For the love of Gemstones!

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Everyone should have a passion. A passion is something that stirs your emotions and makes you feel alive! It's something that you want to stay close to. It's something of which you crave all the facts pertaining to it. My passion happens to be gemstones. My favorite gemstone is whichever one I'm gazing upon at the moment. If you share this passion I hope this lens will give your heart what it desires. Geo Visitors Map

The world of gemstones and all their magic.

THE FACTS AND LORE OF GEMSTONES
The story of gemstones, their mineral composition, the myths surrounding the stones, their healing properties, beauty and history.
Gemstones
Cool stuff to order
TURQUOISE (Hydrated Copper Aluminum Phosphate)
THE MINERAL TURQUOISEChemistry: CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8*5(H2O), Hydrated Copper Aluminum Phosphate
Class: Phosphates
Uses: as an ornamental stone for carving and
jewelry.
Specimens
?Turquoise is a valuable mineral and is possibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral in the jewelry trade.
It has

Gemstone of the Week

Garnet

Garnets come in many colors but mine favorite is the red. The garnet is the symbol of purity and truth as well as love. Currently the world's largest supply of garnet is in the continent of Africa.

More about Garnet

Garnets
The Garnet is known as the stone for a successful business. If your business is not as good as it should be, just put 3 or more garnets on your desk. It is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression. Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewelry. It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. Garnets are also known for stimulating success in business.

Garnets on Ebay

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So you want to learn to make your own jewelry?

Great sites to do just that!

These are some of my very favorite places.
I Want to Be a Jewelry Designer
Discover the very first step you need to take to become a jewelry designer.
Gold Mining Jewelry - Using Your Own Gold Nuggets & Flakes.
gold mining jewelry & gold prospecting jewelry. Create unique jewelry with your own gold nuggets & flakes and our minature pans, sluice boxes, gold dredges & prospectors.
crafting making jewelry
Making
JewelryGeneral information for the
jewelry making hobbyist or special research projects.

Great Books to learn from

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Ebay is a great place to buy your Jewelry making supplies!

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Other great places to buy your supplies and gemstones.

Some of my Favorite places to buy gemstones.

Shipwreck Beads - The World's Largest Selection of Beads
Shipwreck Beads offers the World's Largest Selection of Beads, in addition to a HUGE selection of beading accessories, jewelry making supplies, and beading books. Over 38,000 different styles and colors of beads. We offer both retail and wholesale quantities of beads.
Fire Mountain Gems
Another great place with a wide selection and excellent quality.

Let's go Rockhounding!

What would be more fun than digging for your own gemstones?
Recreational Geologist and Rockhounding Tools from Amateur Geologist
Outfitting the recreational geologist and rockhound. We have the widest, in stock, selection of geologist and rockhound supplies including rock hammers, loupes, books on geology, earthquakes, volcanoes, rock and mineral, geologic maps, and many other field tools for the amatuer geologist.
Mineral Collecting
The first and last concerns should always be about safety.
He Ain't Nothing But a Rock Hound, A Diggin' All The Time
Do you like rocks? If so, you are a rock hound, a person who collects and studies rocks
and minerals.

Great Stuff on CafePress

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Newsletter from About.com Jewelry Making

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From my fellow Squidoo's

Handcrafted Jewelry
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
--David Frost
Dragonfly Design
As a rock hound who is fond of pretty colors, I delight in designing unique, custom handcrafted jewelry
DLee's Gifts: Handcrafted Jewelry, Amulet Bags, Beaded Purses & Pillows
Where do you find your inspiration?

That's the question I keep hearing over and over about my beaded designs.

Leave me a comment, don't forget to rate this lens!

  • akasha_crystals Jun 29, 2010 @ 12:55 am | delete
    Great Lens. I love wearing crystal jewelry.
  • Pierce_This_2 Sep 13, 2007 @ 5:39 am | delete
    Nice job! How to measure a belly button ring
  • emanderso Jul 16, 2007 @ 10:16 am | delete
    Nice lens Robbin. Now I know I need to get me some garnets! I just love jewelry of all kinds.
  • cameoartist Mar 2, 2007 @ 10:25 am | delete
    Great lens Robbin. Good book lists, links and info. You are now on my lensroll.

    Good luck !

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Robbin

I'm an optician by trade but my true passion is designing and making jewelry and learning all I can about gemstones. I'm new to growing herbs but it's... more »

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