My pearls

[Charlotta]

Well that didn't happen. When I mixed those white south sea pearls with the golden south sea pearls and arranged them on the beading board they looked so pretty that didn't string it with the peacock pearls. I added them and then removed them. The reason these pearls didn't make it in my mixed circled south sea rope is that they weren't circled enough. Well they are beautiful like this. It was a bit dark when I photographed the strand so it might be a bit grainy. The pearls are mostly from Druzydesign with some white south sea pearls from Pearlescence thrown in for lenght, it's 19 inches long.

The white south sea pearls with a bluish overtone I saved and added to my good white south sea strand from Cees, it's has some silvery overtones and one of the pearls is already quite bluish. I wanted some extra lenght for comfort. I just added 6 pearls. I recently added 4 other white south sea pearls that I have now removed. They had to much pink in them.

 

[Charlotta]

Now I am arranging some white south sea pearls from Pearlescence with those abandoned peacock tahitians, maybe for a strand. I am also arranging some mixed white south sea pearls into two bracelets with carved red jasper scarabs. The red jasper is beautiful with white pearls.
I also have a new order from Druzydesign on the way, only 3 circled cream south sea pearls this time. I ordered some ministrands of arutua tahitians and some baroque edisons. I didn't buy any purple ministrands, I bought some mixed metallic ones with mostly other colors. I don't know what to do with them really, but I like the ones that I have added from my leftover pile to my Happy bracelets. I don't always like them all in one strand, but in small dosage I do. I even like the pondslime ripple pearl that I previously sort of hated...
I also have two jade pendants coming from Texas, one with a dragon and one that I couldn't resist with a carved landscape. I hade a hard time finding a reliable seller. Some seller had too low prices...

 

[Charlotta]

And here is the resultat. A peacock tahitian and white south sea strand. The peacocks are mostly from my leftover pile and the south sea pearls are from Pearlescence and Druzydesign. The pearls are 8-10mm and the strand is 20 inches long.

 

[Charlotta]

Then some less blurry photos of the mixed south sea strand. The pearls in this one is 8,3-10,3mm and the strand is 19 inches long. The pearls are mostly from Druzydesign with some white south sea pearls from Pearlescence.

 

[Charlotta]

Both mixed strands do look good together.

 

[Charlotta]

And the mixed sizes white south sea bracelets. These ones has carved red jasper scarab beads and are mostly made with pearls from Pearlescence

And I just recieved my leather cords in my mailbox. Thank you for the swedish seller KarinK. I don't know what to do with it yet.

 

[CortezPearls]

Luscious strings Charlotta! Made for a great "breakfast" this morning!
I love the color combinations and contrast offered by the blacks and goldens against those silky white SSPs!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you CortezPearls. They do look great together. Those two white south sea and dark tahitian strand that I have made looks like they belong together. One of them I remade a while ago and the other just recently. (without even looking at the first one). They even look great linked together.

And linked together

And worn jumbled

 

[Charlotta]

And here are some photos of all those south sea pearls that I bought from Druzydesign over the last 7 months, I have lost count on how many ministrands I got. Very handy those ministrands. I don't know why more sellers don't have these. I can and sometimes do buy complete strands, but I do love to design my own pieces. It's so much fun. Anyway out of all those strands I made a 20 inches long deep golden south sea strand, a 39,5 inches long mixed circled south sea rope and a 19 inches long mixed south sea strand.

Now I have to ream out some drillholes that are too small with my new dremel, I did buy real pearl drill bits as well. Hopefully I don't drill my fingers. Me and Not-husband has practiced on some ugly pearls from my leftover pile. He was better at handling the drill, I was better at accually drilling into the previous drillholes...I think that we better do this together. He is also the one who figured out how to attatch the different parts and stuff, and what to use them for...

 

[Charlotta]

Forgot that I have used some of those pearls in other strands as well, like adding lenght to my white south sea strand from Cees and I have some in that smallest black and white strand.

