And a good Saturday to you!
Apr. 11th, 2010 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13I got up way too early (6:30) in order to get to the Gem & Mineral Society Swap Meet. One of the organizers very kindly offered me the use of 2 tables under her tent so I didn't have to spend all day out in the sun.
I did a massive cleanout of my stone beads and the remaining teeny weeny seed beads that I used to use in cross stitch, as well as assorted stuff that I either don't use any more, or I bought and discovered I had no use for. I sold about 2/3 of the bead strands, all my old colored copper wire, all my extra trays, and a good chunk of my extra geodes. I even sold one of the pieces I made today to keep my hands busy!
Then at the end of the show, one of the members (who sells these really amazing cabochons), asked me what I wanted for all my remaining bead strands, plus some other stuff. His wife had just had their 4th baby, and he knew she needed something to mess with for a couple of weeks. So I told him, giving him a decent deal, and he wound up trading me this crazy amount of credit (which I promptly used to get some really nice stones).
I also scored a complete copper/enameling beadmaking kit (making enameled copper beads with a torch sounds like fun), and a couple of amazing freeform cabochons from another seller, who now wants to talk to me about coming over to the Lab and having me give him some soldering pointers. Which would be cool. And several people have asked if I want to teach wire wrapping at the clubhouse, which I think I can swing late this summer/early in the fall. Which would also be cool. And I got rid of the broken rock tumbler that had been residing on my living room floor for far too long.
So I came back with less than I left with (score!) and more money than I started with (double word score!). Then I went and killed a lot of monsters in D&D.
All in all, a good Saturday was had.
I did a massive cleanout of my stone beads and the remaining teeny weeny seed beads that I used to use in cross stitch, as well as assorted stuff that I either don't use any more, or I bought and discovered I had no use for. I sold about 2/3 of the bead strands, all my old colored copper wire, all my extra trays, and a good chunk of my extra geodes. I even sold one of the pieces I made today to keep my hands busy!
Then at the end of the show, one of the members (who sells these really amazing cabochons), asked me what I wanted for all my remaining bead strands, plus some other stuff. His wife had just had their 4th baby, and he knew she needed something to mess with for a couple of weeks. So I told him, giving him a decent deal, and he wound up trading me this crazy amount of credit (which I promptly used to get some really nice stones).
I also scored a complete copper/enameling beadmaking kit (making enameled copper beads with a torch sounds like fun), and a couple of amazing freeform cabochons from another seller, who now wants to talk to me about coming over to the Lab and having me give him some soldering pointers. Which would be cool. And several people have asked if I want to teach wire wrapping at the clubhouse, which I think I can swing late this summer/early in the fall. Which would also be cool. And I got rid of the broken rock tumbler that had been residing on my living room floor for far too long.
So I came back with less than I left with (score!) and more money than I started with (double word score!). Then I went and killed a lot of monsters in D&D.
All in all, a good Saturday was had.
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Date: 2010-04-11 03:37 pm (UTC)I was neither accomplished nor particularly thrifty but I did laze the afternoon away watching the Longhorns beat Kansas and chatting with The Boy, who has added "So you're not going to help me catch this pterodactyl, then?" to his list of non-sequiturs.
BTW, random Austin area-knowledge: El Chile makes KILLER bloody marys and rims the glass with something that was either spiceburst or spiceburst-like YUM!