Lately people on Facebook have been sharing these live video streams of people opening up oysters to reveal their pearls. Have you seen them? They are so addicting!
One of the companies
Open An Oyster, LLC is my favorite one to watch! I've been following them for the last month or so on their
Facebook. They have live openings every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Anyway, this last Monday they had an amazing audience of over 13,000 people watching, including myself, and ended up giving away 7 tray openings because they had so many people join in. Happily, I ended up being one of the winners!
They sell the individual oysters on their
website ($25 per oyster to be opened live on the live stream) or your can purchase tray of 4 oysters for $100 and you get the 5th one free! If you decide you'd like to open the oysters your self you can also purchase them online for $20 each (plus shipping).
One of the pluses to having them open the oysters live on
Facebook is if by the slim chance there isn't a pearl once the oyster is opened, they will open up a new one! Which I think is pretty awesome. There is no guarantee that if you don't end up finding a pearl in the ones that are shipped you. They've only found 3 oysters without the pearl live during the openings and this is a pretty rare occurrence. They've opened over 7,000 so far!
Anyway, here's a
link to the now recorded live opening of my 5 oysters! You can see my oysters at about the 7:30 minute mark.
I've screen shot the section from Brittany (the owner of Open An Oyster, LLC) opening my oysters and they are posted below.
- These are the five oysters she will be opening :)
- Here's the first one!
- It is a golden cream! Size 7.52 mm
- Isn't it pretty!?
- Here's the 2nd one!
- It's a gold 7.21 mm
- So pretty!
- Here's the 3rd one!
- It's a lovely peach! Sized 7.49 mm
- It looks so shiny!
- Here's the 4th one!
- It's a purple one!! So excited! It's 7.06mm
- I was hoping for one of these violet beauties!
- Here's the 5th and last one!
- It's a lovely peach/pink one! And it's the biggest of the bunch, 7.65mm
- Here are my lovely pearls!
- Thank you so very much Brittany
I can not WAIT to get my oysters! I'll be posting an unboxing video when I get them and also will post pictures in a new blog post once they arrive.
Open an Oyster, LLC also sells pendants and necklaces that their pearls fit in to. They are sterling silver coated or sterling. Please check out the
shop section of their website.
I plan on ordering the Lotus pendant for my lovely lavender pearl!
Thank you so very much Brittany! I love my pearls and can't wait to get them.
The company will hopefully be expanding and will be looking for hostesses to host their online opening parties soon. I'll definitely be posting the info once it becomes available.
Don't forget to check out their
Facebook page to see one of their live openings!
