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Hi, welcome to jewelry as your side hustle. And this is gay

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is worth. And I'm so happy to be here. She goes in the house.

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And today we're going to be talking to Kelly Park. And

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Kelly has a really unique product and idea. And I just can't

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wait to hear all of her thoughts about how she got to where

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she is because this is unique people. This is not like what

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you've seen before. So hold on. Here we go. Let's get started.

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And welcome to my podcast. Kelly, take it away. Tell us who

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you are and give us the kind of the basic one little paragraph

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about you. And then we'll want to hear what you have to say.

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Well, thank you for inviting me. My name is Kelly Park. I am a

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creative. I've been a creative since I was four, a little bit

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of a prodigy with illustration since then. And I eventually

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became an accidental author and author of the ochre mountain

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fairies, coloring and story books. But from that, I started

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to make pendants and necklaces. I just sent a link. And hopefully

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I can bring that up on the screen. Are you able to see that?

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Yeah, we know what you know what I did do is I did go on your

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website and I think it was so now you just answered my first

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question. Do you do all that art?

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I do everything. Yes, I'm the illustrator. And in fact, I

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published it myself. I was flat on my back for two months from

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my copyright came in, because I was mangled in a car accident.

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I just sat there like, Okay, I have this copyright. What am I

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gonna do with it? And but yeah, I got my first copyright in

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2019. And I spent five years drawing over 200 illustrations.

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But I had this idea. And I used to be a steam teacher. So

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science, technology, engineering, art, and math. And so, and you

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know, I even though I had 500 students a week, I still wanted

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to not only inspire the kids, but I also wanted to help the

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teachers, because it's hard to come up with curriculum hard

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hitting curriculum, very difficult when you're put in

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charge of your own curriculum. And I know a lot of them turn to

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different sources. So I gave I created a from from the books I

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created a teacher pack a steam infused teacher pack, which is

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great fun. I saw the whole tab for for teachers and I thought

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brilliant, like I get where she's going with this. Yes. And so

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because I'm a rockhound. So not only do I create the artwork and

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the design and all that. For the necklaces, I go out and hack

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the minerals out of the earth myself. And are they readily

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available? Because they are you have to know where to go.

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Okay, let's talk about first of all, where are you? Because I'm

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coming your way. I'm in Utah. Oh, of course. Lots of geological

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fun. easily available because you don't have all the grass

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covering everything. It's wonderful place. It's it's

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really they've got some very unique minerals here and I've

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hacked out. I've hacked out some beautiful gems. Tell me tell

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me your favorites because you know, I'm I've been working all

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week with my head in a Selenite collection, which is really

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have been a fun collection. I saw that. Yeah. And I just got

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some Selenite. Have you ever found it in the wrong because

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it's there. It's available in the rough. I have now I went to

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what we call an urban rockhounding where there are

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some folks who mine and they bring it all back and I sell it

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raw. So I found some Selenite there but I I just wrote about

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Selenite and book number three. It's very fun. Um but um I

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think one of my favorites um lately has been the piratized

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type of um no no almost anything piratized. It looks

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almost. Yeah. It's so beautiful. It's um you know,

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Amethyst is always a favorite because of the purple

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sparkles. Um but it's so funny because I can't think of

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what what did your Selenite look like? Was it a log? Was it

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or is that like a actually I use it. Um I get it in hex

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hexagonal cutouts so I can place other minerals on it but

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you know, you have to be careful with handling Selenite.

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That's when I saw it. I thought, oh, I hope she's wearing

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gloves. Why? Because tell me, I know that it's not very good

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with water. Yes. Yeah, there's a couple things that aren't

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very good with water but um it's considered um it's

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considered um part of your like CMag it and let's see. I'm

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looking at I'm looking at all my stuff. No, it's not one of

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the I was thinking of Soda Light. Sorry about that. Yeah.

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Soda Light. I know the the white and blue. I know Soda

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Light. Yeah, I was thinking of Soda Light because that's one

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of the um silicates that I and you can find a lot of

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silicates here in Utah like um there's quartz of course. Of

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course. Um Turmaline, Topaz, Soda Light, Opal, Garnet,

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Jasper and Chalcedy. Um and what and what have you found

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out of all that? Because of course, it's like Utah, Arizona,

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like those are like the two prime. Well, one of my favorites

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in Milford, Utah, I found Fluorite. I love you. You did

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like tell me was it like a chunk? It was like crystal

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white. Yeah. And you can see them on my website on my

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blog. I show pictures of my mineral hunting and um there's

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uh so Fluorite's probably one of my favorite. Was it green?

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found greens but purple is also very yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Very beautiful but something very interesting

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about a place um in Wendover. So, right before you get to

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all the casinos, there's a whole bunch of hills and up in

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there's some formations up that that you climb up and

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there's what you call seam agate. Okay. Seam agate is

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beautifully transparent and you can almost it's like a

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clear rock and it has at the bottom what we call plumes.

