I have been working with the healing properties of gemstones since I was a child (though only "officially" since 1996). I have studied with many great teachers over the years and in that time, I have seen the miraculous effects these powerful tools can have when properly applied. I believe that we are all on our own quest, and that the Earth provides us with all the glorious tools we need to accomplish any goal we can possibly envision. I have created my jewelry using some of these tools in order to help you accomplish your dreams and goals!

In recent years I have also developed quite a fascination with vintage and antique jewelry. I enjoy collecting and studying pieces from various time periods and all different parts of the world. In my shop you can find vintage reproductions, genuine vintage and antique jewelry, and my own designs which have been influenced heavily by this admiration of other times and places.

Here is an ever-growing list of stones I work with and some of their basic properties (I promise to complete and organize this list very soon):

Blue Lace Agate: Element - Water; Chakra - Throat (5th); Keywords - Calming, Communication, Clarity, Confidence

Moss Agate: Element - Earth; Chakra - Root (1st) and Heart (4th); Keywords - Stability, Persistence, Grounding

Amazonite: Element - Water; Chakra - Heart (4th) and Throat (5th); Keywords - Truth, Communication, Harmony

Amber: Element - Earth; Chakra - Solar Plexus (3rd); Keywords - Light, Warmth, Solar energies, Clarification, Healing

Amethyst: Element - Wind; Chakra - Third Eye (6th), Crown (7th) and Etheric (8th and beyond); Keywords - Protection, Purification, Divine connection, Release from addictions

Aventurine: Element - Water and Earth; Chakra - Heart (4th); Keywords - Vitality, Growth, Confidence

Calcite (Honey): Element - Fire and Wind; Chakra - Root (1st), Solar Plexus (3rd), Third Eye (6th); Keywords - Clarity of insight and action, confidence, persistence, intellectual power

Calcite (Orange): Element - Fire; Chakra - Sacral (2nd), Solar Plexus (3rd); Keywords - Creativity, Sexuality, Playfulness, Confidence, Innovation

Carnelian: Element - Fire; Chakra - Root (1st), Sacral (2nd), Solar Plexus (3rd); Keywords - Courage, Vitality, Sexuality, Confidence, Action

Citrine: Element - Fire; Chakra - Root (1st), Sacral (2nd), Solar Plexus (3rd); Keywords - Manifestation, Personal will, Mental clarity, Creativity

Coral: Symbolizes life and blood force energy. Dark red coral is used for heating and stimulating the bloodstream. Pink shades restore harmony to the heart. It is used as an aid to depression, lethargy or deficient nutrition

Dioptase: is a powerful stone to awaken love and compassion and to heal emotional distress. The beautiful green ray of dioptase makes it a heart stone on many levels.
Dioptase supports the emotional heart, strengthens the physical heart and awakens the spiritual heart.

Garnet: The Garnet is known as the stone for a successful business. If your business is not as good as it should be, just put 3 or more garnets on your desk. It is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression. Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewelry. It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. The Garnet is a stone of purity and truth as well as a symbol of love and compassion. The information released in a search may be painful, but it will always be what the searcher needs. The Garnet will help everyone's security level and spiritual awareness.It can help increase the sex drive.

Goldstone: is an energy stone. Red goldstone is associated with vitality and energy, while Blue Goldstone is associated with learning and communication.

Hematite: Used to improve relationships. If you need your personal relationship to be better, carry a hematite with you always. Hematite is also good for increasing intuition.
Hematite can be in direct contact with the skin, but results in inflammation for some people, so test it on yourself before frequent use.

Howlite: A super-calming stone and many people use it to releive stress of all kinds. It makes an excellent antidote to insomnia due to an overactive mind. Focusing on a piece of howlite can assist in journeying outside the body and gaining insight from past lives. Placed on the third eye, it opens memories of previous times and lifetimes.

Jade: An ancient stone that has historically been used to attract love.
Jade can also be used to bring money into your life. Create a positive attitude towards money and visualize yourself using money creatively and productively while holding the stone in your power hand. When making an important business decision, use the prosperous energies of jade by holding it while contemplating your course of action. Jade strengthens your mental faculties and assists in clear reasoning.
Jade is also a protective stone, guarding against accidents and misfortune. Place a piece of jade between two purple candles and let the candles burn for a short while. Then carry the jade with you as a protection amulet.
The soothing green color of jade makes it a wonderful healing stone. It helps the body in self-healing while working through underlying, non-physical reasons for a precipitation for disease. It is particularly helpful for kidney, heart and stomach complaints.

