bead faire

it was a sunday morning and my cousin and i spend an hour and half at the bead faire. it was a bead lover's heaven for all those who love beads!
a line was already formed at the ticket booth when we arrived at 10am. it was also a pretty hot day especially with my huge belly. thank goodness we didn't wait that long to get in or i would have just have a heat stroke out there.
the first thing we checkout was polymer clay beads. the lady must have a lot of patient to make those beads. everyone of them were so detailed and they are all little art sculptures.
there was tons of beads!!! as we walked into the main hall with probably 100 of booths displayed of mostly semi-precious gemstones and freshwater pearls. at the via murano booth, i really love the vintage venetian glass beads. those were selling for $5-10 each. they were showing demo on how to use their snapeez jump rings and twisted tornado crimps. those are just great findings! i have to get some for my little shop.
i bought some thai karen hill tribe silver beads and charms. those where a bit expensive but well worth the money. the designs on those beads were intricate and just beautiful and they were not light weight. i bought my mix of ocean themes: fishes, seashells, starfishes, sea turtles and little swirls of waves.
i also purchased some potato pearls and some semi-precious gemstones.