Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Large Pink Diamond Found
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/slideshow/rare-pink-diamond-worth-12-million-2165601
Won't this make a pretty stone! Not sure where you could ever actually wear it... Inaugural ball? Oscars?
Won't this make a pretty stone! Not sure where you could ever actually wear it... Inaugural ball? Oscars?
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A follow up on that big emerald!
Looks like the owner was up to no good!
Don't forget to mail your entries for the faceting contest. They are due March 1st. It has been exciting seeing all the beautiful entries this year! Details for the contest here:
http://www.prettyrock.com/2012facetingcompetition.htm
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
January 2012 - Free Shipping and a Give Away!
Click here to check out our recently added rough!
To celebrate the New Year we are offering free shipping! Just plug FreeShipJanUSA into the coupon box at check out to receive free shipping any where in the USA. (Sorry, offer not available for international customers.)
Also, we will be giving away a copy of Modern Jeweler's Gem Profile/2 The Second 60 by David Federman and Tino Hammid. For a chance to win, just leave a comment with anote about why you love rocks! One comment per person please.
We will draw randomly from all the entries at the end of the month. (I even marked it on my calendar so I wouldn't forget!)
Time to get started on your entry for the PrettyRock Rock Beauty Contest! Rocks are due March 1st 2012 See this page for details:
http://www.prettyrock.com/2012facetingcompetition.htm
Happy New Year everyone!
Beth and Dev
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Scenes from Grassy Creek Gem Show
We got to go up to the Grassy Creek gem show last weekend. The weather smiled on us and it was actually under 100 degrees that day. I didn't make it to the Franklin show this year, we had a Breast Cancer Walk Fundraiser. Dev went, and said it was a great show. Looked like it was a bit slow in the sales department for the vendors though. I didn't get many shots before my camera battery died, but here they are:
We got some fantastic Mexican, Australian, and Ethiopian opal that will be up on the site over the coming weeks. For my personal collection, I bagged a couple of gorgeous square cut Columbian emeralds. Now I just have to wait for the price of gold to come down so I can afford to have them set in earrings :)
We got some fantastic Mexican, Australian, and Ethiopian opal that will be up on the site over the coming weeks. For my personal collection, I bagged a couple of gorgeous square cut Columbian emeralds. Now I just have to wait for the price of gold to come down so I can afford to have them set in earrings :)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
5% of Summer Sales to Avon Breast Cancer Walk!
Best Pink Rock I have!
Beth has committed to participating in the Charlotte Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The walk is 26 miles the first day and 12 miles the second day. (That's a lot of walking!) The money I raise will be managed and disbursed by the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade to help provide access to care for those that most need it, fund educational programs, and accelerate research into new treatments and potential cures.
I will be walking and fund raisingwith an amazing group called Team Tuff Girl!
PrettyRock.com is donating 5% of all orders this summer to Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
To donate directly: http://info.avonfoundation.org/goto/Beth
Learn more about the walk click here! http://www.avonwalk.org/
Proceeds from the items in my etsy shop will also go the Walk!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ejmstudios
(oh yea, and there's some new rough up!)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
New Rough! Gorgeous Citrine
http://www.prettyrock.com/php/facet-rough-all-recent.php
or you can always use the search function at the top of each prettyrock.com page.
Fight Breast Cancer!
Sponsor Beth in the 2011 Avon Breast Cancer Walk (click here)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Emeralds! and Spring Fever Free Shipping
These are some of the emeralds we got in Brazil. If you haven't read about our trip, check it out here.
Dev is already talking about going to Tucson in 2012...which means we need to sell rocks, so we can go buy more rocks! So here's a free shipping coupon for you! Just put springfever in the voucher box at check out to get your free shipping! I think the coupon code is case sensitive, type it in just like you see it...doesn't have to be green :) Exp May 31 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
And the winners are...
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2011 PrettyRock.com Faceting Competition!
Thank you to everyone involved. As always we had a wonderful time seeing all the "pretty rocks" that were entered! Judging came down to the wire on this one!
Winners will receive a gift certificate for facet rough in the amount shown by their name.
Best in Overall:
Michiko Huynh - $500 facet rough
Traditional Cut Category -
1 st Michiko Huynh - $150
2 nd Ivan D. Smith - $100
3 rd Charles McCoy (1.31 ct) - $50
Creative Cut Category - Charles McCoy $150
Thank you to everyone involved. As always we had a wonderful time seeing all the "pretty rocks" that were entered! Judging came down to the wire on this one!
Winners will receive a gift certificate for facet rough in the amount shown by their name.
