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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
Beachcombing Conference in Lewes, Delaware – Sand N Stones
Leading Experts to discuss Ocean Threats, Marine Conservation, beachcomber Techniques, Sea Glass, Shipwreck Treasure and more at 4th annual International Beachcombing Conference Nationally recognized authors, fossil, shell, and sea glass specialists, and Google Ocean, marine policy and ocean conservation experts will meet in Lewes, DE. from October 4-7, 2012 at the third annual International Beachcombing Conference. The conference involves … Continue reading
Delaware Bay – Cape May Diamonds – Sand N Stones
AKA Cape May Diamonds The Cape May Diamonds or what I like to call Delaware Bay Diamonds are quartz crystals, resembling translucent pebbles. They begin their lives truly “in-the-rough” in the upper reaches of the Delaware River, in the areas around the Delaware Water Gap. Pieces of quartz crystal are broken off from veins and … Continue reading
Photographing on Delmarva – Sand N Stones
I have been interested in photography since I was in grade school. My both my Mother and Father are shutter bugs. My mother gave up photography several years ago due to some heath issues, but my father is still out there photographing, underwater as well as on land, and teaching Photoshop. There are people who come into Sand N … Continue reading