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A number of people starting up a jewelry business or other type of small business have asked me about payment processing online. Obviously, if you’re going to sell anything online, you have to have at least one type of payment method. There are several types, and each has its pros and cons, risks and benefits. Sometimes even a lot of small “cons” are less important than one big “pro”, but it’s up to you to decide for what works for you.

Here are some things about my experiences with different sorts of payments over the years I’ve been selling my jewelry and crystals online. My experiences, are, of course, limited to getting money in to my hands here in the US and US bank accounts. Non-US methods may vary widely, including some countries that will only allow one or two methods or only specific processors. Read the rest of this entry »

Priority Mail is the default shipping method at CrystalsAndJewelry.com unless you choose Express Mail. Some people have asked why First Class is not an option. Why? Because First Class is unworkable and ends up being very little savings. Read the rest of this entry »

New Easier Blog Set-up! I’ve rearrange some things here at a crystals & jewelry adventure so that they’re easier to find. In particular, I’ve rearranged the metaphysical and crystal healing info into a crystals and metaphysical healing lore section because so many people are looking for specifically that type of information.

New Goodies! There are new Unique Individual Quartz Crystals up at CrystalsAndJewelry.com. Plus there’s new Crystals Formations info for two new types of crystals, plus a couple of new photos in that section.

I’ve also added Security information to the Terms page at CrystalsAndJewelry.com. I know I secure all credit card information and the like, and I’m actually pretty darned fanatical about it. I pay what to me is a great deal of money monthly to ensure that it’s a secure as possible. But I realized I hadn’t been telling anyone about it. Oops! With PCI DSS compliance and other security things being on folks minds, I figured I’d better get to mentioning it! Privacy information is there on the Terms page too.

QUESTION: “I have two beautiful crystals in my kitchen windows. Recently, while I was cleaning them, I noticed that they both have a new ‘picture’ in them. Both of them. In the same spot. It looks like a ladder but makes me think of a pyramid. The colour is white in the way that the ‘lasered glass etchings’ appear to be white. I was wondering if this is a common occurance in crystals because I do have a few and have never experienced anything like it before. I want to know because I put a protection shield up around my house and the very next day I noticed the new ‘ladder’ shape. I’m not a big believer when it comes to coincidence…anywho, Please let me know if this is a regular thing so I can stop fretting over whether the change was caused by myself or by something trying to bust in.”

MY ANSWER: I expect that the sudden “ladders” in your crystals are from being in more sunlight. Sunlight can show up minute water bubbles, air bubbles, or tiny inclusions in stones, and that happens fairly commonly. Essentially, it’s fairy frost showing up, and not a negative sign at all. If you’d looked at the crystals under a microscope before, you’d most likely have seen them there, even though you couldn’t see them with the naked eye. Under the light and heat of the sun, they probably just showed up to your eyes.

My experience with stones having serious negative energy poured at them is that they have either turned very dark from it (similar to the way severe radiation exposure creates deeply black coloring in crystals) or shattered. However, do keep in mind that natural radiation — even the sun has radiation, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing! — and excessive heat can do the same things. And crystals can shatter for other reasons that are less negative to us, like for instance even a great excess of positive energy. Most crystals in a protection shield will hold up well to negative energy, as long as you cleanse and clear them regularly, which it sounds like you’re doing.