The Peony Silk Road

Not the most elegant of stores with it’s florescent lighting and marketplace sort of structure. I was on a mission to get turquoise but found their selection to be rather…“iffy” as did my gemstone guru friend. They did however have walls and walls of beaded jewelry which is fine for me as beads don’t irritate my skin (unlike cheap metal). «Trying on» the necklaces was however… a pain in the neck (badump ching!) due to the elaborate pinning system they had going on. I finally got exhausted after spending 10 minutes trying to pin an unflattering choker back to the fabric wall, and just «window shopped». The proprietess helped me out though as she picked up on my interest, and eventually led me to a fabulous beaded star necklace (pictured in my album) of a style that was perfect for «lovely long necks» such as mine. So I bought it.
She then commenced to reading my «aura» and doing my Chinese astrological chart. Supposedly I have a lot of «yang» cause I wear platform stilettos and I’m skinny and long. Then there was something about a «conflagration» and a «candle»…and trees. Oh and I should try yoga… but not the fruity stare at your navel for an hour kind but the active prance about like a spaz kind.
I think…
At any rate she seemed to figure me all out by the time I left the store and I came away with a nice necklace but a bit burned out by her aggressively presented new-​agey whateverness. They can explain away everything with «the stars».