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Swaps? What (or who) are we getting for Marc?
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Sorry, I've collected ocean shell fossils from the age of Dinosaurs (the time of Tyrannosaurus Rex, to be exact. They are made of chalk. They include fossil sponges, scallops, oysters, sea urchins (sand dollars) and even part of a crab's claw. From another bed, now paved over. I got original oyster shells, not fossilized (some even had parts of the original striping left), Plus, down in South Texas, where my parent's ranch was before it got converted into a lake, there was lots of fossil wood. (That was from after the age of Dinosaurs.) I keep a small collection in my dining room, in a cabinet.
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I saw a magazine a long time ago in Baltimore entitled "Cetacean". It was about local Baltimore folk music.
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I'm lucky enough to be married to a guy who likes gemstones as much as I do. Which translates to a very nice jewelry collection. We like BIG stones, so we started rockhounding not too long ago. You are close enough to NC to go pick up some fist-sized pretty amythests in NC. www.gemmountain.com We are going on the fossil dig tomorrow, which is actually a charity event to raise money for the division where I work. Next Saturday, the holiday weekend, we plan to go to the aquamarine mine at Hogg Mine in LaGrange, Ga. I think it is their last day for the year, but I could be very wrong. Right now, we are only tumbling rocks, wirewrapping pendants, and cabbing. Next year, probably in the late spring, I'm going to take Faceting and Tim is taking Silversmithing at the lapidary college. We both prefer gold, but the prereq is silversmithing 1&2 before you can register for goldsmithin. And that's probably more than you cared to know. I just get sort of extra-happy when it comes to talking about rocks and gemstones. We will probably go on a field trip with the rock club up to Franklin, hopefully sooner rather than later. I've got a gorgeous cabachon pendant of picture rock, set in silver, that came from there. It's not the usual brown desert scene that comes from Oregon, but it is blues and greens, and it makes a fairy glade scene. I got the cab for $5 at a rock show, believe it or not! It's so unusual that I believe it would sell for upwards of $1000 or more - but they would have to pry it out of my cold dead hands to get it away from me! Today, I'm wearing a brand new pendant that I didn't make because I can't facet. It's a rubellite, emerald cut, ~1 ct, 14k gold, that I found at Gem Mountain. You can get all sorts of sparklies out of the dirt there! |
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what is picture rock ???
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I couldn't find anything like what I've got, but this is an example. Can you see a desert landscape in this stone? Sand and rocks and horizon?
BTW, another name for picture rock is landscape jasper. Last edited by DixieGal; 11-21-2008 at 11:27 AM. |
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