My Semiprecioussssss - Now With Links!

I have been stocktaking my beads (among other things). This has meant counting them, photographing them, and finding replacement sources/costs for them, since most of them were bought years ago and I made no note of that information at the time, not to mention that a huge number of them were bought from retailers that no longer exist. The most interesting beads are the semiprecious ones. So I'm going to give you some random but interesting facts about semiprecious stones/beads that I've been noticing.

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Edited to Add: links to examples of the stones.