At the Bench: Gem Show Shopping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- Come with me to the International Gem and Jewelry Show (Spring 2024).
This show was very different from February’s. The quality of loose gemstones was out of this world! With less bead and fashion jewelry vendors, it definitely felt like this was a wedding/engagement ring prep season.
If you watch through the video, you see the gemstones I was supposed to buy vs the ones I actually purchased. The reason for this is that sometimes, vendors try to cheat you into paying more than you really should be paying. It’s super important to get the hang of how these shows work, how much you should look to spend per gemstone and create solid connections so you don’t get pay more than you should.
At the end of the day, I am so happy with everything I purchased and even more happy with the new friendships I made with vendors! Can’t wait to see everyone back in the fall!
With love,
Vanessa
Those chalcedony beads are STUNNING!!!! 🤤 I can’t wait to see what you do with them! 🎉
Aren’t they gorgeous? She has so many beautiful beads to choose from but I’m a sucker for blues 🫣🥰
Amazing 🤩 opal is really pretty
It was so much fun to pick the opals myself… but so hard to only pick a couple 😅 I wanted to buy them all 🤣🫶🏼
Jeweler’s Heaven🤩😂🤷🏻♂️😊
It really is 😍
Very nice! The Moldavite was pretty cool and yeah vendors at large shows will do that regarding the pricing it’s so dumb.
Thank you! I’m so excited I took a Moldavite home 🤩 I’ll be interested to hear what that vendor says next time I go to the show since they’re always there 🤣