Pearls: June A-bloom
Extended Summer Closure
The Passage usually shutters for July and August; June is added this year.
The Passage usually shutters for July and August; June is added this year.
My hand is healing from a fracture, so I'm off writing for a month.
The rx is rest, therapy and an occasional mojito (now that's a doctor!)
The rx is rest, therapy and an occasional mojito (now that's a doctor!)
Please come back for the reopening, soon after Labour Day.
Though a summer like no other, it's still summer...
so I wish you all the pleasures available.
Thank you for strolling through.
Though a summer like no other, it's still summer...
so I wish you all the pleasures available.
Thank you for strolling through.
We're headed into June, the month of the pearl. Though sunlit pearls glow splendidly on their own, they are even more striking when mixed mixed with luscious coloured stones! In today's window, pieces perfect for summer but wonderful year-round, too.
Earrings
Is it my months of isolation or are these looking irresistibly happy to you, too? All prices in $USD. If you order, I know you will be understanding about longer shipping times.
Left: Dangles of padparascha sapphires with little Akoyas from Judi McCormick; price, US $495. These are smaller than you might think, just 1 3/4 in. long, but what presence! (Only one of the pair is shown.)
Top right: The shimmery Tahitian keshi as 3in. dangles formed by an array of gorgeous tourmalines and iolite in whimsical mixed shapes. Though long, they are light. (If you have to distance, get earrings they can see!) From Kojima Company; price $495.
Bottom right: Drops of 9mm white pearls with turquoise, set in gold vermeil, from Etsy seller Kivotos Jewelry of Katerini, Greece; price, about $US 110.
Tart pendant
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| Photo: TwistOnline |
Freshwater pearl and pinkish-red ruby Piccolo necklace: how literally cool is this? We've met Hisano Shepherd's littleh designs in the Passage before and now some are on sale; this is $693 at TwistOnline. Includes a 14k gold chain.
Fizzy June finale: A knockout necklace
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| Photo: Judi McCormick |
Baroque Tahitians and carved flourite necklace, with a emerald-set magnetic clasp. This is a piece I see with a simple shirt: just let it steal the glow show. It could have came from the '60s, but looks absolutely current too— a jewelled garden.
Price, $US 1, 495; from Judi McCormick. Thank goddess my trigger finger is immobilized!
Comments
A fracture is no small thing: make sure you obey that prescription (including the bit you sip through a straw :))
Best wishes to you from old Blighty,
and I shall look forward to the reopening of the Passage in the Autumn.
Jane in London
Hope you have many pleasurable times during your well deserved break. Take care of your hand and I look forward to reading your posts in the autumn.
Duchesse, you inadvertently made me a bit sad as my friend who died last year (and who had been pretty much everywhere in Latin America) made splendid mojitos with such a flourish. But it is good to think of him. He was "Martini Jim" - not at all from overindulging in them but in preparing them - and mojitos - with perfect grace.
Materfamilias, I doubt the summer here will be as lively as usual - normally I'd be working my tuschie off for a festival now, and would one of my neighbours - but it remains restorative with all the lush green after the very icy winter and cool spring.
Yes, wise to take the month off from writing, and we will doubtless meet sometime at JTM.