﻿{"id":138,"date":"2010-10-18T22:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2010\/10\/18\/kids-the-1-reason-to-stay-for-the-tgms-show\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T03:15:34","slug":"kids-the-1-reason-to-stay-for-the-tgms-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/2010\/10\/18\/kids-the-1-reason-to-stay-for-the-tgms-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids: the #1 reason to stay for the TGMS Show!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was going through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TucsonGemShow\">Tucson Gem Show<\/a> photos and found some that I haven&#8217;t posted!   This is from the great day I spent with the FAB Jeweler,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Maureen-Brusa-Zappellini-Metalsmithing\/111623202191239\">Maureen Brusa Zappellini (BZap)<\/a>, of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/cosmosmoon\"> Cosmo&#8217;s Moon<\/a>, and her charming son Cosmo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The scene &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/tgms.org\">Tucson Gem &amp; Mineral Show<\/a> &#8211; this is the show produced by the Tucson Gem &amp; Mineral Society and the show that started it all!!!   It started as a public show and has remained a public show&#8230;however the vendors will accept wholesale orders from eligible buyers.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is what makes the &#8220;public&#8221; shows a &#8220;must do&#8221; for me&#8230;you find the nicest vendors&#8230;they truly inspire the next generation of gem and mineral collectors&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/90a22_100_0219.JPG\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;width: 240px;height: 320px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This woman  spent quite a while talking to Cosmo and answering his questions about beads and gems!   &#8230;can I get a collective &#8211; AWWWWWW!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8230;and then there is the hallway of schools and organizations &#8211; this was a display from the US Forestry Dept.  &#8211; kids could do rubbings of fossils!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/90a22_100_0221.JPG\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;width: 320px;height: 240px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You might be interested in the theme for the TGMS Show for 2011 &#8211; Minerals of California!  See you there:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1c03c_2011tgms_indexbanner.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/tucsongemshow.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1c03c_4875325186336119095-520242342392704211?l=tucsongemshow.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through my Tucson Gem Show photos and found some that I haven&#8217;t posted! This is from the great day I spent with the FAB Jeweler, Maureen Brusa Zappellini (BZap), of Cosmo&#8217;s Moon, and her charming son Cosmo. The scene &#8211; the Tucson Gem &amp; Mineral Show &#8211; this is the show produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"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\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tucsongemshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}