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Ok folks, come clean on PG. Someone on PG must have bit on the January special: http://www.pearlparadise.com/Pearls-on-sale447.aspx The earrings went so quickly.... I clicked through the email innocently enough when it hit my inbox. I didn't even intend to get anything, I swear. Just for the...

Rather than further contaminate the 100" rope thread in this forum, I thought I would post my shorter-than-required rope in its own thread :-) I think 50-55" ropes are my sweet spot: long enough to double or even treble (if it's 55"). This is one I made after raiding my stash and pulled out all...

I always love looking at pictures of pearls that people have managed to collect, and they're so helpful in making purchasing decisions, so I'm posting my pictures here even though, as people have said time and again, that pictures don't do these color shift pearls justice. I think these are...

I wanted to highlight the beautiful work that one of our local independent jewelers does with pearls. Daniel Spirer in Cambridge, Massachusetts is almost as obsessed with pearls as I am and he always has a range of amazing pearl pieces that I never see in a typical B&M jeweler. A few months ago...

Just wanted to share the strand I just received from the folks at Pearl Paradise, as part of the baroque Tahitian promotion... For fun, they're next to a grey strand I got myself for my birthday a few months ago from Sheryl (which has strong green and pink overtones that I am absolutely in LOVE...

I won't deny that I got a kick out seeing that beautiful necklace featured so prominently!

The much-anticipated PP June special arrived this week and... the idea of it is absolutely beautiful: But this one is going back. I was hoping that there would have been more contrast between the akoya keshi and the SSP -- that the akoya keshi would be a steely grey-blue rather than the...

I have been admiring some of the pieces that the Etsy seller LusterWear has been posting. She seems to specialize in pearl jewelry (among other art). And while, ahem, I am not in the market for another pair of pearl earrings at the moment, I am quite taken with these freshwater pearl earrings...

My favorite everyday earrings are studs around 8.5 mm to 9.0 mm and I've started a bit of a collection of them. For the life of me, I do not know how Alex gets such vibrant colors or is able to capture the orient and colorplay on his pearls. They must just be much more colorful pearls than mine...

My turn to ask: what are these?! These come down to me from my great grandmother and my mom had told me they were South Sea pearls (from nanyang). But now that I've seen some SSP in person, these look nothing like those. I'm guessing that these are from the 1930's or before. I do not know if...

Like Adeline, I'd been collecting gemstones in my 20's and in my 30's have moved on to pearls, although my collection is not nearly as extensive nor as fine. One of my obsessions in my teens was watermelon tourmaline which I saw for the first time in Hong Kong. (I still remember that shop window...

Here are pictures of my new double-strand of metallic fwp from Pearl Paradise. These are 7.0 mm - 7.5 mm. When I first opened the box I was a little disappointed since they are much smaller than the jawbreaker-sized pearls I acquired recently. But after wearing them a few times, I've really come...

By way of introduction: I have been a lurker on P-G on and off for a while, it has finally enabled me to make my first PP purchases in the last month or so, which I thought I would share since others' pictures have been so helpful to me. These are the PP freshadama peach studs that are about...