Blog — semi precious

Bloodstone  Happy Birthday to our Spring babies! This is the first month of the year to be represented by two stones: Aquamarine and Bloodstone. As such we will be discussing March birthstones in two parts, we will begin with discussing the beautiful and eerie Bloodstone. The Blood stone is a very dark blue/green stone speckled with bright red giving the stone its blood namesake. Bloodstone is actually a form of jasper which has pockets of iron oxides giving the red hue. No two bloodstones will look the same, a stone could have heavy iron oxides in it or none at all. This results in some stones...

                                              February Birthstone  Happy Birthday to all children of February! The stone that belongs to this month is the beautiful purple crystal you may all recognize: Amethyst. This purple crystal is unique in the way it grows; at the base of the stone each amethyst crystal begins a bright pale color or sometimes even transparent. As the crystal grows, its color deepens and produces various shades of purple from lilac to lavender all the way to deep violet....