Labradorite: Chakra - All; A power stone, allowing you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals. It is excellent for strengthening intuitions. Stimulates imagination.

Lapis Lazuli: is an ancient gem, and as such, has a storied history. Egyptian cultures made a practice of burying a lapis lazuli scarab with their dead, and believed it to offer protection. The very earliest cultures valued lapis lazuli more highly than gold. Greeks spoke of an ancient sapphire which was included with gold, and this was unmistakeably lapis. Some believed that dreaming of lapis would foretell love that would be forever faithful.
When working or meditating with Lapis Lazuli, it can bring matters more clearly to the mind. It is one of the most powerful stones and should be used with care. Wearing a Lapis Lazuli ring can help you to become a channel. The ancient Egyptians used Lapis Lazuli as a symbol of Truth.
Healing properties of Lapis Lazuli:
Lapis Lazuli has high intensity and can open many of the chakra centers. This must be done only with love in the heart, comprehension in the mind and wisdom in soul.

Leopard Skin Jasper: Associated with shaman travel and spiritual discovery. It helps you to connect with your spiritual animal totem and traverse between the worlds in order to learn the lessons of your personal totem.

Malachite: Believed to be a strong protector of children. It is said to protect the wearer from accidents and protects travelers. Malachite has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations. It is a stone of balance in relationships.
Malachite has been called the "mirror of the soul". It is variable in its condition. It reaches the inner feelings of the person and reflects what is there, negative or positive. It is so beautiful that one would like to wear it in jewelry, but caution must be used when wearing Malachite. It will always reflect how you feel, if you feel negative don't wear Malachite. It reminds us that we have a dual nature and it is up to each person to know and rule his own person. To help get rid of nightmares, keep a piece of Malachite in your bedroom.

Moonstone: Brings good fortune, assists in foretelling the future, enhances intuition, promotes inspiration, brings success in love as well as business matters, offers protection on land and at sea. The moonstone is associated with the moon and was the stone of the goddess Diana. The most powerful time to use the moonstone is in a full moon.

Mahogany Obsidian: Has a gentle energy that will ground and protect its owner. Use it for strength in times of need, to remove energy blocks, and give new life to your purposes and goals. Healers use it to relieve pain and improve circulation.

Ocean Jasper (also called Orbicular Jasper): An unusual jasper found only at a remote location on the coast of Madagascar that can only be mined at low tide!
The positive vibrations of Ocean Jasper make it a stone of joy. Element - Earth; Chakra - Solar Plexus, Heart and Throat; Increases expression of love in words and actions. Gently brings into focus the positive aspects of one's life. Brings relaxation and cooperation to the home or workplace.
This powerful stone lifts negativity so one can fully appreciate blessings.

Opal: Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Encourages living authentically in feeling and action, with faithfulness and loyalty. Helpful for eyesight and during childbirth.
The Opal contains the colors of all other stones. It can be charged with every type of energy for use in magic spells. Opals have been carried for invisibility. They are also a protection stone used during astral projection.

Pearl: Chakra - Solar Plexus; Stimulates spiritual transformation, promotes prosperity and success, encloses you with an aura of calm and beauty, helps with stomach, digestion and emotional stress, amplifies focus, meditation skills and wisdom.

Peridot: Was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who considered it a gift from Mother Nature. Napoleon once made a gift of peridot to Josephine as a symbol of undying love and admiration. In ancient times, it was said that a dream about peridot foretold impending danger.
Peridot is a stone of lightness and beauty. Used in a necklace, peridot is a protector against negative emotions.

Prehnite: is a stone of unconditional love. It is said to connect to the archangel Raphael. Prehnite enhances inner knowledge, showing the path forward to spiritual growth through attunement to divine energy.
Prehnite connects the will and the heart. In so doing one's actions attain the highest good.

Rhyolite: Assists in fulfilling your goals and dreams, and helps you to know the right path from a soul level.
Facilitates deep meditation. Strengthens soul, body and mind. Integrates the past with the present for past life healing. Increases self-esteem and leads to a full acceptance of self. Ignite your potential and creativity with rhyolite!
As a healing stone, rhyolite fortifies the body's natural resistance, gives strength and improves muscle tone.