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They look like flowers at the bottom. In in book two, I

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talk about this quite a bit. I got a chunk this big like and

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so materials from that one chunk are gonna last me another

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couple years. I already sold all the necklaces. Most of the

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necklaces. Those are on your website too. Yes. While some

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necklaces. Yes. And you can you can kind of see in book

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number two, I actually do it. Yeah, I drew it. You're so

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talented. Like that's a skill I did. I did not master and you

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know why? Because when I was in sixth grade, my art teacher, I

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did a sunset out of tissue paper. It was beautiful. It matched

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the sunset really like how it goes into like the you know,

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darker colors to the sky. Yeah, she said, no, that's the

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worst sunset she's ever seen. So, I never picked up art again

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until I got to college and that is a true story. I was like,

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all my sisters all did it. My mother was an artist. Everybody

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was like, no, not going there. Not interested. You know that

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happened to a friend of mine. She was told by an art teacher

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she should never go into design. That's really all teachers

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out there. Never, never, never, never, never tell somebody

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that they should never do anything because I just said

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something.

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It's like the reverse but to cripple a teacher, a student

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can cripple somebody like I don't think she had any idea but

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my sisters were really good artists. So, she expected a

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little bit more out of me, I thought but you know, right?

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The only one that kept up with the art after I found myself.

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So, that's okay. I'm glad. But let me tell you about your

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drawings because when I was looking at them and I thought

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of all and and that you're combining rocks and minerals

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with the stories. Now, have you had any feedback from

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teachers that are saying, ah, we got some new rock counts

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because of you because I I would want that. Well, the way

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it works because I mix science. Yes. Geological science.

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Art. Fantasy. And just magic. I think it's mad. I think you

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definitely show magic in your work. Like that's that's a

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theme, right? Yeah, the feedback I got, the the biggest

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feedback I got from teachers is they love the hands on

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because I have them make the molecules out of candy. Oh,

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they're actually even though I'm not trying to go real far

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with the molecules, it does introduce them to the concept

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of deep science. Um all the words in my books actually use

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real science words. One time I got some feedback that said,

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don't you think you should water down the words? I'm like,

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no, I want them to learn the real words in a fun way. And

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so, here's the biggest feedback of all which I captured on

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video when I was doing footage for my commercial and my ads.

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So, they learn about the properties and the characteristics

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of let's say calcite. Big, big mineral here in Utah,

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especially in the Great Salt Lake. Um so, they're learning it

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like you do and I make it interesting and steam like but

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here's what pulls it together. So, with calcite when it comes

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in contact with acid, it melts. So, when all the fairies are

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running from the bad guy, acid ion, calcite's especially

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afraid and that's when the kids are like, it's because it's

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acid. So, they automatically get it because of the fairy

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character because the characters themselves have taken on

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characteristics of the minerals. So, of course, you would be

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afraid. So, they all relate to her being afraid and they

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never forget that characteristic of calcite. That is a great

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story. That is a great story. You're so clever. And to the

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mineral, also talking about each of the molecules really

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kind of goes into the conversation of the hardness

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of that. Most hardness, yes. Yeah. Stale of hardness and when it

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comes to calcite, it's a pretty good level like fluoride.

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Fluoride's very soft and I learned that the hard way. So, I

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went out to Milford. Now, you said how hard you know, you

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asked how hard it is to get some of this. Well, some locations

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have claims on them where you have to pay. Yeah. Yeah. Others

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like Bieland land and and other areas. I just have a

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certificate that I'm an official rockhound with the club.

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I'm insured and I can go and rockhound to my heart's content.

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They might have limits to how much I can take off the land,

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but it's essentially free. But for fluoride, I had to pay a

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hundred bucks to get on there and that gives you all day. I

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found what's called bubble opal with the fluoride.

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Bubble opal is an amazing stone. Have you ever seen it? I'm

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not sure. Does it have a bubble in the opal that with walks?

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It's got so it's like a clear white but transparent too, but

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it has all these bubble facets in it. Almost like a bubbly

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diamond and it catches the light. I saw all but one of my

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bubble fluoride pendants that I made. They they're amazing.

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You get them and they look just like this horrible little

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poop rock. Right? Yeah. They throw it in a tumbler for a month and a half

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and it comes out like a gem. Okay now wait so you talked to me about

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tumbling because you're the only person I ever know that tumbles rocks besides me.

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You actually put them in there for up to a month and a half like to really get

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them shiny. In different stages. Yeah yeah of course.

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Oh yeah yeah. Um but yeah like. Final stage where it shines it up.

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Right the first one where it gets all the roughness off and I even have a

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vibrational tumbler as well. Um and two three regular

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tumblers because I I got all new material this year so so I can't wait

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but um what happened was when I got all that beautiful fluoride

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I didn't understand how how soft it was and I tumbled it so long. It disappeared.

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I almost didn't get anything. Problem. Like they tumbled the dust and I'm like yeah.

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He just washed it down the sink with the sand.

