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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv44820734ms__id14633" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: navy;">and obscenities on this rock,</span> <span style="color: navy;">changing its</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv44820734ms__id14633" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: navy;"> character many times.<br /><br />A few months back, the rock</span> <span style="color: navy;">received its latest paint job,</span></span></span></b></div>
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If you cannot get into GotRocks4Sale.com you call the 800 number and they tell you that the engineers are working on it. In the mean time I sit and wait.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Thanks Barbara, those who are new to beading bezels will find this information helpful.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-26516989939811120822012-08-07T14:09:00.001-07:002012-08-07T14:09:50.900-07:00Harriet the HummerI know well that you aren't suppose to interfere with nature, however, when I can see a fatal ending coming I will step in. So, this is what happened; three days ago we saw this little hummingbird, and I mean little, sitting on the feeder. One wing straight up in the air, oh no, a broken wing? We all looked at each other, and walked away. It bothered me all night.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1343501690159659">At the cash register of the store, the young
cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping
bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.</span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green
thing back in my earlier days."<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>The cashier responded, "That's our problem<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></i></b></span><span style="color: darkblue;">today</span>. Your generation did not care enough to
save our environment for future generations. You<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></i></b></span><u>didn't</u><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></i></b></span>have
the green thing."<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></i></b></span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">Back then, we returned milk bottles, soft
drink bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the
plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same
bottles over and over. So they really were recycling. We refilled writing pens
with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a
razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.</span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">We walked up stairs, because we didn't have
an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store
and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
blocks.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span></span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">Back then, we washed the baby's nappies
because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in
an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really
did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from
their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span><br />
</span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
</span>But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our
day.<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the
house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a
handkerchief, not a screen the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In the
kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric
machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in
the post, we used wrapped up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol
just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We
exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on
treadmills that operate on electricity.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span></span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">We drank water from a tap when we were
thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We
accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn't expect that to be trucked
in or flown thousands of air miles. We actually cooked food that didn't come
out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables
and chop our own salad.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></i></b></span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>But we didn't have the green thing back then.<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">Back then, city people took the tram or a
bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their
mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room,
not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a
computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out
in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.</span><span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span>But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old
folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?<span style="color: #454545;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #c0504d;">Please forward this on to another selfish
old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span></i></b></span><span style="color: #c0504d;">young
person.<br />
</span><span style="color: #454545;"><br /></span><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-55615709256366099042012-07-22T08:09:00.000-07:002012-07-22T08:09:22.131-07:00How it all startedSomebody asked me how I got started and why my site has been successful. Well it all started with a collection of cabochons and pendant beads. Too many rocks! So I started a web site and Rena of Jewelry Business Success New mentioned the site.<br />
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We can all relate to the need to "de-stash" our jewelry-making supplies from time to time!</div>
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This week's neat site,<b> <a href="http://gotrocks4sale.com/" target="_blank">Millie's Got Rocks</a>,</b> was set up by jewelry artist Millie to unload some of her overstock of cabochons, focal components, and beads.<br />
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Be sure to follow the links at the bottom of each page of Millie's site to click to the next picture-index page.</div>
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First, for its photography. Millie has a lot of beautiful stones that are well-photographed, and the items that are still available have huge, lovely closeup shots when you click on them - which is so important in selling jewelry and components online.</div>
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And third, her site is visually clean and uncluttered. You can focus on exactly what you came to see - Millie's overstock of rocks!</div>
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Since the site started I've been buying stones from various places, mostly from retired lapidary fold, I started making cabochons from the "rough" that I had stashed. </div>
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I have a many repeat customers and have had a great time getting to know many of them.</div>
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Since Rena's message in her newsletter I have had to make some changes with the picture index. It just got too complicated but I show a picture of what you get, no random picks for the most part because the stones are one of a kind, and very individualized. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-19815898693471524972012-07-20T12:47:00.002-07:002012-07-20T12:47:26.216-07:00Many Tutorials on my PinterestUse this link to get to the <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/milliegotrocks/pins/" target="_blank">Tutorial Links</a></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-45139671731867044382012-07-08T12:57:00.002-07:002012-07-08T12:57:42.922-07:00Extra Quality Uruguayan Amethyst Cluster Gemstone PendantsJust Listed: Gorgeous Deep Purple Amethyst Gemstone Clusters - yummm, if you love purple these are for you!<br />
New listing is on <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://http//gotrocks4sale.com/gallery_of_stones_3.htm" target="_blank">Gallery 3</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-73365246677437413412012-07-03T15:23:00.000-07:002012-07-03T15:23:23.660-07:00I have a bit of a problem shippingA storm hit at about 7 p.m. on the second, I'm having trouble getting my shipments out. I finally hooked up to a generator so I'm at least on line again. No power but the phone isn't out. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-32707464871003419942012-06-08T13:11:00.000-07:002012-06-08T13:11:13.241-07:00What makes an agate special?<br />
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<b><a href="http://gotrocks4sale.com/gallery-of-agates-for-jewelry-supply.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Agate</span></a> </b>is a type of chalcedony, a milky form of quartz, that
appears in a striking banded formation which people have found aesthetically
pleasing for centuries. Chemically, it is identical to quartz, amethyst, and
carnelians, but because it forms in a different way, agate looks radically
different. Like all forms of chalcedony, the chemical formula for an agate is
SiO2, and the colors come from impurities in the silicon dioxide, however, Agate
is a very complex rock. Pockets in
rocks fill with water and gas, crystallize and over time you have an agate,
simply put. Agate is a very complex rock.</div>
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Crazy Lace Agate from Mexico</div>
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The<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;"><a href="http://gotrocks4sale.com/montana-agates.htm" target="_blank">Montana Moss Agate</a></span></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is known for the dendrite, pictures of
trees or moss, and ribbon effect; sometimes called Sergeant stripes in a rock. The
name given to the beautiful chalcedony found most abundantly in the alluvial
gravels of the <st1:placename w:st="on">Yellowstone</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype> probably should be named the Yellowstone Agate;
the genesis was centered in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Yellowstone</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> area.<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1969, Montana Legislature passed legislation making the agate the state's
official gemstone along with the <st1:state w:st="on">Montana</st1:state>
sapphire. <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Montana
Moss Agate</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>can be
found in many colors from dark (almost black) to brown to orange or green
to clear. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Montana
Agate values have soared with its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.risingsunwholesale.com/progress.htm" style="text-align: -webkit-left;"></a><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">increasing scarcity. </span><o:p></o:p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130362504117695.post-59343537425585337142012-05-30T09:20:00.000-07:002012-05-30T09:20:08.288-07:0070 New Rocks Posted70 New rocks posted this week, jasper, agates, and more 4 and down closeouts and markdowns. While I was on the road last week the bargains were all bought so I posted more for you. Check it out, first come first served!<br />
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Thanks for your understanding and waiting for your shipments, I appreciate it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0