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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="04000500dvldtc.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Thunderbird Creations</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thunderbird Creations"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Native American Jewelry">Native American Jewelry</A>   |   <A HREF="squash_blossom_necklaces.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Squash Blossom Necklaces">Squash Blossom Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Turquoise Necklaces">Terry's Original Turquoise Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Turquoise Necklaces Page">Terry's Original Turquoise Necklaces Page 2</A>   |   <A HREF="terrys_original_lapis_neckla.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Lapis Necklaces">Terry's Original Lapis Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="terrys_original_amethyst_nec.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Amethyst Necklaces">Terry's Original Amethyst Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="terrys_original_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Coral Necklaces">Terry's Original Coral Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="terrys_original_silver_neckl.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Silver Necklaces">Terry's Original Silver Necklaces</A>   |   <A HREF="everything_else.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Terrys Original Necklaces Made From Ever">Terry's Original Necklaces Made From Everything Else</A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Earrings">Earrings</A>   |   <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Earrings Page 2">Earrings Page 2</A>   |   <A HREF="native_american_earrings.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Native American Earrings">Native American Earrings</A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bracelets">Bracelets</A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rings, Pins, etc....">Rings, Pins, etc....</A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mens Jewelry/Heishi Jewelry">Men's Jewelry/Heishi Jewelry</A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anklets">Anklets</A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Childrens jewelry">Children's jewelry</A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Orders">Special Orders</A>   |   <B>Links to Ebay, Other Sites and Show Dates</B>   |   <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NEWS">NEWS</A>    </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041d2c00dvldtc.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="08db1e10.jpg" border=0 width="177" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Links to Ebay, Other Sites and Show Dates</div> <bR> <div> <B>Scheduled Shows for  2008</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Evergreeen Rodeo</B></div> <div> June 14th & 15th, 2008</div> <div> Evergreen Rodeo Grounds</div> <div> Evergreen, CO 80439</div> <bR> <div> Bailey Day</div> <div> June 28th, 2008</div> <div> Bailey Co 80426</div> <bR> <div> Tommy Knockers Days<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF33" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> July 19th and 20th, 2008</div> <div> Elk's Lodge, 16th and Colorado</div> <div> Idaho Springs, CO 80452</div> <bR> <div> Buffalo Bill Days</div> <div> July 25th, 26th & 27th, 2008</div> <div> Downtown Golden</div> <div> Golden, CO 80402</div> <bR> <div> <B>Margie's Place</B></div> <div> November  23rd - 25th, 2007</div> <div> 10-6  Friday - Sunday</div> <div> 1534 Miner Street</div> <div> Idaho Springs, CO 80452</div> <bR> <div> <B>Carlson Craft Fair</B></div> <div> Carlson Elementary</div> <div> December  1st and 2nd, 2007</div> <div> 10-4 Sat and 10-3 Sunday</div> <div> 13th and Miner</div> <div> Idaho Springs, CO 80452</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> <B>We can always be found on display in the office of </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF33" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Tops Motel</B></I></FONT><B>, 2725 Colorado Blvd,  in Idaho Springs.   We also have many items for sale at the </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF33" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Visitor Center</B></I></FONT><B> or </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF33" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Margie's Place</B></I></FONT><B>, both in Idaho Springs.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Visit </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#33FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jewelrymagazine.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jewelrymagazine.com"><B>Jewelry Magazine</B></A></FONT><B> for more information on current styles and more jewelry selections.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here's a Jewelry Store directory for current fashions in Jewelry</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.directory4jewelry.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.directory4jewelry.com"><B>Directory4Jewelry.com</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <strong> JewelryYellow.com</strong> - Provides jewelry stores yellowpage including <a href="http://www.jewelryyellow.com/"> jewelry directory</a>.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <strong>JewelryBest.com</strong> - Directory of <a href="http://www.jewelrybest.com"> jewelry websites</a> information and resources.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <a href='http://www.jewelrydirectoryonline.com'>Jewelry Portal Online</a>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A HREF="http://www.directoryjewelry.