I am a pearl girl. The way pearls manipulate light is magical and ethereal. This is why so many of my recent pieces are pearl-heavy!...

Diamond Family: Diamond Color: Colorless (D-Z Color Scale); Rainbow Shades (Fancy Colored Diamonds) Mohs Hardness: 10! (Diamonds are the...

Aquamarine Family: Beryl Color: Greenish blue to blue Mohs Hardness: 7.5-8 Seawater has a mystical healing power. The gentle lap of the...

It's the most magical time of the year when the jewelry industry's A-list suppliers and designers ascend upon the desert with their...

Amethyst Family: Quartz Color: Bluish purple to purple to reddish purple Mohs Hardness: 7-7.5 This month we celebrate purple people with...

Garnet Family: Garnet Color: Red, Green, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Pink, Purple, Gray, Black Mohs Hardness: 7-7.5 Garnet GLORIOUS Garnet!...

Tanzanite Family: Zoisite Color: Blue to violet to bluish purple Mohs Hardness: 6-6.5 While working in education at Tiffany & Co., one of...

Citrine Family: Quartz Color: Yellow to orange to brownish orange Mohs Hardness: 7 November Babies, I know that many of your were...

Topaz Family: Topaz Color: Multiple: Yellowish orange to orangy red to Red, Yellow, Pink, Blue Mohs Hardness: 8 November Babies: I have a...

Tourmaline Family: Tourmaline Color: Multiple Mohs Hardness: 7 – 7.5 October Babies, you love your opals, but you also have a second...

Opal Family: Opal Color: Multiple; Translucent to Opaque Mohs Hardness: 5.5 – 6.5 Happy Opal Birthstone, October Babies!! The Romans gave...

Sapphire Family: Corundum Color: Violetish blue to blue to slightly greenish blue (But also: "Fancy Colored Sapphires" are ALL of the...

Spinel Color: ALL of the Colors. ALL of them. Mohs Hardness: 8 (WHAT?! That's really hard!) I think it is fairly safe to say that Spinel...

Peridot Family: Olivine Color: Yellowish-Green Mohs Hardness: 6.5 – 7 Ok, so August is almost over, as is summer, but it's never too late...

July Birthstone: Ruby Corundum Mohs: 9 With a luscious red hue, rubies, the birthstone of July, are the ultimate symbol of love and lust....

It's still June, so that means: It's still Pearl Time! There are thousands of varieties of mollusks in the world, but only 20 varieties...

It is Week 3 of the month with the best birthstone, Pearl. With every pearl being created by an individual organism, affected by various...

It’s still pearl month and I am basking in the luster of my favorite organic gemstone (Shhh, don’t tell my middle name, Amber, that...

Emerald Family: Beryl Color: Bluish Green - Green Mohs Hardness: 7.5 – 8 (Great for everyday wear… With care!!) Happy May! It is...

This past week, I had the incredible pleasure of jetting to the jewelry industry's desert oasis for the Tucson Gem Show, spending a large...