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Post by helens on Jun 6, 2012 23:45:08 GMT -5
Kewl slabs and jewelry Pat!!!! How come there's not more enthusiasm on the thread?!
YAY!!! More kewl stuff!!!! Beautiful jewelry, did you make it:)?
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Post by rockingthenorth on Jun 7, 2012 1:03:19 GMT -5
This is so exciting I can't wait until it's my turn
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Post by Pat on Jun 7, 2012 10:23:50 GMT -5
Helen, yes, I made the jewelry.
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Post by Pat on Jun 7, 2012 18:52:44 GMT -5
Meta99 (Sue). PO says your box has arrived : )
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Post by meta99 on Jun 7, 2012 20:01:55 GMT -5
I got the box tonight. Nice box! Pretty rocks! Have decided what I'm taking out and will need to repack it tomorrow night after pictures taken. Hope to get it to the post office by Saturday but if not, Monday at the latest. A very well organized box indeed! Nothing just thrown in willy-nilly! A pretty sight for the OCD in us! Sue
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Post by ulstergeki on Jun 9, 2012 18:18:15 GMT -5
Sue did you get your choices out yet? I am excited to see more pictures
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Post by meta99 on Jun 10, 2012 14:15:28 GMT -5
Sue did you get your choices out yet? I am excited to see more pictures First a pic of the box as I got it: What I took out: What I put in: There are two pices of the Davis Creek obsidian, a bag of Flint Ridge (should be enough for everyone to get a little) including a specimen that can be kept whole or cabbed, 2 little slabs (Rio Grande and Cady Mt. moss agates) The close ups: Diamond Hill skeletal quartz specimens: Flint Ridge bag, spread out: Flint Ridge crystal and flint specimen (these are cabbable too): Cady Mt. Moss Agate: Rio Grande Moss Agate: Unfortunately my slab saw is down, so maybe someone like Tony could cut them so everyone could have some. Sorry this took so long, but I have had a heck of time with resizing photos in photobucket I will keep trying... I'm in the midst of a faceting competition and I have to get my stone in the mail, so this also slowed things down. This is what it looks like in fluorite (this is my test stone): Sue
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Post by helens on Jun 10, 2012 21:28:49 GMT -5
Kewl Sue:). So who got the 3 snakeskin agates I put in??
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Post by meta99 on Jun 11, 2012 6:23:10 GMT -5
Tracking number will be 9405503699300040272602.
The snake skins may still be in there. I had some so I didn't go looking for them. Sue
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Post by helens on Jun 11, 2012 11:21:13 GMT -5
About the snakeskins... I don't care who got them, I was just surprised no one took them yet. I thought they were cute, and the stuff that you would use for Dan's copper experiment:).
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Post by helens on Jun 11, 2012 15:01:33 GMT -5
OOOH!!!! Update... I FORGOT TO PUT THE SNAKESKINS IN THE BOX!!!! I thought Jim or Pat might like them, so I was puzzled when no one posted they got them.... and I just went outside and looked in my rock box... and they were there!!! Oops. So that was dumb me, sorry about that guys (there were no snakeskin agates in the box!!)!!!
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Post by Pat on Jun 11, 2012 15:03:28 GMT -5
... glad it wasn't just my memory!
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Post by meta99 on Jun 11, 2012 15:29:02 GMT -5
I got some last summer when we did The Great Summer Swap Box (easier to run than a traveling box!). They also look good tumbled. I'm not surprised you didn't get them in. My goal was to take jus ta few things out and pack it with all my stuff and there wasn't enough room!
So, future recipients: PLEASE TAKE STUFF OUT! That way more can be put in! My box was very heavy when it left this AM! It is expected in PA on Wednesday. Sue
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Post by helens on Jun 11, 2012 19:43:06 GMT -5
Well, you know... I wondered that too... why didn't you guys take MORE stuff out?? The box is LOADED so tight that you can't really squish in much else, but everyone just takes a bitty out... take MORE out! LOL!
Don!!! You shoulda joined the box:). As for the snakeskins... I had gotten a small bag of them from Tony already...so I have more. I didn't leave them out because I wanted to keep them, I couldn't fit them in the little space I had left, so I pulled them out to take 1 out so it wouldn't poke out of the box... and forgot to put the others back in the box!!!
The REASON I thought people would want them is they are the agates used for Daniel's Fischer stone experiment... so I actually was putting them in for Jim or Pat to try to make Fischer stones if they wanted to. I can't believe I forgot them... I shoulda known there was a reason for that small space in the corner when I sealed the box... O.O.
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Post by Pat on Jun 11, 2012 19:58:06 GMT -5
I think the Fischer Stone is really neat, but I have about six, and don't want to make more --- yet. I didn't make any of them. I'd carve the snakeskin agates. Don't know about Jim and Fischer Stones. Thanks for your good intentions!
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Post by helens on Jun 11, 2012 21:38:05 GMT -5
Aww, thank you for the kind words, Pat:). I was wracking my brain for what I could include that people didn't see LOTS of ... and I settled mostly on the stuff I had gotten at the estate sale that were more unique because they were collected a long time ago, and something from Florida, the land of no rocks:P. Every time I read about people just going to their local McDonalds and finding goodies in the gravel, or having local creeks nearby with neat things, I wish we had more rocks around here.
ALTHOUGH, hopefully soon, we'll go canoeing on the Withalacoochee and find us some agates too:).
Did you ever cab your fischer stones:)?
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Post by paulshiroma on Jun 11, 2012 23:03:53 GMT -5
Gang: If the box is still packed well at the end, I suggest we continue to circulate it and add a few more folks to the distribution. This looks like it'll "have some legs", as it's said. Or, at least this is a lot of fun watching and looking forward to the box!
Paul
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Post by rockingthenorth on Jun 11, 2012 23:36:11 GMT -5
what is a fischer stone? ?
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Post by Pat on Jun 12, 2012 0:15:57 GMT -5
Tammy, do a google search to see lots of types. It is manmade slab of translucent material with a growth/dendrites in the middle and elsewhere. Somewhere on this forum there is a thread on the subject and lots of photos.
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Post by Tonyterner on Jun 13, 2012 19:02:37 GMT -5
The box arrived today. I probably won't get to it until Friday night. It'll certainly brighten up a tough week.
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