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Thank you all for commenting! I am too spacey right now to give you each a fair amount of attention, but I want you to know having you all there- in a way I can communicate with- is a real positive!

Beatrice!
Bless your heart. I know you understand how much music has meant to me and I love that Idea- if I can feel the vibrations, it will help remember the music.

Redemption Song just came...

Thank you dear friend. I will copy your message onto a list of suggestions/brainstorming for immediate attention!. The phone is a biggie!!!

Wendy-
Did I ever tell you I love you? It is so good to have friends with spines!!! To remind me I have one too.


QUOTE=pearlescence;182650]Dear caitlin. First of all congratulations on facing...

This is hard folks, and in my time of need, I find I want to turn to you all who have been such good friends to me for the past 13 years!

I have been in the hospital twice since the first of May....

I do not know when any of the events are except Strack's talk. Thinking the Pearl Walk would follow the talk, but have no word on a P-G dinner, yet or who might be attending.

I hope Douglas and...

An expired passport is OK for Guaymas- it is in the trade zone. a driver's license is fine too. - but don't you dare come through Tucson without visiting me!!!

I am giving this a bump as it is in just about a month.

http://www.ctsa.org/files/publications/CTSA_1276316728619239483681.pdf

I am sure we listed this about 10 years ago, but just in case, here it is, again. Dream on. :cool:

This year's Strack lecture looks like a mini-PearlsasOne!

It's on a Friday- a good day for a change!

Note: Biwa pearls is spelled wrong in the blurb, but I did not change it..

Lot 296
A Published Gem: Large and Rare, Purple Non-nacreous Quahog Pearl
USD 25,000 - USD 35,000
46027
Date/Time: 7 Dec 2016

Location: Los Angeles

For further details please...

It is good reading. Would you mind posting this in its own thread on Pearl Books and Resources? I think it will get lost over here-

You welcome Orient. What I think we all need to work for is getting recognition for keeping all those pearls and chunks of shell in the Philippines where the species Tridacna gigas is under CITES...

For that purple 10.5, I'd spend a lot more than $150.00 -maybe $500- because I KNOW how rare one of that color and size is, but the seller can NEVER get its real value. This is the second best Quahog...

I have never seen anything quite like that. I can't see any nacre- it looks like ceramic. It is shaped like some tridacna clam pearls I have seen with the stem and its rather large size. (Didn't...

Now that is a quahog pearl of great beauty, color and shape!

While there is no market value for quahog pearls, I would feel comfortable putting a price on it that people would be used to paying...

Mikimoto is the final word on their own strands. I think your strand looks good enough to run it by them. There is no better way to find out.

See my smile? :D I am impressed.

It is a new variation on the "Pearl in a shell, in a can" scam!!! This one is so pretend, it is NOT funny- even though I am laughing.

Thanks for your detective work- you are the first to report...

Were you the one who sent one? I can't remember without looking back through PMs I may or may not still have.

3)There is a photo on this forum of the boxy piece. It looks cut and tumbled. It has...

What a way to join us with a bang!

Thanks! I love having all those patterns in a thread with an easy to find title!

I have never figured out one single design other than looping and I never...

I just got an 'invitation' from Atlas to go to a 'pearls and opera' event. I can't think of anything fancier than that! Is anyone going to go?

edited to add- I watched the film. The article and...

Hey JP
I got your first version

I am positive that compost is not a pollutant. It is not a single chemical like phosphorous from detergents that pollute. Any pollutant like nitrogen or...

Obviously we need more input, here. The manure is to feed the algae which feeds the mussels. Now, I do not think think these ponds are constantly manure-filled. Rather, they seem to be drained,...

This subject bothered me so much that I have been doing research. Here is one article on the process of freshwater pearls farming.
It appears I should have said "animal" manure. Before finding this...