7.0 mm, so a full mm smaller than Jeremy's.







I'm actually quite surprised the blemishes don't show up much on the 14 mm lavender solitaire - it is moderately blemished in real life, but the luster and color, plus size/shape really hide it well. I've just never seen such a monster. There was a 12 mm with better luster but less saturated color that I couldn't justify since I didn't fall in love with it.

For the exotics, the lady told me they could only pick maybe one from 3000 or more pearls, so I was really lucky to get that. It was just that one store with the new harvest from this year that had it after trudging three markets. I'm going to have a blast next year! I don't think I'm going to get freshadama quality out of them consistently though. They don't have enough stock to match.

PS: I've tweaked the last couple of photos so that the colors show up truer to real life.

[Raisondetre]

The rest of my loot - mostly cheapish costume jewellery.

Mixed white and pink keshis with shell clasp:

[Raisondetre]

Pink triple strand FW with shell clasp. I think these are AA+ quality, though some are a bit more off-round. Luster is excellent and blemishing minimum, probably 6-7 mm.





Dyed golden triple strand FW with shell clasp, AA quality.

[Raisondetre]

~32" white AA+ FW rope, 7-8 mm with porcelain spacers.

[Raisondetre]

Two strands of random potato lavender FW pearls with an assortment of spacers I can't name.

[jerin]

Hi Raisondetre,

lovely strands, especially the triple-row strand.

[Nerida]

Hi Raisondetre - I agree with Inge - that dyed gold 3 strand piece is lovely - also like the grey/black & unnamed spacer strands - they would look great on! Were these from Pearl's Circles, or from the Hongqiao market? Love your pictures too, thanks for posting them.

[Raisondetre]

All these were from Hongqiao market. Only the 8-9 mm lavender strand was from Pearl Circle/Village Fuyou Road. I haven't managed to photograph the brooches my mom got from Daxi at Pearl City Nanjing Road.

[pearllove]

I want to go to Shanghai!! All your purchases are beautiful, especially your lavender pearls. With all the money you saved from these purchases you can more pearls.

[pattye]

All very eye-catching, especially the blue porcelain beads with pearls. What fun, I look forward to your future adventures!

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time