Last of the Bead Show Goodies

What w/ the Poor Beader's post & then Bead Soup Reveal I never did show all the loot from the bead show. I will use some Black Max on the copper beads to give them a little more depth. I am fascinated by this red bead. I have been seeing them for the last year or so, & even tho' I KNOW they are hard glass I still expect them to feel like red velvet! The third shot is a mix of this & that, more red glass, some stabilized turquoise & assorted stones. I got these two strands of green just to be a little different. I have lots of green stone in chunky nuggets, but these spoke to me & the price was right. The last shot is all the pearls I bought from all the different stalls together. I fell in love w/ pearls when I got some in the first bead soup. Now I have a little stash of my own built up. I let you know how that works out!

Tulsa Gem Faire

Last weekend was the summer bead show here in Tulsa. I will be posting over the week on all my goodies. I went twice. On Friday I went 1/2 hour after it opened. It was so crowded you really couldn't do much shopping. Any tables w/ good deals were 3~4 deep & you couldn't get close enough to shop.The aisles were also full of groups of friends visiting(come on chix, go to the empty part of the show to visit, see that other 1/2 that isn't full of people trying to get around your group?) I had the kids w/ me,(I keep them on Fridays when they don't have camp)so we were only part of the crowd problem, not a solution! I went back on Sunday about 20 minutes after they opened. What a difference! I had a good idea of the layout from my previous visit & walked around the show one time to be sure of where I wanted to buy.I shopped for about an hour & was done as it was getting crowded again. First shot, all the purchases in their bags