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This Simone Rocha Cake Bag!🎂

Girls don't want boys. we want cake bags.

A late Victorian seed pearl and gold necklace, circa 1890

pearls are RIDICULOUS because you think you know what a pearl looks like, you can envision it in your head, it's just a simple little white dot, but then all of THESE exist also

...such a versatile calcified bodily fluid

2015 Faberge pearl egg, the first released by the Faberge company in 99 years.

According to the Faberge Website:

Harnessing 20 highly skilled workmasters, the objet embodies 139 fine, white pearls with a golden lustre, 3,305 diamonds, carved rock crystal and mother-of-pearl set on white and yellow gold. Each pearl adorning the Fabergé Pearl Egg was hand-selected by Hussain Ibrahim Al-Fardan from his private collection. An ingenious mechanism enables the entire outer shell to rotate on its base, simultaneously opening in six sections to unveil within.

“I have a passion for natural pearls and it took me many years to build my current collection gathering some of the most extraordinary pearls in the world. Fabergé has a great history in making jewellery for royalty and a truly precious Fabergé Egg is a luxury treasure and the symbol of a long-gone era of opulence. This is why I partnered with Fabergé to combine these two traditional treasures: the Fabergé Egg and natural Arabian Gulf pearls, to create an exceptional piece.”

HUSSAIN IBRAHIM AL-FARDANChairman of the Alfardan Group

pearls>>

So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?

Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.

What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18

This “trashy hoe” also spoke like 50 languages and totally played the men around her to keep Egypt alive and her people happy. Don’t believe anything else,

So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?

Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.

What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18

Pausanias recounts that “pearls are dissolved by vinegar” (VIII.18.6), a word that derives from the Latin vinum (wine) and acer (sour). Mostly calcium carbonate, they are indeed susceptible to a weak acid solution. Wine, if it still is to be drinkable, is not more than 0.1% acetic acid and not sufficiently acidic to dissolve a pearl, at least not quickly enough to have impressed Antony. Wine vinegar, on the other hand, is approximately 5-7% acetic acid, a concentration necessary if the calcium carbonate is to be dissolved. Egyptian vinegar was stronger still—and even worse, says Martial, when it was wine (Epigrams, CXXII). The crystals of calcium carbonate are converted by acetic acid into calcium acetate, which dissolves in the residual water, and carbonate that effervesces as bubbles of carbon dioxide, the formula for which is CaCO3 + 2CH3COOH —> Ca(CH3COO2) + H2O + CO2.

How Cleopatra could manage to drink her vinegar-and-pearl concoction can be explained by the acid-base reaction that takes place, the acid being neutralized by the calcium carbonate, much like an antacid. Intriguingly, there is a name for the residue obtained from the precipitate of an acid solution—magistery. Cleopatra’s magistery of pearl, offered in toast to Antony, was thought to be an aphrodisiac, probably because pearls were associated with Venus and both were born of the ocean.

Pink Beaded Jeweled Unicorn Cameo Egg Ornament by Gray Cat Ornaments

Marie Antoinette toile Swan Lake mask by Kathe Knitch

Platinum, Diamond, Pearl & Emerald (eye) Swan Choker by Cartier, 1920s.

Probably the most useless thing I’ve ever bought in a thrift shop, but it was very old, very pretty, and I’m a magpie.

Opal Nucleated Galatea Pearls

(Carved pearls with an opal core) Source: Pearls of Joy

Pastel Gemstones

Pastel Agate // Crayola Jasper // Pearls

Crystal Opal // Rainbow Quartz // Quartzite

Morganite // Rhodochrosite // Padparadscha Sapphire

*clutches pearls*

A diamond and pearl tiara that converts to a necklace. 

make urself a pearlsona

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