It was cold and busy. There were some horribly expensive stuff, some less expensive stuff and stuff I could buy. I mean you could find minerals you were looking for for a reasonable price, and for prices you'd have to sell your house, car, mother, your body and immortal soul too to be able to afford.
Since I knew the layout already and had a pretty good idea about who sold things you could actually afford, I did buy me the things I wanted, and some I didn't know I wanted, but once I laid eyes on them... well, I just had to buy some.
I actually went to buy apatite. Possible a pendant, a stone with a hole in it, but only two booths had apatite. One was horribly pricey, the other was pretty cheap.
This second booth had boxes with price tags on them and thrown in was a huge mix of stuff. I was digging around in the box that contained necklaces made of all sorts of gemstones... and found apatite. So I dug around more and actually found another! And then I found a matching bracelet too! But since the necklace was a bit too short, I bought two to link together and look like a proper necklace. So I bought two apatite necklaces and a bracelet. The woman who was selling them told me this was the first time they had them for sale. I suspect this was the reason why they didn't ask for a higher price. They didn't know it was so sought-after. Oh well. It was one of the cheapest booths, so I didn't complain. Two necklaces cost me less than one necklace of the cheapest stone from other booths.
Then I bought some stones with holes in them. As it turns out, they became trendy, so they make them in bulk now and sell them cheaper. Not that I'd mind. There was a booth that only sold egg/oval shaped stones with holes in them, and most of them for the same price. So I picked a fluorite for my mom (she is very happy because for some reason she skipped that booth and didn't even see it) and a mokait jasper for myself, because I love that stone. (The patchwork-looking purplish-cream one on the right. It is untreated and natural. ^^ )
The honey opal took me completely by surprise. I thought: wow, what a cool name, and opal to boot, I want one! Also, it wasn't too expensive. So I took about 20+ minutes to dig around and consider all of them. Most of them were bright yellow and looked like someone dropped them and they have sort of shattered. They did look interesting, but I wanted something special and more to my taste. So I picked 3 ones, a pale, a yellow with some black spots and a dark one.
I bought the yellow, because both my mom and the guy running the booth told me that was the prettiest of the three. I went back 5 minutes later to change it back to the darkest, because after all, I liked that one best. ^^; It looks like pine honey, or honeyed tea with a drop of lemon. Yum. (The honey coloured stone on the right, obviously. Showing back and front.)
I also bought 4 little ruby beads, because I already had one bigger ruby bead and some quartz ones, and using 2 silver spacers of last year's convention I made a ring. (In picture). The smaller beads weren't that expensive, which is a plus.
And that's all I bought. I drooled over the moldavite pendants as usual and some tourmaline stick pendants with silver, but didn't buy any. Those are some seriously pricey stuff. Especially moldavite. :( Pity. (Althogh I was tempted to buy a small piece and attach the hook-thingy on top at home. But no, not this time. Maybe in november I shall buy a small moldavite piece, if I still crave it so much. It's not like they'll be any cheaper. *sigh*
Anyway, when I got home I took out my silk chords, and since I had lots of leftover colours, I used them for the pendants. Also, I made a button knot over the stones to give them a special look. It looks way better than just pulling a chord through, no?
Oh and I also bought some spacers and jump rings and other stuff. Before you ask, not silver. I'd be broke if they were. They are cheap metals for beaded jewelry. But hey, they were much cheaper than in the shop, thus I bought some in bulk. I always run out of these, so the cheaper the price, the happier I am. :P
So... these are my treasures!
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