Recent content by Merrily

are you sure that's a finger ring and not a bunny ear ring? Either way, it's gorgeous, love the shape!

That beautiful grouping of colors makes me long for a fun necklace!

For what it's worth, some quick bench-marking from reliable stores shows that that is a good retail price in the US for an excellent pearl of that type and size. If you get your 20% off, that would be way better than retail. Like @pattye said, the experts here (not me) can't tell the quality...

Picturing what I would do with 74 strands of fake Tahitians...or tightrope walking a string of pearls to the sun...this really made me laugh, thanks!

Then it was time for goodies. Each attendee got pearl earrings and a door prize ticket. Here are the earrings. They are button-shaped and with very little luster. However, Brennan said they are twice the size of last year's gifts. [Poor them.] Door prizes were given out, including the...

Then we were given a buffet lunch, and settled down for the presentation. Brennan began by talking about himself and his company. He said he started out with Mikimoto 45 years ago [BWeaves said that Mikimoto only hired Japanese at that time period], and his company produces 10 million tons of...

I went to a Love The Pearls event held in my 55+ neighborhood community, which was to be a presentation and a shopping opportunity. This was hosted by International Pearl Group and presented by Mike Brennan. When it was first announced, I invited BWeaves to join me, and she posted this thread...

Tahitian! (although that might be taken the wrong way if it was US military)

An image search brought up this and this. I have no idea if they are reliable.

The earrings look like diving dolphins!

I've been looking for green, and found these two pistachio Tahitian pendants at OceanRhyme. One is styled like an apple, and the other is on a Y chain. Here they are on my favorite model, showing that they can be worn together. Dex thinks they bring out his eyes.

I certainly thought they were cut! Very cool! Picturing my favorite superhero, Bweaves, tied to a chair, forced to watch as the Villain takes sandpaper to her pearl collection. The Akoyas are dust, but will she break at the Tahitians, or will it take the Villain holding up her beautiful Blues...

NOT a pearl expert like pattye and BWeaves, but I'm impressed with how good these look for being 140 years old!

You have a really good eye for color balance!

How lovely! The kasumis are really nicely balanced in color!