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Threading tiny 2.5 mm freshwater pearls for a choker necklace. I plan on hanging that long pendant from it. I'm never doing this again. Even with the magnifier light, it's challenging when half my fingers can't feel the pearls. Where's PSS when you need it? (PSS = Pearl Shrinkage Syndrome. When...

JEG: Those are so cool. Today it's The Hamantaschen pendant from Pacific Pearls, and jade and freshwater pearl drop earrings from Kojima. I always feel like I should be walking around Pompeii in these earrings, before the volcano erupts. My ears are a little asymmetrical, so the earrings...

And you were traveling!

I do, actually. I just bought a new loom today. It's a small floor loom. I've had two of this model before. Should have kept one, in hindsight. But before, I used it as was a workshop loom that I would haul around in my car. Now it will be my only loom and will live in my living room. I...

Yes! I broke my foot treadling my loom. I basically caused my own stress fracture by doing the same movement over and over and over by pressing a treadle that had too much weight and too high tension. So I decided to sell the floor loom and get a different type of loom which is hand...

little h today. Soufflé pearls stuffed with blue topaz and seed pearls. The video shows the colors and the sparkle better.

Boot and a knee wheely/stroller instead of crutches. All the old folks and little kids were all "I WANT ONE" as I whizzed down the aisles of the grocery store.

Broke my foot. Sold my floor loom. I'm having a **** of a week. I'm trying to remember which pearls I wore, because I did wear pearls through all of it. Ereyesterday (the day before yesterday). Dyed pearls. Necklace of dyed akoyas with vintage clasp. A gold "hanger" to add a pendant...

I love the old Rice Krispie pearls. I have a couple of multistrand torsades from my Mom. They feel like wearing silken strands.

Yes, there will be. More info will be announced later.

Cat's Eye tourmaline in a deep chrome green. When a single point of light hits it, it has a strong light green eye.

I think they look like akoya's, too. China does culture akoya pearls, too. Often they are sold to Japan, ironically.

I've had that happen to me on a strand of blue baroque akoyas from Vietnam. The color is intense, and they are very baroque, but a lot of the bead nuclei were loose. I was able to stick the needle in and keep rotating the nucleus until I found the hole, but I think there were a couple of...

Going to the dentist today. I don't want dental spray to get on my pearls, so I'm just wearing stud earrings. Blue and pistachio mismatched studs from Kamoka.

Actually the Dazzle Stik stuff shined up the little bit of silver in the "not a clasp" just fine, so I didn't feel the need to break out the silver polish, or worse THE DIP. Yesterday, the Pomme de la Mer SS pendant from PP. Golden SS and Tahitian earrings from OceanRhyme. And today, my...