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Not down the sink. I don't best stuff outside. That's blurry. It's bad for your

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pipes. Yeah yeah of course of course but I I was like in in tears because I

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love fluoride. It's so beautiful. So so pretty and transparent and um I looked

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forward to making pendants and I ended up I think I might have one.

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Well you can always go back and go get more rock maybe. Oh yeah.

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In a box but you know I had a huge piece of fluoride while you're grabbing that.

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That was a brilliant blue. I mean brilliant turquoise. That's not even what I was saying.

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Brilliant purple. It was like the most beautiful amethyst you would think. Let me

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see your piece. Look how tiny that's. Yeah I know honey. It's so tiny.

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It's like this little baby butt. Here's the thing.

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The pendants that I make just these fun ones. Yes.

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Um all the pendants um. Oh you got it one caged in there. I see that. Oh that's

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all little baby fluorides. That's no that's so cute. I used to be like this big.

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I know I know I'm sorry. I gotta hook you up. I gotta hook you up with a poxy sculpt girl.

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A whole lot of the way of doing pendants. A poxy sculpt. Oh my god I make so many of them.

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Yeah. No no no no. It's a poxy clay and you can like turn those things like into little

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acorn bead caps and you know you can put powders on them or gold leaf or whatever and then it just

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becomes do I not have any in here. I don't think I have any pendants in here but I

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certainly use a poxy sculpt for everything so we'll we'll talk about that maybe offline and I'll

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you know I've written two books and they're pretty much on epoxy clay because it's such I

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used it today like it's kind of one of those things once you're you're grooving to it you're like oh

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no this is more fun. In fact those the solodon pieces that I was using I did a bead cap on a

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14 millimeter bead and then I put little moon stones in it and you know then you put the like the

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little circle at the top and you run the little wire down it to begin with because it's a bead so

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then you have a little dangle at the bottom and you have this bead cap and it's not going anywhere

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and uh it's really fun it's really it's like a game changer it opened up my jewelry because I

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was a wire I loved wire but after that I was like never going back. I thought about wire.

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I thought about this year I've been thinking of new ways to make it even drilling some holes because

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the necklaces I make aren't high end like yours. Right there's little there yes yes yes.

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For kids and teens it's like the teenagers love this little where I have the little gems. Yes

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that's what they want just something that's adorable oh and how cute you have the price

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this is a 3d print of one of my illustrations oh that's so cute I have a 3d printer I have not

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gotten into that yes and got into that and so here's that agate that I got oh I love it and then

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so the triple they can wear them all together because a couple years ago that was the trend

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yeah um and now they just take them apart and wear them separately and the the teens love the

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little yarn ones with the little okay now I saw black you had black like rib it what was your

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black that was on no no on the oh the when you had the whole thing of them oh just the black cord

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because you know another thing that I've done in the past it's really eco friendly is go to the

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tire shops bike shops I love those what is that that is obsidian yeah did you know there's a rainbow

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obsidian yes a sparkle to it it's in yeah it's amazing I've seen it in person I haven't seen it I

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only saw it it's just beautiful yeah your guesses because I did pick up some obsidian when I was in

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Guadalajara in tequila but anyway go to your bicycle shops then they have big dumpsters pull out the

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old tires open them up clean them all out and then you can just with good sharp scissors make little

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ribbons and it's like easy peasy costume nothing and one tire you can have it for it'll last I don't

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know I have a bucket of it still yeah that that you know it's it's you know it's recycled inner tube

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tire and that's really good for the environment because this shook sooth used to be on inner tube

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tire but it's high moved it's friction because seriously yeah we need to hang out more I love

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all your rocks it is it's not glamorous because I find a real rock on what's that oh what happened

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Donnie so part of being a rock hound is it's great to find the big chunks but you have to

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slide them and I missed and got my that hurts that hurt it did it did but it's healing fast but

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it's my first you know injury I did that to a piece of Malacate which was actually really hard

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and that stuff I put that in a tumbler and yeah it turned out pretty good not as good as I was

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thinking because I probably need to tell more but you quickly it quickly starts shrinking down so

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much I kind of got scared I was like I'm gonna take this out again for a little bit I don't know

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like it's a fine line right it's smooth I like it shiny and it's hard I even do it to my I have a

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lot of landscaping glass rock chunks oh okay and when they break up and they kind of sometimes do

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if they have a lot of natural cleaves in them and then you put those in there but I haven't

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ever been able to get it shiny I've just been able to get it matte and then I top it with a coat of

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resin because I'm too quick for that I'm like no I can't I did I did spray some of them because I

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found out that fluoride is very difficult to get shiny it's so soft and so I did spray it with some

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sparkly we're artists I don't think that there is a problem with using fingernail polish I use

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fingernail polish on something today oh it was something I needed to make a mold up but I really

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wanted it to be shiny at the end so I'm like it was an ancient Roman ruin but you know who cares

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that I'm bringing up all of that I can always take it off it's metal it's like whatever when I

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when I do a show at our annual mineral show um that you know the collectors they they really care

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about if you chemically altered it but the carrot yeah they don't care they don't care so and you

