New Pendants Coming Soon!
Below are a few pieces I am currently working on. These will eventually become wearable pendant necklaces. The selections below are some of my favorite stones to work with and I can’t wait to share the creations! If you see something you like, or would like to discuss, simply reach out via the Inquiries section or email me directly at quietalchemyllc@gmail.com.
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Petrified Wood "Fragments of a Lost Forest"
Long before the present landscape existed, ancient conifer forests grew across what is now the American Southwest. Over the course of more than two hundred million years, those trees fell, were buried by shifting sediments, and slowly transformed as mineral-rich groundwater replaced the original wood with stone. What remains today are quiet relics of that vanished world containing such details as growth rings, grain, and cellular structure that are still preserved within chalcedony and iron-stained minerals.
This particular lot reveals that transformation in several beautiful ways: translucent gray interiors where silica filled the wood’s structure, warm amber and rust tones created by iron deep within the earth, and intricate fracture lines where stone healed itself over time. Each piece is a preserved moment of deep geological time. As they are carefully cut and shaped for future jewelry, the hidden patterns within these ancient trees will emerge again, not as wood, but as enduring stone shaped by patience, pressure, and time.
Canadian Labradorite “Light Trapped in Stone”
Namibian Blue Lace Agate “Echoes in Layered Stone”
Blue Lace Agate forms in silence. Layer by layer and over immense spans of time, mineral-rich water moved through hidden spaces in ancient volcanic stone, leaving behind delicate bands that seem almost too precise to be accidental. The result is a stone that feels calm by nature, not because of what it represents, but because of how it came to be.
Each piece carries a quiet continuity, a rhythm set long before it was ever found. As these stones are shaped and prepared, their soft blue layers emerge more clearly, revealing patterns that feel both structured and fluid at once. They are fragments of a slow process. A process that did not rush, force, or break. Only accumulated, in deep time.
Labradorite does not reveal itself all at once. The true color is not on the surface, rather it exists beneath, waiting for the right angle, the perfect light, and the opportune moment. What appears at first as stone silently and quickly becomes something more only when the proper conditions align.
Inside, thin layers formed under pressure long ago now interact with light in a way that feels almost intentional. Blue, gold, and green emerge, then disappear, never fixed, never constant. As each piece is shaped, that hidden structure is brought into alignment, allowing the stone to do what it has always done. Which is to reveal only what it chooses, and only when it chooses to do so.
Tiger Iron “Solid Foundation of Deep Time”
Tiger Iron is not a single stone, but a convergence. Iron, silica, and time pressed together until distinction became pattern. What began as layered sediment and mineral deposits was transformed under pressure into something unified. A solid layer that is not blended but aligned.
Within each piece, opposing elements remain visible: reflective and matte, dense and translucent, dark and warm. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is forced to become something else. As it is shaped, those natural divisions are not removed, rather they are revealed. Tiger Iron does not resolve its contrasts. It holds them in place, exactly as they formed. Solid foundation of deep time.