Refer a friend and claim 15% off at Joopy Gems!

Rhodolite garnet cabochon 6mm roundIolite cabochon 4mm round

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and have only just worked out how! The idea is that every time you successfully refer a friend to my shop, Joopy Gems, you both get a 15% discount. Your friend will be sent a 15% coupon valid on their first order once you refer them. You will receive your coupon once they have actually placed an order. You can refer as many friends as you like, share the coupon on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and you will get a discount for each successful referral. I’ve sent out some emails to invite existing customers who I think will be interested, so if you haven’t got one, or if you are not an existing customer but still want to join the scheme, here’s how you do it:

1. Click this link to access the referral sign-up page: http://joopygems.referralcorner.com

2. Enter your email address to set up your personal referral corner

That’s it! You will have options to share via email, Facebook and Twitter and the system will automatically work out if and when your friends shop and send you a coupon each time someone places their first order!

Labradorite and the pot of gold

4mm LAB blue cab round16mm LAB green cab round512mm LAB green cab round112mm LAB blue cab round6

I’ve had such a headache with labradorite over the past year or so. Trying to find nice quality material, with good labradorescence, I’ve seen an awful lot of murky coloured material with little or no colour play, and I’ve sent back lots of the stuff as being no good. After all, labradorite without its famed stunning optical effects is just a dull grey stone. Now, it’s not that difficult to find beautiful individual examples of it, but sourcing a reliable supply that can produce calibrated cabochons in quantity is a different matter. Now I can say, I think I’ve found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; beautiful translucent material with superb flash. This really is stunning material, with minimal cracks.

I always get the same message from customers when they buy labradorite; good flash and no cracks, please. This is quite hard, because it is the layered nature of labradorite, leading to the interference of light at its internal structures, that produces its famous schiller, and quite often these cracks and fractures break through to the polished surface of the stone. So, whilst I will say that this is amongst the cleanest material I have seen, it is not completely free from cracks. But you can see for yourself; it is very beautiful, and when I opened my first packet of samples, I breathed a sigh of pure bliss!!

Currently I have 4mm, 6mm and 12mm cabochons priced at $0.95, $2.25 and $18 per stone, and you can find them here. There is a choice of colours; you can opt for blue/aqua flash or green/gold flash. In time I will be replacing all of my labradorite stock with this wonderful material; look out in the next few weeks for 4mm and 6mm rose cuts.