STONE BEADS come in ALL COLORS

I thought I would share this with all you BEAD LOVERS. 

Mother nature provides us with a bountiful array of little stone beauties.  She gives us everything from amber to turquoise, jade to jasper and pearls to fluorite - all which inspire my designs due to their inherent colors and textures. 

Here is a quick reference guide of semiprecious stone beads that has been helpful to me in planning my designs.  I hope you find it useful for your creativity.

Greens - chrysoprase, amazonite, diopside, demantioid, dioptase, enstatite, malachite, green jade, hiddenite, moss agate, peridot, olivenite, prasiolite, turquoise, sphene, uvarovite

Blacks/Grays - smoky quartz, pearl, tektite, labradorite, hematite, black agate, black jade

Reds and Pinks - cornelian, scapolite, garnets, rose quartz, rodochrosite, coral

Blues - aquamarine, amazonite, benitoite, barite, azurite, fluorite, kyanite, lapis lazuli, heliodor, turquoise, lazulite

Browns - sard, spessartite, tiger's eye, fossilized wood

Yellows and Oranges - amber, andalusite, citrine, amblygonite, anatase, orthoclase, phenacite, pryrite, orpiment, marchasite

Purples - tanzanite, amethyst

Whites/Milkys - hambergite, moonstone, opals, pearl, coral

All of these stone are available in their organic/natural state or can be cut and polished. 

The choices are limitless - they really are!

Lets CREATE!