Ever since my trip to Japan in 2013 I have been inspired (and haunted) by the story of a young Japanese girl, her family and pearls. I have slowly been writing this story down to simply get her and her family out of my head. I have also been slowly looking for women who can …
Merry Christmas dear friends of The Pearl Girls! If you are not on our mailing list, you might have missed our card! I hope you had a great one!
I was so excited and honored to be interviewed by Aisle Do blog. Here is the interview posted on Aisle Do on Tuesday with some great questions on pearls.
This post is from my weekly newsletter. I usually do not share my newsletter on my blog (It’s a bit personal) but I wanted to share this with you and I contemplate the growth of The Pearl Girls. And, of course if you have not subscribed to my newsletter and want to, click here. My Deepest …
“They shrink wrapped my pearls.” Patty exclaimed. As you might imagine, I was confused! “They did what?” I asked. “Shrink-wrapped!”
An interesting article came out Thailand this week about new technology to turn pearls into gold! Thai researchers at the Synchrotron Light Research Institute have figured out how to change the natural color of pearls from white to gold! Okay, so not exactly pearls to gold but pearls to a gold color!
After my last post on Lillian’s yellow pearl, I was thinking some people might wonder, why are there yellow pearls? Yellow pearls certainly are not the most common pearls and they are the least sellable pearls. Interesting, right? They tend to be one of the most polarizing pearls. You either love them or you don’t. …
You may have read my previous post about Lillian Nordica, one of the first famous faces of Coca-Cola. She was incredibly fond of pearls and I love the story of her yellow pearl.
Remember all of the old Coca-Cola ad memorabilia? Maybe its because I am in Georgia, (the birth-state of Coke) but it seems every junk and antique shop I visit has some sort of Coca-Cola memorabilia from over the years. Well, spending the night in Atlanta last night was no different. I was perusing through our …
Our black pearls have landed! I spoke to our favorite Tahitian black pearl farmer last week. He had finished his harvest and matched us some amazingly beautiful Tahitian black pearl necklaces for our eight pre-order customers! Thanks to each of you who preordered your strands. The pearls cleared the strict Tahitian custom and duties and they …
I think there is a problem with pearl grading.
Have you read up on the life cycle of mollusks? If not, click here are read the fascinating story. This reproductive cycle must be maintained within the cultured pearl industry so pearl farmers have mollusks to nucleate to create pearls. So, how old do mollusks need to be to create pearls?
