New month / new changes - invoices, shipping, jewelry making, and Fire Mountain

• Invoices - If you purchased in January, your invoice will go back to the more streamlined version. If you haven't, our "How Our Invoices Work" will be on your invoice. If you need to refresh your memory, visit our Shopping FAQs.
• Shipping - Prices are changing again. Shipping for orders under $200 / under 1 lb will be $6 (not insured). Shipping for orders $200-$299 / 1-3 lbs will be $10 (not insured). You can add optional insurance, see your invoice for details. Shipping for orders $300-500 / 4-5 lbs will be $15 (insured). Shipping for orders over 5 lbs / international will be actual shipping costs. Orders will now be closed at $500 or 20 drills (unless special arrangements are made).
• Jewelry Making - Prices are changing again. Drill and sterling silver bail pendants will be $30 + shipping (copper 25+shipping) and drill and sterling silver bail earrings will be $37.50 + shipping. If you are buying cabs on Cabochons. Beads, and More, and want us to make jewelry, your price will be 20% off the prices above Wire wrapping prices are based on the design, size of stone, etc. Pricing will start at $25 + shipping for copper and $40 + shipping for sterling silver.
• Fire Mountain - Bail samplers are no longer available. However, if you want something from Fire Mountain, I will still be ordering from them and I will still pass on my Platinum Partner discount. If you want to place an order, let me know. I can send you the Excel file that you need to use for me to place an order for you.

February: We are planning being home all month; however, with my family situation (see January recap) that could change. LIVE shows will be on the 1st, 5th*. 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 19th*, 21st, and 22nd. The ones with the * are Thursday ROCKS! shows. Teasers will be posted on Cabochons, Beads, and More and Seaside Stones - Online Rock Shop, as well as on our Facebook page, our Instagram account, and our TikTok account. (See LINKS and MORE below). Plus, Chris will be posting daily on Cabochons, Beads, and More.

One housekeeping item - We try to use the @everyone feature on our Facebook groups sparingly since we personally find it to be an annoying feature. However, if you've turned it off, you may miss important updates from us. I use it to announce the e-newsletter, Chris uses it for live shows, and we both use it for important updates, like shipping delays.

On to the January recap! We hope you enjoyed Customer Appreciation month on Cabochons, Beads, and More and during our cab LIVES. Many customers snagged a free cab or two and a few rapid payers snagged three or even four. Rumor has it that you will still see cab sales posts on the cab group since Chris had more sale posts ready to go. , and the ability to snag up to four free cabs (info about this will be posted tonight on the cab group).

January turned into a busy month. It started with my metalsmithing workshop in Portland, which was good, but I was distracted. The same day we left for Portland, I had a bit of a family emergency in New York. I dealt with it from afar and then Chris and I headed to NY after the workshop. Fortunately, it wasn't major, but unfortunately, it is not completely resolved. On less drama notes, we had a couple of amazing aroura nights, quite a bit of snow, and really cold temps since we got back home.

What was new in January? Too much! On December 29th, we got in a new shipment from Indonesia, then we got another one while we were traveling. There were lots of new carvings, some were already on Thursday ROCKS! and some with be on the next Thursday ROCKS! We also got several new petrified wood and agate cabs (among others). We have been showing them on our cab lives.

If this email isn't long enough, let's talk March and April - Heads up! We will be traveling ALL of March. We are not yet sure of our last shipping day, probably February 27th. We can't be sure since when we leave is weather dependent. Please plan accordingly. We will resume shipping on or about April 6th. We will probably not resume drilling until we are back from our April shows, so on or about April 22nd.

Read on for Info about our 2026 Gem and Mineral Shows, and Reminders about Important Seaside Stones Things What is coming up? Do we offer personal shopping? Do we offer gift cards? How can you get text message reminders for our LIVE shows?



A LOOK AHEAD TO 2026 GEM AND MINERAL SHOWS - We have no shows in June, but we will probably take a few days off. See our show schedule

We create events for each gem and mineral show (once we have the contract) and for all of our LIVE shows; see our Facebook page.

LINKS and MORE - Visit our event schedule, Facebook groups, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube channel and our website by clicking here.

PERSONAL SHOPPING - Did you know we offer personal shopping services? If you're in search of a particular cab, a cool carving, a pretty pendant, or anything else that we sell, simply reach out to us and we'll gladly provide you with pictures and/or videos.

GIFT CARDS are available on our website...you can point someone there when they ask what you want for your b-day or for the holidays!

LIVE SHOW TEXT REMINDERS - Want a reminder text for our LIVE shows? You can opt in by signing up here. We are only using text messaging for LIVE show reminders. If you sign up, and do not receive a text, let us know. Sometimes phone carriers have extra hoops we need to jump through.

Online orders are subject to MAINE SALES TAX. If you have a resellers certificate or whatever your state calls it (state issued document, not the federally issued EIN document) and you haven’t sent us a copy, please email it to seasidestoneseastport@gmail.com.

TRAVEL IMPACT - We travel periodically for gem and mineral shows, usually from March through November. Please make sure to review the Travel Impact/E-Newsletter section of your invoice to know how our travel will impact shipping (and drilling).