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I've been working on earrings and necklaces and besides the beautiful creamy pearls I normally use I've made a few pieces with some delightfully shaped freshwater pearls that are barely blue (they also look great with steel wire). I was on such a copper+pearl binge that I am now out of several gauges of copper wire and all but the tiniest pearls.

Tomorrow I'll be working with some lovely smoky crystals and gold wire.

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First thing this morning I opened up the delivery from yesterday and put two of my favourite things together - pearls and copper. These earrings are not very big, about an inch long, the next ones will be longer, and have more pearls.

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Pearls are so beautiful and strange, the way they reflect light is fantastic.

This is the last thing I finished today, then I went to dinner with friends and met the wool-pusher’s father, who is visiting from England. Miss P herself is easy-going and endlessly generous, with an incredible array of talents ranging from dancing and fiber-art through managing singers and teaching. She and her dad are full of funny stories about their lives, crazy wolfhounds, and adventures all over the world - they are the kind of family you want to be adopted in to, and it was a great ending to a good day.