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Our Arts and Crafts Show Schedule

Mount Laurel - Saturdays 8 am - 1 pm through August.

NEACA Fall Show - September 17, 18, 19 in Huntsville's Von Braun Center

Homestead Hollow Harvest Festival - Springville, AL, October 1, 2, & 3; 9 am - 5 pm

Homestead Hollow Christmas In the Country - Springville, AL, November 5, 6, & 7; 9 am - 4 pm

 

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Gemstones

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     Yes, we probably do!

Looking for a different size, stone, color or metal?  We probably have it in stock, or we can make it for you.

We are updating this page with a current list of what we have in stock, but the general rule of thumb is that if it’s a semiprecious gemstone bead or a Swarovski Austrian crystal, we have a wide selection in stock and can get just about any color or gem you have in mind.

We usually work with sterling silver, 14kt. gold filled or 14kt rose gold filled.  This is also true for most of the charms and crosses we use.  Some bead caps and our Renaissance reproduction  elements are in pewter and gold-finished pewter.
Agate is a strong, durable stone with alternating bands of color and lighter shades or white. Shown are black (or black lace), red (or red lace) and blue lace agates. Agates are said to balance physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual energies. It will also bestow perceptiveness, strength, inspiration, and will help awaken talents.
Abolone usually occurs in brilliant hues of blue and green. It has the spiritual properties of mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, and cooperation.  
Amazonite enhances success, joy, self-expression, awakening heart, soothing, harmony, and balancing. Baltic amber is a beautiful stone that glows brilliantly in sunlight. Since it is fossilized tree sap, it is also a very soft stone. Its spiritual properties are Soothing, calming, and cleansing.

Amethyst, the birthstone for February, bestows upon the wearer contentment, spirituality, dreams, healing, peace, happiness, love, intuition. It is a beautiful purple stone.

Aquamarine bestows courage, purification, peace, intuition, self-expression, balance, and preparedness.
Green aventurine is often mistaken for jade. It is asid to have the following spiritual properties: healing, mental agility, visual acuity, peace, opening heart, motivation, leadership, and ability to acquire money.

Peach Aventurine has similar properties to green aventurine.
Azurite enhances intuitive energy, dreams, healing, insight, stilling the mind, concentration, and the ability for self transformation. Bloodstone is a deep green stone with patches or streaks of "blood" red. It enhances courage, intense healing, renewal, strength, victory, and intuitive decision making.
Carnelian enhances precision, analytical capabilities, physical energy, verbal skill, peace, spirituality.

Cinnabar, as a "gemstone" is a manufactured stone using the natural stone Cinnabar. Its softness makes it ideal for carving.

The natural stone is a scarlet colored sulfide of mercury. It is very heavy and fragile.
Citrine is very closely related to amethyst and has many of the same properties. Its spiritual properties include intuition, comfort, protection, creativity, physical energy, wealth, and mental awakening.

Coral comes in a variety of colors. Here we show the blue and the red. Sometimes coral is dyed or color-enhanced. The spiritual properties are diplomacy, quieting emotions, and visualization.

Emerald has the spiritual properties of love, domestic bliss, sensitivity, loyalty, memory, mental capacity, harmony, focus, and eliminating negativity.

 Flourite is a calcium halide. Impurities cause a rainbow of colors to occur - yellow, green, blue pink, purple, and black. It is a semi-hard stone (mohs 4). It is strongly flourescent under uv light. It is found primarily in Europe and North America. It enhances stability, impartial reasoning, responsibility, concentration, and health.
Fossil Stone has the spiritual properties of accomplishments, improvement of one’s environment, communication, and innovation. Shown is an ammonite fossil. Garnet enhances Health, removing negativity, awareness, commitment, regeneration, order, and insight.
Hematite is an iron oxide, very heavy and hard. It is a very shiny black and may have dark red streaks. It is found primarily in North and South America. Its spiritual properties are mental attunement, memory, calming, balance, focusing energy and emotions, peace, inner happiness, transforming negativity. Howlite is a white stone with a gray matrix. It takes dyes very well and is often dyed to look like another stone. Its spiritual properties are awareness, calm, emotional expression, observation, patience, and eliminating negativity.
Jade (Jadeite) is hard, heavy, and tough. Jadeite is the most valuable of jades. It is translucent with vitreous luster. It is found in significant quantities in Burma, Tibet, southwest China, Guatemala, California, and Japan. Jade (Nephrite). Bright green, semi-translucent, uniform nephrite. Jade of this quality is becoming increasingly difficult to find, so its value is becoming greater. Among the ancient Mayans and Aztecs, jade was the stone of magic - meant to be worn by priests, kings and gods.

The spiritual properties are: fidelity, dreams, realization of potential, peace, accord, resourcefulness, accomplishment.

