The summer rains have finally come back and brought a 🌈 🌈!!! What a show here in Southwest Colorado! 🤩

The core questions on Etsy DO NOT MATTER. You can answer the same core questions and get different results. It’s the category in the listing form (which is totally screwed up!) that determines the new Etsy criteria. Here’s the same listing - one is “handpicked” the other is “made by”.

Happy 4th of July for those in the USA! I just happened to pick patriotic colors for the garden I just built! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Crushing up minerals associated with copper deposits today! Beautiful azurite and malachite with minor chrysocolla and shattuckite.

Lapis Lazuli was just added to the shop!!! This lapis has excellent deep royal blue color and is one step below my premium lapis, consisting of approximately 15-20% calcite. This lapis is more affordable and still has the INTENSE violet-blue color when wet. 💙💜💙
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I have been working on bringing different crushed shells to the shop! This material will be great for your beach sand jewelry projects. I just added 1) super flashy silvery-cream abalone and 2) orange and purple Mano de Lion shells. 🐚 🦁 🐾

After a really long social media break, I am back! I had a pretty severe ankle injury early this year (fully dislocated) that kept me down and out. 🥺

I do have some exciting plans for this year that I am excited to share... But first I just wanted to say HI👋. I missed y’all. ❤️

Happy Equinox everyone! Getting excited for planting our heritage orchard soon. We purchased over 15 heritage trees and berries as our Christmas gifts for our off-grid build.

The next fancier mineral is a GEMMY idocrase (vesuvianite). This one has great color once sealed and is limited stock. It reminds me of jolly rancher green! 🤤🤤🤤

Just finished crushing and listing some of the fancier minerals that I got from the 2023 Tucson Gem and Mineral show. Blue Chalcedony (Grade A+) is up first! This material is super clean and has a light periwinkle blue. 💙

Here’s the completed inlay on our stairs! The crushed chrysocolla has been allowed to cure, then it was sanded, and then coated with polyurethane. It’s a beautiful way to preserve cracked wood.

This is one of my spoiled schmoopies, Béla. 🐶 She really wishes we could cuddle all day. She lives under my desk 😂

Picking through a batch of rough Mali garnets. These beautiful garnets are rare (grossular-andradite) and have great color! When the weather is warmer, they will be crushed into tiny pieces for your jewelry projects!!! 💎

Being creative this weekend and inlaying our tiny home stairs with my chrysocolla! This punky piece of wood was salvaged and milled by my partner. I love wood with holes and cracks - inlay makes them even better!!! Can’t wait to see it after it is cured, sanded, and polished!

Hi! I am Missy, the owner of Maker’s Minerals. I crush minerals and gems into tiny pieces for makers and artists. I am so happy to be here. I hope we can create a supportive space for each other! 🤩🤓

This is me in my crushing attire. Totally glamorous, I know! 😂