 

[eolian pearls]

Beautiful beautiful creations Charlotta! I am in love with your golden and white SSP combinations!!! So so lovely!And your neckhot is so much appreciated!!!! yay!!!!

I am a big fan of the Druzy ministrands too! There were quite a few really colorful smallers Ts in her shop lately I think you got those I am looking forward to seeing what you do with them!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you eolian pearls. It might have been me...who bought the tahitian ministrands that is. Well I got three of them at least. They have yet to arrive. And some very colorful edisons

 

[Charlotta]

I made some more Happy bracelets with leftover pearls. One with a carved apricot trumpet shell scarab bead and one with a big circled tahitian for hiding the knots.

I liked the almost white one so much that I made another one with more silvery blue tahitians, it might be silvery blue south sea pearls as well. Don't remember really. The sun was fading so those photos are really blue. I have to retake them tomorrow.

Me and Not-husband have been having really fun with the pearl drill he bought me for my birthday. He bought one from Wen Pearls. It works really well after he tuned it some. I don't know what he did but fortunately for me he knows how things work just by holding it and looking at it. It was just some minor tweaking. Now I have some pearls with rather many drillholes in lots of directions that we used for practice. Today we enlarged some drillhole up to 2mm, for my bracelets. I did buy a dremel as well for enlarging drillholes, but I chickend out using a 2mm drillbit with that one. I have reamed out a lot of pearls with my new dremel. And only graced my fingers trice, not through the skin though. It's those pesky freshwater keshis. Sneaky slippery little things. By the way, I found Not-husband reading Wendys book the other day. I did tell him to read about drilling pearls, but he read the whole book.

 

[Charlotta]

Today I drilled all by myself and it was so much fun. I was enlarging drillholes really, mostly because I'm all out of carved beads. And I continue making Happy bracelets, they are both cheerful and only made from my leftover pearls. Not that it is anything wrong with them, they are just leftover from other projects. In the last 3 bracelets I used white iridescencent freshwater keshis as a base and softer pastelles (mostly). In The one I posted yesterday I used soft green, cream and blue. The other ones are silvery blue and purple (the one from yesterday that I changed some) and one with golden south sea pearls. I call them my Happy pastelles. That makes 10 Happy bracelets...probably don't need anymore...

 

[Charlotta]

So 6 multicolored Happy bracelets.

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​ One Happy south sea one

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​ And the 3 Happy pastelles

​​​​​​​It would be fun if anyone else would make their own Happy bracelets and show me. The only rule is to only use leftover pearls, or pearls you already own. A Happy bracelet challange. And you get to keep your bracelets....I have reduced my leftover pile with about 80 inches of pearls (I usually use 8 inches of pearls and them adds a bead or a pearl with bigger drillhole for the knot. That is about 4 whole strands

 

[CortezPearls]

Oh my oh my! Just droolworthy!
Have I ever told anyone I just LOVE RINGED pearls??? I do. One ring, two rings...many! One ring to Enjoy them all and in a necklace bind them!

 

[CortezPearls]

And these new bracelets...
The baroque, ringed, colorful pearls combo rules!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you CortezPearls, I love circled pearls as well. Often more than not-circled ones. I especially love those that are otherwise very clean but with defined circles. There are often so many colors in them.

 

[Charlotta]

My Happy bracelet challange isn't all that hard. It's a great way of using up leftover pearls and many of us have lots of those. I started making them because I had some carved skulls that really didn't make it into any of my designs, to cheerful I guess. It was the purple phosphosiderite skull and the apricot trumpet shell skull. First I wanted to make mixed bracelet with no regard of how the colors ended up. It looked hideous so I ombred them instead. It's not perfect ombre placement, sometimes I just wanted to use a certain pearl in a certain place. Many of the pearls have been in my leftover pile box for years, like the ripples, the peachy freshwater keshis, the white freshwater keshis and some of the golden south seas and tahitians. They were waiting for their right place I guess. I didn't spend any money on them and they make me smile when I wear them. So please show me your Happy bracelets.

 

[Charlotta]

All 10 of them in maybe the order that I made them...
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