August Birthstone: Peridot

Peridot with moonstone or amethyst.

 Peridot is a symbol of fame, dignity, and protection.It is the traditional birthstone for July. 23 - Aug. 22  and is a gift for the 16^th wedding anniversary

Peridot with an ocean jasper pendant

Healing ability: Increases strength & physical vitality. Protects against nervousness and aids in healing hurt feelings. It helps liver & adrenal function. Thought to protect lungs, sinuses, and wrists from illness and injury.
 

Peridot with ocean jasper pendants. The two on the right have sold.

Mystical power: Helps dreams become reality. It is believed to attract love. Calms a raging anger. Dispels negative emotions, and promotes sleep when worn to bed. Legend has it that pirates favored it to protect them against evil. Brings the wearer success, peace, and good luck.

Close up of ocean jasper pendants

Recent Work - Peridot

Peridot is a symbol of fame, dignity, and protection. It is a birthstone for July 23 - Aug. 22  it is also the wedding anniversary gemstone for the 16th year of marriage.

The earrings on the right are small peridot stones. SOLD

 Healing ability: Increases strength & physical vitality. Protects against nervousness and aids in healing hurt feelings. It helps liver & adrenal function. Thought to protect lungs, sinuses, and wrists from illness and injury.
 

Center stone on this one is an amethyst. SOLD

Mystical power: Helps dreams become reality. It is believed to attract love. Calms a raging anger. Dispels negative emotions, and promotes sleep when worn to bed. Legend has it that pirates favored it to protect them against evil. Brings the wearer success, peace, and good luck.

As always the stone trivia provided here is not meant to serve as medical advice. 

August and September Birthstones

Two of the birthstones for August are Peridot and Sapphire. September stones include sapphire and agate.

Peridot is a symbol of fame, dignity and protection. It is the anniversary stone for the 16th year of marriage.
It is said that it can increase strength and physical vitality. It can protect against nervousness and aids in healing hurt feelings. Physically it helps liver and adrenal function and is thought to protect lungs, sinuses, and wrists from illness and injury. Mystically it helps dreams become reality. It is believed to attract love. It calms a raging anger, dispels negative emotions, and promotes sleep when worn to bed. Legend has it that pirates favored it to protect them against evil. It brings the wearer success, peace, and good luck. All have sold.

I don't have any sapphires, but I do have a pretty dark blue chalcedony that could work for a September Birthday. Sold.

 Chalcedony is a variety of quartz. It is believed to banish fear, hysteria, depression, mental illness and sadness. Chalcedony reduces fever. Wearing chalcedony is believed to be excellent for eyes. Mystically chalcedony prevents from touchiness and melancholy. It is worn by many to promote calm and peace. Chalcedony also stimulates creativity.

And I have several agates that would make lovely birthday gifts. 

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Agate is a cooling stone. It reduces fever, quenches thirst, and is beneficial in stomach area. It quiets pulse and heart throbs and insures good health and a long and prosperous life. Mystically it guards against danger. It has grounding, centering and balancing properties. Wearers become temperate, continent and cautious. It helps one view themselves with more clarity and see the world through a broader viewpoint. Wearing agate is believed to cure insomnia and to insure pleasant dreams.

Moss Agate (the three bottom photos): Aids circulation, pancreas & pulses, and blood sugar balance.

Mystically it is believed to create abundance, success, and prosperity. This protective stone is also known to boost self-confidence and self-esteem. It stimulates perception, awakening an individual to the truth of a situation. It works on healing bitterness and pain caused by events in the past and fosters the courage to pick ones self up and start again.

As always this information is presented here for fun and is not meant as medical advice. 

This Weeks Work

I am busy trying to get ready for my home show and the start of my show season. Repair and improvement of displays and signage, going through my inventory, adding new pieces to go with orphans and finding time to make new items. My first public show is Wenatchee so that got me thinking I need to add to my turquoise selection for all the cowgirls out in that area. Here are things I have created in the last week.

All have been  SOLD

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A springy combination of periodot, amethyst and turquoise with a handcrafted loop and bar toggle clasp.

All have sold.

The inlaid bear pendant I picked up a trading post in New Mexico a number of years back.(SOLD)

I picked up the African trade bead in Austin Texas. The clasp is a handcrafted loop with a flat piece of coral a friend brought me back from Bali. A true international necklace! 

This turquoise and Magnesite necklace uses a button in the toggle clasp.

Re-New

Sometimes a necklace hangs around for a bit and I decide that it needs a change - something about it is just not quite right. That is what happened with these two. For the green one, I decided that the pendant needed something else - so I added a lovely piece of Russian Jade. For the amethyst one the pendant I had was not the right scale - it needed something with more ooomph. I changed the pendant to this nice piece of lepidolite. All have been  SOLD

 

  

  

 

Oak Leaf

This necklace is a mix of Periodot chips and black seed beads with a gold plated oak leaf pendant. Necklace $45, matching earrings $8. All have been SOLD.