Garnets are the color of India, deep purple red to a paler pinky red. 

Ruby is a clearer red, not as purple, and is relatively expensive, though we do not use the very expensive grade unless it is requested.

Brachiated Jasper has all the colors of the ground, browns and blacks and whites, and shimmers. 

Red Jasper, and Pipestone, feels like turquoise, but is colored like the red earth of California and the southwest.  I have seen these two interchanged -- called the same thing -- but a gemologist told me they are not.  Visually Pipestone is matte, while Red Jasper can be polished to a bright shine.

Bone, whether Water Buffalo or Cattle or other, frequently comes from Bali or other Indonesian countries.  It can look like the white carved goddess, below left, or the hamsas or the bone bar, or even become red-purple!

Mookiate is a simply wonderful stone of browns and rusty browns, and feels good! 

Mahogany Jasper (right) is similar to Mookaite, but with less variation in the color!

Carnelian ranges from pale to dark rusty orange, is usually relatively clear, and can be dyed, enhanced, or natural,  Natural is the most expensive, but all are fairly affordable.

Natural Agate can be the colors of Carnelian, but has a milky quality to it. 

Red Aventurine is a milky reddish-pinkish color!

Citrine is a beautiful deep clear toasty golden!

Unakite is naturally olive green, cream, and rusty orange, and is an amazing stone -- one of Katie's favorites!

Ruby Ziosite is a wonderful mix of greens and reds!

Adventurine is sometimes called "New Jade."  It is very similarly colored, but does not go to the olive-y colors that Jade does, and of course, is not as expensive.   

Peridot is a wonderfully natural-colored Spring-green, shown left.

Green Onyx is dyed, and while translucent, has an element of opaqueness to it.  It is an emerald green color, though not clear, and certainly not expensive.  We like it, dyed or not!

Malachite is certainly beautiful, a deep earthy green with black matrixing. 

Turquoise can be dyed or heated treated, stabilized, or natural.  We do not use dyed turquoise, though we do use stabilized turquoise.  Stabilizing is  heat process which makes the turquoise harder and enhances the color by deepening it.  Turquoise can be deep sky blue, very clear (from Arizona, very expensive), to matrixed (brown colors running through it) blue-green to green-blue, and comes from toher parts of the world as well.  IT IS VERY HARD TO PHOTOGRAPH AND HAVE COME THROUGH ON SCREENS.    We do our best, but if in doubt or very picky please call us and ask!

African Turquoise is more matrixed with black, and so looks a bit more grey-blue, and is very pretty.

Apatite is a beautiful, fairly expensive turquoise-blue transparent stone, and is naturally colored that way. 

Blue Quartz is dyed, transparent, baby blue.  Very pretty. 

Lapis is deep Ultramarine blue to a denim-y ultramarine blue, and may have matrixing of white stone through it.  Pure blue lapis is very expensive, and we use a good grade, but not the very best, or the pieces would be double what they are! 

We often use Sodalite (right) to companion with dark lapis pendants, because it is less expensive, and also very pretty.  Sodalite is a denim blue, and typically has matrixing of black tones through it. 

Amethyst are naturally purple unless we say otherwise, and are not as blue as they sometimes appear in photos.  They range from dark to pale, and we try to describe them accurately.

Iolite is a pretty blue-purple stone, and also is not usually dyed or enhanced. 

Blue Goldstone is not blue, but deep night-time purple, like the infinite sky, wit flecks of shimmer that catch the light, and one of Katie's favorites.  It is also dyed.

Sugalite is deep brilliant opaque purple, sometimes with a matrix of black.  It is expensive and  hard to find in stones!

Lavender Quartz is a pale lavender color, milky.

Moonstone is also a milky white translucent color, with rainbows inside.

  Clear Quartz Crystal, heavy, clear, reflective!

Labradorite is a shimmering grey, with rainbows inside, and is relatively expensive. 

Hematite is sometimes called the Shaman stone, as it has attractive qualities.  We will tell you when we are using "Hematine" which is a reconstituted hematite, most often seen in very perfect shaped stones.  Katie uses it ground into her paints, and can assess that it is a shimmering rusty-earth-dark grey.

Pyrite is a hematite grey with silvery inclusions -- wonderful!

Black Onyx is dyed.

Our Pearls are usually freshwater, and typically come in the colors shown below. 

In ANTIQUE Whitehearts currently we have the following (and check back, because things change all the time!):

The new whiteheart colors we use typically are six basic colors.  This page contains the following colors:

And we use all kinds of Pony Beads, faceted glass beads, etc!