This week we enjoyed a great lesson in learning to knot tiny pearls! India RowsI am a modern day treasure hunter who travels the world for gorgeous pearls and amazing adventures. I own a pearl jewelry and jewelry repair business, ThePearlGirls.com, with a cute retail store in Athens, GA. I also have a Pearl Travel …
One of the great things about jet lag is I have ALL NIGHT to work on my videos!! 🙂 Here is my first video from my most recent trip to Fiji! I learned so much and got so many wonderful pearls! It was amazing!! I cannot WAIT to share everything with you! India RowsI am …
I just got a question and I wanted to post it here for many of you who might be confused about the different types of pearls. The question was, “Are your pearls FRESH WATER, SALT WATER OR CULTURED PEARLS?” That is such a great question which highlights a lot of the different info that floats …
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I was writing my weekly email this morning and I got stuck on the phrase: reknot, restring or reinvent your jewelry. It feels like the three Rs of what The Pearl Girls ® do! Let me explain… India RowsI am a modern day treasure hunter who travels the world for gorgeous pearls and amazing adventures. …
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I got a great question a few weeks ago that I wanted to discuss: I took my moms pearls in to be restrung and was surprised when they told me there isn’t a resale value on pearls. I was told they disintegrate and Mikimoto pearls are the only pearls that might increase value. Do you …
Okay, this is a big change from my usual pearl posts but I feel like I need to talk about something important for the University of Georgia football fans and all of our rivals coming to Athens, GA for a football game: How To Spot A Fake UGA Football Ticket. This weekend I decided to take …
Today I am featuring the Don’t Cry for Me Earrings. Check them out! As I mention in today’s email and this listing, this is a perfect reminder of what we have all been through. Sometimes I hate to repeat the old adage, “What doesn’t kill us..” and yet, sometimes it can be true. Right?! Over …
If you have ever heard me talk about pearls and how they are formed, you have probably heard me talk about bricks. Bricks, or the building blocks of pearls, is how I best describe the interlocking layers of pearls. The aragonite that makes pearls (and makes them shiny) are interlocking crystal layers cemented together like …
Thanks for all your emails! Here is more on pearl processing versus pearl treatments: India RowsI am a modern day treasure hunter who travels the world for gorgeous pearls and amazing adventures. I own a pearl jewelry and jewelry repair business, ThePearlGirls.com, with a cute retail store in Athens, GA. I also have a Pearl …
Pteria, Mollusk, Oyster, Pinctada… what am I talking about? The beautiful pearl making species… they are not oysters, per se, so what are they?! India RowsI am a modern day treasure hunter who travels the world for gorgeous pearls and amazing adventures. I own a pearl jewelry and jewelry repair business, ThePearlGirls.com, with a cute …
I get this question a lot and it is an important one to consider, do the pearl farms kill the oyster? India RowsI am a modern day treasure hunter who travels the world for gorgeous pearls and amazing adventures. I own a pearl jewelry and jewelry repair business, ThePearlGirls.com, with a cute retail store in …
In my next chapter of all the awesomeness I am learning here on my Mexican pearl farm trip is the burden of being a mollusk that lives in shallow water. The species of mollusk in shallow water that I am referring to is called the Pinctada mazatlanica. This species of mollusk loves warm, tropical waters. In …
