Monthly Birthstone Color Guide-Purple garnets and brown sapphires? YES!

Birthstones come in a variety of shapes and sizes and even colors! This great infographic shows the range of colors, including the lesser known ones.

The Folkloric Meanings of Monthly Birthstones

Traditional Meanings of the Best Known Birthstones Associated With Each Month

January – Garnet signifies everlasting friendship and trust.

Birthstone Posts by *DHD

Here are all the birthstone blogs that I have listed for the entire year. Now that I have come full circle I thought it was time to put them all in one place for ease of use. I hope you find this helpful.

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Birthstones by day of the Week

Birthstones for the Month of July

Birthstones Month of July

The glowing ruby shall adorn,

Those who in July are born;

Then they'll be exempt and free

From love's doubts and anxiety..

~ Tiffany & Co. published this poem and others for each month for the first time in a pamphlet in 1870.

Ruby in Zoisite cabachon, Star Ruby oval cut gemstone, Raw Ruby gemstone and Emerald cut ruby gemstone

Emerald Cut Peridot, Raw Turquoise, Pear cut sapphire, Tumbled carnelian agate, Black onyx cabachon

Sun Signs:  Cancer-Ruby   Leo-Peridot

15th- 20th century- Turquoise, Onyx

U.S. (18th-19th century)- Ruby

U.S. (*modern)- Ruby

Britain (modern)- Ruby, Carnelian

Hindu- Sapphire

*The American, National Association of Jewelers met in Kansas and officially adopted a list which was and; is used as the “modern” version of birthstones with very limited changes.

You may also like some other birthstone posts from this blog:

January  February   March   April   May   June
July   August   September   October   November   December

Birthstones by day of the Week

Why I do what I do

Recently I was asked what it was that drives me to create jewelry. I had a really simple answer which was, "I just want to make pretty things that make people happy!"

                                    

Hazel flutters around the new necklaces displayed at Artzfest