Recent content by A Breaker

I love, love all the blue!!!!! I found my favorite shape & color....for the moment!

I am with Pearl Dreams...look, look, look! I thought I wanted big...then I realized I loved an interesting shape over round huge. ...You might even find a round huge lustrous that is second hand...(High end consignment!).....but a super interesting one of a kind beauty...that I would save up for!

Show me your easy clasps. This is for elderly, but it needs to good!

That is what I am concerned about. I find they are harder than I want them to be.

That is the type I was thinking of.

Those are wonderful!!!! Can you show it laying out flat?

Sweet Father-in-law bought my mother-in-law her an akoya necklace as a first anniversary gift...She took them to a jeweler for restringing in Alaska in the 90's...he told her to forget it. Wasn't worth restringing...broke her heart..she just put them away... Somehow I never mentioned I...

Laughing... I just had someone Msg me that a graduated strand meant the pearls were "real akoyas". Of course the strand was "real" imitations...peeling & all!!! They used google lens and it told them akoyas. Sometimes google lens give you just enough info to think you know something...when...

Laughing...I can't imagine any Japanese merchant selling these with this hardware in the 1950's...never happen! But they are super fun!

Merlite.... The seemed to have been a mail order or catalogue store with jewelry. Older. They are usually really good pearls...often Akoyas. I like them better than IPS or /W/ which tend to be newer and usually freshwater.

Just got done confessing to Mother -in -law that I have pounds of pearls. I keep what I love! I know what I don't like: ones that have a roundish with 1 very flat side or No luster! But I find that if they have got luster and a nice interesting shape..I love them! Some colors don't look...

Sometimes I have had this... Often it will come loose with a soak in acetone....But sometimes NOT..... But I only tried it on acetone pearls I was throwing away if they didn't loosen. Attack would probably do it.

What a great memorial!!!!

There are lots of different ways to restring.. If you haven't done it before...get a kit from Pattye...the best thread ever!!!... & you get the needles & frenchwire. (even if you have...get Pattye's thread!!) Then check out the tutorials on the lowly beaders thread. I now can restring...

These are perfect & so much more accurate!!!!! (It really is accurate that counts over instagram worthy) I don't know how a photo, background, angle or whatever can make them seem so oval...but it does! ...