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I just signed up for the course. There are 9 classes, each about 20 minutes long. The USD price ended up being about $57. UPDATE: I just watched all the episodes. There's about 3 hours and 30 minutes of video total. It's mostly about jewelry through the ages, with only a little bit...

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has a recorded online pearl class that I'm thinking of taking. It's 45 GBP, and you have a year to watch it. They have a bunch of other interesting classes on textiles and art, as well. https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/YzwkrJrkBm/l24001-pearls-on-demand

The little bird is so cute. They went to fast for me to snag one. Yesterday I wore my multicolored Edison necklace from PP with dyed "coffee bean shaped" drops from Kojima on my own diamond hoops. Today I'm wearing South Sea keshi tin-cup from one of the PP Live events with Mikimoto huggies.

I'm sorry. I don't think it will send your kids to college, but it might buy them lunch. There's no clasp and no knots. It looks like a strand of imitation pearls to me.

Shani: WE ACCEPT HER! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! GOOBA GOBBLE ONE OF US! My precious. "Canadian Forces working in the Canadian Space Operations Centre as an analyst." COOOOL!

I didn't mean THAT thin. I can tell they have thick nacre, just that the paler blue pearls might have thicker nacre maybe? I don't know.

Some of my blue akoyas are really, really blue. Much bluer than the ones I'm seeing nowadays. I wonder if mine have thinner nacre since it's the dark brown showing through the nacre that makes them look blue, and that the newer ones have thicker nacre therefore are paler blue.

Happy New Year 2025! I'm still feeling in the mood for white pearls. Mikimoto huggies. Betty Davis' Teeth freshwater keshi from Kojima. Coin pearls from Karen Brown Jewelry. I "stole" the clasp from another strand of my mother's pearls. The clasp just seemed perfect with the coin...

These strike me as blue baroque akoya pearls and not dyed.

The round strand looks like cultured akoya pearls. The white pearls are different colors. The blue pearls could be a natural color, but they could also be dyed. The oval strands are Chinese cultured freshwater "Rice Krispie" pearls from the 1990s - 2000's. They are 100% pearl nacre. The...

Missed a few days because I was at my niece's wedding. Since I was using my Mom's vintage Chanel handbag, I decided to do old school Chanel and wear a little black dress and layer on the white pearls. Mom's SS earrings. Mom's mabe' pendant on Aunt Love's Blue Lagoon 18" strand. My 1982...

What an unusual drilling technique on the button pearls. I don't think it has a name. But it's a great way to make sure the button pearls all lay the same way.

Egg and potato shapes. Plus small ones. I think freshwater, too. But it's a pretty strand.

It looks GREAT!!! Good job!

WOWZA!! I'm a sucker for a good clasp, too. Gorgeous pearls, too. And it looks like it matches your ring, too!!!!

More sweats and pearls. Kojima keshi tin-cup and matching earrings. 40" ombre' keshi rope (white to peach) worn double.

AHHHH! I'm tempted by so many things on the 2nd chance page.

Pearlgirl12, that brooch is gorgeous!!!!

Acetone won't hurt real pearls. It's what you use to get the glue off pearls that have fallen out of their setting.

Vinegar dissolves pearl nacre, but it takes a while. I've never heard of bubbling before.