Photo friendly?

[Caitlin]

Kevin is working on it. Meanwhile Jeremy said to double click on those buttons. It tried and it works!

[snakeadelic]

...and this is why I describe myself as something of a technological troglodyte. Go to Advanced: worked perfectly. Upload Image...will not upload from my computer even when it takes me to my own hard drive to browse. Pic is just over 800 pixels long way & 600 short way, is a .jpg, and is 29 megs, did not get any oversize warnings or such. Upload gave me right image title, just a giant ? in place of the actual image. If anyone's got their email visible in their profile, I'd be happy to direct-email pics until I can figure THIS mess out! Attempting the attach anyway in case it's just the upload display that's confused...



And so it appears to be the upload screen as Preview Post gave me the correct image! This is the pre-sorting "peacock-blackish" pile shot in a purple glass candleholder. Many rings around pearls, many flawed surfaces, some if not all probably dyed and certainly cultured.

[snakeadelic]

As will hopefully be accepted by moderation, I did get the upload & attach to work And I have a WORLD of patience for ppl who fix anything computer-related, be it hardware like my squeaky processor cooling fan or software like this forum or one of my other few forum hangouts that specializes in Magic: the Gathering card trading (one of my notably non-feminine hobby interests--like most RPG and card games, something like 90+% male target demographics). Guys with the skills, time, and willingness are rare & wonderful critters!

[snakeadelic]

Rather than swamp ppl who are already 99% likely to be WAY busier than me, I'll check back in the afternoon my time ('tis now 9:05 am...) and if the photo post was successful & moderated in, I'll upload a couple more of the dozen-plus pearl pix I took as prep for joining I'm really excited about the prospect of re-homing my extras with other beaders/crafters/jewelers of any sort, but wise enough to avoid inundating the thread with too many pics or posts.

[Caitlin]

This is your thread. We can handle all the pix you got! You uploaded properly, it does only give the name of the photo when it uploads, but it displays properly.

Post away!

[snakeadelic]

Here then should be the "blackish" smaller pearls in an old silver dish, with a penny for scale.

[snakeadelic]

And here is the same dish, same penny, different pearls:

If I've done this right the penny will be at top right. Going clockwise are flat-backed dyed dark purple cultured pearls, two square-ish black baroques, one wildly shaped baroque directly below the penny, five long narrow flats with gorgeous surface shapes & tones, five garishly dyed blues, a single smoother white, a single poorly shown VERY shiny peacock-black, and the larger fairly irregular pearls that were originally in with the small darks are just to the left of the penny.

I don't remember most of the sources. The dyed purples I bought for a wire-tree project, probably from someplace like Fire Mtn Gems. The five long narrow flats came from the local, for lack of a better term, "hippie enlightenment" store. It's a GREAT place--books, art, soaps, incense, pretty rocks, beading supplies, knowledgeable owners who prefer to stock from local sources, and decent prices too. My darling dear sweetie took me on a delayed Valentine's shopping spree there the other day, the poor thing, after I'd been reading forums here off and on for about a week...

You lot can now officially say you're a bad influence! (snicker snort giggle) Not everything I got was pearls (labradorite also makes my inner not-a-child swoon) but I did make sure to check what they had!

[snakeadelic]

Last one for today:

Dark-colored dyed faceted. I know a lot of pearl fans do not care for the faceted look, but I find my inner not-a-child (that li'l brat is half magpie and half packrat, compelling me to hoard small shiny things!) simply falls into a swoon. Only for the darks; though--as a later pic will show, the gold/tan dyed faceteds I have look abysmal.

[snakeadelic]

My "generally gold, tan, greenish, earthone" pearls. Starting at the penny & going clockwise are baroques, all but one long & narrow & thin. Next are dyed gold/tan/brown of varying sizes. "Not tan but not part of any other color group" is next, including a couple of greenish pearls. Last are the other dyed faceteds I had mentioned, the ones that look okay in this picture and appallingly blotchy & uneven in person except that one deep brown.

[snakeadelic]

The pink baroques I picked up Valentine's shopping. I'm considering whether they might be good for a design idea I'm mulling over.

[snakeadelic]

I don't remember where I got this, my biggest supply of any one sort of pearl. Just baroque whites, most likely cultured, full drilled, lots of pink & green iridescence in good light. I *definitely* have a design idea for some of them that will require someone good with unusual bezels on stones--not for the pearls, but for the stone I'd like to see framed in cleverly wire-wrapped pearls as a showpiece pendant! (Pic of the rock is available.)

[snakeadelic]

Boy do I hope this one sized down properly--help fixing if it didn't? I had forgotten to scale down the original and can't find a delete button in Manage Attachments, so I did the size-down properly on my end and re-uploaded. These are dyed reds of various sizes, no clue when or where I got them.

[snakeadelic]

Erm, maybe just help figuring out how to delete the extra version since it looks like sizing it down worked?

[snakeadelic]

...Noticing that my 4mb upload is now 19K, I'm gonna see if the upload manager was nice enough to do the re-size I apparently forgot on more than one photo...

The one thing I can sometimes use pearls for is twisted-wire trees if I'm careful with the pearls This one is unfinished (they get set in plaster in decorative containers) but does actually have a couple of the dyed purple flat-backs on it along with glass and amethyst. I can't find my ruler, so my best guess is it's around 3-4 inches from the bulbous base (which gets sunk in the plaster for stability) to the topmost amethyst chip. I'm thinking of getting back into this hobby, but won't use pearls for it heavily unless I discover a good enough market to support their cost in supplies. My mom has an online shop where she can sell such things, and I have an online store where my photos of such things can be put on a staggering array of stuff, so I may just see what happens.

[snakeadelic]

And that's gonna be it for a bit--having a very tough day with anxiety & upcoming appointments, but taking the time to just post pictures of pretty things has helped me a LOT to be able to bootstrap it up and face my afternoon with a smile that isn't *entirely* bared teeth