Friendship Necklace Trio | Rose Quartz + Strawberry Quartz + Amazonite

For saying the true thing, calmly.

Amazonite is a blue-green variety of microcline feldspar, and its name carries a small mystery: it was named for the Amazon River in the 1800s, yet no gem-quality deposit has ever been confirmed there. The name simply stuck, long after the geography stopped making sense. Most of what's sold today comes from Brazil, Madagascar and Russia.

Its colour comes from trace lead and water in the crystal lattice, and the best pieces show fine white feldspar streaking through the green like veins in marble. It's one of the oldest ornamental stones on record — turquoise-green amazonite beads were found in Tutankhamun's tomb.

Amazonite is worked with for honest communication — the stone people carry into a conversation where the truth needs saying without an edge. It sits with the heart and throat, the two centres that have to agree before honest words come out gently.

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

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."

For joy that's easy, not effortful.

Strawberry quartz is clear or milky quartz flecked with fine red inclusions of hematite or lepidocrocite, scattered through the crystal in a way that genuinely resembles strawberry seeds caught in ice. Most of what's available comes from Brazil and Madagascar, and the density of red inclusions varies considerably from piece to piece, with the most sought-after specimens showing an even, generous scatter throughout.

It sits alongside rose quartz and green aventurine as one of the lighter, brighter members of the quartz family, more playful than deeply intense.

Strawberry quartz is worked with for joyful love and optimism — a lighter emotional register than rose quartz's steadier devotion. 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.