3 Days until Wonders of the Earth Gem Show.
The Show runs September 24-25. Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5 at Don Montgomery Community Centre – 2467 Eglinton Ave. East, between Midland and Kennedy . It has convenient access from Kennedy Subway Station
Meet our vendor – The Amber Room
The Amber Room’s Story
Our family immigrated to Canada in 1990 from Sopot, Poland’s most famous sea resort. It is situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea between Gdansk and Gdynia, where amber was being found for thousands of years. Growing up not far from the beach, we would get to know Baltic amber in all forms possible – from raw pieces washed out from the sea that you can pick and keep in your treasure box, to pieces of amber decorating our utensils, frames, chess boards, vases, lamps, rosaries, crosses etc, to amber dust dissolved in alcohol and used as a remedy for colds, to unique jewellery that we wore for the beauty and protection and that tourists visiting our city would buy as a souvenir.
Where we lived in Poland every gift store is an amber store, one after another, one street after another and every one of them takes your breath away.
It was only natural that after moving to Kingston from Montreal, admiring waters of the Ontario Lake and the St Laurence River that reminded us of our sea back home, and seeing swarms of tourists from all over the world on Princess Street, that we decided to bring the beauty of our previous life to where we are now.
We opened The Amber Room in 1997 and since then the store has specialized in beautiful and unique pieces of Baltic amber jewellery and gifts imported from Poland. We are located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Our retail location offers an exquisite collection of brooches, rings, bracelets, earrings, pendants and necklaces. All with best quality Baltic amber set in sterling sliver by European craftsmen.
At the Amber Room you will admire the beauty of this prehistoric 40 million year old fossil, electrically alive with solidified golden light.
Our gift section includes Lamp Shades made of amber or of a combination of amber and white glass, Trees of Good Luck made of amber and semi-precious stones, different styles of candles decorated with amber, candle stands with amber.
What to do and see at the Gem Show:
- Six silent auctions
- Live auction on Saturday at 3 pm
- Hourly door prizes
- Fluorescence room
- Kids Quarry
- Kids “Make and Take” stretch bracelets making -station
- Kids “3 Types of Rocks” activity station
- The Learning Centre for kids of all ages
- Wire wrapping -jewellery creation station
- Soap stone Carving demonstration
- “Gem Stone Donut wrapping” – jewellery creation station
- FREE Gem Identification station
- North York Faceters Guild demonstrations
- Royal Ontario Museum Display
- Displays from Gem and Mineral Club of Scarborough members
The answer to the previous Quiz: Sapphire, Aquamarine, Topaz, Zircon, Tanzanite, Benitoite, Spinel, Indicolite (Tourmaline), Paraiba (Tourmaline), Iolite, Blue Diamond, Kyanite, Apatite and of cause Cubic Zircon, Synthetic Sapphire, Synthetic Spinel, Glass and Plastic.
(Question was: You see a ring with a transparent blue stone. What can it be? Can you name 10 transparent blue stones?
Quiz for today:
You traveled to the Baltic sea and found yellowish stone on the beach. You go back to your AirBnB and want to test this stone to see if it is an Amber. What test you can do determine if this stone is Amber.