Last Day to Enter Puppy the Guinea Pig's Cute Pet Pix Jewelry Give-away Contes for November-prize awarded tomorrow!

Yes, Puppy has amazing new hand crafted items added to his store every few days. Yes, Puppy makes quality hand designed jewelry available as one cent auctions so crystals can find their way to everyone! So what is the entrepreneur pig up to now? Well, you won't believe it!


It's Puppy's Cute Pet Pix Jewelry Give-Away Contest!!!! That's right humans...cash in on your four pawed's cuteness power and get free bling from the pig!

Here's how it works: Each month, Puppy's mommy will list a new crystal or gemstone creation as the give away prize. As cute pet pix are submitted, they may be posted on the site throughout the month for everyone's viewing pleasure. On the first of the month, the winner (selected by a randomized computer drawing pool of the cutest pictures) will be posted and announced, and the prize will be sent to them by US mail!

To enter you must:



1.) follow this blog

2.) live in US.

3.) submit a photo entry of your pet (JPEG file) with the pet's name, your name, mailing address and permission to post your photo on this blog. Entries may be submitted via email to puppylovejewelry@rocketmail.com .

4.) Please submit only one entry per pet per month (if you have several pets, you can submit one picture for each of them, as long as they are CUTE pictures!).

5.) Entry deadline is midnight of the last day of the month. Prize is awarded on the first day of the next month.

6.) I will NEVER give your email or mailing address to anyone else. If I send out a marketing email about a sale, you may get one however I sent out a total of 4 marketing emails last year so I think its safe to say that you won't be bombarded, and if you do get anything from me it will be cute!



Let the sharing of cuteness begin!

Our Featured Prize, to be awarded December 1, 2009:

Harlequin Fire Quartz Copper Wire Wrapped Pendant!

(A very popular and great energy crystal!)

Healing copper wire is sculpted around a harlequin fire quartz crystal from Madagascar! A sparkling 'copper crystal' colored Swarovski crystal is added for adornment!

Harlequin Quartz (also called strawberry quartz, fire quartz or raspberry quartz) is a quartz crystal with tiny sparkling red glitter-like inclusions of lepidocrocite and hematite, giving the stone a berry like appearance! It has a very high energy perfect for chakra work! Copper has been known for its healing properties for ages and is thought to augment the energy of any crystal it is paired with!

This pendant measures just under 3 inches long from woven copper bail to crystal point. The unwrapped crystal dimensions are 30mm long and 10mm wide at widest point. The pendant comes with a long fine black satin cord, but would also look lovely worn on a chain.

My handmade original, infused with love! You will receive the exact pendant pictured here. Comes in a lavender satin gift bag with cards explaining the metaphysical properties of magical, unique harlequin fire quartz and the copper it is wrapped in!

Crystals and stones have been thought to hold special meaning and power throughout every time and civilization known to mankind!



Metaphysical Properties of Harlequin Quartz : (also called Raspberry, Fire or Strawberry Quartz)

This is a special type of quartz crystal with lepidocrocite and hematite inclusions that look like tiny little red sparkles within the crystal! It is mined in Madagascar and can be found in the scepter formation. Quartz is known to be the most powerful healing and energy amplifying stone, raising the wearer’s energy to the highest vibrations. This speckled version is believed to be useful for bringing the seven chakras into alignment (especially connecting the base, heart and crown) and facilitating clear energy flow through them. It is a stone for higher spiritual attunement and advancement!



Metaphysical Properties of Copper: A powerfully healing mineral, good for energizing, combating lethargy, raising vibration and promoting self acceptance. Resonates with and opens the base or sacral chakras, to reaffirm optimism for life and awaken passion and sensuality! Copper has been recognized as an effective remedy for joint pain for centuries. Thought to amplify the inherent energy of stones and crystals when wrapped around them.

This week's fun one cent auction: a rose quartz heart wire wrapped pendant!

