just checking in to see the latest....not a whole lota new pics even from my last peek in here. i guess even the celebs are scaling back nowadays, but notsurprising given all the craziness going on w/the financial+RE markets. everywhere you go, folks are on edge about getting axed, keeping up w/theirmortgages+car notes, etc....ain't pretty at all.
in fact, i just hit my good homey's wedding over the weekend. it was at a pretty famous auto museum, which was real different (one of my other dudes'kids almost rammed a chair into some $7MILL classic car...like cardiac arrest close) lol but, anyways, my boy sat our mutual acquaintance+his wifey at mytable. they're the jewelers whose fam owns those huge jewelry factories/campuses in China I mentioned way back when. he said biz is pretty weak even allthe way over there, and even the folks w/real bread aren't buying much. only things they'll go for are 'real rare joints.' i assumed he meantexpensice custom, but he said more like Chinese Dynasty like stuff. so you know things are bad when even Chinese people stop copping gold. they love that stuffas much as gambling and XO+Remy.
man, i wouldn't want to own a jewelry biz at all right now. unless you have some serious connects and a steady clientele like Jason of BH, IC+Co,you're gonna be in trouble. My friend was trading stories w/our other dude from Vegas about jewelers getting taken down at the shop+on the go, as well assome other random robberies.....crazy to hear but interesting as hell, esp about Vegas. crime there has always been bad, but sounds like goons are taking itback to them Wild Wild West days on some Jesse James knocking over stagecoaches type of mess. i was hearing similar stuff from my other friends out there too,but i thought they were just talking crazy. if any of y'all are heading out there soon, mind yourself.