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know even turquoise today it's all got wax and color on it like the real turquoise that comes out

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of a mine is pretty hard to find but it's so soft that they do something to make it make sure it

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doesn't fall apart on us because yeah I've definitely had things I had I definitely had things fall

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apart like rocks and so you're like okay well yeah I was dicking around with something the other day

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and it kind of went into a million pieces I'm like okay well that sucked we had a bunch of

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pyrite that we were looking at and when you when you tried to grab it it crumbled into little cubes

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it's actually kind of cool but nobody really likes to buy little cubes oh I'm sure we could

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figure out some way to do something with it I throw it in a bottle and sell it yeah and your

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little bottles were cute those little bottles so they have a big enough top that you can yeah the

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cork so that that I use I don't let any of my minerals go to waste so after I'm all done tumbling

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yeah I have a teeny colander strainer and I dump them in there and pick out all the teeny pebbles

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and put them in those little jars yeah because I I totally believe oh you know what I'm doing for

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a friend who has a bra shop I'm making little clips with and it spells out words it's that acronym

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word jewelry you know and a piece and you know all different kinds so you could put your minerals

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on your bra and wear them close to you and then it's going to spell out like I don't know there's

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all these different words I put it through chat gbt I'm like okay use you can use any of these

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letters I went through all the letters I'm like okay I don't have x yz there's a few letters like

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not very many just like six and and give me all the positive current words because that was a common

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thing in the victoria times but we don't really use the words that they were using you know they

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were using different words than what we use so it's a cute little project you know sometimes though

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like um my my whole approach is kind of old-timey even my animation is a little bit old-timey um

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it takes you know a person back to probably the 70s and 80s when they used to sit in front of tv and

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do cartoons I don't know if you saw my definitely that I kind of felt that I kind of felt like

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yeah I mean here I was to think back and go well what does it look like a little bit of scooby-doo

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yeah a little bit and the words though um in my first book I used there's some bad guys there's

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one bad guy and he's followed around by these little bubble goons and I call them goons because

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they're thugs you know and that's because I'm older that's yeah from my time you know goons and

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um my daughter who's you know half my age and younger reminding me that you know the terms you

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use have changed you might want to check that I'm like no I think I'm gonna be okay just because

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it's an old-timey kind of style and I hope that people get that it's not a slur of any kind it's

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just you know if you're a bad guy you're a goon if you're picking on people you're a goon right yeah

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yeah yeah that's okay but terms you know terms change and and I try to stay real in the books I try to

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keep it based on friendship and inspiration and how we help each other and our human connection

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I think that's why the kids relate to it because like one of the I made a board game and I did a

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couple um prototype parties for it and the kids right away said well if if the queen is out there

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helping all the other you know fairies and I'm with her so they connect to the character right

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away. Positiveness of a little fairy nothing bad about a fairy yeah now you also have coloring books

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too right? That's what yeah that's where everything originates from is it's a it's not you know how

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most coloring books have just like a little bit of copy and it's all color well mine's kind of a

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lot of copy and some coloring too so they read you're telling a story so yeah it's an adventurous

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story and I did get some feedback um I got some feedback where other authors said they really

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like what I'm trying to do with it but I should think about a chapter book so book number five

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is going to be a chapter book because then I'll get to expand on all the little things

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that held me into the format of a coloring book right yeah so that's what's exciting you know and

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I think that's a way to because I'm a writer too I've written two books that have been

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published blah blah blah you know that's that's my thing I'm and I've written a novel and so

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it's hard to get those published and then but I realized really the best way to get something

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published is to write another book like in that genre you know I'm actually a full-time tech

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writer for a global giant but um so I I do love writing it's definitely something that I really

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enjoy oh I had to tell you something fun about my little project that I'm doing for Niagara

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it's an Niagara Falls gift center that's coming up new it's going to be a new gift center on the

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US side and I used to live in that area and I know the area very well my husband's from up in that

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area we spent a lot of time so I lived in the Canadian side but he lived in the US side so it's

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very much like I had an address in Niagara so you get it I'm there and and I had just been doing a

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podcast about the in the 1800s sorry I was looking to see if my notes were here but they weren't

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but um George Coons was a rock rock and mineral hunter back in the 1800s and all of that virgin

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earth that had been pulled up for the Erie Canal and all those earthworks and they even strained

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out the the Niagara Falls at one point to make it a power station and so and then the locals were

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able to find chunks of selenite and they would then chip it down and then sell it to the tourist

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saying that this is the foam from Niagara that solidified and they're called Niagara pearls

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so this whole collection is called you know Niagara foam pearls but they're not really they're you

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know because you have to realize too I think this is something as as beaters fabricers like people

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that are rock counts is that China started carving you know jade which is just like one step

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underneath diamonds and they only this is before we had metal and they were able to cut that jade

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with bamboo and water so the fact that they're the world's outlet where beads are made and India too

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it's you know a lot more glass over there but they do minerals too almost everything goes to

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China becomes a that's a mineral comes back to us as beads because they have the technology for

