Cranial Meltdown Revived

Lava Jewelry is fully stocked on July’s gorgeous birthstones: ruby and carnelian. I have tons of styles available in both stones, and remember that I love to do custom work, so please contact me if you’d like something different in ruby or carnelian for a July birthday.
Ruby is one of the five precious gemstones (diamond, […]

As a jewelry-maker, I have the unique privilege of working with some really tiny tools. I wanted to share a picture of one of my tools with my blog readers. It is a drill bit that I use in jewelry-making (see photo below). Yes, indeed, I have to do some very tiny, detailed work at […]

I went to Yosemite over the weekend with a couple of friends. I have spent a lot of time at Yosemite in the past, doing geology. Two of my professors at San Jose State had a grant studying the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite in the park. (Feel free to ask me about the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite. […]

I hit 1000 sales in my Etsy shop this week! Woo hoo!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my wonderful customers. Seriously, I must have the best customers in all of Etsyland. You’ve been an absolute delight, collaborating to make custom jewelry for you, and providing me with extremely generous and […]

June’s birthstones include moonstone and pearls. Lava Jewelry has beautiful pearl and moonstone jewelry for those June birthdays. Because pearls are not a stone, and volumes and volumes could be written on pearls, I’m going to focus on moonstone today.

Moonstone is a form of a mineral called adularia, which is an orthoclase feldspar. (Was that […]