Bead Boutique

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Look what we found!! Stainless steel chain and charms for MU, KU, KSU and NWMS! Add a few beads in your school colors and you've got the perfecteasy-to- make bracelet for yourselfand for gifts.

Also just arrived forour metal workers...newmetal stampsand a wood holder with space for 40 of 'em... sterling stamp...center punch...and more on the way!

And speaking of metal, look what you can do withmetal clay! The buttons are made from copper and bronze clay. The charms are made from silver clay that was then patina-ed. It's amazing stuff and the bronze clayis especially beautiful.

Thetraditional birthstone forOctoberis opal. From theSanskrit word for "stone",opal species are divided into three subgroups: precious opals, yellow-red fire opals, and common opals. Precious opals display thefamiliar rainbow colors caused by teeny tiny spheres of the mineral cristobalite layered in siliceous jelly. Yeah, really. Fire opal is usually milky and often does not display the "play-of-color" found in the precious opal. Common opal is opaque and shows no play-of-color.Much of the best precious opal comes from the Australian deposits discovered at the end of the 19th century. Other deposits are found in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Nevada, and Idaho.
For more information about the metaphysicalproperties ofgemstones, go to http://www.gemstonegifts.com/

For scientific and historicalinformation, go towww.minerals.net

For an excellent reference on gemstones, consider Gemstones of the World by Walter Schumann.