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Take them out of the plastic containers, put them on a white paper towel, in the shade in natural light, and take a photo in focus. That will help us determine what these are. I live in Florida. If these were found on the beach, they're probably beads or glass that has been tumbled by the...

Oh yes. I also hold the pearl and Serafil like that when going back through the pearls to try to avoid splitting the original thread with the beading needle.

lary007: Love your T's! And I JUST got off the Zoom with Hisano this minute. The Wishbone setting was too small for the Kasumi pearl. It would have looked weird. But I was already leaning towards a little h, yellow gold, round, diamond bail, because it would be the exact same shape and...

OH NOES!!! I'm doooooomed. And THANK YOU!!! Virtual meeting with Hisano today to decide how to set Hisano's favorite Kasumi pearl from the Kasumi Live Event. I'm wearing little h earrings, enhancer and tin-cup.

I e-mailed PP and asked if there were any pistachios in the next PP Live event and I was told no. Hum. I just checked the photo on Facebook. Some of those strands look pistakio-ee! I love that big blue strand and the white strand next to it. Someone put me on Ban Island, NOW. I do...

It's a bit more fiddly, but exactly the same. You just have to wait until you're done restringing both strands before doing the last few pearls to attach to the clasp. You could also try starting in the middle and working towards the clasp from both sides, to make sure the middle pearls align.

Here's how I solved my "ending the strand" problems using Serafil. Start: I cut one pearl off my old strand and thread it onto a length of Serafil 5 times the length of the final necklace. End of the thread is clipped to a hemostat. Other end of the Serafil goes through a large eye beading...

Trying a different pearl combo today. Yellow gold Mikimoto huggies. Pomme de la Mer South Sea pendant from PP. South Sea, Tahitian, and blue baroque akoya keshi tin-cup from Kojima. Terrible lighting today. Lots of thunderstorms.

I've had diamonds fluoresce blue before.

1st strand. I've never seen that clasp before on Mikimoto pearls. 2nd strand. I've seen that design of clasp, but never in silver. I've only seen that clasp in yellow or white gold. I know Miki used to use silver clasps 50+ years ago, but it wasn't that design. I'm not saying these aren't...

THANK YOU!!!!

They look like dyed, button shaped, freshwater pearls from China. This shape was common about 20 years ago before the Chinese started putting round beads in the center to make them round. So they are 100% pearl nacre. These are the sort of pearls I would find at bead stores. Inexpensive, but...

OOOOO, they're going to livestream PBTB. I might get to sort of attend! Not the same as being there, though. Lazy day. 100% Kamoka chested today. Sharkey pendant and black and white Tahitian studs. I'm really NOT into sharks, but this carved pearl was so cute that I couldn't resist it...

If you love them and they look good on you, then that's what counts!

I agree. The first necklace is a worn out imitation pearl necklace. The bracelet is some sort of black beads, not pearls. The clasps are base metal and worn out.