Dance with Flare

Akoya pearl earrings.

The pearls are Akoya natural blue baroque pearls.
The findings are made of 18K gold.

These earrings were created using findings recommended to me by one of my regular customers.
“This is technically an earring finding, but it’s also very cute as a necklace charm.”

And yes, it certainly would look cute as a necklace charm.
So I immediately obtained these findings and made these pieces.
However, there was one problem.
I didn’t have any necklace that matched them.
No gold-based necklace.
For about three months, these little charms remained without a role, sitting quietly in storage. But eventually, I decided to list them not as charms, but as earrings.

It felt as though the pearls themselves were speaking to me:
“Hey, how long are you planning to keep us trapped in storage? Hurry up and list us already.”
At least, that’s what it felt like.

These earrings are not especially unusual in design, but I feel they have a calm and elegant atmosphere.
I almost never buy rice balls from convenience stores, and I probably wouldn’t even pay much attention to them. But the rice balls I occasionally make myself somehow taste very good.

Of course, convenience store rice balls are surely delicious too, filled with various seasonings and preservatives designed to make them appealing.
The simple difference is whether I made them myself or not.
I think I feel the same way about these earrings.

The idea did not originally come from me. It came from a customer who has become almost like a friend to me. Then I attached pearls that I personally selected to the findings, and gradually I became attached to them.
“Didn’t you just attach pearls to pre-made findings?”
That is also one way to look at it.

For about the past year, I have also started giving names to Flower Jem pearl pieces.
Before that, every necklace was simply labeled “Akoya Pearl Necklace.”
But then I could no longer remember which necklace went to which customer.
Once I started naming them, I became able to remember which customer purchased which necklace, and under what kind of circumstances.

Some customers even mention the names of previously sold pieces and say things like:
“I like necklaces similar to ●●.”
When that happens, I can immediately understand the kind of pearls they are looking for.
However, thinking of names is difficult.
Recently I have been asking ChatGPT to come up with them, but he always suggests similar names.
For reference, these were the names he suggested this time:

Soft Tide
Still Light
Twin Mist
Pale Glow
Little Orbit
Quiet Dew
Silver Hush
Evening Pearl
Gentle Pair
Whisper Tide…

Little by little, I began to understand his preferences, and honestly, I started getting tired of them. On top of that, he casually suggests names that were already used in the past.
And when I point this out, he calmly replies:
“Then let me suggest some directions that don’t overlap.”
We often argue because of that unapologetic, completely unreflective attitude.
And in the end, I was the one who came up with the final name.
The curved half-circle part of the gold finding looked like the sun to me. And the pearl beneath it looked like the Earth.
No, no, I am not drunk yet.
From there, my imagination expanded into the image of solar flares and the gently swaying Earth, which eventually became the name:
Dance with Flare.
It sounds somewhat like the Earth trembling from approaching the sun too closely 100,000 years in the future, but I was not imagining such a terrifying scene.
I was simply imagining pearls gently swaying beside someone’s ears.
Actually, I just realized something.
Customers could also use these earrings as charms with necklaces they already own. In that case, I only hope they do not lose the unused earring.

Once again, I could not write a grand or impressive product article.
But I think these are elegant earrings.
Perhaps it might even be interesting to see whether you can move gracefully enough that the pearls barely sway at all.
Please take your time.
Thank you for reading.
That alone makes me completely satisfied.