Show Us Your Pearls In Action!!!

Another beautiful week of pearls everyone! I love everything I see here❤️

I will be visiting my parents for Christmas and plan to leave my Love strand with my Mom and my sister because I so rarely wear it here. Now I have a new reason to casually put it on at home everyday;-) I have shortened it by two pearls that were a bit too baroque and I love the new length! My SOC ring stays with me;-)

Wishing everyone a lovely Sunday!
 

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BWeaves said:
Freshwater pearls and jade, and emeralds, and sapphires, and one tourmaline. Necklace from Kojima Pearl. little h earrings from Hisano at Pearl Paradise.

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Gasp!!!!!!!
What extraordinary design!!!
I hope you don’t mind, I will unashamedly be stealing this pearl x tumbled gemstone idea. Love love love love love!

It reminds me of imperial court necklaces (chaozhu) in ancient China that come in variety of materials including pearls.

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SurfnSci: I'm in such a multicolored Tahitian mood right now. I'm loving all the multicolored pearl necklaces. Yours is gorgeous, too.

Pomelo: I love those Chinese imperial court necklaces. I love the counter weight in the back to keep the weight off the back of your neck. I love the assymetric dangles in the front. And now I'm thinking about hanging a bracelet off the back of my orbit clasps. Hum.
 
I am loving all the pearly pics from everyone!!! :giggle:

Wow, there were so many things from the PP/Takahashi Live events I would love to have. Unfortunately I was only able to tune in live for one day and everything sold sooooo fast! Hard to tell if any of you were able to get anything with names like polite nachos, cheesy burritos and such, but I hope to see some of the pearls here!

I was able to meet up with Mr. Seki at the Japan Pearl Fair a few weeks ago and chose some loose pearls at the Takahashi booth. I didn’t have a plan for these, and for now, just knotted it into a bubble strand. I will try to post some pics later but I haven’t been home when there has been decent daylight.
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Two SS and Tahitian ombre necklaces from Kojima, with an ombre rope from Cees. I made the SS and Tahitian earrings but forgot to include them in the pearl pics.
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Two real Kasumi pendants from the only pearl farm on Lake Kasumi-Ga in Japan. I wear them on earring hoops. One large freshwater pearl from China. These pearls are erotochromatic. All from Kojima Pearl.

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These pearls change color as you move them around, so you've got to see them in motion.

 
Time to restring the first pearl necklace I ever bought. Japanese akoya pearls bought in 1982, so they're probably 45 years old. This is not their first restringing, but I can see the thread has stretched between the old knots. Most of the pearls still have amazing luster, although watching the video, I see a chalky one I should have been removed. Lots and lots of overhand knots. The necklace is 32 inches long, and the pearls are 5.5 mm. I wore this necklace everyday for decades, as it was only one of two pearl necklaces I owned. The other was a 7 mm choker from my grandmother.

A word about the clasp. It's a base metal clasp with yellow gold plating and white rhodium plating, and CZs. It's never tarnished, and it's very sparkly. I originally had a similar looking ball clasp in real gold and diamonds, but the diamonds were minuscule and very grey. They didn't sparkle. Meanwhile, this "fake" clasp looks amazing. Never judge as strand of pearls by the price of the clasp.

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Finished. The knots should be good for another 5 years, since I don't wear it every day now.

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Video of the pearls, and my knotting in motion on Instagram.

 
Nana (my Mom's mom) never bought high quality jewelry. Her pearls have thin nacre. You can see the chalky surface, the low luster, and the surface flaws in the Instagram video. Granted, she wore these every day, and after she died, I wore them every day, so you might think the nacre has worn off. Well some of it might have worn off. But I also have pearls that my Mom bought in 1959, and pearls that I bought in 1982 (see previous post), that are still very lustrous, and still look like they have thick nacre. Nana's pearls started out with thin nacre. ALWAYS GO FOR THE LUSTER!


I was thinking of restringing Nana's pearls, but after taking another look at them, I think not.

