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Rockhounding Resources – Sand N Stones
Some 2012 Rock and Mineral Shows Mineralfest the Mid-Atlantic Show Calendar February 18: 22nd Annual Mineral, Jewelry, & Fossil Show Southern Maryland Rock and Mineral Club Sat 10am-5pm Admission: $3 (free for children 6 and under) Demonstrations, exhibits, door prizes, kids crafts, and over 80 tables of minerals, jewelry, fossils, equipment and more. … Continue reading
Delmarva Antique Bottle & Sea Glass Club – Sand N Stones
The Delmarva Antique Bottle Club was founded in 1992 and is a nonprofit organization which promotes, fosters and encourages all activity involving the hobby of antique bottle collecting. You may be wondering how does sea glass fit with an old bottles? Sea Glass is any bottle or glass that has found its way into a … Continue reading
Mid-Atlantic Seaglass & Arts Festival – Sand N Stones
Presented by the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware Like collecting shells, fossils, or stones, ‘combing shorelines for sea glass is a hobby many beach-goers and beachcombers enjoy. Hobbyists often fill decorative jars with their collections and take great pleasure in sourcing out a shard’s original origin. Artisans craft beautiful, much sought after pieces of … Continue reading
Healing Properties of Gemstones -Sand N Stones
Michele’s Healing Properties Beliefs’ Most of my life I usually had some kind of stone or mineral in my pocket. One day my father, who has a very concreate scientific mind, asked me why I always had a stone in my pocket. I always replied “that it makes me feel better.” He asked me how … Continue reading
Scanography- Sand N Stones
Many people know that I truly enjoy photography, recently I attended one of my favorite authors and Scanography artisan Josie Iselin from Loving Blind Productions, lecture at the 2011 North American Sea Glass Festival. I sell her books at Sand N Stones and personal own several of her books. I love the grouping and the detail of the items that … Continue reading
Delaware Butterfly House & Covered Bridges – Sand N Stones
August 23rd, 2011, was a beautiful day to go photographing, several people have come into Sand N Stones and told me about the Brookside Gardens Butterfly House, in Wheaton Maryland, and what wonderful butterfly shot they got there. I looked it up on the internet, and decided that I did not want to go that far, so instead I … Continue reading
Herloom Bone Fine China Jewelry – Sand N Stones
Fine Bone China Jewelry Fine Bone China has been cherished and passed down for generations. Unfortunately, sometimes these treasured pieces become chipped or broken. Michele can give new life to these inherited treasures, by making them into jewelry to be passed on for generations to come. You can choose a piece of china out of … Continue reading
Saving Sea Pottery Shards – Sand N Stones
I asked an Archeologist one day if there was a way to save the shards that I find on the beach from crumbling over time. She told me… Pottery Shards are very pores, and when they have been in salt water for many years, the salt gets inside of the pottery, and since salt is a drying … Continue reading
Fulgurites- When Lightning Hits Sand – Sand N Stones
Several people who have come into Sand N Stones thought that when Lightning hits the sand that is what makes sea glass. That is not true. The clear glass objects shown in this film, Sweet Home Alabama, are not likely to have been created by lightning. When lightning strikes sand, sandy soil, or other silica … Continue reading
Bonfire Glass – Sand N Stones
Bonfire Glass: is glass that has been in a fire, such as beach bonfires, building fires, and landfill burns. These pieces of glass pictured were formed when glass was thrown into a bonfire and melted (glass melts at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit) and when high tide comes in cools the glass very quickly. Sometimes you get neat things trapped inside of the glass … Continue reading
