Alternate Beads & Aquamarine - March's Stone
 

This month is alternative beading materials, plus March's gemstone aquamarine.  Scroll down, or click a link on the html version.

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Alternate Beads
Amazing New Calsilica Beads
Aquamarine - March's Stone 
Whopping 20% Off Offer

Alternate Beads

Don’t overlook some of the new beading materials - not just semi-precious gemstones make great jewelry.  They can produce striking designs.  Like rainbow calsilica which is great for brightening-up winter jewelry or showing spring and summer colors off to the full.

Some of our new categories as well as Calsilica are Fossil, Frame, Troll, and Shamballa – click the link to see.

These resources are great for large ethnic designs with matching earrings to necklaces, as their light weight doesn’t overpower the design.  Try combining them with bright colors for a striking eye-catching effect.

These resources are great for large ethnic designs with matching earrings to necklaces, as their light weight doesn’t overpower the design.  Try combining them with bright colors for a striking eye-catching effect.These resources are great for large ethnic designs with matching earrings to necklaces, as their light weight doesn’t overpower the design.  Try combining them with bright colors for a striking eye-catching effect.

Glass, plastic, or wooden beads can be quite effective too, and in these hard times, much more affordable.  You can see a lot of budget jewelry designs in the high street using these materials – so the big stores are thinking alike.

For our glass beads click MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk
Plastic beads: MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk
Wooden Beads: MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk

Amazing New Rainbow Calsilica Beads - Sex Up Your Jewelry!

Extraordinary new gemstone
Rainbow alsilica is a new material that makes amazingly striking, eye-catching colorful gemstone beads. The stone's dramatic variation in vivid colored bands and its short history attract attention everywhere.

Makes powerful jewelry
LLots of bright colors are great in summer jewelry, bringing bundles of energy to the wearer. If you make jewelry as a hobby or a living, you should defiantly use rainbow calsilica in some of your spring and summer designs. It's mysterious change of dramatic color and shape allows your imagination to run wild.

What is rainbow calsilica?
No two of these dramatic stones are alike - each has its own configuration of color and striping. Because of this, many people speculate whether calsilica occurs naturally or is manmade. Some say it's imported from Mexico in slabs. The truth is that this plastic-like gemstone is pulverized carbonate rock, artificially colored with pigments and then stabilized with a polymer.

Color Sells - sex-up your designs!
However, this beautiful material deserves at least the same respect as much-more expensive totally natural gemstones. After all, most semi-precious beads are enhanced or altered in some way. It's well known the eye is attracted to bright colors and individual design - so any jewelry make from these amazing new gemstone is sure to be popular.  Cash in on summer styles early making bright bold designs now.

Versatility
Calsilica beads come in all shapes and sizes, as well as every color imaginable. The striking summer rainbow variety usually mixes bright red with yellow or blue for dramatic effect. Some have striped bands similar to agate - others have their color in blotches like a Van Gough painting. And zebra calsilica resembles the animal with characteristic black and white stripes. Try mixing the same style beads for a matching necklace, bracelet and earrings.

For our many different calsilica beads click MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk

Aquamarine - March's Gemstone

Aquamarine is March’s stone – a blue-green gemstone from South America, meaning Water of the Sea. The stone of sailors, believing it protects them. Folklore also says that aquamarine protects against gossip, but will pick up spirits. It is an excellent stone for meditation, bringing great peace and serenity.  Use it for your spring jewelry designs.

Aquamarine is the treasure of mermaids, and those legends have it that for aquamarine to be truly powerful, it must be immersed in sea water and bathed in sunlight. The gemstone is also supposed to have powers that reach to land too, helping married couples solve their problems and drive off evil.  Aquamarine is associated with the thymus gland and is very soothing worn as a necklace. It will also help coughs, reduce fluid retention and calm the nerves. The Romans used aquamarine for stomach troubles and believed it could cure liver and throat problems. Aquamarine brings courage, aids quick intellectual response, and gives peace while protecting the aura.

Color ranges from a very light turquoise blue to a bluish green. Darker blue colors are the best with greener being less valuable. Check the clarity of the stone. Because aquamarine has a light pastel color, it is important that it be free of flaws or inclusions. Examine the cut and check light reflects evenly off the surface of the gem and that there are no scratches. Look at the stone from several different angles to be sure.  Aquamarine is usually heat treated and sometimes irradiated. However, it will become paler if left out in the sun. Clean aquamarine in with warm soapy water and a soft bristle brush. As with all gemstones, protect from scratches and sharp blows.

To see all aquamarine in our US bead store click MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk                to top 

Special 20% Offer !
Sample our beads with a whopping 20% off any order from our MrBead bead store, just key in "calsilica" at the checkout (without the commas) and click "Redeem Coupon".

No minimum order, but offer only valid until Friday 2nd March 2012 only - so act now!
Only for use in our stores at MrBead.com & MrBead.co.uk and not valid with any other offers or eBay.

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