Changing Mood Bead Stretch Bracelet created with thermo liquid crystal changing mood beads, copper colored beads on stretch.
What is your Mood today?
Changing Mood Bead Stretch Bracelet created with thermo liquid crystal changing psychotic mood beads, copper colored beads on stretch.
What is your Mood today?
Keep beading – you have a gift.
Thank you again.
Kathy
Changing Mood Bead Stretch Bracelet created with thermo liquid crystal changing mood beads, copper colored beads on stretch.
What is your Mood today?
Rose Floral Sugar-n-Spice Bookmark created with sugar-n-spice seed bead mix, light rose Swarovski Austrian crystals, floral red rose glass beads, ruby cathedral Czech beads, Bali .925 silver, and sterling silver.
BBK07 - $38.00 Silver 18″ – Sugar-n-Spice 10″ Books
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Amethyst Fish Mood Beaded Bookmark created with amethyst fish beads, mood beads, amethyst and violet opal Swarovski Austrian crystals, Bali .925 silver, and sterling silver.
BBK08 - $39.00 Silver 19″ – Matte Brown 10″ Books
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Sapphire Amethyst Floral Bookmark created with a lavender seed bead mix, sapphire and tanzanite Swarovski Austrian crystals, lavender floral imported lampwork glass beads, and sterling silver.
BBK03 - $38.00 10″ Books
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Fuchsia Tanzanite Lavender Bookmark created with lavender seed beads, fuchsia and tanzanite Swarovski Austrian crystals, fuchsia swirl imported lampwork beads, and sterling silver.
BBK04 - $38.00 10″ Books
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Red Gold Swirl Beaded Bookmark created with a red seed bead mix, jet and gold Swarovski Austrian crystals, red black swirl imported lampwork glass beads, and sterling silver.
BBK19 - $39.00 10″ Books
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Gift Maker Magazine
February 2008
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If you own your button, then it can not be pushed! These necklaces are created as symbol to own your own button and it helps to have a reminder at difficult moments that it is my choice to not respond. How many days can you go without letting someone push your buttons?
Jet Dalmation Vintage Button Pendant created with jet and clear white vintage buttons, faceted mystic topaz gemstones, black charlotte seed beads, silver-plated backing.
VBJP21 – $29.95 2 x 2″ Vintage Buttons
Jet Amethyst Gold New Button Pendant Necklace created jet and amethyst buttons, Swarovski Austrian crystals, silver-plated backing.
BJP03 - $29.95 2 x 2″ New Buttons
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January’s Birthstone
Garnet and Auld Lang Syn
written for SWCreations by Stephanie Dray
January’s birthstone is garnet, a stone with an inner fire that defies even the coldest winter days. And the month of January is filled with those. January is named for Janus, the two faced Roman God of beginnings, endings, gates and doors. This is because January pays tribute to the year just past and harbingers the journeys we’ll make into the New Year.
As we make those journeys, whether as trips or metaphorical resolutions, no more fitting birthstone could guide us than garnet. This is because ancient cultures like the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and even Sumerians used garnet beaded jewelry as protective talismans for journeyers. The garnet appears in the bible as the fourth stone in Aaron’s breastplate and Noah is said to have used a garnet lantern to guide his Ark at night.
For those seeking garnet’s sure guidance, garnet beaded jewelry is ideal. But garnet rings are particularly popular birthstone jewelry for January, because a ring represents the completion of the yearly cycle.
So what color should garnet connoisseurs wear?
Blood red garnet beaded jewelry stands out like a blooming rose against January snows; the gemstone’s name itself derives from the pomegranate, a fruit with sparkling seeds that resemble garnet beads. Certainly, deep crimson is garnet’s most popular and iconic shade.
But January’s birthstone can be any shade, and garnet beaded jewelry can be found in a rainbow of hues. For a time, it was believed that garnets came in every color but blue, but the discovery of blue garnets in Madagascar in the 1990s put that idea to rest. Now, smoky blue garnet is amongst the most prized gems both for its rarity and its ability to change color in different light.
Unusually colored garnets each have their own names. For example, purple garnets are known as Rhodolite, mandarin orange garnets are called Spessartine, brown or black garnets are known as Andradite, and emerald green garnets go by the name of Tsavorith. This is to name only a few.
This wide variety of names for January’s birthstone stems from the fact that garnet is not a single gemstone, but rather, a family of related stones. What all varieties of garnet share is a common formation and cubic crystalline structure. Garnets are uniformly brilliant, natural, and durable. Garnets are also amongst the hardest gemstones, rating between a 7 and 7.5 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, and garnet beaded jewelry is generally affordable, making an ideal birthstone.
In fact, there are no known enhancements for garnets, so it’s difficult to fool a consumer with inferior quality garnet beaded jewelry. Perhaps it is this inviolable purity that turned garnet into a symbol for remembrance and faithful friendship. After all, historically, garnet has been a gift exchanged between good friends who are parting, to ensure that they meet again. January’s birthstone is even said to rekindle old feelings.
Thus, in a month when we gather with family and sing of old acquaintances forgotten and never brought to mind, garnet birthstone jewelry stands as a tribute to January’s two aspects–reminding us of the past and guiding us into the future.
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Garnets
January Birthstones
Garnet Mystic Topaz Charm Earrings created with garnet and mystic topaz gemstones, garnet Swarovski Austrian crystals, Bali .925 silver, and sterling silver.
ERGW07 – $41.00 2″ Earwires
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Pink Pearl Crystal Beaded Watch created with pale pink freshwater pearls, opal Swarovski Austrian crystals, tiny pale pink seed beads, Bali .925 silver, sterling silver, and a pink Quartz Geneva watch face.
W07 – $63.00 Watch Length 7½ Inch
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