Here is this week's offerings, full of pretty sparkles and healing energy! This pendant is for our one cent auctions on ebay-they start at just one cent, have free shipping just like everything else we sell, and often people win them for incredible prices! It comes lovingly packaged as all our items do- in a lavender satin bag with cards telling about the metaphysical properties of the stones, with a black satin cord and all tucked into a pretty pink box! Christmas is coming and this would make a nice gift! It has very nice artisan crafted dichroic glass beads that shine all kinds of rainbows!

Click here to go to this listing!

Metaphysical Properties of Rose Quartz: Stone of unconditional love and self love. Resonates with the heart chakra. Brings peace and calm to relationships. Excellent for healing emotional wounds. Soothing and calming to the emotions. Encourages ones loving nature.

Why would crystals have an effect upon us?

I have wondered this and other things about crystals since I was very young. One of the first things I wondered about them was why they had the inherent ability to "grow" in such pretty geometric structures with perfect smooth faces and surfaces much like man made glass but without requiring any molding or polishing. At first you might think it is gravity (which is the reason that a glass of water has a smooth surface on top) but crystals grow their smooth surfaces at all angles to the ground, showing that it couldn't be gravity running the show.

My perspective on physical reality has changed and grown so much since I first wondered that, and yet the answer as to why crystals can effect us and why they form the perfect surfaces comes from the same principle.

We all pretty much understand about the different phases of matter:

gas (molecules bouncing all over, little order)

liquid (molecules sliding around, still moving fast, little order)

and solid (molecules vibrating in place to form a condensed object that we see as solid matter)

(By the way, this would be a picture of an amorphous solid, such as glass or the wood of your desk)

Well, when something is in its true crystalline form, the molecules have lined up into a perfectly ordered structure based in part on the charges of the atoms that make it up. 

For example, Celestite is strontium sulfate (SrSO4, meaning each molecule of the celestite crystal is made up of one Strontium atom binded together with one sulfer atom and 4 oxygen atoms).

The way this molecule is put together, there will be certain areas that have a positive charge, certian areas that have a negative charge and certain areas with no charge at all--this is what dictates how these molecules of the celestite crystal prefer to line up with each other to form a crystal lattice (because, remember, positive likes to line up close to negative, areas of no charge like to be near other areas of no charge, etc.)

A crystal lattice

Looking at these pictures helps me to understand the answer to my childhood question: how can a crystal form these perfectly smooth glass-like surfaces on its own?  Well, it is extremely ordered on a molecular level and if you keep adding billions of molecules in a perfect structural alignment, eventually you will be able to see the object's pattern with your eyes and it will carry that same order and structure, which can include very smooth surfaces or crystal faces.

Now, how does this tie in to why crystals would have an effect upon us in the physical world? Well, many of us are now understanding that everything in our world is energy, or vibration or frequency. We also have the principle of resonance: sound waves make objects vibrate in a similar manner. This is why you can hit one tuning fork and have one untouched but near it also start to produce sound.  This is also why the most talented opera diva can sometimes hit a note that shatters glass!

So, if we believe that everything is energy and vibration in the physical world, including our bodies, our brains, our neurotransmitters etc, it would make sense that we could possibly resonate with the vibration or frequency of a physical object on some subtle level.  Well, what object would you expect to have the most powerful, pure, amplified, unified vibration? The gas, liquid or even solid object without a crystal lattice structure (called an amorphous solid, an example is glass). NO! You would think that something possessing a crystal lattice structure would have the most magnified, pure vibration and have the most chance of having an affect upon our own vibration!

Voila! that is how I have made sense of crystals, on a very general level. there is much more involved and I am always thinking and trying to learn more, but this is a good place to start. I don't think it is a good thing to just believe what people tell you in this world, especially people who want your money!  It is best to ask questions and think for ourselves. Do crystals effect us as living systems? Yes, there are studies that prove this which I will go into at another time.  But the above is my working vision for WHY they could affect us!

