In anticipation of Spring, I used a variety of shapes and sizes of Lavender Amethyst to create Lavender Blossoms, a 3 strand necklace saluting February's birthstone and some of my very favorite flower colors!

The short strand is 17 inches and the longest is 20 1/2 inches long. I used opaque lavender Delica Glass spacer beads and a Sterling Silver toggle clasp to complete the piece.

Amethyst is considered a powerful healing gemstone and has long been the choice of adornments, especially for royalty! According to naturalhealinggems.com, "Lavender Amethyst is a "Stone of Wisdom." This luminous purple crystal promotes higher levels of consciousness through dreams, intuition, and wisdom. This is a stone of luxury.

Lavender Amethyst is known to "awaken the soul." It bestows a high vibration that encourages a meditative state of being. This crystal opens and activates the higher Crown Chakra, allowing light and love to dwell within your environment. Lavender Amethyst promotes peace, eases stress, heightens awareness, and relieves physical and emotional pain. It inspires wisdom through dreams and intuition, and instills a sense of luxury from self knowledge and spiritual insight."

charmsoflight.com states, "Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone. It guards against psychic attack transmuting the energy into love and protecting the wearer from all types of harm, including geopathic or electromagnetic stress and ill wishes from others. Amethyst is a natural tranquiliser, it relieves stress and strain, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities. It has strong healing and cleansing powers. Amethyst encourages sobriety, having a sobering effect on overindulgence of alcohol, drugs or other addictions. It calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation. Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams. It relieves insomnia. Encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.

Amethyst boosts hormone production, tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the immune system, reduces pain and strengthens the body to fight against cancer. It destroys malignant tumors and aids in tissue regeneration. Cleanses the blood. Relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress. Amethyst eases headaches and releases tension. It reduces bruising, swellings, injuries, and treats hearing disorders. Amethyst heals diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders and diseases of the digestive tract."

A lovely necklace with amazing benefits!