Seraphinite: Promotes regeneration and self-healing. This stone is especially beautiful with its silvery white shimmering patterns on a sea green background. It's name is derived from the Seraphim (Angels of the highest order) and this stone is used to establish connections to the angelic realm. It carries these vibrations: Greater awareness of the Divine Feminine, restoration of health and balance, connects the physical with the angelic realm, encourages living from the heart. Seraphinite is found only in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia.

Smokey Quartz: A protection and grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world. It enhances organizational skills and is good to have around in the workplace or home office. Smokey Quartz is connected with the sounds of the universe. It makes you more aware of sounds including telepathic sounds. Smokey Quartz helps relieve depression.

Snakeskin Agate: This unusual agate resembles the skin of a snake in appearance. Its energies promote strength in times of excessive activity. It also encourages a pleasant personality by providing inner peace and an appreciation for the simple joy of being alive. As a result, users of snakeskin agate experience increased cheerfulness and self love as well as a renewed love of life.
Create invisibility by becoming lost in a crowd. Assist in the reduction of worrying. Promote self esteem and self-awareness. Aids in finding lost items. It has been used to initiate the rise of the kundalini (the feminine, dynamic, energetic and creative aspect of the universe from which all form is born). It is used in the treatment of hearing problems and stomach disorders. It has also been used successfully to diminish wrinkles and to soothe the skin.

Sodalite: Brings inner peace. Keep sodalite in your pockets and in every room of your house, so its peaceful properties will flow all around you.
Sodalite is the stone of athletics, as it stimulates endurance. It is said sodalite will harmonize the inner being or the conscious and subconscious mind. Sodalite promotes peace and harmony. Sodalite is extra lucky for writers.
Sodalite is associated with the thyroid. It is perfect in a necklace. Wear it when you want to loose a few pounds. It helps in communicating and will give confidence to speak more.

Sunstone: Symbolically linked to moonstone. Carry the two stones together to bring the influences of the Sun (Healing, Protection, Success) into harmony with those of the Moon (Love, Peace, Spirituality). Gives the wearer extra energy when ill or under stress, stimulate sexual arousal and increase sexual energy, increase self-healing power, promotes harmony among the organs functions. Sunstone stimulates your personal power of attraction.

Tiger Eye: Allows you see everything. Use it for insight and you can be a very lucky person. When used in jewelry the tiger eye may bring good luck and protection from the evil eye to the wearer. It also known to bring clear thinking and insight.
Tree Agate: Common name for Dendritic Agate. It is known as the stone of plenitude. Place this ball anywhere that you want to encourage abundance and fullness.

Tiger Iron: A banded stone consisting of layers of tiger eye, jasper and hematite. The name comes from the combination of tiger eye and iron-rich hematite. Along with tiger's eye it is mined primarily in South Africa and Western Australia.
Tiger Iron is a stone of courage, strength and stamina. It stimulates the root chakra. With its powerful combination of the vitality of red jasper, and the balancing effects of hematite, tiger iron makes a very powerful grounding and protective stone. Excellent for body builders or anyone who wants to build up physical strength. Reinforces health patterns. Encourages creative expression (great for musicians and actors). Focuses your will and mental clarity.

Turquoise: Carries great wisdom of basic truth within it. It is one of the oldest stones known. This is a stone that a person must learn to attune to instead of the stone attuning to the person. It is important that the owner of a Turquoise give it the proper attention.

Unakite (or Epidote): Can be used to draw off negative energy and blockage from the Heart Chakra. Unakite is said to lift your spirits when you are feeling down - this is the gemstone to help you to see the beauty in life. It is also used to uncover deception. Used in magic spell casting, unakite will give the user a more confident control of any spell, and the user will find things that have been lost.

Zoisite: This powerful stone transmutes negativity into positive energy. It relieves lethargy and boosts physical energy. It offers stamina to the mental processes, facilitating advancements of the wearer's goals. Ruby often grows in zoisite matrix and the addition of ruby creates an energetic combination of stones helps to reach and maintain trance states, stimulating the mind and and powerfully amplifying both mental and psychic talents. It helps the wearer to maintain both their individuality and their connection to others, as it awakens the crown chakra.