Inspiration, Again  …

I finally went ahead and started an inspirational blog to post pages from the many notebooks unto whose pages I have emptied all the crazy or maybe creative ideas that continue to fill my head. These notebooks have evolved over the years and they now seem to be part diary, part journal, part scrapbook, and many parts unidentified! And if that weren't enough, I seem to have started to incorporate Mind Mapping ideas into my inspirational notebooks. At first I started to post the pages along with text, but I think I will now only post the pages as they are for whatever they're worth. Have a look and let me know what you think: www.fadwas-inspirational.blogspot.com.  

This winter I visited the Global Village which is held in Dubai, UAE, for several months every year. It is always a good place to source stones and beads. The village is divided into many pavilions representing countries around the world. The Iranian and Indian pavilions always have an unusual selection of beautiful stones, while the Omani and Afghani have great silver. During one of my scavenging trips I came across some really lovely faceted Amethyst oval stones – they look so delicious that I named the piece I created with these stones Purple Candy. I also found amazing Ametrine faced stones; part Amethyst and part Citrine, these two stones, and two colors (purple and yellow/orange), seem to be made for each other. Check out the Ametrine Rope Necklace and the Ametrine bracelet.

Legend has it that once upon a time a Spanish conquistador, Don Felipe, fell in love and married a beautiful princess named Anahi from the Ayores tribe. As a dowry, the father of the bride and chief of the tribe gave Don Felipe a cave lined with lovely colorful crystals; Ametrines. The couple remained in Bolivia for a while until Don Felipe had to go back home, and his lovely wife decided to go with him. Her tribe was upset, and Anahi knew that they might kill her husband to keep her from leaving. So she gave him the charm she always wore around her neck. Bad news for her, because she mysteriously disappeared before they left - good news for him because he managed to flee with his crew. The Don appreciated the beauty of the lovely Ametrine only in his grief as he realized that the two different colored halves of the stone represented his beloved's heart divided between her love for him and her love for her people.

But the magic of Ametrine for me is that Amethysts and Citrines are created and crystallized at different temperatures. This means that at the time of formation there was a variance in temperature that give birth to two lovely stones forever embracing  in the caves of the Anahi mines in Bolvia.

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