jolie_amethyst
I hope you find it in one of those shows, and it isn't too expensive. We have one coming up in a few weeks too, and I'm looking forward to getting some big pieces.
Home from the show with a new reaction to share...
The very first vendor was one where you just want to take EVERYTHING home. A number of pieces were attractive, but nothing really stood out until I turned the corner and started to examine some of their larger pieces. The first one to catch my eye was almost dead center in the middle of a large display area, and almost but not quite out of reach. It was a substantial smoky elestial quartz, about the size of my hand and probably weighing a couple of pounds. And as I described above, it was a "pick me up and don't put me back down" situation for twenty minutes, while I looked at some other things.
Because I was barely 20 feet into the show, I had the vendor hold it behind the displays for me while I tried to decide on some spheres and looked at the rest of the vendors. I pledged to come back for it, and possibly some other things.
Five steps away from the booth, I was overwhelmed by nausea. That stone did NOT like being left behind, apparently! No surprise, it's sitting next to me while I type this.
I rediscovered what I already knew: the "warm or cold" trick doesn't work for me. They ALL warm up if I hold them for even brief periods.
And the "just know" method was dubious when I found two quartz spheres that I liked equally. Both warm, same price, took forever to decide. I finally came to the conclusion that either was happy to go home with me, and that for whatever reason, it probably didn't matter much which I chose.
Conversely, a batch of tumblestones that were combined sunstone with iolite was an interesting experience. One that I picked up gave me the don't put me down reaction, but it wasn't the prettiest stone in the batch. It was another one of those things where I wasn't thrilled with the pricetag, and for that price, I wanted a really attractive one. I kept sorting through them, finding several I liked the looks of better, then picking this one up again. Finally, I gave in and bought it. When I went back to the elestial vendor and showed it to her (laughing about the reaction because she'd watched me with that smoky), she flipped it around once or twice to admire it, and then exclaimed, "Did you see this? It has a natural heart!" A tiny, almost perfect iolite heart stands out against a creamy section at the very bottom edge of the stone.
I collect hearts. I hadn't seen this one.