Today I went to a bead trade show at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Ga. It is so easy to spend money on beads and hard to find really great deals at these shows. I did find one vendor "Bead Gallery" (Gary Yu and Helen Zhu from Alphareta, Ga) that gave me a great wholesale discount without having to purchase a million dollars worth of beads. I bought some, chrysocolla, aventurine, agate, carnelian, onyx and some red bamboo coral. I have never used agate before and I love it, it's crackly and this particular agate is a turquoise blue. My mother-in-law wanted a red and black necklace (Go Dawgs!) therefore I bought the red coral and some onyx in one of my favorite shapes, mixed size daggers. It was fun but I think shopping online might be cheaper with many of the beads. I like firemountaingems.com. They seem to have to most reasonable prices I have found in my quest so far. My favorite part of the trip, finding out that the stones that I have been trying to figure out are...Aquamarine!!!
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