The Barlow Family

Our Etsy shop is growing!

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Keep your eyes peeled for live auctions, giveaways and live digs. Plus, we’ve got some familiar YouTube stars that will be making cameos in our videos this year. 🤯🤩

The Barlow Family - YouTube Join The Barlow Family on their family adventures as they rockhound Southern Indiana and surrounding areas.

July 9, 1879
Reddington, Jackson County, Indiana

“Mr. Samuel Row,

Dear sir, I have no doubt you have come to the conclusion we are all dead out here. I confess that I should have written you long since, but labor being hard and nights short I have neglected too long anything of importance since the death of Shield.

The widow and her brother are running the farm. She has two hands employed there. From looks, pretty well going on account of their affection and the dry weather never did the old pasture and barn good. It’s so late I couldn’t rent to no one else…”

A huge shoutout to Jamie K for letting us take a gander at this neat piece of local history 🙂

A perfect, whimsical little china piece found in an 1880s/1890s layer. This is going to make an adorable pendant 🥰

I am geeking out over Josh’s find today. I cannot WAIT to turn this into some bathroom decor!

A circa 1880s toothpaste jar lid from England! It is so beautiful and probably my favorite find yet!

Should I make a pendant necklace or ring with this piece of broken 1800s porcelain? 🤔

My inner interior decorator was excited for a moment. 🤩
(Late 1800s/early 1900s)

Josh had a cool find yesterday - an early to late teens (probably 1909 - 1918) Ford Model T Jefferson oil tail light! 🤯 So neat!

It’s the tiny little bum cheeks for me 🥰

Reed’s self dug find of the day 🤩

Check out this circa 1880s flavoring extract bottle glowing radical green under a UV light due to the manganese mineral used in the glass. Manganese usage in glass, for the most part, halted around the 1920s.

Digging old toilets and taking names 🤩

Josh pulled this late 1800s beer bottle today. What a day maker! 🤩

Some heartbreakers we found today 💔
A Duffy whisky bottle (patented 1886)
A broken light aqua med bottle (circa late 1800s)
A piece of a Ball milk glass mason lid
A vintage beer bottle

Today Reedman dug his very first marble and very first insulator. He was pumped! ❤️

Spending the day revamping our Etsy shop for 2023 :)

I wonder what this could be?

Find out at the Small Town Christmas Market on Saturday at the Knights of Columbus building in Seymour from 9-3.

I’ll give you a clue: It’s December 1st and they’re popping up all over shelves across the world. 😉

When Amazon finally drops all of your new journals 🫠

Simply type “Amanda Barlow Journal” in the Amazon search bar to find them!

Or - type “Amanda Barlow Notebook” in the search for the notebook line 🤍

Do you follow us on TikTok? 😊

The Barlow Family on TikTok

We will be at our very first local vendor show on December 3rd! ☺️

🤍 Geode Rock Buddy 🤍
(available for local pickup only)
$15

Includes a natural Indiana geode buddy, a creation card, a cardboard geode home that you can decorate (complete with a window) and a Rock Buddy Journal.

These little buddies make the perfect gift for children. When they’re grown or interested, they can add the geode to their rock collection or crack it open to reveal its magic ☺️

🤍Virgin Missouri Quartz Plate 🤍
(available for local pickup only)
$60

Medium beautiful virgin quartz plate hand mined from the quartz fields of Missouri. This piece has beautiful blue and white agate banding along the perimeter.

Colors are white, peach and coral. Photos do not do this justice - the sparkle is unbelievable.

🤍 Genuine, Hand Mined Arkansas Crystals 🤍
(available for local pickup only)

These crystals were hand mined from Mount Ida, Arkansas and have been cleaned with muriatic acid to rid them of the red iron staining.

These are genuine virgin crystals. We were the first to ever touch them and bring them to the surface since their creation millions of years ago.

Lot 1: 7 ”Arkansas ice” crystals (meaning they are clear). All have inclusions. The crystal on the far right is actually triple terminated meaning it has 3 points on the top (rare). $55

Lot 2: 4 crystals. These crystals range from clear to opaque. All crystals have their “earth roots” (or point endings that were stuck in the matrix - which is the mineral they grow on). $20

Lot 3: Doible cluster crystals. This specimen has light internal iron staining and a slight prism (rainbow effect) in the light. $20

Keep your eyes peeled for a stash of hand mined Arkansas quartz crystals soon 😍

🤍 Giveaway Time! 🤍
(available for local pickup only - Seymour, IN - giveaway will remain open until correct answer is guessed)

🤍🤍 UPDATE: Congrats, Liz, on selecting the winning answer! 🤍🤍

Below is a self collected, small piece of broken geode from Keokuk, Iowa. This piece has a natural, iron stained crystal formation that gives it the rare color of peach or muted coral. The crystals sit atop a thick calcite banding.

How can you win this piece?

On our Facebook story you’ll find a specimen called ‘Auvers-sur-Oise’. Why do you think we chose that name for it?

The person with the closest guess wins this tiny beauty 🤍

Good luck!

🤍 Mini Horn Coral Mix 🤍
(available for local pickup only)

$2 per bag (available quantity: 2)

Geologists claim that before the glaciers swept through Indiana in the ice age, Indiana's limestone bedrock formed 570 - 245 million years before the present. During this time, our continent was much further south, closer to the equator. Temperatures were warmer, and the area was covered by a shallow ocean. The shallow ocean was filled with clams, snails and other animals.

Below are self collected horn coral fossils from glacial outwash in Southern Indiana.

🤍 Mini Indiana Glacial Outwash Mix 🤍
(available for local pickup only)

$2 per bag (available quantity: 11)

Indiana is known for many things, but something you may not know is that Indiana is also the home of 2 major glacial boundaries that stopped melting sometime around 10-15 thousand years ago. These glaciers were theorized to be somewhere in the vicinity of 2 miles deep. The southern most boundary, the oldest of the two, is no doubt the reason your commute from southern to northern Indiana becomes a completely flat landscape.

What you see below is material pulled directly from glacial outwash from the southern most boundary. Glacial outwash is the deposit of sand and gravel carried by running water from the melting ice of a glacier and laid down in stratified deposits.

Inside of these mini bags you can find crinoid stem fossils, horn coral, miniature geodes and geode glitter (quartz crystals that came directly from the interior of a geode). As these bags have small pieces, these items are not recommended for children.

🤍 Natural Quartz Crystal Plant Food 🤍
(available for local pickup only)

$5 per bag (available quantity: 20)

How does a crystal help a plant grow?

A plant will use its grounded energy from the earth to keep the crystal supercharged and renewed, and the crystal will encourage the plant to be healthy and verdant with its high-vibrational energy signature.

These 3.5 x 4.7 mini bags are filled with hand mined, natural broken crystal pieces directly from Mount Ida, Arkansas when we went in July. The crystals are virgin crystals meaning they were pulled directly from the red Arkansas clay or matrix source for the first time in millions of years and have been untouched with any cleaner or enhancer before going into these bags.

Recommended bag quantity for planters:

Small: 1 bag
Medium: 2-3 bags
Large: 3-6 bags