Silicates Mineral – Rose Quartz

The Mineral Rock
The most important chemical group of minerals, silicates make up about 25% of all known minerals and 40% of the most common ones. As well as being a major mineral component of the Earth, they are also significant constituents of lunar samples and meteorites. Quartz, feldspar, and mica, the predominant competent of granite, are silicates.

With a color unique among gems, rose quartz is probably the most popular of the quartz varieties. Its pink hues have adorned ornaments and jewelry for centuries. Most rose quartz is found in the cores of pegmatites. It is nearly always found in massive or lump form, crystals are extremely rare. The translucent or transparent pink variety of crystalline quartz, known as rose quartz will seldom exceed ½” in length. The cause of rose quartz’s pink tine is thought to be due to tiny impurities of manganese, titanium or iron. Care must be taken, because it is heat sensitive and can fade to gray with prolonged exposure to air or sunlight.

Like other forms of quartz, rose quartz is also prone to inclusions. Rutile needles can create asterism, but most asterisms appear when light is shown on a stone, with rose quartz the asterism is only visible when light is viewed through the stone. Most rose quartz is too cloudy to be faceted and instead is cut as a cabochon, beads or carved into a wide range of ornaments. Transparent specimens who are as pale as to almost colorless are very rare and valuable.

The Legend & Traditions
According to legend, Eros brought rose quartz to the earth in the hope that its beautiful color would arouse love and desire among people. Rose quartz is said to have traditional properties to improve sleep, stimulate blood flow and circulation; psychologically, it is said to strengthen friendships, combat lovesickness and open the mind to beautiful things. It symbolizes trust, love, peace and happiness, gentleness, and aiding the affairs of the heart and healing emotional wounds. Rose quartz is linked with the sun sign of Taurus.

Browse our collection to find your next treasured wearable earth!

*Research from various mineral-crystal-rock books.

All New

These little gems are all new, some have been snapped up already and sold! Natural gemstone jewelry, customized to reflect your personality. Check out Timeless Designs for these and other exotic and uniquely handcrafted pieces!

Tri-strand floating freshwater coin Pearls with a beautiful MOP pendant with the blister pearls still intact!

Be bold in red Brecciated Jasper mixed among gunmetal spacers and black metallic square seedbeads.

A switch of classy and stylish with this little number; exotic Argaonite Agate, Sandy Opals and brass wire work highlighted by charmed dangle earrings.

Mixing red hot Coral with black Onyx and silver is a spiced up accent to casual or dressy attire.

Tucson in Review

A week in Tucson, the weather was great at about 80 degrees everyday; vendors were wonderful and I was able to find many new and unusual stones for new designs this year! Whew, it was a wild and long week, hand picking thru all the merchandize, looking for that perfect strand that reflected the personalities of many of my great clients!

The week started out by visiting across the freeway from the Tucson Convention Center to the Street Vendors….miles and miles of vendors selling wears; anything from raw materials strait from the mines, polished undrilled stones to strands of beads; for as far as the eyes could see! The afternoon was spent at JOGS a favorite buying ground for many wholesale purchases. They play host to many international dealers from as far away as Poland for Amber to China for Pearls and many great U.S. dealers from AZ, NM, TX, CA, and NY. Here you could find many types of stones, finished jewelry pieces and geodes of many shapes and sizes.


The next several days included highlights to GL&W shows Gem Mall and Holidome, JGX (a miniture AGTA show), and back to JOGs and the Street Vendors.

Many great finds from deep red coral, apple red sponge coral, turquoise, ivoryite, pipestone, white magnesite (howlite), lapis, crystals, freshwater cultured pearls, agates, jaspers, pendants, copper, sterling silver and gold vermeil findings and on the very last day I was able to come across some Wild Horse Magnesite – WOW, what a find direct from mine!!



I’m very excited to begin designing with the unusual cuts, colors and stones that I found in Tucson! In the coming weeks I’ll be premiering the designs here on the blog and also on our website. For now, I’ll be busy over the next few days getting everything inventoried and then begin working in the studio!


In the meantime, over the next few weeks we will continue to mark down and deeply discount existing designs to make room for our new ones! Get in on some great deals while you can, before the original pieces and Sale are gone gone gone!

Chocolate & Cherries – New Design

This brand new design created this week, is a little classy and a little sassy. Made from a combination of natural gemstones in Chocolate Jasper and Cherry Quartz; each Jasper stone has been accented with pewter filigree end-caps and I’ve captured the Cherry Quartz in silver toned wire cages. Between each section are triangle shaped seed beads in a pink lined color. This fun classic is 23” (58cm) long with matching earrings dangling at 1” (2.5cm). This is a one-of-a-kind piece and if you are interested in purchasing please contact me.

Check out my online Etsy shop for more designs available for purchase.