I took Nana's diamond and pearl clasp, and had PP replace the necklace strand with Freshadamas, and I still think of it as Nana's necklace because at least the clasp is the same. It reminds me of the joke about the person who owned George Washington's axe, that he used to chop down the cherry tree. The handle had to be replaced 3 times, and the axe head 2 times, because they broke or wore out, but it's the same axe. ;)
 
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Horrible lighting to take pearl pics, but here’s the bubbly necklace I made from the loose Takahashi pearls. Worn with SS keshi stud earrings from a PP/Takahashi live event and jackets I made with loose blue Akoya, also from Takahashi. The pendant is a Japan Kasumi from Kojima, and I made the pearl chain with Akoya keshi from Druzy.
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BWeaves said:
Happy Thanksgiving! Taking Dad to my brother's house for Thanksgiving. All I have to cook is "show up."

Planet Berna Tahitian pendant and Bali earrings from Kamoka Pearl. Longer Tahitian bubble ombre' necklace from Kojima Pearl. TNT (Tahitians and tourmalines) circled pearls necklace from Ocean's Cove on Etsy.

Handwoven Zanshiori shawl in Tencel yarn. Zanshiori means "mistake weaving" in Japanese, because you're not supposed to weave with knots in the yarn. However, I take the loom waste (the yard long threads that cannot be woven at the end of a project) and tie them all together and use them as weft (the side to side threads) on a different warp (the up and down threads).

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Berna your weaves are absolutely stunning. I truly appreciate them. Do you have a website where you sell them?
 
@jeg I LOVE that new bubbly strand!

@BWeaves Your claim on day 2 of the PP/takahashi event is my “one that got away!” The BBA long charm-style necklace! It’s so gorgeous and is going to be so fun to wear!! I was waiting for it and hesitated just a few seconds too long. Sigh ….

This little Tahitian pendant just spoke to me, and I bought it on a whim from TeHotu Mana. It’s rainy today and there is NO natural light at all for pictures, so you really can’t tell, but the pearl has a nice blue tone. The shape was unusual to me as well, and I put it on a longer chain so I have the benefit of looking down at it as I wear it.
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Pearly Librarian. Jordyn gave a sneak peak on her last PP Live event, so I knew that BBA dangle necklace had to show up at one point during the 3 days of the Takahashi live event. Kinda wish I'd picked the B one, but I had pretyped A in case there was only one necklace. I'm sure the A one will look gorgeous.

Today I'm very peachy.

Peach freshwater pearls with flashes of green and lavender. Lots of keshi, and a strand of large bead nucleated baroques. All from Kojima Pearl.

My shorter ripples. They're more on the peach side in real life. I only kept these because I can link them to my more intense ripples and they make a nice ombre' rope that way. Keshi tin-cup and matching earrings that Sarah made for me because I wasn't fast enough on the original necklace that was listed on Kojima site. Long 40" ombre' keshi rope goes from whites near the clasp to peaches in the middle. Worn double.

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I can see why that pendant spoke to you, PearlyLibrarian! I’ve made several purchases from TeHotu Mana when I’ve been able to attend some shows in Hawaii. They always have a booth packed with Tahitian jewelry and the pearls have some of the nicest colors I’ve seen.

I love those keshi strands, BWeaves! I don’t see as many colorful FW keshi these days.

I’m visiting Hawaii again. I love the appreciation for pearls here. The jewelry of choice is usually something with pearls, especially Tahitians. I took some snapshots to share. The first pics are from my screen giving take-off info on the Hawaiian Airlines flight.
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I like to watch the local news and tv here because they almost always wear pearls or shells. The first pic is of the newscaster last night (she also wore Tahitian studs), the second is of a clip of a local singer that was in the news and she was decked out in a pearl-laden dress.
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Sunset last night, and holiday decorations from my early morning walk this morning-
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OOOOO, more blues. My PP Live Takahashi pearls just arrived and I love them. Only a few of the pearls are deep blue, but the surfaces are very clean for baroques, and many are perfect little drop shapes. The chain is actually two different styles of chain. And, there are little gold dangles in between some of the pearls for extra sparkle. The chain is adjustable in length, too, with a dangling pearl at the back. There's way more to this necklace than I thought there was when I bought it.

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The chain on the left alternates paperclip links with flat reflective links that sparkle. The chain on the right is bigger and teardrop shaped. The necklace alternates between these two styles of chain every couple of inches.

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For color comparison: Worn with today's BBAs.

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For color comparison: Worn with yesterday's BBAs.

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For color comparison: Worn with BBAs from Pearls of Joy, bought at my first RUCKUS. I think this might be my favorite combo. The color of the pearls is in between the other two chokers. And the length works better. It's a 20 inch strand.

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