My pearls

[Charlotta]

Thank you Pattye and 86Corvettegirl. It's a very versatile clasp, both ends opens up.

 

[Charlotta]

The silver tahitian strand from Cees also pairs up nicely with my white south sea strand, also from Cees.


Both these strands are just amazing, such luster and the overtones are lovely.

With my often used tahitian enhancer from Pearlsociety.


I did get some new photos of the white south sea strand on it's own. Sometimes it's difficult to capture how lustrous these really are.



This is without a doubt my favorite south sea strand. Such an amazing strand. I asked Cees to find me some baroque white south sea pearls for a project and he showed me these. The project had to use other pearls. No way am I cutting up these. I never though that I would ever have a strand like this. It's now my go to white pearl strand and I haven't used my white akoyas since I got this. I have accually made my good akoyastrand, the one with the white gold and diamondclasp availible for my family for sort of a heirloom strand to use. My mother used that one for my fathers funeral and I thought that some of the children might want to use it if they get married.

 

[Charlotta]

Today I redid two strands. I combined my mostly blue akoyastrand from Pearlescence with a strand of white south sea pearls, also from Pearlescence into a 36 inch rope. I didn't use either strand a lot, probably because of the pearlsize of 7-8mm, but I think that I will use it as a rope more.



The colors and luster on some of these pearls are amazing.


This is what the pearls look like before. Perfecly fine but not much used.

 

[Charlotta]

After redoing the other strands yesterday I decided to redo my triple blue grey akoyas I bought from Wendy at Pearlescence, the one with the beautiful aquamarine clasp. Gorgeous necklace for sure, but the clasp is so fiddly thar I almost never wears it. It's the tongue, it's flimsy and difficult to get into position. Had it been a singel strand clasp I would have used it on a rope and never ever opened it. I might get it altered. Meanwhile I took all of the baroque silvery blue, some pink in it as well, pearls and knotted it into a 52 inch rope.

With the akoya and south sea rope.


The before picture.

 

[Katbran]

All of your pieces turned out great ! Well done !!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Katbran

 

[Charlotta]

Last night I made another leftover strand, a sampler light, about 19-20inches long. I used baroque white south sea pearls, circled tahitians, drop tahitians and golden south sea pearls. The golden pearls, along with 2 goldeny tahitian drops act as a bridge between the colors and gives it an ombre effect.





With my sampler strand.

 

[Charlotta]

I continue with my beading efforts. Little kitten helps... When Pearl Guide was down for 2 days I had to do something pearlrelated, don't you think. I had some leftover baroque white south sea pearls, some rather small tahitian circled pearls and some tiny freshwater pearls. The tiny pearls are the reason for me ending the strand with three tahitian pearls. I had to finish it somehow, the drillholes are to small for doubling back with double tread, even though I used the smallest Beaders secret tread. The funny looking middle tahitian pearls has a gorgeous green color, very pretty.

It looks better when worn.




Then I wirewrapped some ripples to make earings.

Wee kitten.

I hear her squeaky little voice: "it was bigger kitten that stole the tread three times, not me", whilst chewing on the tread.

 

[Charlotta]

Then I restrung my ombre tahitian rope from Cees, I wanted to use my vintage aquamarine and akoya clasp. It's for a triple strand really, but so difficult to open that it remains unused. But since I prefer to use the ombre rope as a rope the clasp gets used anyway.







The clasp by itself, very nicely made except for the flimsy tongue.

Next I am going to restring my silver strand from Cees. My Beaders secret tread finally got release from the swedish postal service after 3 weeks. Now it's strung with sky, but I want to try it with grey, mist or aqua.

 

[Katbran]

Well you had a productive ' I can't get into
PGF' day !! Such a pretty clasp and I love the Ombre.
Your 'redo' is fun !

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Katbran, I'm on vacation and I find stringing relaxing when it rains.

 

[Lilpearl]

That’s a nice pastime, and your pearls look lovely!

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you Lilpearl.

 

[Charlotta]

So today I restrung my silver tahitian strand from Cees with Beaders secret in aqua. I really like that color.

 

[Charlotta]

Inspired by Gemandpearlovers tahitian lovely strands from Wen Pearls, I bought a strand from Wen as well. But I didn't choose from her best loose pearls, I bought a rather inexpensive near round strand. Well I have been spoiled by the lovely tahitian pearls I got from Cees and Pearlescence. But it was surtainly worth the money. The luster is pretty good, the pearls are very bumpy. I did choose a very dark strand, so I shouldn't really blame the poor pearls for being dark, but these pearls sure are dark. It is rather nice and I am sure that I can make something out of it. First Wens photo.

Then my photos.

I did tell you that it's dark, didn't I.




Will have to use forest on this one. With my forest green tahitian studs from Pearlescence and my green banded tahitian enhancer and the strand I might cut apart.

I have thoughts on using this bluish green akoyastrand from Pearlescence.

But I did turn that one into a rope the other day...

As a conclusion, the pearls have great luster and the price was very good. They are very dark, but most of them has nice overtones. I wouldn't buy another one like this, but Gemandpearlovers strands are really nice, so her single pearls are probably much better. I think that I should stick with Cees and Pearlescence next I need/want more tahitians or other pearls as well. Enough ramblings on my behalf, have to rearrange pearls...

 

[Charlotta]

The dark tahitian strand from Wen Pearls did turn out quite nice. It's wearable for sure. I just knotted it with Beaders secret in forest for now, I rather like the bluish green akoya and white south sea rope as it is.

 

[Andrew M]

Those are some dark Tahitians! I like them.

 

[Katbran]

I quite like Forest and use it on my darker green pearls, I also like Navy for some and Sky or mist with the pale . I've not tried Aqua and may do a few knots just to see how it looks. I'm someone that likes my knots to blend in .. but I know lots of people like something that stands out.

I do like your white and blue rope , looks very pretty ! And the dark pearls have a nice luster. I have one dark strand, very dark, and while at first I was a bit indifferent I've grown to love it. You could always buy a few loose dark ones and replace any that you feel are not up to your standard.

 

[Charlotta]

Thank you AndrewM and Katbran. The aqua tread blends in quite nice accually, I was a bit hesitant about using it but it just highlighs the overtones in the pearls. I thought that if it didn't work I could just restring it, it wouldn't take me long.
The dark strand is sort of pretty, but there are some pearls that are more blemished than I like. I did arrange them so that it doesn't show much when worn. I could just replace those pearls. There are some very pretty pearls in the strand. Might be that I just have to get use to the darkness off it.

 

[Gemandpearlover]

Such gorgeous pearls Charlotta. I really love the colors on your strand from Pearlescence. I know what you mean about your dark strand. I bought a sister strand from Wen and I was very disappointed in how dark they were. I lightened them up with some metal beads between the front pearls. The strand has grown on me. I call it my drama strand and plan to wear it when I wear a white top, or on jeans and T-shirt days.