I have a great, personal love for the people of Afghanistan. Because I'm a GIA Colored Stones graduate, my hobby is creating beautiful gemstone necklaces, earrings and bracelets for my worldwide clientele. Every year I go to the Tucson Gem Show in Tucson, Arizona. It's the world's largest gem show! Nearly every country in the world flies in their lapidary items that are indigenous to their country to be sold to buyers like myself. There are thousands of buyers who flock to this stellar event. The Tucson Gem Show is so big that it's not held in just one place. Rather, it is scattered all over Tucson at different venues, tents, motel/hotels. It's the dim sum plate of the lapidary world.