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Tumbled Dalmatian Jasper

For some reason, I’ve been a collector of stones since I was a little girl. I remember playing in my front yard and finding a glittery piece of what I now know was just quartz, but it seemed to me to be a huge treasure. I took it to show my dad and he said something like wow, what a treasure, and we made a secret treasure box out of a shoe box for me to keep my stones in. I probably had fifty stones in that thing before the end of the week, all of them not very remarkable. So I don’t know what it was that attracted me to rocks and stones from a very young age.

Anyway then I grew up and the fascination stayed. I learned about rocks in school and they just seemed so interesting to me. A boy in my class was a rock collector and he brought in his collection, I remember touching the tumbled stones from all over the world the way other people touch diamonds and gold, I guess.

Then a couple of years ago when I learned about meta physics and the theories that everything vibrates, I sort of understood more about why I have been so attracted to stones. They must resonate to my frequency! By stones I am referring to non-precious and even semi precious stones like peridot and amethyst, and even that quartz and granite. I love them all. You should see my house it looks like a rock garden but the stones are all so beautiful. Anyway in the last few years it has gotten harder and harder to find the nicer specimens that I most want to add to my collection at a decent price. People seem to be wanting to charge an arm and a leg for tiny chips which is not what I am looking for. If someone knows of a good place, even mine-direct where I can find some more unusual stones that are of a good size, not chips, I would like to hear about it. This is an interesting website. Thanks, Neena