{"id":923,"date":"2015-09-17T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2015-09-17T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:03:25","slug":"last-day-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/pearlescence\/last-day-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well here it is, last day. The time has passed so quickly, but now the show is closed`and there are no more pearls to be bought by me before the early morning flight and the alarm clock is set. Today was a gentle browsing day. I found some baroque bouldery little pearls which will make great earrings to go with the Spica Vietnamese grey big colour strands<\/p>\n

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Bouldery baroques from Vietnam<\/p><\/div>\n

The colours are intense and amazing – so powerful for such tiny little pearls<\/p>\n

Then I came across some cutest baby ripples with strong colours at a bargain price. Couldn’t resist<\/p>\n

\"ripple<\/a>

very strongly coloured baby ripples<\/p><\/div>\n

These pearls came from the same stable as the finest Edison pearls – bead nucleated pearls – with strands costing many \u00a3kkkk. Felt smug that,because the firm did not manage its second harvest in March (due apparently to local government actions – it’s the same the world over) there were no more of the vibrant deep pinks as per my present to myself. Closest was this deep purple-ish strand – very expensive – but, like most purples, not metallic and the purple was grubbied with a brown cast. All pinks to purples are prone to drop to beige brown.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>

Purple Edison strand<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally I had a play with a lot of button-ish metallics. These will be stunning set on rings<\/p>\n

\"Metallics\"<\/a>

Metallics<\/p><\/div>\n

And…….home.<\/p>\n

Bye-bye Hong Kong for this year. It’s been a wonderful trip with good friends, great food and fabulous pearls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well here it is, last day. The time has passed so quickly, but now the show is closed`and there are no more pearls to be bought by me before the early morning flight and the alarm clock is set. Today was a gentle browsing day. I found some baroque bouldery little pearls which will make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[214,219,217,218,131,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}