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I bought some Beader’s Secret thread, needles and gimp from Pattye at the last Ruckus, and I am just now getting around to stringing my first necklace. (Hangs head in shame.) I bought a Belpearl necklace from Saks Off Fifth for a good price, but the thread broke the first time I tried to take...

I was scrolling through an article on Spring 2019 jewelry trends. One of the trends listed was drop earrings, and as I scrolled by the first picture (Dior earrings with pearls), I thought "they really need some of Hisano's stunning drop earrings." I kept scrolling and saw these beauties...

I bought a bright green strand of ringed baroque Tahitians from PP last year, and recently had them turn it into a tin cup with textured oval links, similar to Newberry’s peacock drop tin cup. The 4 smallest pearls from the strand (8-8.2 mm) were left over, and I am considering using them to...

This isn’t pearl jewelry, but I hope it is okay to share here. I recently acquired a modernist sculpture of the Madonna by the Los Castillo firm of Taxco, Mexico, which started in 1939 and is still in business today. This hand wrought Madonna's unique abstract design is a hooded cloak on a...

I am having an earring setting dilemma, and could use some help. I have 2 fully drilled dark GSS roundish oval drop pearls that are just under 11 mm in diameter. I plan to wear them with my GSS strand and a GSS and multicolor Tahitian and black spinel Gellner-style tin cup that I am having...

I had lunch with Newberry on Sunday and we had a ball playing pearls. All pearls shown were purchased by 4RG or me during the recent Pearl Paradise sales, other than 4RG?s WSS tin cup, which she had made a while back with pearls from another vendor. I was very, very bad during the sales. My...

I purchased this 18" strand of AAA peacock drops (8.3-10.7mm) from PP at the Ruckus last summer. I like to stare at these pearls, as I am mesmerized by the colors, smooth drops and highly reflective luster of these pearls. I find that I do not wear them often, however, due to the size of the...