I received a post this morning from a Mr. Trotta of Boston, USA, who runs a pearl store on Museum Way. He sent me a link to an interesting article from Charleston, Calling All Girls with Pearls.The High Hopes fundraising committee is calling for girls to donate their pearls to create some magnificent ensemble to auction off at an event. Petit Jewellery Designs has agreed to put together this one-of-a-kind ensemble. They are requesting either cultured or freshwater pearls. I know, I know, freshwater pearls are cultured too. I didn’t write the bloody thing.
I’m keen to see this finished ensemble of pearls. Designing a piece with odds and ends, most likely reject pearls, by a designer who differentiates between cultured and freshwater, is a recipe for a jolly concoction.
If any readers have an extra pearl or two (or 3000) they feel like dumping into this prize pool, pearls can be delivered to Petit Jewellery Designs at 1012 ½ Bridge Road, Charleston, West Virginia, 25314 USA. The only catch, pearls must be there by Monday! It would be amusing to dump a few kilo of pearl on these blokes. There wouldn’t be anything petit about that ensemble.



