Tourmaline cabochons 5mm

Joopy Gems tourmaline 5mm cabochon composite

…..AAAAnnnd finally the last of the tourmaline! 5mm  round cabochons now up for sale, and I’m very excited to announce a price drop from $12.50 USD per cabochon to $10! As I’ve said before, the price of tourmaline finally seems to be stabilising and this is the same or even slightly nicer quality tourmaline as I’ve had before. All colours are back in stock, with as always, more of the pinks and fewer of the greeny-blues. Also, I’ve reduced further the price of less popular colours across all sizes – which are the yellowy-greens and browns. For 5mm, that means that these colours are $8.50 per stone, and you can’t say fairer than that! To browse 5mm tourmaline cabochons, click here

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Blue Velvet

Just listed are a selection of beautiful sapphire oval cabochons. These are all a good size, and some of them are really large, offering the potential to create a really fantastic and show-stopping piece of jewellery. The stones are semi-transparent to translucent and have fantastic depth of colour and saturation, as well as a very attractive chatoyancy created by silk in the stones. I have singles, a pair and a quad, so why not pop have a browse and pick up something really special for the new year. Click here to have a look.

Joopy Gems Sapphire Cabochons

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Tourmaline 4mm cabochons

Joopy Gems tourmaline cabochons 4mm round

Finally back in stock, I have 4mm tourmaline cabochons – as I’ve mentioned, the price of tourmaline seems to be finally stabilising and so I can with great excitement announce a price-drop on these! Now only $4.75 USD per cabochon. As usual I have plenty in pink and fewer in the blue-green shades. This is nice quality material, with just a few inclusions here and there, and great saturation and lustre. To shop all 4mm tourmaline, click here.

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More fossilized wood!

You’ve loved the fossilized wood beads that I recently introduced; so fascinating, they appear exactly like wood with all the markings and cellulose type patterns, but feel like stone. That’s because they are stone; ancient wood that has been infiltrated with silicon heavy deposits over thousands of years, leading to petrification. And they have the same fantastic matt finish, that makes them feel smooth as silk. So I’ve got some more in different sizes. First up is a cube bead, smaller than the original ones, in a 11-12mm, at $42 per strand. Same fantastic and fascinating colours and finish, just smaller and lighter. I also have the same shape but slightly bigger, at 17-18mm; very impactful. These are $50 per strand. Finally I have an 11-12mm square rondelle, and these are priced at $42 per strand. You can shop the collection here.

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Tourmaline is back!

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Finally I am re-stocking tourmaline! I’ve been low on all sizes for a really long time, and that has reflected the way in which tourmaline has skyrocketed in price over the past few years. It went from affordable to eye-watering in what felt like the twinkle of an eye as the markets went crazy for its astonishing colour range and vibrant tones. In particular the Chinese market went mad for the deep pinks and reds and this drove prices up sharply and fast. Now it finally seems to be slowing and my long hunt for nice, reasonably priced material is temporarily over! I have just restocked 6mm in all colours, and will be following up with 3mm and 4mm over the next few weeks. This is nice quality material, with a few inclusions, but full of lustre and shine. As always, I have relatively few of the blues, blue-greens and chrome greens, so if you are after these, you might want to get in early! Plenty of pinks and grass greens. Price per cabochon has held at $18 per stone, and you can browse the selection here.

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All things greeny-blue

What’s the collective noun for beads? A bundle? A clutch? Or…maybe something a little more esoteric? A sweetshop? Well, whatever it is, I am listing it. So many different ones to choose from, many of Chrysoprase rough rondelle, matt finishthem in that fantastic and unusual silky matt finish. First up is all things greeny-blue. My personal favourites are these fantastic rough chrysoprase rondelles (right). And I mean rough; with bits of matrix, crevasses and druzy-filled gaps. They really are fantastic. With a matt finish that accentuates the patterning on the stone, I can see these looking great with some hammered silver spacers, so unusual and distincJoopy Gems Chrysoprase rondelle 7-8mm matt finishtive. These are quite large, around 12-17mm and the strings are vaguely graduated so that they are smaller at the ends and larger in the middle. Also in chrysoprase I have some smaller, slightly more regular rondelles, 7-8mm in both matt and gloss finish. These are $45 for the matt option and $30 for the gloss.

Moving into a slJoopy Gems Amazonite beads 13-14mm roundightly more aqua colour scheme I have amazonite round beads, again with a lovely silky matt finish. I can’t resist the sea-green shade of this stone, similar to turquoise, but with distinctive white markings. These are the most beautiful soft colour, highlighted by the matt finish, and I have them in a 7-8mm and a 13-14mm (pictured right), the smaller ones $25 per strand and the larger ones $45.

Turquoise Joopy gems Turquoise beads 9-10mm matt finishis always very popular and this is African material, speckled with dark matrix, again in the matt finish that highlights the patterns on the stone and gives a fantastic organic look and feel. I have these in a 7-8mm at $25 and a 9-10mm round at $30.

Finally I have some chrysocolla rondelles. Chrysocolla-in-chalcedony, to give it its full name takes its name from the mineral chrysocolla, and it is that that gives it its blue colour. The Joopy Gems Chrysocolla rondelle 7-8mm beads AB grade matt finishmaterial I have is opaque and looks as though it is mixed with other minerals. I have an AB grade at $37 per strand, which is broadly bluish-green and a B grade (pictured right) at $20 per strand, which, in my opinion is more beautiful still, with an array of different colours mottling the beads. I have both of these in a matt 7-8mm rondelle.

Look out for more beads over the next few days!

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Tourmaline, Blue Zircon, Andalusite and Rainbow Moonstone

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My November newsletter is out with all of my latest gemstone additions, including some fantastic new tourmaline cabochons and mixed cuts, some really unusual andalusite and some fiery blue zircon. Plus the offer of the month is a free ship for the whole of November, to be used as many times as you wish. Why not check it out, to see what I have on offer, and to pick up the coupon code!

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October 2015 newsletter

I am so late with my newsletter this month, but to compensate, I am running an extra-special 15% discount from now until the end of the month. Click here to read the newsletter and grab the code, or why not sign up at my website to make sure you never miss out?!  I run most offers exclusively through my newsletter so it’s definitely worth while!

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First of an enormous re-stock…

Joopy Gems 10mm green amethyst rose cut roundJoopy Gems 4mm green amethyst rose cut round8mm green amethyst rose cut round

Here we have the first of a literally huge re-stock – lots of new lines, as well as old favourites back in stock. This is ever-popular green amethyst, finally back up to numbers, in 4mm, 6mm, 8mm and 10mm rose cuts, with the new addition of 5mm. This is lovely material, eye clean and with good saturation for green amethyst, which is a pale stone.  You can shop green amethyst here, prices start from $1.35 for a 4mm rose cut round. Keep your eyes out for a cascade of new additions over the next few days!

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