Pearls and Pearl Jewelry

By Diana Kirkpatrick | May 24, 2021
Pearls for every occasion

I love pearls and pearl jewelry. Pearls can have unusual shapes (baroque pearls) and neat colors – I think they are all wonderful. A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue of a mollusk as the result of an irritant. The pearls we treasure are composed of calcium carbonate deposited over that irritant…

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Birthstones for June

By Diana Kirkpatrick | May 31, 2020
14kt gold ring with white pearls

Birthstones for the month of June: June is another month with multiple birthstone choices.  Pearls, moonstone, and alexandrite are frequently used for June birthstones.  Pearls Pearls made their “debut” in the first century BC.  Many ancient civilizations considered pearls as precious gems.  According to the National Geographic, a bit of pearl jewelry was found in…

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Pearls are the Birthstone for June

By Diana Kirkpatrick | June 30, 2018

Summer’s Almost Here!   I am looking forward to summer and some warm weather! June is generally a typical summer month here.  The traditional June birthstone is the pearl and there’s a wide range of pearl types to choose from.  There are also alternative stones.  Moonstone is the most popular alternative stone, but Chalcedony and…

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Pearls – Types of Pearls and What makes Pearls Valuable

By Diana Kirkpatrick | March 27, 2015

Pearls start when an irritating microscopic object becomes trapped within the soft tissue of a live mollusk. The mollusk creates a pearl sac to seal off the irritation and then secretes multiple layers of nacre (calcium carbonate), eventually creating a pearl Ideally, pearls are round and smooth, but many other shapes can occur due to…

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