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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 1d

Our registered trademark for RCK HND is official as of today!! (But backdated to last year when we filed 🙄😅)

So excited!!!

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 8d

Also also, the ROCKHOUNDS NEVER DIE, THEY ONLY PETRIFY as a vinyl decal (see above)

Rockhounds Never Die They Only Petrify Vinyl Decal

A tried and true rockhound saying, now available as a solid color vinyl decal and ready to apply! Two sizes available: 8.75" wide by 5.6" tall, and 6” wide by 3.8” tall! Designed and manufactured in O...

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 8d

Also, the Jolly Rockhound now as a solid-color vinyl decal (in a DIZZYING DAZZLING ARRAY OF COLOR OPTIONS)

Jolly Rockhound Vinyl Decal

The Jolly Rockhound, now available as a solid color vinyl decal and ready to apply! Two sizes available: 10" wide by 8.75" tall, and 6” wide by 5.25” tall! Designed and manufactured in Oregon.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 8d

New things in the shop as we prepare for (hopefully!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻) an influx of visitors from our very first advertisement 😱

Including… this (sorry-not-sorry, space friends.) Also available in two other shirt styles, and as a sticker.

#rckhnd #rockhounding #nasa #rocks

ROCKS Meatball Logo Gildan Unisex Classic Tee

Please note: this brand of shirt is more "classic fit". If you prefer a slightly fitted softer look, see the Bella+Canvas version. For a v-neck, click here. If you obsess over space and rocks in equal...

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 19

Hometown Heroes event in Port Orford, OR was a really fun time! Met some folks, sold some rocks, bought the most beautiful loaf of sourdough I’ve ever encountered. (Seriously.)

2 Rock Nerds booth, with our original crazy agate banner because we haven’t gotten a new RCK HND one yet. It hides the top of our “10x10” canopy which clearly isn’t actually ten feet wide grr. It is still a drizzly morning at this point.

So many flats of polished specimens and lovely agates for sale, polished by us (mostly Danielle.)

Yes I took a portrait-setting photo of this beautiful sourdough boule with leaf patterns cut into the sides, don’t judge me. It smelled and tasted INCREDIBLE.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 19

It’s a beaut! 😍

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Jeremy Sell @jeremysell.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Sideling Hill roadcut in western Maryland is a textbook example of a syncline. Here the sedimentary rock bedding has been folded into a U-shape by compressive tectonic forces. The corresponding A-shaped anticlines on either side have been eroded away. I-68 west of Hancock Maryland, 02 Nov 2010.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 17

My first thought was, wow that’s a CRAZY piece of Willow Creek.

…but it DOES look like a sandwich. 🤔

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.

The caption says it's Willow Creek Jasper, but it looks like meat and pickles and onions and sauce on a flatbread

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 13

Btw this is crazy, last year we did one small holiday bazaar and this year we’ll have done… eight? 🤪

Eight? 🤔 Oh I forgot one.

11/22 - RAGMS Holiday Gem, Rock & Jewelry Bazaar, Crater Rock Museum, Central Point, OR

RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 13

Vendor schedule:

8/16 - Hometown Heroes 5K, Port Orford, OR

9/13-14 - Florence Gem & Mineral Show, Florence, OR

9/27 - Made in Southern Oregon, Central Point, OR

10/25-26 - Springfield Thunderegg Club Gem Show, Springfield, OR

(Tentative) 11/1-2 - Rogue Gem & Mineral Show, Grants Pass, OR

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 11

Guess what? Buy two stickers (or more), get free shipping. Check them out here: rckhnd.com/collections/...

Sticker #17 dropping shortly!

Stickers

Let’s go look for rocks! 🪨 Quality geological and rockhounding tools, original rockhound clothing, geology stickers, rock pun merchandise and more, handmade with care (and lasers!!) by two nerdy peopl...

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 11

Also we made a shirt. rckhnd.com/products/per...

Periodic Table of Lickability Gildan Unisex classic tee

The 100% cotton unisex classic tee will help you land a more structured look. It sits nicely, maintains sharp lines around the edges, and goes perfectly with layered streetwear outfits. Plus, it's ext...

