Entries tagged with "jewelry"

Monkeys' brains, while popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found... in Washington D.C.!

posted by srah on August 16, 2007 6:17 PM

Tags: anne of green gables, jewelry, travel, walking, washington d.c.

As you may know, I went to Maryland/DC a few weekends ago to visit Katie and Cheryl and use some of the vacation time I've been building up. Photos are here! Friday I flew to Baltimore, which makes me think of Hairspray. Katie and I had dinner and bubble tea and... I can't remember what else we did. We must have just sat around talking until midnight! Saturday On Saturday Katie and had a nice late morning (which was good for recovering from a long Friday at work and sitting near teenagers while waiting for my flight) then set off...

Baubles, bangles and beads

posted by srah on April 2, 2006 6:18 PM

Tags: anne of green gables, generations, jewelry, opals

When we were in Jerusalem, one of our stops was to a diamond factory and wholesaler's. The generation divide in our group was most evident here, where all the 20- and 30-somethings browsed around and looked at the cases, got scared away by the overbearing salespeople who followed us around the room and went and sat down on the other side of the room to wait for everyone else to finish shopping and buying. None of us were particularly interested in buying diamonds or other jewelry and we certainly didn't have the budget. We weren't big jewelry people and I...