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In case you haven’t seen them before, I use these spiral ring adjusters for rings that are too big, they’re pretty comfortable and easy to use! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Adjuster-Snuggies-Silver-Polishing/dp/B075DWX8Q4

She looks amazing in that gorgeous dress! Thanks for sharing @ennui

Stacked my 7-8mm akoya drops with a jadeite Buddha for a matinee show today. Paired them with silver Tahitian keshi earrings and blue baroque akoya bracelet. Tagging @pattye as she inspired me to wear the bracelet! Glamour shot of the blue baroque akoya:

Thanks @pattye ! Ahh you’ve reminded me that I should wear the baroque blues again… I tend to reach for necklaces almost all the time now, probably because I don’t like to wear pearls as a bracelet (partly because I’m clumsy but partly because we have two young kids at home). But I definitely...

Thanks for your kind words and congrats on your blue akoya, they’re a beautiful shape! If you’d like to learn more about akoya and blue baroque akoya especially, I’d highly recommend Flower Jem’s website. He writes beautiful, informative, detailed articles about the pearls he works with in his...

@BWeaves this is the best thing I’ve read in a long time! Thank you for meticulously documenting everything, and also for your incredible sense of humour. I chuckled so much along the way. I also love your new blue baroque akoya ring - hope to see more of it on the Show Me thread!

Here are my soufflé Tahitians (+ 3 WSS) x silver chain half-half necklace. Hand picked these T’s from General Pearl in Tokyo when I was there last year (and WSS left over from shortening a strand of SS).

@jeg your blues are so gorgeous and special! Wore my strand of tiny drop T’s today. The overtones on them aren’t strong (they’re green) so they look uniformly grey here. They’re 7.3-7.8mm if I remember correctly!

Lovely! And ooh does the GSS have a story behind it?

Yesss there’s something about dark pearls set in WG - very alluring and mysterious! Wore my SS silver/blue boulders today. They are the strand that took me many, many attempts to find as I wanted the pearls to be boulder-like in shape rather than round, circle, drop shaped or with tails.

Fascinating stuff, thank you!

Enjoying how my lustrous baroque akoya on blue string elevates a casual outfit. Pearls from Flower Jem on instagram, and I collected them from him in person when I visited Japan.

This was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing. Like @jeg , I found the sorting machine really interesting! One comment you made was that the sorting machine is specifically designed for the Chinese market - just wondering why its standards wouldn’t be applicable to a more global market...

Buongiorno- Thread 'Japan trip - Pearls edition' https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/japan-trip-pearls-edition.462578/

Your ombré strands never cease to make me smile @jeg , especially with the placement of a single large / baroque pearl - it’s beautiful! And sorry to hear about Traveling Bunny, glad to see you’ve made a new friend to take with you on your adventures 💛