Tonight I uploaded our new Carnelian range bought on my last trip because the quality was just too good to ignore. Carnelian is to my mind a much under rated stone. It stimulates creativity and grounds scattered thoughts. When I left the oil company I worked for and devoted myself to a spiritual life in India a Swami friend gave me a lovely cabochon Carnelian which I set in a ring I'd bought with me. So there I am, travelling through India in my robes and Mala, in a completely alien world with revolutionary new ideas. But looking back I can see that all the time i spent gazing into my Carne...

Geometry is a basic law of Nature - a mathematical Harmony of forces and matter on which our very existence depends. The Flower of Life is one of the best known - for a very long time, since the earliest depiction is found at the Temple of Osiris in Abydos of Ancient Egypt. It and it's component the Seed of Life is said to represent the formation of life from the void. Another equally ancient symbol is the Sri Yantra whose interlocking triangles represent the Union of Masculine and Feminine, God and Goddess. Also primal forces of creation. Wearing this can help your own inner Union and prom...

A friend once referred to Crystal Heart as an Aladdins Cave of Treasures and he spoke well. Other people invest in property and super and good on them. But I'm the Gypsy of the Family. Or maybe it's my past lives as a Pirate - which balanced my many spiritual lives !  I just love travel and gemstones.  Before each buying trip I tell myself to buy less stock. I've got enough !  So I commit to buy only really lovely things.  But I continually find more lovely and irresistable gems. So watch this space because over the next few weeks we've got some more amazing treasures to show you. NEW JEWEL...

Wow. It's really been full on at the Heart since my return. Or should I say just MORE full on than usual  :-D  So the uploads have taken longer and there's still heaps to come. Over the last few days I've uploaded some lovely Peridot. This is the gem quality crystal of Olivine.  Prices of stones do fluctuate according to availability and that's something I really look for on my buying trips. This time there was a lot of lovely Peridot at very reasonable prices so I bought as much as I could ! Peridot was highly valued in the Ancient world, being only sourced from the mysterious island of Za...

  Nuumite has been one of the most powerful stones I've worked with, and at a gem show earlier in the year I came across some rare Blue Nuumite which has just been set in Sterling Silver. There's only a few pieces because out of the kilogram available there were only half a dozen pieces I really liked. Check the stone out here >>>>>   NUUMITE COLLECTION

                                      RUBIES AND SAPPHIRES At Crystal Heart we always prefer big stones - and that's been a problem with Sapphires and Rubies for example. Sure we've maintained stock of Matrix Stones but these aren't gem quality. Until this trip !!! We now have Gemmy Rubies and Sapphires - large sizes and affordable prices. These come from a mine outside Chantaburi, Thailand ( same area as Bridge over River Kwai ) where they've been mined for centuries. The Ruby had run out, but more has been discovered. They all have translucence to varying degrees. The colour is lovely and...