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I'm expecting it to be quite different from my pearl farm trip. But I'm excited for it to be different.

I'm heading back to Japan in November. One of my weaving friends is leading a tour of textiles in Okinawa. I'm going to keep my eye out for bunnies.

Oh, I did NOT string my tiny pearl necklaces. I do not have the ability to string those tiny pearls. When I was on the Japan pearl farm trip in June, at the Japan Pearl Fair, there was a booth with lots of tiny akoya keshi. They were gorgeous. I loved feeling a hank of 100 strands of...

Ooo, thank you. I've been wanting to watch it. The puppets are creepy and the story did not go where I was expecting. I love it.

BUNNIES!!!!!! I'm in love!!! New "throw them over the head and wear with jeans" pearls from Kojima. Dyed freshwaters and various gemstones that really glow in sunlight. I'm in love with this strand. I've been dithering over it for ages.

They look like imitations to me. The gloppy stuff around the drill holes is typical of imitation pearls. Oh, I see PearlDreams even circled the drill hole. Also, they have no overtones. The color is very flat.

The color is wrong, even for dyed pearls. The surface luster is all wrong. It looks like polished glass or gemstone, instead of pearl nacre. The color is the same all the way through, which doesn't happen with any kind of pearl.

Merrily, thank you for posting this. I'm so glad I did not go. I would have rage stroked. I would have quietly muttered BULLSHIT, and then gotten louder and louder during his talk until they threw me out. I bet his "worked for Mikimoto" was that he worked at a jewelry store and sold one pair...

They don't look like pearls to me.

Visiting Dad today. Judy Jetson necklace with a freshwater button pearl and druzy quartz. Trying to decide which earrings to wear. I usually wear the Mikimoto huggies, but I think today I'll go with the white and gold South Sea and mismatched Tahitian pearls from OceanRhyme. I'll probably...

LUSTER!

I'm trying to get better about mixing and matching my pearls. Golden South Sea keshi and tourmalines from Hisano. Sun and Moon Tahitian studs from Kamoka. The pearls are much brighter in real life.

I love mismatched earrings! They really do go with everything.

Sheri! Thank you, JEG. No, I somehow missed doing the ring the year before.

OOOOO, look just arrived. Sun and Moon 10.5 mm dark blue and pistachio Tahitian studs from Kamoka. Love the new box. There's a magnet in the lid to keep it closed. I think 10.5 mm might be my limit on stud size. Sun and Moon studs with Planet Berna, also from Kamoka. And a Tahitian...