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10 000 years on how to deal with these beads which is too bad I can't it's hard to find

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mineral beads that are actually made here because it takes a lot of equipment and all that yes I

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know people who do spheres big spheres and oh yeah but selenite is actually fun to carve it's

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easier to carve than it is to tumble because it's so delicate um yeah yeah in my I just

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it's just so much in my garage but I have a chunk of selenite because my goal is to carve the

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selenite sword in book number three oh are you gonna start off with a log and then shave it down

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so I have a chunk that I got urban rock hounding and I'm going to carve it down into the sword that

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I drew in my my little book about mineral power so I was up by um Mount Rushmore up in that North

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Dakota North Dakota Montana area great mineral rock and they had a whole mine there by the side

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of the road it was just like tons of these logs and I brought back one and I use it oh it's at my

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ranch but you know that I'm thinking about it maybe I should move it out of the where it could get a

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little bit of water on it but yes I I mean I'm and I bought more and I bought more and I bought more

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and I bought but that piece is like it's it's such a special piece because it holds that memory of

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I did a cross country trip across Canada and back through the US and just buying rocks and minerals

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and I came back with my car full it was like the best thing I ever did for myself because

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I didn't have to ask anybody I didn't have to do anything it was just like oh go there

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like I didn't even know what it was like I'm like oh at the time you got it you didn't know it was

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yeah it was a good long time ago but yeah I'm seriously I I they're very precious if you came

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to our ranch I saw the discovery zone on the porch it's all the way around the porch are fossils

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minerals and gems inside too but on that it's for the grandkids you know so that they can come and

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actually hold a piece of copperlight or hold a piece of whatever that's what I do for the teacher

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kits as I put actual minerals in the kits so I know did you know that's when you were little kids

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were you did you have this little boxes that you could go oh you know you would go to a trading

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post that's what they had back then right you know the trading post and there'd be a little

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cellophane cover and there'd be a little piece of sultry a little piece of something yeah back

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then I was more interested in candy however I have collected rocks since I was little and it's

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funny because when all this started my husband's like since when do you like rags I'm like you

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don't really know me do you honey after 30 years I had them in my pockets I had them I just never

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really expressed myself with them until my mineral fairies came about and and as I opened up

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about those because I've always been interested in science geology all kinds of science

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um it's I've been a nerd with a lot of things and so having that come out and blossom has been

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enriching yes you have like yes you probably can't see it but it's my mini museum yeah did you buy

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that somewhere I did it was several years ago and I have the oldest matter ever collected that

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oh four billion years old or something I have a lunar rock a Martian rock are you kidding a meteorite

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I have a couple meteorites um palm tree from Antarctica a dinosaur egg shell I have vertebrae

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from dinosaurs and I oh I gotta give me one of these yeah Dracula I have Dracula's uh castle

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I have from the Transylvanian Alps I have stuff and where did that come from where did you find

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that that's um fine that's something you find four years ago um four years ago there was a kick

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starter when kick starter was fun yeah um and this guy had collected all this like like you and I

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would just gathered the things we like over the years and he realized he had just all of this

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amazing stuff like stuff he hunted down stuff really precious stuff that you you just don't find and

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he's like well I'd like to bring a museum to you and when I saw that my jaw just dropped I'm like

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I'm getting that I just had to have it it doesn't matter what it costs it's something

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that feels better knowing that we have something that we can look at and appreciate like I do I

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look at it all the time and I just I'm I'm marvel about the history of this earth and and that's

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you know partially leads into how much I love the minerals because I I sit in awe that they were

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created thousands of we're wearing pendants like these little minerals these are these are cheap

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little minerals um you know they're they're thousands of years old a thousand and they come

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in natural colors that are just unbelievable it's just I just uh the shapes I'm just amazed

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and the creativity um there is where is it um I think it's now I like I'm inspired by different

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things and that's a lot of my inspiration helps me to write my books but it's not just um like

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there there was a photo I saw from some some photographer I never knew and immediately I

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started thinking about why no exactly how that will fit in my next book and it's this gigantic

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rock that basically points to the sky and he got it with all the stars and I thought so I paid him

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for that photo so I can draw it and incorporate it into my beautiful and so that's how it works with

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me I a giant piece of assault coming on the earth is that what it's like uh it's like it's like uh I

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don't even know you know most most of rock most of what we see are the um how do I explain it in my

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my lessons um you know there's three different things that have been washed away well you know it's um

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um you know there are a lot of places where you can see the layers of sediment over the years but

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this particular rock looks like um it has a matrix of probably four five different types of

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the you know the categories that you find in rocks there's let me think I can test myself I

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hope they edit this part out because no we're not gonna edit anything out but you know I have a minor in geology

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like it's like you know yeah it's from TCU and they're they're the repository of all the

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asteroids that hit the earth that hit the US they all go there to be studied so I was surrounded by

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and tectide and like you know vissuvia's side or whatever it's called like seriously like it's it's

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definitely I don't know I've I've been a rock person since early like you like we were born

