Crystal Bonsai Tree Rose Quartz on Amethyst Base

For the mind that won't switch off.

Amethyst is quartz turned violet by traces of iron and natural irradiation over millions of years. Colour runs from the palest lilac at the base of a point to a deep royal purple at the tip — and in chevron amethyst, it bands with white quartz in sharp V shapes you can trace with a fingernail.

It has been the stone of clarity since antiquity. The Greeks named it amethystos, "not intoxicated," and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief it would keep the head clear. Medieval bishops wore it on the hand that gave blessings.

Amethyst is worked with for calm and for clear thinking — the two usually arrive together. It sits with the third eye and crown, the centres associated with insight and perspective, which is why it turns up in almost every meditation practice and on almost every bedside table.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast. Nothing leaves as just a stone.

Keep it where you rest or where you think. It's a settling stone, not an activating one.

For the heart, in every sense people mean that.

Rose quartz gets its colour from microscopic fibres of a mineral related to dumortierite threaded through the quartz — which is why the pink is cloudy rather than transparent, and why it ranges from almost white to a deep dusty rose depending on how much of it is there.

It has been carved into love talismans since at least 600 BC in Mesopotamia, and Egyptian women were buried with rose quartz face masks in the belief it preserved the complexion. It is, by some distance, the most given crystal in the world.

Rose quartz is worked with for compassion — and not only romantic. It's the stone people reach for in grief as often as in new love, and for self-forgiveness as often as for someone else. It sits with the heart.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Keep it where you sleep. It's a soft stone in every sense."