Best in Overall:
Michiko Huynh - $500 facet rough
Traditional Cut Category -
1 st Michiko Huynh - $150
2 nd Ivan D. Smith - $100
3 rd Charles McCoy (1.31 ct) - $50
Creative Cut Category - Charles McCoy $150
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Pretty Rock News - March 21 2011
Happy Spring!
Faceting Competition! All the stones are in and we are busy meeting with the judges. We couldn't get them all together at once this time. I guess we will just have to suffer though more beer and pizza dinners this time! The winners will be announced before the end of the month. (Someone remind me not to have a competition end during tax season...)
We recently closed the Pretty Rock forum. Forums take a tremendous amount of time to do well. With all the balls Dev and I have floating, one of them had to go, and we chose the forum. It was fun chatting with folks, but we just didn’t have the time on a daily basis to maintain the forum. There is a lot of behind the scenes work that goes into a forum! If you have a favorite forum, don’t forget to send the leaders a thank you note for all the effort the put in to give you a nice place to chat!
On a happier note, I am going to try and be more consistent in my rock blogging to bring you news about Pretty Rock and rocks in general. We welcome comments on our posts, so we can always chat that way. We do moderate comments to keep out the spammers, so it might be a day or two before your comment shows up. Sorry, but that is the only way to keep those folks from spouting their nastiness.
Mexican Fire Opal Dev picked up some gorgeous Mexican Fire Opal last weekend. We will be getting some up on the site this week...stay tuned!
Faceting Competition! All the stones are in and we are busy meeting with the judges. We couldn't get them all together at once this time. I guess we will just have to suffer though more beer and pizza dinners this time! The winners will be announced before the end of the month. (Someone remind me not to have a competition end during tax season...)
We recently closed the Pretty Rock forum. Forums take a tremendous amount of time to do well. With all the balls Dev and I have floating, one of them had to go, and we chose the forum. It was fun chatting with folks, but we just didn’t have the time on a daily basis to maintain the forum. There is a lot of behind the scenes work that goes into a forum! If you have a favorite forum, don’t forget to send the leaders a thank you note for all the effort the put in to give you a nice place to chat!
On a happier note, I am going to try and be more consistent in my rock blogging to bring you news about Pretty Rock and rocks in general. We welcome comments on our posts, so we can always chat that way. We do moderate comments to keep out the spammers, so it might be a day or two before your comment shows up. Sorry, but that is the only way to keep those folks from spouting their nastiness.
Mexican Fire Opal Dev picked up some gorgeous Mexican Fire Opal last weekend. We will be getting some up on the site this week...stay tuned!
Monday, December 06, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
NY Diamond District
Dev and I got a chance to spend a few days in New York City this fall. It is an amazing city and more then lives up to it's reputation for hustle and bustle! The people, however, did not deserve the reputation they have for being rude. Everyone was very helpful and friendly...all 4 times we got lost on the subway :) We were there over Labor Day weekend, so the diamond district wasn't very busy and most of it was closed. Maybe someday we will get to return and see what is inside all those buildings. Here are a few photos from our trip:
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
NEW Rough up!
Devin added over 100 rocks over the weekend!
http://www.prettyrock.com/php/facet-rough-all-recent.php
Friday, August 13, 2010
Beautiful Opals!
With good reason, most people think of Australia when they think of opal, but it is also found in Slovakia, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil. According to Opalglobe.com, most largest Brazilian mines are in Pedro Secundo in the Piaui State. The largest mine is the Boi Morto mine. One unique feature of Brazilian opal is its lower water content. Brazilian opal have 5 to 6% water compared to 10to 12% in Australian opal. This makes Brazilian opal far more stable, and less likely to be damaged by exposure to sunlight or temperature changes.
We recently had a chance to see some Brazilian opal close up when we had a visit from our favorite Brazilian rough dealer. In his bag of goodies were these gorgeous opals. He was kind enough to let me to photos of them to share with you. The photos do not do them justice!
We recently had a chance to see some Brazilian opal close up when we had a visit from our favorite Brazilian rough dealer. In his bag of goodies were these gorgeous opals. He was kind enough to let me to photos of them to share with you. The photos do not do them justice!
87.60 cts - is very fine one with broad flash colors and red
38 mm x 29 mm x 11.5 mm deep
from the Pedro II area of the state of Piaui in the North of Brasil.
$7000
38 mm x 29 mm x 11.5 mm deep
from the Pedro II area of the state of Piaui in the North of Brasil.
$7000
88.18 carats smaller flashes, more green and yellows etc.
46 mm x 28 mm x 10 mm deep
from the Pedro II area of the state of Piaui in the North of Brasil.
$7000
46 mm x 28 mm x 10 mm deep
from the Pedro II area of the state of Piaui in the North of Brasil.
$7000
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