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artist right like we were born yes we were we really were I had my little rocks from early on

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well I'm thinking of because most of the rocks that we actually balk on are the sedimentary rocks

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that's why I was trying to think of was the three different types of rocks the igneous which is like

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obsidian which is almost like glass it's like like you know the actual lava that just kind of cool

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off and then you have the metamorphic which is a combination of the igneous and the surrounding

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rocks and minerals so it's combination and then the sedimentary you'll notice and that's what this

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big rock formation reminds me of shale and sandstone limestone and calcite falls into that

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category where that's what you're walking on that's the matrix of most of the the land that you're

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walking on right there is the sedimentary rocks you know you you need to come to my

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right I need to come to your place and you need to come visit me because at our ranch was an

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ancient peoples and I haven't found any any points but the handmade tools are just prolific

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they're everywhere I mean you pick up a rock and it's like oh my god this fits perfectly oh look

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it has a tip oh look when I look at my hand it's like oh my god like look at that or it's a been

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carved to look like a duck or it's been carved to look like they were there for you know 10 000s of

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year so on our little piece of property we really we I don't go anywhere without a rock pocket I have

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a little purse can I make right rocks and rocks everywhere just have piles of rocks folders cans

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of rocks everywhere because we're like crazy because it's like how can we not pick them up

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they're so every time the rain comes it brings up more rocks so oh you know that place in

407
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:51,160
Milford where I got the fluoride and the bubble opal that's also a burial site it was yeah and you

408
00:38:51,160 --> 00:39:00,120
can actually see arrowheads and and things that were buried with folks and so when we the the rule

409
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:08,120
is because they actually own that land out of respect they just put it back where they found it

410
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:14,600
um just because you know when they I think when they agreed to put the claim on that I know the

411
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:22,520
claim owners um and when they they told me that um when they bought the claim they agreed to honor

412
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:28,360
the burial sites I guess it was one of those uh deal breakers that they wouldn't have got the

413
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:37,320
claim if they did not honor those areas so um yeah yeah and I did I did see a couple while I was there

414
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:43,640
but I didn't pick them up there used to be a show it was on I think it was PBS and it was like the

415
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:48,680
mineral collector did you ever see that and he goes all over the world and goes into these like

416
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:54,120
really deep mines and goes into like all of the stuff it might still be online I mean she could

417
00:39:54,120 --> 00:40:00,520
still find it he actually had a he has a place in Dallas where he sells his minerals like he's

418
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:07,800
a known name and but it was it was the best show like you actually got to go into the mines with him

419
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:15,640
and see some of these really rare places where they they risk their lives to go down into these

420
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:22,200
yeah you know very small little caves it's really that's give me a show about that and I don't need

421
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:30,920
anything else I am happy I am I am watching my shows like no those are some of the the jewels

422
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:36,760
and the minerals that they pull out of those places they just make me drool they just because oh

423
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,440
you find some of that here like when I was talking earlier my big thing right now is that um

424
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:50,920
piratized petrified wood you get a piece of a petrified wood and it's got pyrite all over it so

425
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:57,400
it's been piratized it looks like something out of science fiction I hope I land my hands on one of

426
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:08,600
those I just okay so one of one of my dear friends and I say that he's dear I'm his wife is dear and

427
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,000
I send her free jewelry every time she buys something I like me I just made her an amazing necklace

428
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:21,560
but they are the ones that do that ginormous saikora saikora petrified trees that are like

429
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:26,760
you know 12 feet across and they put them in museums I met him at the Tucson Juman Mineral

430
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:36,600
Show I came back I just saw him in February and I'll hook you up on Russell Russell something

431
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:43,640
is the name um anyway I'll I'll hook you up on on Instagram or Facebook because it's amazing to see

432
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:51,720
what they do to you know dig those pieces up and transport them he actually his um where he

433
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:58,040
where he polishes everything and you can you imagine polishing that these gigantic pieces

434
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:05,400
and he has a lot of work it's really amazing like I bow to him that that was a job and a half

435
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:13,400
and he's around yeah he yeah well yeah but he actually works out of like Maine they have an old

436
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,960
and he has a really old building that he bought in Maine that had it was like you know some kind

437
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:23,320
of a foundry or something so it had all the pulleys and it oh no this is out here yeah and if you

438
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:31,640
look at his stash of what he has you know the the logs that are you know they're it's big as you

439
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:37,000
can imagine as big as a refrigerator they're gigantic like they're as big as a car and you know

440
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,840
so he digs that up and hauls it across the US and they they coat it in concrete first and and big

441
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:50,440
huge metal straps so it doesn't fall apart because it is a little until they can get it together and

442
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:55,960
put it all up but fascinating world of petrified wood and he's the one that explained to me how

443
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:02,520
it was made and he's written a book and you know he's really kind of at the the pinnacle of the whole

444
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:09,320
petrified wood thing but it all there's Utah and Arizona like that's where it's from to find I used

445
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:14,040
to live in Tucson I used to live all over Arizona but I wasn't even a rock on that I was just this

