Show Us Your Pearls In Action!!!

[Pearl Dreams]

Thank you! This strand was sold originally by PP a few years back, but I got them secondhand and swapped out 3 pearls I didn't care for, rearranging the necklace as a whole. The replacement pearls were from druzydesign.

It's funny, in my living room the strand as a whole goes much bluer.

 

[JerseyPearl]

Gorgeous pearls everyone!

 

[CathyKeshi]

Wow, it's a BONUS pearl day here today! PearlDreams that Tahitian strand is just beautiful! BabyNurse, what a glorious color combination between the pearls, the top and the sweater!! Douglas, where are you ... we need to talk; I don't think you're allowed to have a "throw away bucket" anymore LOL

 

[BWeaves]

Of course he's allowed to have a throw away bucket. It's over here, at my house, (wink wink nudge nudge).

 

[ckrickett]

Wearing my Faux Harvest strand today. I have the bracelet attached to it for added length.

sorry for the weird blur around the middle, the only angle I could get a good image of gave an unwanted show, so I tried to hide it the best I could

 

[ckrickett]

Gorgeous Sheri!!!!!!

 

[JerseyPearl]

My favorite harvest strand every, ckrickett...faux or otherwise!

 

[CathyKeshi]

That is indeed one very lovely harvest style strand Ckrickett!

 

[kelluvpearls]

Babynurse you also look good in peach, I have a serious case of envy! PearlDreams I like how you can see colour variations in your strand, beautiful necklace. Ckrickett great design on the faux harvest strand.

 

[la_corsetiere]

Baby Nurse, Pearl Dreams, glorious glowing colors against your skin! And Ckrickett, what makes your gorgeous necklace a "faux" harvest strand? Must have missed something...or is "harvest strand" somebody's proprietary term? Super pretty, anyway, and I love the way you can make it longer by adding the bracelet.

Just to clarify, my SOC were by no means "throw-away" pearls - I actually spent a small fortune on them, which is why I wanted each and every pearl to show. But they are a lower grade than Douglas now allows into the marketplace.

Here is a shot of how I rigged up the cascade - I used a couple Green Girl pewter findings and metal beads I happened to have in my archives, soft flex beading cable, crimp beads, and satin ribbon to tie in a bow at the back of my neck. A more symmetrical effect could be achieved using the ring part of two toggle clasps. I do like the versatility, and it's super comfortable to wear. I have noticed a number of pearl necklaces in 18th and 19th century paintings tied with ribbon at the back of the neck - a very easy sort of non-clasp...

Ack, sideways again! Feel free to fix, Lisa C...

 

[BAS]

Those pearls are divine!!! The colors make my mouth water. Literally.

 

[JerseyPearl]

Gorgeous! Did you make the rigging (in other words, did you cast those two gorgeous end rings?) Your work is lovely!

 

[Katbran]

JP I think they came from Green Girl Studios http://www.greengirlstudios.com/newest-pewter-designs/

 

[ckrickett]

If I am correct, a true harvest strand is made up of various pearls from one harvest.
This strand was using pearls I had collected from various vendors over the course of a year, so it mimics a harvest strand without coming from one harvest,

 

[Katbran]

To be honest ...that's what most of them are ckrickett. They are a design to show the wide variety of shapes and colours and sizes that come from a pearl harvest. I'm sure most of the ones that you've seen, other than those from a single farm that sells direct, will be from a stock of pearls that perhaps didn't match up to any strands . At least that's what I was told by a large pearl vendor. You did it the way I do ckrickett...collect things from all over and put it together. This one is a temp strand that I'm still fiddling with ... but the pearls are from many sellers. Forgive the photo.. I just left the computer, grabbed the strand and ran into the front room with the iPad.

 

[baby nurse]

Ckrickett, your harvest strand is one of the prettiest I've seen. You have a lot of lovely pieces but this is my favorite!

Katbran, yours is gorgeous as well!

 

[Purranha]

Katbran I LUV your strand! And what is that sketch in the background? Is it one of your work? It's amazing!!!

 

[ckrickett]

Katbran, no joke I JUST finished laying out a strand similar to that! (like finished this sucker 45 minutes ago) I am waiting on some findings to try and make a tassle for it! then I will restring it better.
I LOVE yours, how long is that?

 

[Katbran]

Oooooh ckrickett !!!! That's gorgeous !!! Great minds are thinking alike this weekend !!! lol My necklace is 53 inches .. I know..I got carried away.. its not even knotted yet. So I'll keep fiddling with it and lose a few... and I think I need a few more odd ones.. and a few less circled pearls... where did you buy your pearls? Mine came from a woman in Sydney and a lot of them are from Jac ... quite a few from a HK seller...really bits and pieces.

As for the drawing ... we need to credit Toulouse Lautrec with that one! It's the cover of a big coffee table book filled with loose sheets of his drawings. I bought it about 30 years ago and have dragged it around the world with me. lol But it was the only sunny window!

 

[MSC]

What a gorgeous harvest strand! I love the differences in all the pearls