About Me

Wow! What an Experience this has been. I first started selling items from yard sales and such on Ebay about a year ago. Then got into buying and selling books by the hundreds. Then got interested in Chinese snuff bottles. That led into gems. Now I can't get enough of either. I love learning about the different gems, and especially enjoy when a creative customer who designs jewelry sends me photo's of what they do with these gems that I pass on to them.Everything from Ebay,  Squidoo, Blogging, Social Networking like StumbleUpon, BlogCatolog, Del.icio.us, and even just finished building a Lapidary / Gemstone Community Forum. What a learning experince it all is. All the things involved with learning how to sell and promote is never ending. I am retired, so this is just been the most rewarding experience in every aspect. All my previous "Jack of all trades" history did not prepare me for any of the various things I am learning about both in regards to the selling of, and promoting of these items.It is so great to be able to handle all these great items, and then pass them on to someone else.After all that is all we are really doing. We never really own any of these things. They just pass through our possession.

Interesting Unique and Unusual Gemstones - TaoGems

TaoGem supplies inexpensive interesting unique and unusual gemstones. beautiful loose cut gemstones. Cut, faceted and polished designer gemstones  for  making custom hand made gemstone jewelry, and other gemstone related art work. TaoGem wi...

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Lapidary

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