September 25 - October 2, 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
Rose Quartz Micro Eggs
We've gotten more Rose micro eggs in, so if you liked them before but we
were sold out, here is your chance to get them. All sorts of other stones
are available too. These eggs are just plain cute!
Golden Oyster Stick
Interesting stick beads with holes at the top and bottom. You can use
one hole to make a dangling pendant or earrings, or you can string them with
both holes for really thick necklaces and bracelets. Beautiful golden
color with the shimmer of mother of pearl. Sold in packs of two.
Hessonite Heishi
Ten darling beads, from light champagne in color all the way to deep
red.
All Sorts of Unrelated Nonsense - ONLY A FEW DAYS
LEFT!
For those of you who haven't put in your order to be
eligible for the drawing (see below), you only have a few days left. The
fundraising sale ends on September 29, which is this
Thursday. To refresh your memory, it is
fundraising time for my son's school, and he's brought home a ton of catalogs
with cool stuff in them. I put together a sales page to highlight all of
these items, from magazine subscriptions to first aid kits, plus two independent
websites that have a lot of their own stuff, including candy, housewares,
jewelry, and much more. Anyone who wishes to help out can find the sale
items at the link shown below. Hurry!
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:
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
Serpentine
** Serpentine is a combination of
several minerals in differing concentrations. Thus, there are many
different looks to this stone. Antigorite is a dark green color while New
Jade (which is not a real jade) is a light green.
** The mineral Serpentine, which
colors the rocks used in gems, is rather common. Most rocks that contain
some green usually have Serpentine in them.
** The name Serpentine
comes from the fact that it often has a scaly appearance like snakeskin.
**
Crystals healers use Serpentine to help reduce swelling, and to ease the
symptoms of asthma. It is said to improve the milk production when worn by
nursing mothers.
** Serpentine is thought to bring happiness, success,
friendliness, and independence. It brings respect for the elderly and the
wisdom they are able to provide. It is thought to be particularly
protective of fathers, and so it makes a good gift for Father's Day.
**
Serpentine was highly prized by the Aztecs, who valued all green
stones.
** Long ago, Italian witches (streghe) believed that carrying small pebbles
of Serpentine would protect you from the bits of animals such as snakes.
If the person had already been bitten, the stone was thought to be able to pull
the toxins out.
News & Stuff
Google AdWords
I have signed up for Google AdWords, which is an
advertising medium. You know when you do a Google search, and a couple of
boxes appear on the right-hand side? Those boxes are all ads that
webmasters pay to run on Google, and they are based on specific keywords.
Each ad costs anywhere from a few pennies to a quarter when it is clicked, so if
you ever do a Google search and find an Ephemerala ad to the right, please DO
NOT CLICK IT! You already know where to find me, so leave the costly
clicks to find new customers.
So far, I haven't seen any significant increase in
sales, but I will give it a few weeks. We might just be in a slow spot due
to gas prices and whatnot. I expect a fresh influx of sales toward the
holidays.
The Newsletter
Becomes Fortnightly
This is the last week we'll be sending the
newsletter out weekly. After this, it will be written and sent once every
two weeks. Each newsletter will announce the new sales and all new
items.
Fortnightly Sale
Two For One Carved Stone
Pendants!
NO LIMIT! We just keep getting more and more and
more Carved Stone Pendants, and we want to give some away! This week, when
you buy any Stone Pendant, we will throw in an extra one absolutely FREE.
This sale applies to all caved pendants, including Points, Hearts, Crosses,
Double Pyramids, Ankhs, Animals, Arrowheads, Suns/Moons, Nuggets, and EVERYTHING
ELSE on the Pendants page! Best of all, we are dropping our usual 10-piece
limit. You can buy as many as you like and get that many free. (Free
pendant(s) will be our choice and will be similar in shape to the purchased
one(s).)
Free Pendants Offer is good through October
9, 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 WORRY DOLL for
a penny. What will you be able to get this week?)
Insider's Special
Fifty Cent Bags o'
Beads
During our recent housecleaning, we came up with a whole
lot of bags of beads that don't really seem to fit anywhere. These might
be partial bags (such as the last remaining 24 beads on the strand), odd
sizes, colors that don't really match with the rest of the batch, leftovers,
mixes, discontinued items, things we never got around to listing, etc.
etc. We are making all these beads available to our "special" customers at
fifty cents per bag. For those of you who really like to take a chance,
this is your moment! These are great for earring projects and "eclectic"
beadwork. There is no limit to the number of bags you can
buy.
Fifty Cent Beads Offer is good through
October 9, 2005
Last Week's Top Sellers
(You know you want to be just like everyone
else!)
1 Gemstone Marbles
2. Gemstone Eggs
3. Coral Chip Beads
4. Sunstone Chip Beads
5. Turquoise Chip Beads
6. Emerald Chip Beads
7. Chrysoprase Chip Beads
8. Lapis Nevada Chip Beads
9. Opal Chip Beads
10. Wild Horse Chip Beads
That's it for this issue. Talk
to you again in two weeks.
--Suzanne Dallapè
eBay user ID: ephemerala
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