446
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:21,160
young kid but it got in you it got in you it got in yeah now you've been back to the Tucson Jim

447
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:30,600
middle from I just get distracted you know life life has its way of yeah acting you it's hard

448
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:36,200
it's hard to go especially if your pockets aren't full I ended up going you know I I was a seller I

449
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:42,280
was a vendor at the Tucson Society shows and and I love that show because you know but there's nobody

450
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:48,280
really like me there so I'm a bit of but they the media did their news their daily newscasts

451
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:54,600
from my booth because it was gonna nice yeah we love all that like you and I would have been crazy

452
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,160
we would have been like oh my god look at that oh my god look at that yes and there's you know I'm

453
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:06,600
fortunate here um you know soul sister like yourself you and I really kind of get it I belong to a

454
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:14,920
club a mineral club and that's how they are they're just salt of the earth people just they just love

455
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:22,440
going out and getting the rocks and you know we go to Tucson but see they also run the gem show and

456
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:29,800
the gem show that we do is really we do for the kids we make these little rock bags and the latest

457
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:37,800
video that I posted um on my Facebook page um it shows everybody hammering that's the day I busted

458
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:45,480
my my thumb but the the idea is to make all these little wonderful little bags of rocks

459
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:52,360
we put in everything we found this year we break it all up we we grabbed some stones some

460
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:59,000
polished stones that we buy from Tucson probably that show and we put those in the bags we put

461
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,400
some of those little pendants that you saw that I hung up we put one of those in like every third

462
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:13,880
bag or something as a little surprise we and they only cost a buck for this little bag of rocks and

463
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:22,600
imagine how we were as kids to have a treasure like that and that's what we do it for we we just and

464
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:31,160
the kids all around locally all in Tula County they all sew bags the teachers teach them how to sew

465
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,360
and they sew the bags so they're all looking for their bags when they come to get the rocks

466
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:45,720
oh how cute so it's this real community connection the kids are all involved in it and they just love

467
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:52,760
coming to that show and I I have a blast I love to talk about the mineral fairies and they they love

468
00:45:52,760 --> 00:46:02,280
my little dinky necklaces you know it's just so much fun to see their faces light up and

469
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,000
there's so many different subjects so many different kinds of kids yeah stop at my booth and

470
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:14,120
that's another thing I made sure that the teachers know is that those kids that are neurodivergent

471
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,200
they always find something in my books it's not just for the creatives it's for a lot of

472
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:27,160
a lot of different types of kids so um that's my joy right there is when they come up and

473
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:35,880
they they are inspired I totally understand that I totally I totally feel that just with you just

474
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:41,160
talking to you I'm like I could be that kid again I wanted to share with you too I had a shaman

475
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:49,720
one time who told me that rocks do talk they just talk really slow I was like okay who knows

476
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:58,520
so maybe your fairy can slow down her talking and talk as like as slow as a rock that gives me

477
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,480
an idea for another character for my character I know I'm thinking it too I've seen it and so now

478
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,120
you're gonna remember about the inner inner recycle inner tube tires because there's tonsil

479
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:13,000
let me just go to buy another great for little kids because they cost no money you don't have to buy

480
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:21,320
a chain there's a little bit of wire closes it up and I really hope that you and I will connect again

481
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:27,720
and just it's just you have filled me with joy because I've been working by myself all week

482
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:34,520
and I did a little thing loving working with sell and I didn't really never really did much with it

483
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:39,240
before which is really interesting because I have cat's eye and I also have cello night and if you

484
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:44,520
put the two of them together they look pretty similar and I'm like I don't even know if they'd

485
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:51,560
even know the difference between cat's eye and cello night oh well maybe so I'm not here but it's

486
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,960
like fiber optic you know fiber they call it cat's eye beads but you know it's fiber optic and has

487
00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:04,280
that same striations the same you know luminosity when you hold it up the same I'm like I don't think

488
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:10,120
I could see the difference I don't have that flaky like layer kind of thing going on because

489
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:16,200
someone I'm famous for that it is and and I do know what you're talking about that kind of a bit

490
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:22,280
of a roughness not as smooth but definitely yeah I don't know you really have to be fun to see what

491
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:28,040
you come up with oh I came up with all of this so it's it's about I kind of did it first thinking

492
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:33,880
well the tourists are more you know from overseas and you know it's kind of like trying to get into

493
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:39,560
the head of because I was a jeweler for the sea and tower for four years I kind of was going back

494
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,200
into that time and then a guy goes no let's do it all like it's like the turn of the century like

495
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,840
the you know late 1810 or something like okay I'm on that so I made a whole different collection

496
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,800
just finished photographing it and sending it to him as little videos and then I'll go back and

497
00:48:55,080 --> 00:49:01,160
pricing is tricky isn't it it is it is you know it's funny is you made me think about

498
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:06,360
how I met my husband tell me that story and then we'll wrap it up for the day I want to hear

499
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:13,960
I met my husband when he sold diamonds I work next door at a place that sells what you make

