Scuba Diving For Shark Teeth I’ve been making jewelry featuring prehistoric shark teeth including megalodaon teeth. This started after I began diving in the gulf off Venice beach. These teeth date back to the Miocene and Pliocene eras. In plain…
Any of you who know or follow me probably know I enjoy cycling. The cardio is good for my health. It impresses me that the human body can be the “engine” for the bike. The fact that the human body…
This of you who know me, know I try to do a lot of networking. As a result I’ve talked to a lot of other photographers like me fighting for every job. Through my networking a lot of other creative…
Lake Communicators awarded tom-szabo.com an APEX Silver Award for it’s redesigned website in the Digital Media: Website – Business To Consumer category for 2018. Lake Communicators is a professional organization for marketing communications professionals serving northeast Ohio. The organization promotes and…
Home Town Notecards Some of you know about the recent launch of Home Town Notecards at tom-szabo.com. The cards feature iconic landmarks in Lake County. The first series depict buildings surrounding Vetern’s Park in Painesville. I am very excited to…
Think Lighting There is no doubt the growth of cell phone camera technology has sent the entire world out trying to play photographer. So often the images posted to social media are almost indistinguishable. One of the main culprits is…
Valentine Portrait Package – 2018 Most couples will celebrate Valentine Day with flowers, candy, dinner or maybe all of these. All of these are great ways to enjoy your time together. However, at the end of the day all you…
You can give a very special gift for Valentine Day this year. Of course there will be a lot of jewelry shopping this year, but tom-szabo.com offers something truly different. Consider jewelry spotlighting prehistoric fossil jewelry from teeth and bone.…
Cyber Monday Coupon Happy Cyber Monday shopping! This coupon is good for 20% OFF your total cart amount. Customer may use this coupon code for 2 purchases. Expires: November 27, 2017 at midnight. Use Coupon code: cybmon17
Shop Small Shop Small – The Christmas Season is just around the corner. So let me challenge you to Think Small. That’s right, look around for small businesses to support this season. In doing so, check out the tom-szabo.com on…
I think someone came up with a great idea and named it “Halloween In The Alley”. The festivities run from 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 28, 2017. The Downtown Painesville Organization has the details on their Facebook…
Photographer – So I’m doing some research on an image I created. This caused me to go to the Garfield Home website. I stumbled upon a photography event at the Garfield Home, part of the US National Parks. Here’s a…
NEW PRODUCTS Product Update! I hope you enjoy my announcement about the expansion of the tom-szabo.com online store! Two new product departments have been added. NOTECARDS Customers have encouraged me to add a line of notecards to the store. The…
Earring(s)! The Ocean Sands earring inventory has been increased in the tom-szabo.com jewelry store. The new pieces are made using prehistoric Manatee Bone. This specimen material dates back to 2.5 to 26 million years ago. Material Recovery Specimen materials are…
EVENTS – It’s August 2017. You may be thinking it’s time to prepare the kids for school. Oh no, there goes the checking account! Let’s take your mind off that for a while and think about some fun things to…
New Day Cleveland – I hope by now you know that my jewelry line Ocean Sands has just been featured on a local TV show, New Day Cleveland, local channel Fox 8. I really had a blast working with the…
TV – Holy Crow, this is exciting news! New Day Cleveland filmed at the Painesville Farmer’s Market recently. The producer stopped by my booth so we could talk about my jewelry line: Ocean Sands. That discussion turned into a recent…
Network. Eastern Lake County Chamber of Commerce Here in Lake County Ohio, we have a couple great resources to help grow your business. The first is Eastern Eastern Lake County Chamber Of Commerce. Especially important, if you think paying your…
Mixed light photography My wife Diane and I love the beach at Siesta Key, Florida. Anyone who has been to this beach raves about the white powder sand. As a photographer, I’m often left out of pictures. Which is OK.…
Shell Enhances Shark Tooth! Sometime prehistoric shark teeth can look a little bit lonesome. On my last visit to the Gulf side of Florida, I started picking up some nice shells on the beach. My mind started to wonde;r how…
New Earring Designs I decided to add earrings to the Ocean Sands line, so then I purchased a small packet of “fish hook” style wires. This seemed like the easiest way to see how my fossils might look as earrings.…
Archeology? Think about the adventures of Indiana Jones. How many of you recognize the name Jaques Cousteau?? In case you don’t, Jaques was a diver and environmentalist that dove all over the world and brought us some of the worlds…
In Lake County, Ohio we have a lot of marketing/communications professionals. Many of them belong to a local organization know as Lake Communicators. Every year, the organization publishes a directory of members (yes, some folks still like hardcopy) and list…
UPDATE – Since this post was released, the Megalodon Tooth Necklace inventory has been expanded. An additional 4 pieces have been added. All the new pieces are large in size and include some on leather. Happy shopping! Hey Guys, you’re…
Pieces, NEW For Ocean Sands! Tom’s fingers have been poking away at the keyboard here at tom-szabo.com. At this point, the on-line store for Ocean Sands jewelry has the following categories: Bracelets Earrings Manatee Bone Necklaces Shark Tooth Necklaces Whale…
I am truly excited to announce the opening of the Ocean Sands On-Line store by tom-szabo.com. You can go directly to the store at: At this time you can view and purchase Necklaces and Earrings. The first lot of inventory…
Infant Portrait Session. So there’s this girl, NO, NO, NO, not like that! Shannon belongs to the same networking group as I. Gosh we’ve known each other for years and years. I feel like her brother. I can’t say Father…
A sea shell beautifully surrounds a prehistoric shark tooth necklace with two white pearls by Tom Szabo. This Ocean Sands necklace is new to the line of jewelry by tom-szabo.com. Here are the details: Prehistoric shark tooth weighting 1.1 grams…
NEW DESIGN Earrings! tom-szabo.com announces the release of a NEW earring design. The initial set is made of: 2 – Prehistoric shark teeth, approximately .6 Gms each. Tooth length: 11/16″ to 3/4″ Mounting: 20 Ga. round silver plated wire Earring…
Hints: Best Ever If you’ve my blog posts regarding photography, you’ve heard me almost if not full on RANT about the flood of marketing hype on technology vs art. I’m a firm believer that buying a new set of paints,…
Starfish and Coffee is now a new retailer for the tom-szabo.com Ocean Sands line of jewelry located in downtown Painesville. Bethany Homrighaus the owner of Starfish And Coffee is very excited about her new location (the former Your Vine Or…
tom-szabo.com releases four more pieces of jewelry from the Ocean Sands line. Releases include pre-historic whale and manatee bone and two shark tooth necklaces. All four have 18 inch silver plated 2,2 mm cable chain necklaces. They range in price…
Shark Tooth Necklace Take a BITE out of your Christmas shopping with these new additions to the Ocean Sands line of jewelry. tom-szabo.com is happy to announce the addition of some new pre-historic tooth necklaces. Until now, most of the…
Commitment To Craft Those of you who know me are probably aware of my commitment to my craft – Photography. I’m willing to help people solve a problem. I use this medium to share tips and techniques. Yes, I’ll give…
Black Friday 2016 Holy Cow, Are you kidding me? Black Friday is almost here. Where did summer go? I know it’s the middle of November, but I’m still hanging on to summer by wearing sandals. I know at some time…
NEWS: Jewelry Outlet Announcement tom-szabo.com announces the Ocean Sands line of Jewelry is now available through CraftSmiths in Perry, Ohio. Artist Tom Szabo turns his hobbies into business opportunities. In addition, the photographer and scuba instructor has added jewelry to…