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.directoryjewelry.com/images/logomini.gif" ALT="DirectoryJewelry.com" border="0" width="120" height="60"></A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=soaringeagle98&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=75" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dl"><B><IMG SRC="25a581f0.png" border=0 width="88" height="31" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div>  <img src="HTMLobj-4295/aniGif.gif" alt="Ebay Power Seller" border="0" align="bottom" width="196" height="165">  </div> <div> <B> <center><iframe src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1720143/showiframe?" width=468 height=60 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no> <a href="http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1720143/clickle" target="_top"><img width=468 height=60 border=0 ismap alt="" src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1720143/showle?"></a></iframe><br><a href="http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1720143/clicklogo" target="_top"><img src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1720143/showlogo?" width=468 height=16 border=0 ismap alt=""></a><br></center>   </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Here is some information on Turquoise</div> <bR> <div> <B>Treated" Turquoise Strands</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#008080" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Note: </B></div> <div> <B>There is very little hard, "gem quality" turquoise on the market.</B></div> <div> <B>Hence, some sort of hardening treatment of this ancient, relatively soft mineral is needed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Stabilized" refers to an age old method of baking hot resin into the stone to help it's hardness.</B></div> <div> <B>Resin stabilized turquoise leaves a slightly waxy surface.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Enhanced" refers to a very new treatment of turquoise that involves a patented bath of organic minerals and charged with an electrical current.</B></div> <div> <B>The natural color is not affected and the minerals are the very same in natural turquoise.</B></div> <div> <B>Enhancing produces a clean, glassy hard surface.</B></div> <div> <B>Our cousin, Sterling Foutz, owns the exclusive franchise for this new process. </B></div> <div> <B>This enhancement process "... can not be detected by standard gemological techniques."*</B></div> <div> <B>*Gems & Gemology magazine. Spring 1999</B></div> <div> <I><B>The quarterly journal of the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> How Is Turquoise Treated?</div> <div> <B>Treated Turquoise:</B> A process by which the pore spaces of the stone are filled with a transparent substance such as mineral oil, paraffin, or plastic to improve the color, and make it more desirable </div> <div> <B>Stabilized Turquoise:</B> An epoxy resin or other substance is infused into the pores of the stone. No longer porous, its color will not change over time. Stabilization allows us to use turquoise that might otherwise not be suitable for jewelry. </div> <div> <B>Color Treatments: </B>Chemicals are used to enhance or change color.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>INFORMATION ON GOLD FILLED PROCESS, VS GOLD PLATE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gold-plate is created using an electro-chemical processes. Gold-filled, or gold-overlay, is created by heat-and-pressure-bonding a thin layer of gold to a brass core.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Gold-plate places a thin molecule of gold, or most often, something that really isn't karat-gold and which leaves a gold color, on copper or brass or some base metal. The gold color wears off pretty quickly when interacting with the wearer's skin salts or the pollutants in the air. </B></div> <div> <B>Gold-filled places a layer of real gold over copper or brass or other metal. It wears off very slowly. For example, on a gold-filled ring, the gold-fill might wear off the inside of the ring shank after 3 years of constant wear, but remain on the outside of the ring for many, many years after that.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>When Gold-Filled is over sterling silver, the finish is called vermeil or vermeille. Because the gold does not adhere fully to the silver, the silver continues to tarnish under the gold. Any vermeil piece wil darken with age.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>When a jewelry designer or a company is manufacturing gold-filled jewelry, it is their choice as to how thick a layer of gold to place over the base metal material. Thus, you can have two gold-filled pieces, and you may have the gold layer wear off more quickly on one piece than the other. It is difficult, unfortunately, to be able to tell whether the purchase price of any piece reflects its true value. </B></div> <div> <B>Sometimes, you will see a notation next to the Gold-Filled label indicating the relationship between the weight of karat-gold and the weight of the brass core material. For example, if you see the notion "14/20 Gold-Filled," this means that the piece is 1/20th 14 karat gold. The 1/20 notation refers to the ratio of the 14 karat gold layer to the brass layer by weight, which is 5%. What is important here to the jewelry designer is less the content of gold, but rather more the color of the gold-filled piece. 14/20 gf will be more golden, darker, mellow. 12/20 gf will be brighter, brassier, yellower.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>In any case, gold-filled is a much more durable product than gold-plate or vermeil.</B><B> </B><B>Gold-filled jewelry is economical, and enjoys the rich look of gold at a fraction of the cost.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>