New Cabs and Work in Progress

 There is a lot of grinding going on:

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Charmeleongifts

Unique arts and crafts designs

A Great Time of Year to Stock Up

Stock up for the holidays, it's the perfect time to start at least thinking about it. I offer a a time pay solution for tight budgets. Set up your payments to fit you, I'm flexible.

With everyone's busy schedule, take the time now to look around and see what will work for you. Then you'll have the time you need to create those gorgeous works of art for your home shows, craft shows, gifts or what ever you do to market your creations.

Oh, and thanks for stopping by!

Limited Stock Beads Just Listed

 New Gallery: Limited Stock Beads

Chatoyant Pietersite

Available on Gallery Two at Overstocked with Rocks

Sid Pieters discovered Pietersite in Namibia in 1962. He registered the find in Britain and published his discovery in 1964, and the stone was named in his honor. Though many believed that Pietersite could be found only in Namibia, in 1993 a similar stone was discovered in China's Hunan province.

Pietersite is "brecciated," an Italian word that means a combination of minerals and rock held together by a fine-grained sediment; in Pietersite that "sediment" is quartz.

Any white spots seen in Pietersite is Quartz, you could say that quartz is the host. Blue is the favorite of all the colors seen in Pietersite and comes from Namibia, Africa. Browns, golds and reds are also found and as I understand come from China.

 

New Stones - Fabulous Agates

Made in the USA, Unique one of a kind Handcut and Polished. Over the coming days I'll be posting new agates and jaspers. When I get that done I found a bunch of great beads and then when that's done I'm going to be posting "Bead Party Grab Bags"; odds and ends, strings of beads, cabochons and focals with lots of pictures for you to make a good decision about your pruchase.

Thank you for all the support, the shop is doing very well.

Meet Gaby!

Early in 2009 Gaby quit her job with an international company and started creating more jewelry pieces and establishing Christe Jewelry (officially launched on January 15, 2010).

In December 2009 Gaby took her jewelry to the next level when she found wire jewelry. Wire was a to Gaby a new and interesting technique in jewelry making; an even more personalized and sophisticated way to create jewelry. After trying it, Gaby knew that this was the direction to go.

Gaby has a fabulous tutorial for sale and with her permission I have posted a link to her Etsy Shop which she just opened.

I get a lot of inquiries about how to wire wrap and since there are numerous free tutorials on the traditional way to wire wrap a bezel I thought everyone would appreciate this technique.

One reason I like Gaby’s bezel is that you can see the beautiful stones. Sometimes there is so much wire it takes away from the beauty of the stone and you all know I’m all about the rock.

Gaby has other tutorials as well, like these fabulous earrings! The wire work is impeccable.