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Aug 11

You may find yourself asking, “can I lick this rock?”* We’ve taken the periodic table of elements and made a color-coded key to danger levels. Now available as a sticker! rckhnd.com/products/per...

*Please don’t lick rocks. 🪨
#rockhounding #geology

Periodic Table of Lickability Clear Vinyl Sticker

The age old question : can I lick this rock?* This helpful periodic table is color-coded to guide your choices, available as a clear vinyl sticker! 5” wide x 2.6” tall! Designed and printed in Oregon....

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 27

RCKHND.com is back online and ready to serve your geology-nerd needs! Check it out! It's shiny!

@planetaryartist.com wants you to know that many recreational hours died to bring you this informa... WEBSITE.

RCK HND™ - Let's go look for rocks!

Let’s go look for rocks! 🪨 Quality geological and rockhounding tools, original rockhound clothing, geology stickers, rock pun merchandise and more, handmade with care (and lasers!!) by two nerdy peopl...

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 26

While I rebuild our website (because the checkout inexplicably didn't work, SORRY, SO SORRY), let me show off a new feature we're proud to offer: custom laser engraving on your Estwing tool of choice! Shown here is my new engraved Burpee Pick (a smaller version of the Geo/Paleo Pick, with magnets!)

The back of the Estwing Burpee Pick, a small one-handed version of a bladed pick axe. The hand tool is powder-coated in blue metallic paint over stainless steel, with a rubberized textured blue handle. There are three rare-earth magnets embedded in the head in a triangle pattern. Engraved on the concave angled neck in a large script is the name "Gonturan", with "the Blue Sword" in a smaller, serif, Art-Nouveau styled font.

Close-up of the custom engraving on the concave angled neck, showing the large script "Gonturan" and "the Blue Sword" in an Art-Nouveau styled font. Because a pretty blue rock pick can be a sword, and I'm a huge fan of Robin McKinley's Damar series.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 22

So today we discovered the checkout for RCKHND.com wasn’t working, had not been working, despite having tested okay and changing nothing. We’re putting it back on our previous e-commerce platform so the buying-things part actually works, and we’ll be back in a few days. So sorry. So embarrassing.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 18

We are both lapidary artists: Nate does stone intarsia (piecework in stone) and cabochons. I mostly polish specimens. We love to #rockhound. I'm the president of our local rock club, the Roxy Ann Gem & Mineral Society, which oversees Crater Rock Museum in Central Point, OR. #SuperNerds

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 18

I am also an artist (@planetaryartist.com) who does a lot of space and geology art. I'm a lot of things. But this account is where you'll get more of the geology end. My husband Nate and I are both graphic designers and rock nerds, hence the RCKHND merch, and we volunteer at our local rock museum.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 18

So by way of introduction: hi, I'm Danielle. I use my geology degree to entertain and educate (to the point of annoyance) rockhounds on field trips, and my Graduate Gemologist diploma to help friends with their jewelry purchases, and (often) disappoint strangers by correctly identifying their gems.

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 18

Me: explains new sticker idea
Me: "see, it's a geology groaner!!"
Him: "yeah... I don't think many people will get it."
Me: nods enthusiastically

RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 18

Oh oh oh, it's MAGIC! When you figure out why your custom handle stopped working (forgot I updated my DNS to Cloudflare.)

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 17

Mostly I post at @planetaryartist.com but I need to plug RCKHND more because we have SO many fun things in the works and we’re trying to spread the geology/rockhounding love.

This is what happens when two graphic designers decide to make merch for their hobby because there really isn’t any 😂😅

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RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 17

Finally, a pun solution to my sticker problem. 🤔 #TheWorldNeedsMoreGroanerGeologyStickers

Prof Col Macpherson @colinmacpherson.bsky.social · Dec 20

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: Oh that’s my fault. It’s normal.

#GeologistProblems #geology

Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · Dec 20

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: Oh, that's just a crystal lattice defect #GeologistProblems

RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · Jul 17

Ahahaha thank you! We need to print more of those, sold out at a sunstone event last month! (Which I’m very remiss in posting pictures of. 🤦🏼‍♀️)

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