Tuesday, October 26, 2010
On Fire For Handmade Feature Artist: Lottie's Trinkets

This weeks Featured Shop is Lottie's Trinkets! Beautiful Handmade creations to Jazz up your wardrobe with.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
On Fire For Handmade Feature Artist: Passion for Beads
This weeks Featured Artisan is Passion for Beads! Sally creates wonderful
treasures for you! You can find Sally - Passion for Beads at
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Etsy Blogger of the Month: Splendid Little Stars



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EtsyBloggers: October Blog Carnival - Activities I Do in the Fall
We never did go out and pick our own apples in the orchard, nor was it that important to us. Inside the store was so much more action. A live honey bee's nest that we could stare at for hours. The watch area to oversee the cleaning, peeling, packaging of the apples which was pretty exciting to a kid. We'd pick a bag or two of apples for dad's apple crisps and just to nosh on. We'd also grab some decorations like pumpkins, indian corn and ghords. Then the trip was over and one more plea for another quarter. Good fall times.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
On Fire For Handmade Feature Artist: Elly's Creations
This weeks Featured Artisan is Elly's Creations! Beautiful creations!
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Tigers Eye vs. Fiber Optic Stones


In order to get the variety of tigers eye colors you see at your favorite 'bead heaven', they have gone through a fiber optic process and then dyed. That's right, the run of the mill fiber optic quartz cable wire for instance. If you find a yellow or orange tigers eye bead strand, most likely it's not a true tigers eye, but that of fiber optic. Regardless, they're still beautiful in all their fabulous colors. Since they are synthetic, they are less expensive.
For the rock tumblers out there. Below is an image of a rough cut tigers eye specimen. Tigers eye is a 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. A rough cut of this stone can be easily tumbled with other quartz, agates and jasper stones. Beginner tumbler? This is a good stone to start out with. It will reach it's silky shine easily.
I enjoyed learning about Tigers Eye. I took it fore granted when I'd twist and turn it. Nature is truly a beautiful, mysterious thing.
Sources: Wikipedia, crystal-cure.com, geology.com
Rough tiger’s eye. © iStockphoto / Robert Ellis.
Brown tiger’s eye beads. © iStockphoto / Sohfian Mohamed Kamari.
Hawk's Eye - jegem.com
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
On Fire For Handmade Feature Artist: Tina's Treasures
This weeks Featured Artisan is Tina's Treasures! Tina has a wide
variety of handmade creations in her shop! Stop by and see them all!
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