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Thanks! The addiction to pearls grows. I really like the Kamoka Tahitians, too. That mismatched pair goes with everything.

Wow JEG, those are so unusual. Gorgeous. Which earrings to wear with my new Kojima necklace of dyed freshwater pearls and gemstone beads? Mismatched blue baroque akoya and Tahitian drops from OceanRhyme? Various dyed freshwater drops from Kojima? Or mismatched Tahitian drops from Kamoka in...

I'm expecting it to be quite different from my pearl farm trip. But I'm excited for it to be different.

I'm heading back to Japan in November. One of my weaving friends is leading a tour of textiles in Okinawa. I'm going to keep my eye out for bunnies.

Oh, I did NOT string my tiny pearl necklaces. I do not have the ability to string those tiny pearls. When I was on the Japan pearl farm trip in June, at the Japan Pearl Fair, there was a booth with lots of tiny akoya keshi. They were gorgeous. I loved feeling a hank of 100 strands of...

BUNNIES!!!!!! I'm in love!!! New "throw them over the head and wear with jeans" pearls from Kojima. Dyed freshwaters and various gemstones that really glow in sunlight. I'm in love with this strand. I've been dithering over it for ages.

They look like imitations to me. The gloppy stuff around the drill holes is typical of imitation pearls. Oh, I see PearlDreams even circled the drill hole. Also, they have no overtones. The color is very flat.

The color is wrong, even for dyed pearls. The surface luster is all wrong. It looks like polished glass or gemstone, instead of pearl nacre. The color is the same all the way through, which doesn't happen with any kind of pearl.

Merrily, thank you for posting this. I'm so glad I did not go. I would have rage stroked. I would have quietly muttered BULLSHIT, and then gotten louder and louder during his talk until they threw me out. I bet his "worked for Mikimoto" was that he worked at a jewelry store and sold one pair...

They don't look like pearls to me.

Visiting Dad today. Judy Jetson necklace with a freshwater button pearl and druzy quartz. Trying to decide which earrings to wear. I usually wear the Mikimoto huggies, but I think today I'll go with the white and gold South Sea and mismatched Tahitian pearls from OceanRhyme. I'll probably...

LUSTER!

I'm trying to get better about mixing and matching my pearls. Golden South Sea keshi and tourmalines from Hisano. Sun and Moon Tahitian studs from Kamoka. The pearls are much brighter in real life.

I love mismatched earrings! They really do go with everything.

Sheri! Thank you, JEG. No, I somehow missed doing the ring the year before.

OOOOO, look just arrived. Sun and Moon 10.5 mm dark blue and pistachio Tahitian studs from Kamoka. Love the new box. There's a magnet in the lid to keep it closed. I think 10.5 mm might be my limit on stud size. Sun and Moon studs with Planet Berna, also from Kamoka. And a Tahitian...

Pajama pearls. Who says you have to dress up to wear pearls? Freshwater pearls from Kojima. All natural colors. The pendant was a dark, intense, chocolate plum color when I bought it. It's now a pale lavender with a pistachio green overtone. I really like it, but it really faded. Long...

My first Tahitian pearls, from Kojima Pearl. I lost one of the sapphires in the vintage white gold clasp years ago. I finally got around to getting it fixed. It cost me a whopping $25. I should have gotten it fixed years ago. It was the clasp that prompted me buy the strand of pearls. I...

Planet Berna (asteroid 1313) and it's moon, from Kamoka. Mismatched Tahitian and blue baroque akoya earrings from OceanRhyme.

They really do.