Recently we have been lucky enough to get a few strands and loose pearls of extremely high quality. One of the types of freshwater pearls we are able to get are called metallics in which they have a natural metallic luster to them. The quality of the pearls is also AAA+ and nearly round making them exceptionally exquisite at a great price!
AAA+ Metallic Pearl Stud Earrings
Keep an eye out for more new pieces that will incorporate more of these beautiful pearls!
Please come visit us at the St. Gregory the Great Craft Show in Hamilton NJ!
Saturday March 6th, 2010
9AM – 3PM
St. Gregory the Great Parish Community Center
4680 Nottingham Way
Hamilton, NJ 08690
Come see us at the
WW-P High School North PTSA
2010 Spring Craft Fair
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:30Am to 4:00PM
Over 100 Vendors
Convenient Indoor Location
Free parking
Come out and Enjoy a day of shopping & family fun!
West Windsor Plainsboro High School North
90 Grovers Mill Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Today my husband was greeted by the mailman today with a heavy box. When he saw me he asked me what did I order…a box of rocks?? I just shrugged my shoulders because I couldn’t recall what was ordered but he was anxious to open the box up. We opened it up and that is exactly what was in the box…rocks! I few weeks ago I found gorgeous Laguna lace agate rough and placed an order. It arrived today and its absolutely beautiful. My husband is now out in the “workshop” slabbing up a piece of rough that initially looked uninteresting. It ended up having a beautiful purple hue, would almost say the quartz vein looks to be purple. The banding in the stone is beautiful and I cannot wait for him to start cabbing a few pieces so I can make some pieces over the weekend!
We just created a new piece made out of Montana Agate and accented with a smokey quartz faceted stone.
The stone was hand cut from rough and we made it into a free form cabochon that showed off both the dentrites in the stone as well as beautiful banding. I am excited to cut some more of this rough as there are some beautiful banding in this rough that is a gorgeous brown that goes excellent with smokey quartz.
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We are continuing to add new designs to our site and just put up some one of a kind Geode Slice Necklaces and added a few more Cape May Stone wire wrapped pendants.
Keep checking back for more new items as the season continues!
This coprolite pendant has been in the making for quite sometime. The stone itself is a story all by itself. We purchased a bunch of bulk lapidary material months and months ago and it was up to us to identify what eat stone was. So we are going slowly through the rough and picking some of the most interesting and appealing pieces, cutting them to slabs and then trying to identify them. This piece caught our eye because of all the bright and vivid colors present in this stone. The reds, oranges and yellows all seem to swirl around in random patterns within clear agate. It had us perplexed for a bit as its quite unusual pattern for a rock to form. After a bit if research, we realized we were not dealing with just any kind of agate, we were dealing with Coprolite, which is essentially fossilized Dinosaur poo!
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We have piles and piles of rocks sitting in our work area where the lapidary equipment is located. Every once in a while I go out there and start digging through the rocks wondering if the rough would make a good cabochon. So the other night I was really motivated to start cutting some of these rocks in half to see what was inside these gems. The first rock we decided to cut was amazonite and we cut a beautiful slab. the color is a gorgeous blue green with matrix throughout and we were so surprised at the beauty of this one. I found another black rock that seemed to have a vein of pink running through it, and I guess it is rhodonite but it will make gorgeous cabs.
I also tried slabbing a rock that we had found on the beaches of Cape May Point hoping that it would be translucent or have a neat pattern to it, but it ended up just being gray inside, not too interesting. I did however cut some of the quartz we found on the beach, like the pieces that are way to big to tumble and wire wrap. This piece does look really neat, but I need to polish it up to see what it will actually look like and if it will make a nice centerpiece in jewelry.
I do have to say that playing with the rocks was so much fun, I felt like a kid again. It makes me want to go rock hunting to find even more!
September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. Take the time to read about ovarian cancer and education yourself about potential signs as Ovarian cancer is known as the “silent killer” as often times there are no signs and to day, there are no screening procedures for early detection.
Please check out our Ovarian Cancer Awareness Bracelet and spread the word about ovarian cancer awareness!
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