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And I had to wear my new pearls today. Blue baroque akoya pearl dangle necklace and BBBA ring (Big Blue Baroque Akoya) from Takahashi Pearl and Pearl Paradise. Dyed Chinese freshwater pendant, and mismatched pearl drop and jade earrings from Kojima Pearl. South Sea pearl birds ring from...

NEVER shine a UV light on in your eyes. NEVER shine a UV light in anyone else's eyes. But if you shine a UV light at pearls, only the Sea of Cortez pearls glow red. SoC pearls from Perlas del Mar de Cortez and Pearl Paradise. Other necklaces from Kojima Pearl.

And this just arrived. Too stinking cute. South Sea pearl ring. Gold plated silver with CZ accent and an adjustable shank. From SeaBeautyShop on Etsy. Not every pearl purchase has to be "little black dress" ready. Sometimes you need "jeans and a T-shirt" pearls. Takahashi probably would have...

WOWZA! BBBA arrived! Big Blue Baroque Akoya ring from Takahashi. It was from a PP Live back in April, and Takahashi was going to resize it for me, since I need a size 9. And then I was away in Germany, so it only just arrived. It's amazing. The luster, the orient, the SIZE. And it's...

Visiting Dad today. Natural color freshwater keshi pearls from Kojima Pearl. The big pearl is even more colorful in real life. I dub thee The Devine Sarah.

Make sure your granddaughter understands that she's getting VERY good pearls.

Yeah, I usually have to try my asymmetrical earrings on twice to figure out which way they look best.

Jade and freshwater pearls from Kojima. These felt lightweight and summery. It's 90F today and stormy. My ears aren't exactly parallel to the ground, so having one earring longer than the other really works for me.

According to the acknowledgments in the back of the Pearl book, "I thank, too, Laurent E. Cartier, co-founder of the invaluable Sustainable Pearls project, for his generosity in providing the superb images of Kamoka Pearl Farm, French Polynesia." So I googled Laurent E. Cartier and found this...

I'm about halfway through it. It's a good book. Nice photos, too.

The Dresden Green Diamond is in the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. The Green Vault also houses the most amazing hoard of natural pearls I've ever seen. I bought this Pearl book in their museum shop. In the chapter on Tahitian pearls there are 4 pages of information and photos about the Kamoka...

I think they look fabulous with your skin tone, and the luster is great.

After seeing pearl farmers and wholesalers keep tons of pearls in buckets and garbage bags and multiple strands tied together in hanks all rubbing against each other, I no longer sweat about pearls in a single strand rubbing together.

Oh, and Dr. Stoltz took us to Corvey, which I had never heard of before. A beautiful palace near Höxter, Germany. It had an amazing library with over 50,000 books. I'm also a bookaholic. Every room had different wallpaper and different wooden floors. One room had pearls on the wall...

I thought the first trip was the trip of a lifetime, but this second trip surpassed it. A big thank you to Dr. Michael Stoltz, who took a week off from his medical practice to chauffeur us around and act as local tour guide. I told him everywhere my Dad wanted to revisit, and he found those...