Signups are open for 2025!

Do you like interesting rocks and learning things? Do you like shiny objects and/or your friendly neighborhood wirebender being gleefully geeky about stuff like chatoyancy and schiller and inclusions? Would you like to get a package of those things in your mailbox every month?

Pretty Rocks Club is a year-long monthly subscription that brings you one-of-a-kind handmade jewelry with a focus on, well, pretty rocks. I dreamed it up at the end of 2019 as a way to introduce people to stones that I don't normally use (sometimes because they don't photograph well, sometimes because I wanted an excuse to play with new-to-me stones) and honestly, it was the best part of 2020 for me, and 2021 was a lot of fun too. 2022 was a deep dive into the quartz family, 2023 was focused on feldspars, 2024 was inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, and 2025 will be "Fun With Fibers."

Signups are open as of December 3rd, and will close in early January. Pricing is on a sliding scale from $25 to $40 per month, with a discount if you choose to prepay for the entire year.

Every month I sit down with a batch of beads and turn them into shinies for people, and then I send them off into the world along with a note about that particular stone - if you've read my blog or hung out on my livestreams or just been around for a while, you know that I tend to go off on tangents, and this project is no exception. It's always fun, it's usually educational, and it's very, very shiny.