This week's fun one cent auctions: Healing Copper Wire Wrapped Arkansas Clear Quartz and Aventurine Heart Pendants!

Here are this week's offerings, full of pretty sparkles and healing energy! These pendants are for our one cent auctions on ebay-they start at just one cent, have free shipping just like everything else we sell, and often people win them for incredible prices!  They come lovingly packaged as all our items do- in a lavender satin bag with cards telling about the metaphysical properties of the stones, with a black satin cord and all tucked into a pretty pink box! Christmas is coming and these would make nice gifts!

Click here to go to this listing!

Metaphysical Properties of Copper: A powerfully healing mineral, good for energizing, combating lethargy, raising vibration and promoting self acceptance. Resonates with and opens the base or sacral chakras, to reaffirm optimism for life and awaken passion and sensuality! Copper has been recognized as an effective remedy for joint pain for centuries. Thought to amplify the inherent energy of stones and crystals when wrapped around them.

Metaphysical Properties of Aventurine: A heart chakra stone, aventurine amplifies compassion and empathy. It is also known to attract prosperity and instill excellent leadership qualities and decisiveness. Very healing and calming to the wearer.

Click here to go to this listing!

Quartz Crystal: Most powerful healing and energy amplifying stone. Cleanses the aura and raises the wearer’s energy to the highest vibrations. Enhances psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purpose. Helps clarify perceptions which might be clouded by human emotion.

Puppy the Guinea Pig has personally inspected my work on these pieces and deems them quite nice!

Announcing Puppy the Guinea Pig's Cute Pet Pix Jewelry Give-away Contest for November!

Yes, Puppy has amazing new hand crafted items added to his store every few days. Yes, Puppy makes quality hand designed jewelry available as one cent auctions so crystals can find their way to everyone! So what is the entrepreneur pig up to now? Well, you won't believe it!


It's Puppy's Cute Pet Pix Jewelry Give-Away Contest!!!! That's right humans...cash in on your four pawed's cuteness power and get free bling from the pig!

Here's how it works: Each month, Puppy's mommy will list a new crystal or gemstone creation as the give away prize. As cute pet pix are submitted, they may be posted on the site throughout the month for everyone's viewing pleasure. On the first of the month, the winner (selected by a randomized computer drawing pool of the cutest pictures) will be posted and announced, and the prize will be sent to them by US mail!

To enter you must:

1.) follow this blog
2.) live in US.
3.) submit a photo entry of your pet (JPEG file) with the pet's name, your name, mailing address and permission to post your photo on this blog. Entries may be submitted via email to puppylovejewelry@rocketmail.com .
4.) Please submit only one entry per pet per month (if you have several pets, you can submit one picture for each of them, as long as they are CUTE pictures!).
5.) Entry deadline is midnight of the last day of the month. Prize is awarded on the first day of the next month.
6.) I will NEVER give your email or mailing address to anyone else. If I send out a marketing email about a sale, you may get one however I sent out a total of 4 marketing emails last year so I think its safe to say that you won't be bombarded, and if you do get anything from me it will be cute!

Let the sharing of cuteness begin!


Our Featured Prize, to be awarded December 1, 2009:

Harlequin Fire Quartz Copper Wire Wrapped Pendant!

(A very popular and great energy crystal!)

Healing copper wire is sculpted around a harlequin fire quartz crystal from Madagascar! A sparkling 'copper crystal' colored Swarovski crystal is added for adornment!

Harlequin Quartz (also called strawberry quartz, fire quartz or raspberry quartz) is a quartz crystal with tiny sparkling red glitter-like inclusions of lepidocrocite and hematite, giving the stone a berry like appearance! It has a very high energy perfect for chakra work! Copper has been known for its healing properties for ages and is thought to augment the energy of any crystal it is paired with!

This pendant measures just under 3 inches long from woven copper bail to crystal point. The unwrapped crystal dimensions are 30mm long and 10mm wide at widest point. The pendant comes with a long fine black satin cord, but would also look lovely worn on a chain.

