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I'm considering it. Anyone?

Hope you got to see the Tahitian Keshi pearl necklace she was wearing in tonight's debate. Can anyone take credit for that one??

Don't know where to post this really, but has anyone had the experience of the ring breaking off in a pearl set with a pearl post with a ring. I have had 2 different buyers drop their pearls and have the ring at the top of the post break off. They were two different kinds. One had a big ring...

I want to buy a tabletop light-box kit. I'm tired of wrestling with light and color. Who loves their light box kit and what kind is it? Thanks!

I guess this is what you get when you go through millions of live "shells." The pearls are gorgeous, but it makes me sad to see the products. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6qHl-2pw3Q...

I'm pretty certain of the response, but I've been asked, so I'll back my impressions up with the experts. What do you think?

I went to my first Jewelry/Gem show at the Santa Monica auditorium yesterday. Sarah was there, and I finally got to meet Fuji Voll. Sarah and I got a little quality time, and I got some very nice pearls from her, but she also pointed me to an amazing vendor, Chris from Bonita Creations. Wow...

Hello everyone! Been more silent than sounding lately, but it's been a busy year. We recently moved from Hawaii to Southern California, and I've been scrambling on many fronts. The last year at my Farmer's market in Hawaii was really good, and so consistent, that I let my website and Etsy...

Had my knee scoped again last week - hopefully this works. I found the painkillers gave me the patience to knot and knot. Here are a few of the products!

My husband brought this home last night. Someone donated it to his school's silent auction, and they want me to set it. My first response in light last night was negative, but that there was also something strange about the pearl. The donor said it was a Tahitian baroque. The shape is very...

I hope one of you got them. I didn't even come close. http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6625089

This is what I've been up to. I found these cable wire findings on Rio Grande and I really like what you can do with them. They are silver wires with dark green Kamoka pearls. Big Kamoka Keishis with 14k spacers The pendant is a pistachio Kamoka I got at Sarah's (oh so much greener then...

Can post a pic maybe, but for now you'll have to use my descriptive powers to see. 46" strand of baroque Akoyas, origin unknown in local jeweler under Estate consignment. Very shiny white with definite rose overtones. Held them next to a strand of round akoyas, and the rounds just faded away...

I'm back from my Bay area adventure. It was loads of fun, and my little one is a natural born city girl, including the shopping. I didn't leave my heart in San Francisco, but certainly most of my money. Top of the adventure was meeting Sarah from Kojima Pearl and seeing some of her wares...

I just broke a Vietnamese unbleached akoya pearl. This is part of my knotting project that I have been fighting with all day (on another thread). I tried to force a needle through and this is what I got. Very interesting. Not much in the way of nacre and above the round insert and the...

This isn't really an ebay item, but maybe this is a good thread to post to for all our "discoveries." Don't know anything about this, but someone did a lot of work. http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/jwl/1076650698.html

I'm off to San Fran area including Oakland, San Jose, Napa -wherever and was hoping to do some pearl/gem beads/findings etc. shopping while there. Much to my dismay, Sarah from Kojima will not be around :( and I'm wondering if there are any places/people any of you might recommend. Who's in...

This is one of the funny "roaming" Tahitians that I got. I should have taken pics before I started fooling around with the wire, but oh well. These were taken at the very end of the day in just after sunset light. I can try more tomorrow, but I might as well start things up. What color would...

These are the pendants settings I got the other day and had set with my pearls. I thought they were very cool, but perhaps they are more common than I think? The keishis are Kamoka, the rounds are from the ones I got out of the roaming Tahitians. #1 - The flower pendant is about 18mm and the...

OK, I had so much fun with Terry's contest, I'm going to throw one out. Pick a number between 200 and 657, and the person with the closest to the random number I have now written down, gets the floating pearl pictured here. It will be on 49 strand platinum beading wire with SS beads and clasp...