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When someone asks me which pearl color they should choose, my first instinct is always: the one you can't stop looking at. But I also know that when you're staring at a screen trying to decide between blush pink and dusty lavender, that's not always a helpful answer. So here's how I actually think about pearl color — not as a set of rules, but as a way of finding your way back to what you already know you want. Because pearl color has a mood. And once you know the mood you're

A 2,000-year-old craft tradition — and why you've never heard of it until now.

It was 2020, and like most people, I wasn't going anywhere. What started as a way to survive four walls and two small kids somehow became Mooncord.

There is a freshwater pearl that looks like a star. Freshwater star pearls Literally — five rounded points, a puffy little body, the kind of shape you might expect to find in a child's drawing of the night sky. When I first held one in my hand, I laughed a little. It seemed too whimsical to be real. But it is real, and the way it comes to exist is one of my favorite things about pearls. Every shaped pearl — star, heart, triangle — begins with a decision made by a human hand.