50th Annual Mother's Day Show 2018

Anne Whittaker made the star of the show -- a 50th year of the show geode cake!
And yes, it was as delicious as it looks!


The top of the cake with an edible zero


Bottom of the cake with the celebration message -- "and still rockin"




Chocolate geodes with candy crystals and other details

Grab bags!!!
And a weird squishy creature to mind them!

As always, GMS members provided a delicious pot-luck dinner for all of the dealers

One lucky person per hour won a FREE door prize!

One lucky junior won this pretty pyrite plus this enormous, exquisite kyanite for him/herself and their school!

Every day of the show there was a special prize to celebrate the 50th year of the show.
(top to bottom) Very large, clear, calcite; large, unusual amethyst cluster; really big orange calcite boulder!

To thank the show volunteers, there will be a drawing at the June picnic meeting for this spectacular smoky quartz.

Jade carving

Cameo brooch

Assortment of rocks already slabbed and ready to cab!

Wow -- a microscope!

Triassic fern fossil -- so cool!

Hourglass selenite from Jet, Oklahoma

Awesome trilobite!

Beautiful chunks of peanut wood and snowflake obsidian

Bouquet of selenite roses

Columnar basalt!

Bidders waiting to bid

(Left to right) Auctioneer Kim Cochran, runner Margaret Ronan, and President Shelley Stubbs are ready to start the auction

This gentleman made the most detailed origami dinosaur at the show -- it even has toenails!

Making Mother's Day cards with glitter and stones!

What a pretty card!

Decorating some pet rocks

Pet rocks waiting to be adopted

She made a card and a dolphin pet rock

Dolphin pet rock!

A happy pet rock!

Diana Poppelreuter demo'ed cabbing and wire-wrapping
Charles Carter demo'ed cabbing when he had time too.

Jay Gorday demonstrated faceting

Michael (Jay's grandson) decided to demonstrate faceting too

Olga Jarrett and Lori Carter wowed people with sand
while Bob Jarrett frightened them with murderous shells (shell predation)

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Shelley Stubbs demonstrated how to make chains an chain jewelry from wire

First Place: "Mineral/Not Mineral Game" by Lori Carter

Second Place: "Froggie Visits the Rock Show" by Sue Gorday

Third Place: "Rainbow of Cabs" by Jessie Wehling

Juergen and Diana Poppelreuter filled a case with their treasures from a long journey west

"Quartz from Brazil" by Martha Brown

"Faceting Steps" by Jay Gorday

"Smoky Quartz" by Chris Glass

"Chordate Fossils" by Kim Cochran

"Thumbnail Specimens" by Jay Gorday

"Faceted Stones" by Jay Gorday

"Recently Collected Specimens" by Chris Agisotelis

"GMS Field Trips" by Charles Carter

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"Tellus Case" by Ryan Roney

This is what you see at the show...

...what you might not see is all of the wonderful GMS volunteers who make it happen!