A-Z Folk Properties of Stones

At BeadLuxe Make Your Own Jewelry we value stones for their beauty, meanings and their historic significance and properties. Let us help you find these stones in BeadLuxe Collections! Our retails stores in Summit, NJ and Bedminster, NJ offer a vast array of beads and gemstones that carry meaningful sentiments. You can also purchase personalized jewelry at www.beadluxe.com that showcase birthstones and gemstones with meaning.

Below are a selection of stones from A-C. We will follow up with more stones in future blogs so stay tuned to the BeadLuxe Blog.

Agate (Blue Lace)- Diminishes signs of aging, such as arthritis, and boosts overall health. Promotes inner peace.

Agate (Crazy Lace)- Promotes laughter and good mood. Absorbs emotional pain.

Agate (Moss)- The “gardeners’ stone”, said to give one a “green thumb”. It promotes growth, healing and prosperity.

Agate (White)- Relieves stress, provides protection, increases courage

Amazonite – Enhances communications concerning love, balances the body to promote health.

Amethyst – Facilitates psychic perception and enhances meditative state. Promotes understanding and acceptance.

Apatite – Enhances creativity. A stone for teachers and those who need to communicate intellectually. Known as the “Humanitarians’ Stone” as it encourages this aspect of one’s personality.

Aquamarine – Promotes courage and spiritual awareness.

Aventurine (green) – A stone of motivation, leadership and action that helps one make decisions. Enhances the creative and pioneering spirit. Brings luck and prosperity. Emotionally calming.

Aventurine (peach)- It helps with decision making and can boost creativity.

Biotite – Leads one to rational judgments and balanced assessments while discarding irrelevant details.

Bloodstone – A “stone of courage”, helps one to accept change. Helps one to renew oneself and “start over” and make important decisions- a stone of recovery.

Bronzite – Promotes unbiased, unprejudiced love for humanity.

Carnelian – Protects one from negative emotions and provides spiritual inspiration.

Chalcedony- (includes Chrysoprase, Carnelian, Onyx, Sardonyx, & Jasper) Brings balance, brotherhood, good will– said to bring out the best in people.

Chalcedony (blue)- Helps resolve difficult situations, instills patience.

BeadLuxe Make Your Own Jewelry retail stores are workshops and boutiques where you make beaded jewelry from a huge assortment of beads and gemstones and shop for fabulous beaded merchadise made by local, national and international artists and craftspeople. BeadLuxe is also New Jersey’s premire beading event venue, host to birthday parties, ladies nights, bridal showers, book clubs, scout troops and corporate, school or civic club events.

BeadLuxe, know for stylish, unique and custom-made beaded jewelry is now available on-line featuring its most popular items such as the BeadLuxe Nomen Sterling Silver bracelets personalized for moms, grandmothers, young ladies or sweethearts, and the BeadLuxe Sentiments Charm Necklaces which feature themes such as Mother, Friendship, Luck, Adventure and Baby.

Personalized and sentimental jewelry are some of the most popular items at the BeadLuxe retail make your own jewelry stores. BeadLuxe On-Line makes purchasing some of these items for yourself or giving them as gifts is as easy as a click of a mouse. The elegant and easy to navigate BeadLuxe web-site and e-commerce store was created by Dither Dog LLC of Brooklyn, NY. Available on-line are our most popular items such as the Personalized Sterling Silver Mother's Bracelets, the Sentiments Charm Necklaces which feature themes such as Mother, Friendship, Luck, Adventure and Baby and the versatile BeadLinx Gemstone Necklace.The online store allows you to choose the style, names, clasp, size and birth-stones for the Mother's bracelets, Grandmother's Bracelets and Sweetheart Bracelets, making the on-line experience as close as you can get to actually making it yourself at one of the BeadLuxe stores. Purchasing these items for yourself or giving them as gifts is as easy as a click of a mouse.

For details visit on-line at www.BeadLuxe.com or contact the stores as follows:

319 Springfield Ave. Summit, NJ 07901, 908.598.9111
428 US Hwy 202/206 N., Bedminster, NJ 07921, 908.901.9800