Beginner Instructions, Professional Results! Gemstones are naturally beautiful, but you can make them glisten and shine. This beginner’s guide covers all the techniques you need to know: tumbling, cutting, face polishing and more. By following the authors’ simple approach, you’ll create finished stones worthy of displaying, selling or making into jewelry. Book Features: pertains to a wide range of popular gemstones, from agates to turquoise prevents frustration, with detailed photos and easy-to-follow instructions offers helpful tips from the authors’ years of experience provides information about recommended equipment and supplies briefly introduces jewelry making, with seven simple jewelry projects

Since tumbling stones are comprised of beautiful natural materials that have been molded into attractive forms and polished to a high sheen, many people like collecting them. In addition to the New Age sector, they are commonly utilized in the markets for jewelry, crafts, mementos, awards, and other collectibles. Rocks and minerals are polished and smoothed using the technique of tumbling in order to be shaped into spherical, sparkling diamonds. In order to get the desired smooth polish, it is essential to tumble stones in a device called as a rock tumbler. The result is a delicate, polished gemstone with beautiful organic lines and peculiarities that are specific to the specimen. Many gem species are available as tumbled jewels. The most popular gems to be tumbled include agate, jasper, quartz, eye agate, obsidian glass, organic granite rocks, and wood. Although though gemstone tumbling is one of the simplest and most accessible processes for shaping gems, there are important considerations to make in order to get the finest results. I hope you are ready to begin tumbling?

Food is Good. Sleep is Good. Ever wonder what happens when you combine the two? Why, it can only be Good! Dashel Gabelli spent nearly twenty years of unorthodox, highly questionable, pseudo-research compiling information on just what happens when you eat different combinations of food before going to sleep! Dashel takes you from the spark of the idea through to trying to get published - with a whole bunch of the weirdest, most detailed dreams heard of anywhere spread out somewhere in the middle. A highly humorous collection of detailed dream sequences guaranteed to make you laugh, smile, or make you think twice about eating that pot roast, chili and coleslaw concoction that you have sitting in the fridge - in the moldy plastic container -before going to sleep again!

A textbook providing a quantitative approach to the petrologic principles of igneous and metamorphic rocks in a new edition.