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September 19-25, 2005
ephemerala
September 19-25, 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
New and Updated Faceted Pendants
Our recent housecleaning turned up some new faceted pendants, and as a
special bonus we have taken a dollar off of all of the old prices, for the next
week only. Choose from Amethyst, Garnet, Peridot, Blue Topaz, Citrine, and
Sapphire in a variety of gold and silver settings, at $4-6 each.
All Sorts of Unrelated
Nonsense
Okay, this will take some explaining.
Many of our subscribers know that we home-school
our children. So it may be confusing to learn that our oldest son, Rio,
(who turns nine years old on Thursday) is currently going to public
school. We feel that part of the entire home schooling experience includes
a variety of interesting life experiences in different surroundings, and this
year it seemed appropriate to send Rio to school to give him this particular
experience. He isn't really learning very much (except for cursive, which
is something neither of us wanted to teach him anyway), but he is having a
fairly good time, meeting new people, and learning a sort of discipline that was
difficult to teach at home. We likely will NOT have him go to school next
year, but this year it is good to give him this outside experience, and it also
frees me up to get serious about the education of our 5-year-old.
So Rio is in school and is
experiencing everything that goes with that, including the yearly fundraising
efforts. I figured I could create a special sales
page on Ephemerala just for Rio, to send to my newsletter subscribers, on the
chance that a few of you may wish to support Rio's school. (The money will
go toward, among other things, field trips, and I have signed up to be chaperone
at his field trips, so the more you buy, the neater places I'll get to go
to! Happy Suzanne makes happy newsletters and generous sale
ideas!)
So I have made this page that
explains everything and gives you links to several different types of sale
items, as well as two independent online sites that have hundreds of
products. Anyone wishing to help in the fundraising efforts may go to this
page and browse through the many items. You may add any Rio Sale item to
your regular Ephemerala order if you wish. This special sale page can be
found here:
SPECIAL FOR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS ONLY!
Each person who submits an order will be put into a drawing for the crystal
necklace seen here:
This is a $15 value, and it could be yours FREE if yours is the lucky name
that we draw!
Coming soon
New Beads:
Golden Oyster Stick, Hessonite Heishi, Aquamarine Round, Rhodonite Round,
Fluorite Twist, Turquoise Cube, Red Aventurine Cube, Multicolor Aquamarine
Rondell, more Faceted Beads
Spring Bracelets
Herkimer Diamonds
Carved Fluorite Bowls
Many new Stone Pendants
(Including Discs, Scarabs, Leaves, Zuni Buffaloes, and old favorite shapes
in new stones)
Stone Fun Facts
Mookaite (Revisited)
WHY ALL THE "REVISITED" FACTS?
At this point, there are very few stones I have not yet featured in the
weekly Stone Fun Facts. Every week it gets harder to find new stones to
profile. When we are extra-busy, as we are lately, it is good to sort of
relax and re-visit some old stones we have profiled in the past. Don't
worry, there will be more new ones soon!
Chances are, you have not bought any of these beads. Only a
few adventurous buyers have been curious enough to check these out. They sort of
get hidden among the better-known beads. So here's a little info about
them:
** Mookaite is almost exclusively mined in Australia. It is found
primarily on Mooka Station, a sheep ranch in Western Australia.
** Mookaite,
also spelled Moukaite and Mookite, is the common name for the stone Windalia
Radiolarite.
** Mookaite is a form of Jasper that has mainly red and yellow
colors, and a few other secondary colors. The stone often shows very interesting
swirled designs.
** In Australia, Mookaite was and still is considered a
powerful healing stone. Its main purpose is to promote the acceptance of chance,
and to encourage the desire for variety and new experiences. It promotes inner
calm while simultaneously promoting the desire for adventure.
** Physically,
it is believed to promote good health by stimulating the immune system.
** It
is also often made into jewelry for children, believing that it helps to modify
children's behavior.
Please see other Stone Fun
Facts here:
News & Stuff
The Newsletter
Becomes Fortnightly
For nearly three years, I have been writing and
sending this newsletter out on a weekly basis. I have a subscriber base of
several hundred, and I could usually look forward to a few good sales every
Monday morning when the newsletter arrived to its destinations.
Lately, as you probably have noticed, I am taking
longer and longer getting each newsletter out. Seems as though it gets
ever-harder to produce it every Sunday, and more often than not, we skip a week
anyway. Now that my sales are fortnightly instead of weekly, it now makes
more sense to send the newsletter out with the new sales rather than every
week.
Also, I am not listing as many new products as I
used to, and I am running out of gemstones to profile in the Stone Fun
Facts! So each newsletter seems to contain less and less actual
content. I've recently felt that I am just repeating the same information
every week, and that the newsletter is getting boring.
So starting next Sunday, I am going to
deliberately change the newsletter from weekly to fortnightly (every two
weeks). I am hoping that this small regular lag in issues will help each
individual issue to be more interesting in news and content. Look for your
regular Sunday issue this week (with the new batch of sales), then the
every-other-week schedule will officially start.
Fortnightly Sale
Inventory Clearance!
While sorting through our Peach Days stuff, we found a lot
of items that are sort of forgotten on the website, pushed to the back of the
shelves and people's minds, and not really doing us any good right now. We
decided to make these in a sale. All of the random items in our sale have
been reduced in price, from 50 cents to several dollars. Most of these are
in very limited supply, and we don't plan to re-stock them once they are gone,
so get yours NOW, while you can! All sorts of things are represented
here--beads, jewelry, trinkets of all types.
Inventory Clearance Sale is good through September
25, 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 MEDICINE
STONE for a penny. What will you be able to get this
week?)
Insider's Special
Color Groups Chip
Packs
This is a package consisting of six (6) bags of Chip Beads
in specific color groups. There are six different color groups to choose
from, and each pack is $10.00. These are great for people who want to
color-coordinate their beading but don't necessarily want to go finding the
stones on their own. (Plus, the price is greatly reduced when you buy the
pack!) There is no limit to the number of packs you can
buy. All stones will be chosen by us, though if you have a favorite or
two, please let us know and we will try to accommodate.
Color Chips Packs Offer is good through
September 25, 2005
Last Week's Top Sellers
(You know you want to be just like everyone
else!)
1 Gemstone Marbles
2. Amber Chip Beads
3. Opal Chip Beads
4. Peridot Chip Beads
5. Cat's Eye Chip Beads
6. Gemstone Mini Eggs
7. Abalone Chip Beads
8. Ruby Chip Beads
9. Sapphire Chip Beads
10. Tanzanite 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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