My handmade original, infused with love! You will receive the exact pendant pictured here. Comes in a lavender satin gift bag with cards explaining the metaphysical properties of magical, unique harlequin fire quartz and the copper it is wrapped in!

Crystals and stones have been thought to hold special meaning and power throughout every time and civilization known to mankind!

Metaphysical Properties of Harlequin Quartz : (also called Raspberry, Fire or Strawberry Quartz)
This is a special type of quartz crystal with lepidocrocite and hematite inclusions that look like tiny little red sparkles within the crystal! It is mined in Madagascar and can be found in the scepter formation. Quartz is known to be the most powerful healing and energy amplifying stone, raising the wearer’s energy to the highest vibrations. This speckled version is believed to be useful for bringing the seven chakras into alignment (especially connecting the base, heart and crown) and facilitating clear energy flow through them. It is a stone for higher spiritual attunement and advancement!

Metaphysical Properties of Copper: A powerfully healing mineral, good for energizing, combating lethargy, raising vibration and promoting self acceptance. Resonates with and opens the base or sacral chakras, to reaffirm optimism for life and awaken passion and sensuality! Copper has been recognized as an effective remedy for joint pain for centuries. Thought to amplify the inherent energy of stones and crystals when wrapped around them.

A very special one cent auction this week: Blue Tara Quartz Pendant! A crystal with a Message for you!

Sterling silver (.925) and fine silver (.99) wire is sculpted around a very special blue phantom quartz crystal from Brazil, often referred to as a "Blue Tara" crystal (the name of a Tibetan Goddess associated with pure love and the ocean)!

I call this a 'talking crystal' because I acquired it from a woman who experiences what seems to be clairaudience when it comes to crystals (they speak to her). Now, whether you believe in this or not, it is certainly interesting to at least consider since the newest quantum theory supports that all physical matter is made of pure consciousness. So, why wouldn't a crystal have something to say? I must admit that I am puzzled and intrigued by the idea...most days now I believe that it is real and even wonder how I could learn to do this myself! And I wear one of her little messengers around my neck all the time!

Here is what the Blue Tara quartz crystals had to say to her, verbatim:

"-Now is a good time to talk to Blue Tara

-Blue Tara is here for peace and harmony

-Let the harmony & peace from our energy wash over you

-Hold us when you are agitated, we will help relax you

-If you are stressed, we will bring calm

-Anger is not possible in our presence

-Anger is an energy that cannot exist in the same space we do

-We help show that all will be ok and there is no reason for concern

-We help clear the mind so you can see things that were cloudy before (clouded by emotion)

-Bring calm & clarity

-Calm & Clarity brings peace of mind

-We hold a space in which you can relax and feel safe

-Use many of us for tough situations or deep-rooted issues

-We can go deep to help release if needed

-Use us often to promote peace and calm

-Harmony brings happiness

-Happiness is good. We should all be happy all the time

-You can keep us with you at all times if you want

-Take us with or wear us, either way is fine

-Our use is appropriate for anyone and everyone

-We promote calm, must say again

-We can help release that which does not allow you to be calm

-When your mind is clear there is much clarity of thought

-Don’t be your own worst enemy, let us help you

-We are done for now

-We hope you go in peace."

Click here to go to the One Cent Auction!

Metaphysical Properties of Blue Phantom Quartz (as recorded by Melody): Also called "Blue Tara" Quartz, the name of a Tibetan Goddess associated with love. These crystals have inclusions formed from a type of blue tourmaline and riebeckite that give each crystal an icy blue hue. They are loved for their soothing, kind energy. The are thought to alleviate anxiety and encourage a sense of brotherhood/sisterhood that helps us reach out and connect with others easily. The are well-known for their ability to dissolve and remove anger from our hearts. They instill a sense of dignity and confidence, resonating with the throat and crown chakras.