Jewelry

Jewelry

Unlike paintings or collages, jewelry is seasonal.  It is based on fashion-trends.  Styles can vary according to the trends for the particular season.

Unfortunately, the fashion industry is run by a select few individual fashion designers and countless promoters.  Not all “high” fashion is suited to all people, and all body-types.  This is my one concern!

My daughter jokingly calls my jewelry “hippie-stuff”.  She keeps telling me to use materials in my designs that are the current trend, such as ribbon.  Another suggestion, made by a friend, was to make my work Native American. This was because I used to live on the reservation. 

My goal and purpose is to combine healing with beauty.  I chose stones for their qualities, and chose the metals to utilize within a piece, as well. There are very few non-natural materials involved.  Even glass is a natural material (silica is a form of "sand").

The styles I chose to use in the creation of my jewelry are more classic in design.  The term, “classic” is used to describe a more ageless design. Within my jewelry the emphasis are the stones and metals. 

Only recently have I began to integrate portions of my paintings within the jewelry designs.  At first, I had a real inner battle.  Do I use resin? Or do I use glass to encase the imagery? Glass won out, because of it natural components.

Healing Properties of Semi-Precious Stones

HEALING PROPERTIES OF 

SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES FOUND 

in

Gaia’s Adornments

Agates: grounding [Earth energy], brings security, heals the broken heart, calms

Fire Agate: ignites passion

Moss Agate: Eliminates depression caused by imbalances of the left and right brain. Helps intuition: for intellectuals it assists access and opens; for intuitive persons, it assists in grounding the process.

Adventurine: Enhances prosperity and creativity, positive attitude, heals the heart

Carnelian: Restores vitality, aids business success, alleviates apathy

Citrine: Brings wealth, success and joy, brings inner calm

Hematite: its primary attribute is for grounding, protecting, balancing energies.  It also boosts self-esteem, aids concentration, focus, willpower, and confidence.

Howlite: increases memory, teaches patience

Malachite: “Stone of Transformation”, draws out deep feelings of hurt and resentment, breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns of behavior, clears and activates chakras, and absorbs negative energies

Opal, and Moonstone: Balances emotion

Red Coral: the female's stone-for all feminine issues

Jasper: Generally a energy enhancer.  It has the quality of bringing problems into the light.

              Lilac Jasper: helps with issues of the heart, especially for nurturing compassion.
              Red Jasper: This stone is a supreme nurturer, it brings tranquility, protection, and grounding, aids quick-thinking
              and organizational abilities. 

Rhodochrosite: This is the “stone of selfless love and compassion”.  It improves feelings of self-worth, integrates spiritual and material energies, expands consciousness, clears the solar plexus chakra, enhancing dreams.

Tiger’s Eye: Balances emotions, promotes clear intensions, heals self-worth

Turquoise: healing (throat chakra), protective, enhances spirituality, balances the energies of earth & sky, assists communication [spiritual and mundane]