Jaspers are sedimentary rocks and come in many varieties, including: fancy, ocean, autumn (shown far left), red (shown), poppy, lemon, picture, Picasso, zebra, Kambaba, leopard (shown), dalmation (shown far right), Chinese picture, and others.

Spiritual properties include protection, nurturing, joy, awareness; balancing of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies.

 Labradorite is a translucent gray stone with flashes of blue and silver. It is generally found in Norway, Labrador, and Russia. Its spiritual properties are alignment, spiritual connection, transformation, clarity, peace, progression, and discernment.

 

 .Lapis denia (denim lapis) and lapis lazuli. It is said to enhance wisdom, intuition, awareness, objectivity, clarity, creativity, expanded consciousness, dreams, purity, courage, and serenity.
Malachite is a semi-hard stone which gets its bands of green color from its copper content. It is found primarily in Arizona with many secondary sites around the world. It aids with transformation, insight, clarifying emotions, fidelity, loyalty, and practicality.

Moonstone is a pale, translucent stone. It is shown in peach and rainbow. Spiritual properties include introspection, reflection, beginnings, insight, tenderness, harmony, peace, and travel.
Mountain jade is not a true jade, but is a high grade of dolomite marble from asia. It is a relatively hard stone that is often color-enhanced. Here it is shown in green, red, turquoise, coral, and lapis colored stones. The spiritual properties are: charitable actions, original thinking, alleviation of sorrow. 
Mother of Pearl has the spiritual properties of mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, cooperation. Obsidian is a black, shiny, glassy stone found primarily in recent lava flows. Its spiritual properties include clarity, deflecting negativity, protection, and healing. Pictured is snowflake obsidian, noted for the gray "snowflake" pattern.
Onyx (black) enhances self control, decision making, intuition, and recognition of personal strengths.

Opal is a hard, light or very light stone. It is very fragile. There are several variations, differentiated by color. Its spiritual properties include creativity, spontaneity, relationships, memory, happy dreams and changes.
Pearls come in many varieties, including freshwater and saltwater, river, and several colors. The spiritual properties include purity, faith, charity, innocence, integrity, focus, wisdom, spirituality, sincerity, and fertility. Shown is an osmena pearl.

Peridot is the August birthstone. It enhances warmth, friendliness, understanding, openness in love and relationships, and regulation of cycles.
Quartz crystal is a hard and light stone. It is transparent to translucent with vitreous luster. It was once thought to be petrified ice. It is highly prized by collectors. Its spiritual properties include intensifying energy, spiritual development, healing, raising consciousness. Rhodochrosite is a heavy, semi-hard stone, but which is fragile. It can be found in many places around the world, including Colorado and Transylvania.
Rhodonite is a deep pink tending toward brown with characteristic veins and black marks. Its spiritual properties include peace, generosity, and attention to details. Rose Quartz is a pale pink, and is found primarily in California, Maine, and Brazil. Its spiritual properties include love, peace, happiness, gentleness, healing emotional wounds.
Ruby represents nurturing, spiritual wisdom, attainment of values, economic stability, and protection from distress. Sapphire embodies joy, peace, beauty, intuition, prosperity, and fulfillment of dreams.
Serpentine, sometimes mistaken for pale jade, is a semi-hard and light stone. Its spiritual properties include fidelity, dreams, realization of potential, peace, accord, resourcefulness, and accomplishment. Smoky Quartz is a light or dark brown to black stone. It has been found in Brazil, Malagasy Republic, and Scotland. It has also been found in fissures in the Alps. Its spiritual properties include dissolving emotional blockage, clearing the mind, cooperation, personal pride, joy in living, attentiveness to the moment, and protection.
Sodalite is a hard, light stone. Rhe largest deposits are in Canada, Maine, and Arkansas. The spiritual properties are wisdom, logic, calmness, healing, stress reduction, companionship, and self-esteem.
 Tanzanite has the spiritual properties of communication, intuition, protection, symmetry, decision-making, and spirituality.
Tiger Eye contained fibers which make it optically polarizing. Its spiritual properties include practicality, peacefulness, clarity, intelligence, intuition, new experiences, financial stability, calmness, and releasing inhibitions. Topaz is very hard, heavy, and fragile. The largest deposits of topaz are in Brazil and Siberia. Deep yellow varieties are found in Burma and Sri Lanka. Its spiritual properties include true love, success in endeavors, understanding of interrelationships, expression of ideas, trust, health, personal expansion and growth.
Turquoise enhances spiritual attunement, cleansing, healing, protection, valor, soothing, peace of mind, guidance through the unknown, and romantic spontaneity. Unakite is said to have the following spiritual properties: Balance, re-birth, foresight, emotional balance.