Journal

Diamonds! Girl’s best friend or not so much? I’ve been wanting to talk diamonds for a while but it felt like a daunting topic for many reasons so I put it off. With diamonds being April’s birthstone and considering I used a fair amount of them in my most recent Sacred Spaces collection (I am clearly in the natural diamond camp here), I felt like it was time to dive in.   First off, I’m no diamond expert (so much to learn!) but I notice that the enigmatic diamond can evoke confusion or strong feelings in some customers about where...

            Do crystals really have energy? I thought today I would face a topic I’ve sort of been avoiding. I say sort of because you can see in a lot of my product descriptions that I often casually mention what a stone is known for energetically or metaphysically–but I haven’t really shared too much about my beliefs on this. And when I have a booth set up at an event I will often get asked about the properties of stones. So, shall we? I’ll start by saying that everything in this world is a swirl...

I wanted to write to you a little about one of my top 5 stones, possibly top three though the order may change. I’m talking about opals! The other tops are moonstones and tourmalines but those are for another day. Though opals (and tourmalines) are October’s birthstones, why should we limit ourselves? Opals for everyone.   What I love about the opal is I find it near impossible to be having a bad day, gaze into its dancing rainbow palette, and not feel some spark of joy. I’d go as far as saying it’s a small form of therapy. Please...

                Today I’m honoring and celebrating the mighty sapphire, birthstone of September. I’ve come to use sapphires more and more in my work as I love the range of colors available and the hardness of it–making it a perfect stone for every day wear.  You may have thought, like many do, that sapphires can only be a rich deep blue color. There have been many famous and highly prized sapphires of this color for sure but that leaves out the rest of the rainbow. These stones can be any color–except for red, these...

                            If you’ve been following along you’ll know I don’t highlight every birthstone...I’m not all that into being assigned a stone! I’ll choose my own thanks! But since we find ourselves in August and peridot just feels special to me somehow, I thought I’d dive in and also share some of my peridot pieces. You probably know peridot by its distinct limey/grassy green color and that’s because it doesn’t come in any other! It’s one of the only stones that forms in just the one color, blasting...