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I hope Jeremy is able to rustle up some more of the large white baroque akoya's on future buying trips! I realllllllly want a strand after seeing these pics!!!!

Ok, last photo here. The larger blue strand is the 9.5mm baroque silver blue akoya strand from the April 15 PP sale. The 7.5mm blue akoya strand next to it is from last year's Vietnameese PP strands. The darkest blue earrings were bought last year and then then the silver baroque blue's on...

I had my strand shortened to 16" and I had the extra pearls set on the Allure earring setting in white gold. They are SO pretty! I'm really thrilled with how this turned out. The Allure setting is really pretty. It was a touch smaller than I thought it might be IRL; but, my ear lobes are on...

My baroque blue akoya's arrived from PP this week and I LOVE them! They are a really stunning ice blue color. This pictures shows them as they look IRL.

That is stunning!

OMG! I am kicking myself for waiting too long to buy one of the white strands now. ;( I did get a blue strand though.

My understanding is that the super cheap strands of blue akoyas you might find on places like ebay are often very low quality with very thin nacre. I have a fantastic strand of baroque blue Akoyas that I got from Pearl Paradise and they were worth every penny! Being baroque they are a lot more...

I don't have a clue what will come next; but, I can tell you what I want to come in the future. I would love to see round metallic strands of freshwater pearls come in natural vibrant shades of red, ranging from cherry, fire engine red to really great blue based maroons. I would also love to...