Blog of Lava Jewelry / Zbella

I’ll be selling my jewelry and candles at two events in the next two days: Art on the Square, Redwood City Date: Friday, August 28, 2009 Time: 5:00pm – 8:30pm Location: Courthouse Square City/Town: Redwood City, CA Redwood City is fast becoming the peninsula’s epicenter for the arts with new galleries and great places to […]

Mark your calendars! I will be selling at two different events this upcoming week: Date: Friday, August 21, 2009 Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Downtown Campbell Street: E Campbell Ave City/Town: Campbell, CA The Downtown Campbell ArtWalk is a casual, “tour-on-your-own” style art walk. This is a great opportunity to visit with the artists and […]

Prehnite is another gemstone that seems to be surrounded by some confusion. I have seen prehnite referred to as a type of garnet, or as an alternative name for tourmalated/tourmalinated quartz. I have also seen prehnite consistently misspelled as phrenite, pernite, and prenite. Prehnite is not a type of garnet or quartz; it is a […]

Vesuvianite is a gem form of the mineral idocrase. Vesuvianite is usually an olive green color, but idocrase also occurs in yellow-brown and pale blue. It is a complicated calcium aluminum silicate mineral, with a wide range of compositions and therefore physical properties. It has a Moh’s hardness of 6.5 (which is comparable to quartz), […]