November 7-20, 2005
In This Installment:
** New Items
** Coming Soon
** Stone Fun Facts
** News & Stuff
** Fortnightly Sale
** Insider's Sale
** Last Fortnight's Top Sellers
New Items
New Marbles
As always, still looking to add to my ever-growing
collection. Here are the new and back-in-stock offerings this
week.
NEW:
Serpentine
A solid black stone with interesting tan bandings.
Lepidolite
Only ONE available! Lovely pale purple with mica
sparkles. If you are a collector, get it NOW.
Rose de France
The lightest Amethyst. Only a few of these
available.
BACK IN STOCK:
Green Jade
Lapis
Picasso Marble
Rhodochrosite
New Chip Beads
Orange Coral
Very festive Halloween pumpkin colored chips. We don't
really carry a lot of orange, so if you like this color, these are great for
you. Well-dyed, even color, and it won't bleed on your white
shirt.
Blue-Gray Mother of Pearl
A soft pastel color, smooth and pretty.
Smooth Kyanite
We already carry rough Kyanite. These are wonderfully
polished, smooth, most are sort of wafer-shaped and round. Great color
that you unfortunately cannot see on the scanning. For some reason Kyanite
does not scan well. Rich shimmering blues and grays; highly
recommended.
Black Jade
What can I say? It's Jade, and it's black.
Coming soon
New Beads:
Color Change Garnet Chip, Purple Shell Chip, Kingman AZ Turquoise Chip,
Golden Topaz Chip, Rhodonite Round, Turquoise Cube, Red Aventurine Cube,
Multicolor Aquamarine Rondell, more Faceted Beads, Chip Sticks
Spring Bracelets
Herkimer Diamonds
Bone Perfume Bottles
Rock Pebble Candy
Malachite Mini Eggs
Serpentine and Smoky Quartz Marbles
Many new Stone Pendants
(Including Discs, Scarabs, Leaves, Zuni Buffaloes, and old favorite shapes
in new stones)
Stone Fun Facts
Variscite
** Variscite is a rare stone with a
bright green color. It is often confused with Turquoise, but it is not
related to Turquoise.
** The name "Variscite" comes from
Variscia, which is the old Latin name for Vogtland, Germany, where the
stone was first found. Of personal interest to me, Variscite is
occasionally found in Fairfield, Utah (very near Salt Lake City, where I used to
live), and one of its alternative names is Utahlite.
** Variscite is an excellent calming
stone. Known as one of the true "worry stones," it eases fear, tension,
anxiety, and stress. It encourages truthfulness, courage, and hope.
It is a good stone to be used by anyone who works with the elderly or sick, as
it promotes inner strength and the ability to deal well with the stress of
caring for others.
** Physically, Variscite is thought to be good in
disorders of the nervous system, blood flow, and male reproductive system.
It helps to aid concentration, and fights chronic
fatigue.
Please see other Stone
Fun Facts here:
News & Stuff
Guest Book Hilarity
When I first opened my online
store, I added a guest book. I soon took it off, for reasons I don't
remember any more. I later reinstated it, then removed it again.
(You can see this happening in the dates of the first couple of messages.)
Finally, earlier this year, I reinstated it and kept it up.
Since then, I have discovered a new type of
spammer. It seems that nearly every day, I get several Guest Book entries
that are nothing more than advertisements, mainly for assorted drugs.
These are put there by people who get paid when you click on their sites.
I guess the point is to write the name of their particular drug so many times
that my Guest Book will show up on search engines, and they will get
clicks.
I usually delete these messages every few
days. But when I realized I was going to write about this in the
newsletter, I decided to keep most of them up for you all to see. In a few
days, I will remove them all again, but if you happen to check out the page
every few days, no doubt you will see some more.
There is another sort of amusement on the Guest
Book page. There are entries that make no sense. I deleted
most of them (one entry said nothing but, "Great! I'm really surprised!"
with no other reference), but I've kept a few on there for your amusement.
Some are cute (Emmy on October 8); others are strange (Slepec on September
1). Check out the page, have a chuckle, and maybe leave a little note
yourself!
Halloween Fun
Just to show you the human side of the whole Ephemerala operation, I've
posted a few pictures of my kids at Halloween. Rio (age 9) was Edward
Scissorhands, and Ewan (age 5) was Chewbacca (though he looked like a teddy
bear). I made both costumes. Ewan also designed a jack-o-lantern of
his own, which I carved for him. See this and more at:
Fortnightly Sale
There's Gold in Them Thar
Hills!
You know, I sometimes think up these sales according to
whatever happens to be going on in our lives at the moment. This coming
weekend, we are going to go on vacation to a place that has gold panning,
so I figured I'd go ahead and make a sale on Gold! You can choose from
Chains (a dollar off) and Gold Leaf Bottles ($2.00 off). No limit, have a
ball!
Gold Sale is good through November 20,
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 GOLD OR
SILVER BRACELET CHAIN for a penny. What will you be able to get
this week?)
Insider's Special
Dollar Chip Bottles!
If you are like me, you love Gem Chip Bottles. Each
one is a tiny geology display. I could line an entire shelf with them if I
didn't already take up too much room with my marble collection! This week,
all our special subscribers are entitled to buy random Gem Chip Bottles for a
dollar each. The sizes and gems vary, and will be chosen by us at
random. If you are looking to build up your own collection, or are looking
for inexpensive holiday gifts for cool kids and grown ups, this is a great
opportunity. We will try to vary the selection for variety when you buy
more than one. There is no limit.
Dollar Chip Bottles Offer is good
through November 20, 2005
Last Fortnight's Top
Sellers
(You know you want to be just like everyone
else!)
1 Gemstone Marbles (5th week in a row)
2. Gemstone Eggs (4th week in a row)
3. Santa Letters
4. Myrrh Beads
5. Sunstone Chip Beads
6. Lapis Nevada Chip Beads
7. Amber Chip Beads
8. Moonstone Chip Beads
9. Fluorite Chip Beads
10. Sandalwood Beads
That's it for this issue. Talk
to you again in two weeks.
--Suzanne Dallapè
eBay user ID: ephemerala
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