500
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:21,400
not as nice but same idea they call it custom jewelry back then yeah and so I will walk by to

501
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:28,280
the food court and flirt with him he ended up teaching me everything I knew about diamonds and

502
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:35,720
I did sell diamonds for a brand name that dealt with New York at one point in time so maybe that

503
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:42,440
kind of you know because diamonds you know that's a pure mineral that's just as pure as you can get

504
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:54,600
it and and I used to sell them very well a long time ago in fact I was in tech quite a bit but

505
00:49:54,600 --> 00:50:02,120
I made a decision to to keep more in touch with my creative I still do tech you know still playing

506
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:08,120
around with a 3d printer and using tech to make sure I you know print my illustrations no one else

507
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:13,160
is so that means I have to slice it and do the tech myself but I I like keeping in touch with

508
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:22,200
that little creative girl so I made a decision a purpose to purposely a decision to go that route

509
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:30,360
and I think my life is much happier because of it but it started with you know flirting with the

510
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:37,800
diamond guy I love it well we all have to start somewhere but you know I'm we're we're really

511
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:45,000
so similar you know I think that at my age if you hadn't kept up with tech you would be so

512
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:51,640
behind the curve because everything changes on a every other day basis pretty much in tech

513
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:58,440
so you know there's so many ways that we use tech now but that's a whole other conversation

514
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:07,560
and we have reached our hour but you and I are now bonded forever so I'm so I'm isn't this like

515
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:14,760
a great little hour that we just spent just like feeling our love of rocks into our soul like it

516
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:21,320
just catching up with an old friend really you are you are now you're an old friend or a new old

517
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:28,280
friend or at least it's just a new friend so nothing is so funny because last time we tried to meet

518
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:37,240
I had a razor blade in my tire couldn't get home today because I still have a day job I am a

519
00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:45,880
marketing guru coding and designing and marketing I do that by day but I ran out of gas

520
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:59,960
and I I came home on with maybe five miles left of gas okay dang how close is the closest gas

521
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:08,600
station was it is it within five it's not far from my house but I have to go all the way around

522
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:14,840
the ochre mountain and so there's a there's at least 20 miles well you can't go anywhere so I'm

523
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:22,040
like you know praying for gas vapors because I would have missed it again if I had to stop

524
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:28,760
is that the craziest thing it's like I hope your husband can get you or you can get put some gas in

525
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:35,320
there before you take off he's got a gas can yeah just in case I mean but isn't that crazy

526
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:43,480
it's just okay it's just it's just what it is like just it was just meant to be that today was the

527
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:49,800
day because now I've done all that selling night work for an entire you know week you know actually

528
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:54,840
a little bit longer because I don't you know deal with it all so now we had something even fun and

529
00:52:54,840 --> 00:53:01,080
now I'll I'll show you those selling night pieces and I look for out of you and I would love to do

530
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:06,280
another one we should talk again because we could talk all about diamonds I have so much to say about

531
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:12,840
all diamonds and maybe you know we can share notes about some new ways I want to do some pendants

532
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:19,400
like I've I've really done them in a very simple way so but well not for these these are not simple

533
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:27,000
but the other pendants are and I'd like to kind of take it to the next step I'm gonna show you some

534
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:33,240
I'll email it to you or else or I'll or on Facebook I'll get them to you okay all right well you're

535
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:40,840
a deer and say okay so say it again says Kelly Parker with a P and your name yeah Kelly Park

536
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:47,560
P Kelly Park yeah with an E and I saw that E but I didn't see the R so you're right but you go by

537
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:56,040
I'm on Instagram you are actually they shut down my Instagram okay no Instagram for you so it is

538
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:05,880
Facebook and it's just if you type in ochre mountain fairies like OQIRRH it's a different way

539
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:13,160
but it's the only ochre in the whole world right but if you type just that word and you will find me

540
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:22,760
on Facebook okay the mineral fairies you'll find that so yes and then I have my website I was like

541
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:29,880
mineral fairies oh my god they're really marital fairies like I want to know them oh I'm glad you

542
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:35,880
took I'm glad you invited me on it was I think we just don't get enough time to connect like this so

543
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:41,560
thank you I agree this has been the best thing for my soul is to get to spend an hour each week

544
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:47,240
with somebody new and really like just dig in and just find other connections because there's so many

545
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:53,080
how many how many have you done how long I think well this is like number eight or nine or something

546
00:54:53,080 --> 00:55:00,840
like that so you're fairly new but we're good there spread the word yeah I just started doing

547
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:09,320
little videos just yesterday so but not podcasts so well if you need to have some help on all that

548
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:15,560
I pretty much get it all that too you know whatever we'll chat we'll definitely because we've learned

549
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:20,120
and we've learned I could do a little thing for you okay well we've gone past our time and then my

550
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:24,360
little my little Omar gets mad at me he's like I want to have her time how am I supposed to do that

551
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:32,600
don't worry about it okay well thank you and now we're friends forever we are we thank you again

552
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:39,880
and I I wish you had the best rest of your day and go get some gas