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lary007: They don't match, but they GO! Since I've been on Pearl-Guide and seen how other people wear their pearls, I've gotten better about mixing and matching pearls I wouldn't think would go together. But they all work. After last night's (25-June-2025) PP Live Event with the 20 year...

Thank you Douglas!!!!

I just measured my Mom's. Enhancer pearl is 15.5 mm by 22.5 mm Drop shaped earrings are 12.5 mm by 20 mm The round earrings are roughly 19.5 to 20 mm in diameter. They swamp my earlobes.

Pearl Dreams, yours are very pretty. I've never seen a Tahitian mabe' pearl before. Very unique. Your earring is quite petite for a mabe' pearl. My mother's earrings are huge, but they're from the 1990s. Very Princess Diana. They're way too big for my earlobes. I like yours better.

It looks like an Osmena pearl. It's made from the shell of the Nautilus, so it's not technically a pearl, but it is a mother of pearl shell. Google "Osmena pearl" for more information.

More new information!!! I'm reading "Pearl Book" that I bought at the Mikimoto Museum and I just learned a lot about the difference between, blister pearls, blisters, and what Mabe' pearls are and are not. Click on the photo below to read the full post...

I thought I knew what Mabe' pearls were. I was wrong. Here are my mother's Mabe' pearls. 2 pairs of earrings and an enhancer. You can see the mother of pearl covering the backside. I just started reading the "Pearl Book" that I bought from the Mikimoto Museum during my Japan trip...

PJs and Pearls. I'm not getting dressed today and you can't make me. But pearls are a must. All Kamoka Tahitians again today. Black and white studs. This pair goes with everything. My All Josh 2019 Harvest necklace. This is the only harvest necklace that is all near rounds. This...

OOOOO, my SOC dream strands. They always get away from me and end up in JEG's jewelry box, where I can still enjoy them!!!! Haha. SurfnSci, yours are gorgeous too. Grocery shopping pearls. All Kamoka Tahitians. Earrings on 18k Bali gold findings. La Petite Pearlagrina pendant. Small but...

I just got back from an international braiding conference in Cleveland, OH, and there were more pearls waiting for me when I got home. Please check out my Trip to Japan thread for more photos and the continuing story. The new stuff is at the end of the thread this time. Click on the following...

And there's more!!! Right after the trip to Japan, I immediately flew to Cleveland, OH for BRAIDS 2025, an international Kumihimo (Japanese braiding) conference. Of course, I was underdressed for the banquet. I'm too embarrassed to post a photo what I was wearing at the conference. Her...

Yens, thank you.

Yens. Well said. Thank you for your insight.

I couldn't sleep last night, so I posted a bit more stuff on my Pearl Trip post. It's just a few things stuffed in here or there. It's not something at the end, but in the earlier posts. I'm off to an international Kumihimo (Japanese braiding) conference (in Cleveland of all places) this...

Tuesday, 10-June-2025. Unfortunately, I missed the last day of the 6th JPF (Japan Pearl Fair). There was a panel discussion with Yuko, Jeremy, Helena, and Tevai, on the sustainability of pearls at 10 a.m., and I missed it. My flight home started at noon, and it was an hour taxi ride to...

IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The JPF started at 10 a.m. today. At 10:15 a.m. we went to Tatsu Kuramoto's booth for a lecture on pearl quality. Tatsu is VP of JPEA as well as a pearl vendor. Tatsu told us that the Hanadama certificates have become meaningless. Ten years ago (2015) when I bought...

Monday, 9-June-2025. I went up to the 30th floor for breakfast at 7 a.m. As I was waiting in line, a random lady sat next to me and handed me a large 4 leaf clover type plant in a sparkly plastic sleeve. She was wearing pearls, so she must have recognized me from the fair. She said...

At 6 p.m., the Japan Pearl Fair held a Welcome Party in one of the banquet rooms of the Portopia Hotel. Lots of good food. Lots of speeches in Japanese, translated into Chinese and English. Jeremy was called up, and he introduced each of us to the crowd. Then we took a group photo. In...

Tevai found the Ritikea Tahitian pearls first. WOWZA! We're talking $70K USD retail for a single strand. My knees went weak when I walked up to the booth. When viewing the next photo, my husband said, "I like the bottom strand." And I said, "Congratulations. You just picked the most...

2 mm keshi. I would have loved to have bought this whole hank of strands, but there were priced by the single strand. And I really don't want to string multiple strands of those tiny pearls. These really glowed. At Takashi's booth, he showed us his top quality pearls. They were already...