Good evening everyone,
I hope y'all saved some snow for us. This is the last chapter in the Tucson files and we'll be flying out of here tomorrow morning. As expected, we didn't get around to all of the stops planned for today. We did make it from Congress St., South to the Ramada Inn and the Pueblo gem show. Parking in our usual spot, we headed North to Congress and were planning on starting there and working our way back to the Ramada Inn but we wound up taking a detour to see a couple of friends if they were there. Yvonne Jieuw was in the inside tent with her usual stunning collection of finished and estate jewelry but there was no sign of my friend and fellow faceter Jordan Wilkins. Bummer. Jordan's one of the younger cutters that I consider rising stars. So we were about to get back to heading North when we were accosted by a parcel of wild orphaned Garnets looking for a good home.
Leaving the Ramada,, we stopped to admire some stunning displays of carving, then continued North to Congress.
Finally, we arrived at Congress and we started back down the frontage road heading South. On the corner were some fossil dealers. These guys are regulars but always seem to have something new to look at. Right next to them is a little passageway that leads to an inner courtyard of some hotel. The courtyard's filled with different dealers of all kinds. There were companies specializing in Rainbow Obsidian, Peridot, Crystal specimens, tumbled, sawed, cabbed and faceted stones, Pink opal......I could go on and on.
I hope y'all saved some snow for us. This is the last chapter in the Tucson files and we'll be flying out of here tomorrow morning. As expected, we didn't get around to all of the stops planned for today. We did make it from Congress St., South to the Ramada Inn and the Pueblo gem show. Parking in our usual spot, we headed North to Congress and were planning on starting there and working our way back to the Ramada Inn but we wound up taking a detour to see a couple of friends if they were there. Yvonne Jieuw was in the inside tent with her usual stunning collection of finished and estate jewelry but there was no sign of my friend and fellow faceter Jordan Wilkins. Bummer. Jordan's one of the younger cutters that I consider rising stars. So we were about to get back to heading North when we were accosted by a parcel of wild orphaned Garnets looking for a good home.
Leaving the Ramada,, we stopped to admire some stunning displays of carving, then continued North to Congress.
Finally, we arrived at Congress and we started back down the frontage road heading South. On the corner were some fossil dealers. These guys are regulars but always seem to have something new to look at. Right next to them is a little passageway that leads to an inner courtyard of some hotel. The courtyard's filled with different dealers of all kinds. There were companies specializing in Rainbow Obsidian, Peridot, Crystal specimens, tumbled, sawed, cabbed and faceted stones, Pink opal......I could go on and on.
There were dealers in Mexican Fire Agate and Opal and several specimen dealers that had some of the juiciest specimens and very fair prices. We would have had our wallets out except that this morning we shipped our last flat rate packages out and we'll be heading for Phoenix before the Post Office opens. Guess we'll have to leave these to got to seed for the next time we come down.
Well, that's it for our Tucson 2025. Didn't find everything we were looking for but did find a lot that we didn't know we needed Lol. We've shipped 26 flat rate packages back to the Northwest and will be busy for the next couple of weeks unpacking, categorizing and scratching our heads wondering why we even bough some of this stuff. Make sure you don't miss this month's membership meeting where we'll have some of our goodies on display.
Stay Warm and safe,
Pete and Leslie
Well, that's it for our Tucson 2025. Didn't find everything we were looking for but did find a lot that we didn't know we needed Lol. We've shipped 26 flat rate packages back to the Northwest and will be busy for the next couple of weeks unpacking, categorizing and scratching our heads wondering why we even bough some of this stuff. Make sure you don't miss this month's membership meeting where we'll have some of our goodies on display.
Stay Warm and safe,
Pete and Leslie
