{"id":11,"date":"2008-03-02T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortheloveofjewels.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/03\/02\/news-from-gem-faire-costa-mesa-ca\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:23:00","slug":"news-from-gem-faire-costa-mesa-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/2008\/03\/02\/news-from-gem-faire-costa-mesa-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Gem Faire&#8211;Costa Mesa, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbcEC-aOI\/AAAAAAAAA0A\/tyO9nKJtDWU\/s1600-h\/GemFaireBanner.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbcEC-aOI\/AAAAAAAAA0A\/tyO9nKJtDWU\/s200\/GemFaireBanner.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Gem Faire&#8211;Costa Mesa, CA<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbTkC-aMI\/AAAAAAAAAzw\/c1R--Jo4Jm0\/s1600-h\/GemFaire3.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbTkC-aMI\/AAAAAAAAAzw\/c1R--Jo4Jm0\/s200\/GemFaire3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbUUC-aNI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/Oh8DAJbD62E\/s1600-h\/GemFaire2.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8rbUUC-aNI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/Oh8DAJbD62E\/s200\/GemFaire2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8raLUC-aLI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/e9o3fQgzhB0\/s1600-h\/GemFaireYou.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/R8raLUC-aLI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/e9o3fQgzhB0\/s200\/GemFaireYou.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> You And Me Findings Booth<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">It&#8217;s always interesting to see the wares at the big gem shows. I try to attend one at least every three months, so&#8230;this weekend I headed south from LA to Costa Mesa, CA. to take in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemfaire.com\/index.html\">Gem Faire<\/a> at the Orange County Fairgrounds. I got a free weekend pass, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youandmefindings.net\/\">You And Me Findings <\/a>in San Gabriel who had one of the busier looking booths at the show.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">It might have been my imagination, but the show didn&#8217;t seem as packed as I&#8217;ve seen in the past. The aisles were actually pretty clear and walkable versus the pandemonium I&#8217;ve seen at some of the other shows. Maybe it&#8217;s the price of gas to get there (heading up to $4.00 a gallon although this is apparently news to &#8220;W&#8221;) or the almost sickening rise in the price of silver&#8230;.19.81 as of the close of the market on 2\/29. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">But, I took a great cabochon class from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majestam.com\/\">Majesta<\/a>&#8212;one of the show vendors&#8230;.more on Majesta M coming soon!<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">A blog showcasing accomplished jewelry designers.<br \/>\nFor artisan jewelry go to:  www.naked-jewelry.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gem Faire&#8211;Costa Mesa, CA You And Me Findings Booth It&#8217;s always interesting to see the wares at the big gem shows. I try to attend one at least every three months, so&#8230;this weekend I headed south from LA to Costa Mesa, CA. to take in the Gem Faire at the Orange County Fairgrounds. I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}