Recently my Hubby travelled to madras on a business trip, he had never been there before. When he was back he bought the kids toys, like a funskool play-doh set(not the mini one) for Aryan and a barbie doll for Alisha which i have packed away, for she might chew up her pretty golden locks and her slender legs;) He bought for me lovely show pieces and plenty of sea-shells from the marine drive beach in madras. They were beautiful oyster shells, and there seems to be living inside the shells, a mollusk.
BTW do you know how pearls are formed? simple.. The animal that lives inside the shell is an oyster, a mollusk that has a soft and sensitive body. To rid itself of irritation, the oyster covers the grains of sand or other substances that get inside its shell with layer upon layer of a hard smooth substances called nacre, which is the same substance which makes a pearl, and that forms what is called a cultured pearl!
Now am waiting for them to turn into pearls.. don't know how long its gonna take. As you all know they are beautiful but expensive so i thought i should initiate the formation of pearls at my own home, itself?.. hahaha
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