Oh. My. Word! I have never seen so many beads. And so many findings. And so much sparkle. And so many beads. And did I mention TONS of beads?!?

Sorry for the redundancy above, but if you've never been to Tucson, or a trade show of similar magnitude, it's just impossible to describe the shopping that Lynn and I experienced today. As someone who will readily declare to anyone "I hate shopping!" I think I did amazingly well today. *pats self on back* I know it sounds silly tocomplain so much about shopping as it's an activity most women relish, I have to say that it's hard work. And beads are HEAVY!
 
We barely even started visiting the pethora of vendors that have set up shop in Tucson but I managed to spend about a third of my budget and got some AMAZING new pieces. Highlights include some new semi-precious and sterling silver pendants, some beautiful turquoise beads, all sorts of fun and summery semi-precious stones (including the ever popular dyed-turquoise peace sign beads), and some fantastic lampwork beads. All in all 30+ pounds of beads...in 7 hours. Which makes me wonder how much more we'll get tomorrow and Tuesday...and how I'm going to get them all home!
 
Going to finish watching the Saints win it and start counting my loot! More from Tucson later.
-Katie