ephemerala
July 25-31, 2005
In This Installment:
** New Items
** Coming Soon
** Stone Fun Facts
** News & Stuff
** Fortnightly Sale
** Insider's Sale
** Last Week's Top
Sellers
New Items
Nothing This Week
You'd think there'd be something, considering it's been
two weeks since the last newsletter, but it's a matter of the scanner. I
JUST NOW (literally, like four minutes ago) got our scanner set up and able to
work after messing around with it for at least five hours. And I've got
piles of beads here waiting to be scanned and listed. So be on the lookout
for the MASSIVE batch of new items next week. Meanwhile, if you browse
around the Chips and Stone
Pendants pages, you may find some of
the new items that don't yet have pictures...
Coming soon
New Beads:
Golden Oyster Stick, Hessonite Heishi, Aquamarine Round,
Rhodonite Round, Fluorite Twist, Pink and Red Cuppolini Coral Chip, Stabilized
Turquoise Chip, Blue Marble Chip, Black Obsidian Chip, Sea Foam Chip, Yellow
Olivine Chip, Lime Quartz Chip, Lilac Amethyst Chip, Tsavorite Chip, Chrysocolla
Chip, Sapphire Chip, Spessartine Chip, Yellow Howlite Chip, Serpentine Chip,
Black Rainbow Opal Chip, Elephant Jasper Chip, Kambaba Jasper Chip, Owyhee
Jasper Chip, Russian Serpentine Chip, Sage Amethyst Chip, Red Botswana Agate
Chip, Bloodstone Chip, Apple Green Jade Chip, Amber Stone Chip, Brass Chip,
Silver Chip, Turquoise Cube, Red Aventurine Cube, Multicolor Aquamarine Rondell,
more Faceted Beads
Ocarinas (clay flutes)
Spring Bracelets
Herkimer Diamonds
Many new Stone Pendants
(Including many more Animal shapes, Discs, Scarabs,
Leaves, Zuni Buffaloes, and old favorite shapes in new stones)
Stone Fun Facts
Ocean Jasper
(Please see some general information about Jaspers and Agates HERE.)
** Ocean Jasper is a very rare stone, mined in one place
in the world. It is found off the coast of the remote area of Marovato,
Madagascar, and the deposit is so close to the ocean that it can only be mined
at low tide.
** Ocean Jasper is known for its beautiful orbicular
designs. (These show a little in our chip beads, but the patterns are best
seen in large cabochons and spheres.) The patterns are spherical
inclusions floating in solid jasper, and the little circles are often heavily
banded in many colors. The deposit is a massive Rhyolite (a volcanic
stone) flow that was silicified: as the hot liquid magma cooled, the silica
precipitated out of the magma, forming small balls.
** Ocean Jasper got its name both from its proximity
to the ocean, and also because the patterns look like foaming
bubbles.
** Ocean Jasper is mined by local Malagasy natives, who
gather it at low tide, take it ashore, then place it in a boat to be taken to
the nearest area with a road, as Marovato is very remote and has no access other
than by boat.
** This is a very new stone, discovered a few years ago
after a very long search. Long ago, a local fisherman told of the
beautiful rock formation he had seen on the beach, and people have been looking
for it ever since. Its discovery at the turn of the millennium, as well as
the fact that it is found under the ocean, have caused people to nickname it the
"Atlantis Stone."
** Ocean Jasper is also known as Orbicular Jasper and
"Moon Jewel Jasper," even though it is technically an agate! Madagascar
natives call it "Snake Agate."
** Crystal healers use Ocean Jasper to promote patience
and help in meditation. It helps to bring peace of mind. The
circular patterns suggest that all of nature is interconnected, and that nature
is cyclical.
** Physically, Ocean Jasper is said to aid in problems of
digestion, and to help remove toxins from the body.
Please see other Stone Fun Facts
here:
News & Stuff
eBay Affiliate
Program
I have signed up for the eBay Affiliate Program, whereby
anyone using a specific link to access eBay to make bids will result in my
earning a dime for their bid. Here's how you can help:
Any time you wish to shop on eBay (whether buying my items or anything
else), click on the eBay icon below, which will open a separate window.
Log in to your usual eBay account and make your bid. I will get a dime for
that bid (even if you do NOT become the highest bidder or win the item).
Simple as that. You can find this icon at the bottom of all Ephemerala
Newsletters, and you can also find it toward the bottom of my home page at
www.ephemerala.com. (We are in the
habit of keeping my store site window open, clicking on the icon to open a new
window, making our eBay bid, then closing that window, before clicking the icon
again for the next bid!) It takes a couple of extra seconds, but each dime
I earn is a dime I can put toward more luscious gemstones, and each dime helps
to ultimately keep the prices low. So everyone wins! The icon is
below, and also at the bottom of this newsletter.
Fortnightly Sale
Icy Chips a Dollar
Off
I've decided to let this sale run one more week, as folks
are really digging it, and face it, it's still hot. People might think
they have it easy compared to me out in the desert, but no matter where you are,
you're hot. My parents moved to the Midwest instead of Southern Utah
because they think it's too hot here, but not only has our daily heat index been
consistently lower than theirs, but our actual temperatures have occasionally
been lower too! Bottom line: You don't have to live in a desert to be
hot.
[NOTE: If your e-mail address ends with ".au," well holy dooley, just
completely ignore the entire previous yabbering paragraph, wag school or chuck a
sickie, give the flitch to the ankle biters, lob in with your rellies and
cobbers, and do what you can to stay warm while Seppos like me in Whoop Whoop
fire up the barbies and bog into our icy poles (and give you the weekly drum on
about our corker way of making a quid). Strewth, reckon!]
[NOTE #2: If your e-mail DOESN'T end with ".au," completely ignore the
entire previous paragraph.]
Um, anyway. We need some cold.
Seriously. Time for some ice. This week, selected Chip Beads of a
decidedly "icy" color will be a dollar off. This covers the light blues
and purples, mainly. Now is the time to stock up on those cool colors for
your winter jewelry!
Dollar Off Icy Chips Offer is good through August
7, 2005
Penny Sale
Every two weeks, I hide a new special offer somewhere on
my online site. This listing will offer a certain product for ONE CENT,
with any purchase of $10.00 or more. The item and its location will change
every two weeks, so be sure to look often. Simply got to my online store
site:
and browse until you find the hidden listing. Add it
to your cart, along with the rest of your $10.00+ order, and it will be included
for just a penny. Happy Hunting!
(Recent keen-eyed customers got a bag of RED CHALCEDONY
NUGGET BEADS for a penny. What will you be able to get this
week?)
Insider's Special
Free Chain with
Pendant
This week, when you make any Pendant purchase, we will
include a gold or silver tone 18" Chain at no extra cost. Any and all
Pendants are eligible. All I ask is that you drop me a quick line to let
me know you are a subscriber, so I will know to include your free Chain.
Limit of ten free Chains per order.
Free Chain Offer is good through August 7,
2005
Last Week's Top Sellers
(You know you want to be just like everyone
else!)
1 Gemstone Marbles
2. Gemstone Globe Pendants
3. Blue Quartz Chip Beads
4. Opal Chip Beads
5. Pearl Beads
6. Lapis Nevada Chip Beads
7. Tanzanite Chip Beads
8. Blue Lace Agate Chip Beads
9. Citrine Chip Beads
10. Mother of Pearl Chip Beads
That's it for this issue. Talk
to you again in a week
--Suzanne Dallapè
eBay user ID: ephemerala
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