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Create Super Easy Photo Collages

Here's a cool tool if you like to play with your pictures! I found it on Humblebeads


Humblebeads Blog: Create Super Easy Photo Collages

Do you love making jewelry?

How about beads? Have you considered marrying the two?
Well that's exactly what the website making-beaded-jewelry.com does!

Making-beaded-jewelry.com provides its visitors with step by step jewelry making instructions for beading jewelry.

Wanda Epps, a self-proclaimed bead addict, is the publisher of the website. In search of a new hobby, she discovered jewelry making when she went to a book store.

There she found a book on bead jewelry making. She bought it, took it home and read it. Then she bought a few jewelry making tools and supplies. Wanda strung a beaded necklace using a beading technique from the book. But, she was not that impressed with her necklace. Imagine that.

Well, not one to quit so soon, she continued buy jewelry making books and magazines and tried her hand at making some of those projects.

The more she made jewelry and bought beads the more she got hooked. Soon, she started selling her jewelry, but her full time job got in the way. But,she wanted to continue to make jewelry. Teaching others is one of her skills so she headed to the internet to teach others how to make jewelry.

Hence, with the help of her web hosting company, SBI, she began to publish
making-beaded-jewelry.com. So, if you want to learn how to make beaded jewelry, head on over to http://www.making-beaded-jewelry.com/today.

40 New Stones Just Listed.

I invite you to compare pricing. I just did and many of these new stones are way below suggested and retail markets especially the Ruby Zoisite Cabochons! Many new pendant and focal beads too.

How Cabs are Made

Here is a great link to give you a good idea of how cabs are made, good pictures and good text.
Making a Cabochon

Glossary of Rock & Mineral Terms

I've had some questions about terminology lately and I located a very good list for you.  There is also a Gemstone Glossary located on this page.

Glossary of Rock & Mineral Terms

Live and Learn,
Millie \o/

Have a Heart Valentine Give Away

Congrats Val B. You Won the Heart!!

Happy Valentines Day

Natural African Blood Stone

Just send an email to Millie.GotRocks [at] gmail.com

Subject Line:  Have a Heart

Random Drawing on February 14, 2010

You will be contacted by return email if you are the winner. Email address are Never given out or sold.

(Good friends and family are not eligible, sorry.)

Happy Valentines!!