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Yesterday’s pearls—thrifted 14k gold & Tahitian circle pearl necklace. I’m going to make myself a matching bracelet & earrings!

Tahitians today. TNT necklace (Tahitians and tourmalines) and 10mm stud earrings from Ocean's Cove on Etsy. Longer bubble necklace...

That purple is lovely!!!! Nice job! Love that I can be part of something that passes on how to make pretties!!!

So festive, Mary! Nicely done!

Pretty style! Doesn't look quite like Akoya luster to me, more like South Sea or even freshwater? Do we have any history on these?

Auction for less than the melt of the gold, they didn’t know anything about the pearls. I’ll fess up to habitually buying pearls from...

I have a necklace I bought years ago with similar SSP, I’ll post a comparison tomorrow

Bumping by this by writing that I am not really sure. I do have some loose SSP in that size and the darker one looks very dark for an...

Thanks Pattye! That sprang sweater is a bit short in the front, but it looks like lapels, so I'm pretending it was meant to look like...

Thanks for posting this tutorial! It was so helpful and enjoyable. I used some extra vintage pearls & fundings and made coordinated...

I have akoya with pave diamonds from them in silver, including a pendant. They do have one Tahitian on their site in silver at the...

Looks like Maui Divers?

Feeling the blues. ALL the BBAs. Necklaces and earrings from PP and Pearls of Joy. 2 pearl BBA ring from Takahashi from my trip to...

OMG, these BBAs just arrived. Blue baroque akoyas from a PP Live event a month ago. They're huge and intensely blue. I've never...

Thank you! I’ll definitely take your advice!