Harvest Festival

[cjsmith]

Today Rob and I went to the San Jose "Harvest Festival" arts & crafts show. (I'd link to its page here, but its QuickTime plugins keep doing illegal stuff and I get "strongly advised" to restart my browser. Grump.)

I was very, very good and did NOT BUY any opals. Not one. I did buy food, a gift for a friend, more food, a thing that miiiiight help make my bras fit, and a pair of earrings.

But one opal I saw and didn't buy is the thing I'm going to remember for years. Ahhh, if I were a millionaire... or if I didn't hope to go back to school. This opal was stunning. I wish I had the words to describe it; I wish I had a photo. I wish I had some way to show it to all of you. I loved it so much that what I most want to do is show it to everybody, so they can all see its beauty too.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mmm, no I don't, but clearly if I want to collect stunning things that is the way to go. The seller of this lovely opal yesterday was giving me all sorts of blarney about how it would be worth thirty thousand dollars if I went to Australia, and look here at this chart on how we value black opals by the carat and I'm selling it to you for sooooo much less, and you know what? I may not be able to value opals in my head, but I know enough about how business works that that's horse dung. The blarney level has got to be lower in a wholesale room at a gem and jewelry show.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Well they still won't be cheap, but they'll be a helluva lot cheaper, and the dealers are low on blarney.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That would sure be a relief. I get so tired of letting my polite face stay visible when people ladle that stuff on thick.