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February 27 - March 12, 2006
ephemerala
March 6-19, 2006
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 Smelly Stuff
We are slowly adding to our fragrances collection.
Fragrance Oils
One hundred different scents! Choose your favorites,
load up. I absolutely love these.
Incense Cones
Choose from a small sampler, or a full 16-pack. More
than 40 scents between the two.
16-pack of Meera brand:
Brass Light Rings
Put a little of your fragrance oil in these, and place on
a light bulb. As the bulb warms up, the fragrance subtly scents the
room.
Wood Ash Catchers
Still no pictures on these, but the pictures will come
soon. Choose from more than a dozen different designs and
colors.
Brass Aladdin's Lamp Burner
Your typical Aladdin's Lamp burner, nice petite size.
Use with sticks or cones.
Brass Mini Cone Burner
Wonderful petite burner for any space.
Clay Burner
I don't have pictures for these yet, unfortunately, but they
are beautiful. Made from Fimo clay and embedded with brass wire and tiny
mirrors, these will hold up to four sticks of incense at a time, or one
cone. My son loves his! Assorted variegated colors; choose from six
shapes.
Amber Resin Box
One of my long-time covet items! A small rosewood box
with decorative brass accents, filled with 3 grams of pure Amber resin.
Subtly scents the room, or you can rub the resin on clothing, skin, or
hair. Amber resin can smell different from one type to the next; these
have a slight wintergreeny fragrance under the sensuous Amber
smell.
See all the new stuff on our Fragrances page
here:
Brazilian Agate Candleholders
These are great! They are nice, thick Brazilian Agate
slabs, padded on the bottom and polished on top, with a hole drilled for a
votive candle or tea light. Choose your color.
New Chip Beads
Always adding new ones!
Mixed Amber
All sorts of colors, from yellow through black, and all the
warms colors in between.
Pink Coral
Delicate color in a sturdy chip.
Blue Chalk Turquoise
Fake-looking light blue, these are similar to dyed Howlite,
but the color won't bleed onto your white shirt in a rainstorm!
Dark Green Chalk Turquoise
Nice forest green, good, strong color.
Bright Tourmaline
Ahhh, the KING of Tourmaline! Shocking blues, aquas,
greens, pinks, and virtually every other color. Not for the
subtle-at-heart.
Oval Iolite Beads
Hand-cut for that "irregular" look, here are some low-grade
Iolite beads. Mainly the usual violet color, with some browns and grays
showing.
Coming Soon
New Beads:
Purple Shell Chip, Orange Chalcedony Chip, Cherry Amber Chip, Lemon Topaz
Chip, Rhodonite Round, Turquoise Cube, Red Aventurine Cube, Multicolor
Aquamarine Rondell, more Faceted Beads, Chip Sticks
Bone Perfume Bottles
Didgeridoos
Onyx & Soapstone Animals
Assorted Beaded Bracelets & Necklaces
Stone "Egg" Rings
Stone Fun Facts
Silver
** Silver occurs on its own in nature, or as an ore in
host rocks. It is slightly harder than gold, and fairly rare and
expensive. It is slightly less valuable than gold, however, due to its
tendency to tarnish when in the presence of ozone, hydrogen sulfide, or
sulphur.
** Silver has been used since ancient times. There is evidence that
humans learned how to separate silver from lead as early as 3,000 B.C. In
700 B.C., silver was first used to make coins. The words for "silver" and
"money" are identical in at least 14 languages.
** Besides coins, silver has many other uses. Its most predominant
use is in photography. It is also commonly used as a precious metal for
jewelry, as an aid in dentistry, and in electronics, among many other
things.
** Silver is the best conductor of heat and electricity known.
However, due to the high cost of silver, the less-expensive copper is more
readily used in electronics.
** The word "silver" comes from the Anglo-Saxon seolfor. Its
chemical symbol is Ag, from the Latin argentum.
** Commercial fine silver is 99.9% pure silver. Sterling silver,
which is widely used in jewelry, is 92.5% pure silver.
** Silver compounds can be absorbed by the skin and tissues, resulting in a
blue or blackish pigmentation called argiria. This can typically be seen
in the area on a finger where a ring has sat for many years. While silver
is non-toxic, it can cause allergic reactions on the skin.
** In the early 1900s, people would put silver dollars in milk jugs,
believing it would keep the milk fresh.
Please see more Stone Fun Facts
here:
News & Stuff
Egg & Marble Dilemmas
Since I created a campaign with Google Ad Words
and got my ads up on Google, I have seen a HUGE increase in sales of gemstone
eggs and marbles. I had started out with hundreds of these baubles, and
after many sales, am getting low on several favorites.
Ordinarily, this would be good news.
However, now that I go back to my original wholesalers to buy hundreds more, I
find that they either have disappeared without a forwarding address, or no
longer carry the eggs and/or marbles they used to! The result is that many
stone types are rapidly going out of stock, with no certain way of knowing
whether I will ever get more!
If anyone knows of a good wholesale company that
stocks marbles and small stone eggs, please let me know. I tend to buy in
the hundreds, so individual eBay sellers generally do not work.
Fortnightly Sale
Free Gift with Purchase!
Hey, how about a random freebie with your purchase of $10.00 or more?
That's it. Place your order, pay, and wait for your stuff, which will
include some tantalizing gemmy bauble.
This Fortnight's Sale is good through March 12,
2006
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 go 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 MAHOGANY OBSIDIAN
MARBLE for a penny. What will you be able to get this week?)
Insider's Special
Fan Collar Clearance!
For the next couple of months, I am going to be selling a lot of my
slower-sellers at cost or below, in order to make room for new
merchandise. This week, we have 13-piece mini fan collars for just $2
each. The stones will be our choice, so take a chance. Buy as many
as you like; HOWEVER, we have limited stock, so when they are gone, they are
gone. Get your order in early.
This Fortnight's Insider's Sale is good through March 12,
2006
Last Fortnight's Top Sellers
(You know you want to be just like everyone
else!)
1 Gemstone Marbles (3rd fortnight)
2. Gemstone Eggs
3. Carved Stone Pendants
4. Opal Chip Beads
5. Nevada Lapis Chip Beads
6. Opalite Chip Beads
7. Ruby Chip Beads
8. Power Bracelets
9. Larimar Chip Beads
10. Worry Stones
That's it for this issue. Talk to you
again in two weeks.
--Suzanne Dallapè
eBay user ID: ephemerala
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