Tiger’s eye is a member of the quartz family of chalcedonies and a chatoyant gemstone. Chatoyancy describes the vertical luminescent fiber bands typically found in tiger’s eye, cat’s eye and hawk’s eye. The color range includes red, brown, gold, cream, black and blue. Found together with hawk’s eye in slabs of a few inches thickness, the most important deposits are found in South Africa where the export of raw material is forbidden. Tiger’s eye is also found in Australia, Burma (Myanmar), India, Namibia, and in California.
METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES:
Tiger’s eye is the planetary stone for Gemini (May 21 – June 20) and the gem for the ninth wedding anniversary. Tigers Eye is used for necklaces, costume jewelry, and art. Tigers eye can help one to become practical as well as more grounded. It can eliminate the “blues” and can bring brightness and optimism to the user. It further prompts the admiration for the pure and beautiful, allowing ones life and ones passion for life, to open and blossom.
Picture Shown: Rhumba Necklace of Turkish silver & various sizes of Tiger’s Eye ($775). Includes complimentary 14kt. white gold lever back earrings.
“My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get.” –Forest Gump
One year ago, in a little cottage in Laguna Beach five people set out to create the most kick ass, colorful giant necklaces the world had ever seen. Judy at the helm took the biggest gemstones available and designed beautiful “nasty” necklaces, then Big Money G took the designs up to see Vince, Bianca and Karen to be commented on. Vince the master of all things ‘handy’ picked up a camera and photographed. Even if the air was as brisk as an Alaskan winter day! Karen the “writing poet” took on the task of naming each design and Bianca created printing pieces people just couldn’t resist. We grew out the cottage and moved over to “yee-ah-ttz cafe” or better known to everyone else as Inductors!
All that creativity lead to a beautiful website!
Liz, the bouncy socialite was added to the ever-growing family that Left Turn was becoming. But G&J didn’t stop there; we added the cutest little munchkin named Erin, now known as the “newest Mrs. MacDonald”.
Then there was a store!
Crazy days, chaotic office shenanigans all lead to the exposure we were waiting for. Even mamma Marge jumped in on the fun and added our weekly event now known as inventory Monday mania (or WWE with Mom).
This story does not end here but continues for another year and with a little luck, the same cute girls and the very handy gentlemen we’ll continue for many more years.
With many thanks and love, it is our pleasure be a part of Left Turn Jewelry.
George Klimek, Judy Klimek, Vince Montoya, Karen Fahr, Bianca Montoya, Liz Wilkes, Marge Wenner, Erin MacDonald and our newbies Elsa & Nina
The nicest people visit our gallery here in Laguna Beach. Just last week, four life-long friends wandered in after a fun girls’ day out. Loaded with packages, these lovely ladies walked in arm in arm excited by our gemstone display. We found out that Monica Anderson, Lisa Gorsuch, Laura Fuller, and Monica Botwinski have been friends since high school and through college years. They were gathering from different areas of the country to come to Monica’s home in Newport Coast for a weekend of shopping, dining and gabbing. When they walked into our gallery, they fell in love with our natural gemstone necklaces and had so much fun learning and trying on several. The favorites were “Chantilly Lace”, gorgeous cascading black pearl and crystal quartz; “Solstice”, a multi-stranded graduated color citrine concoction, “Victoria” white pearls dotted with lemon quartz and amethyst, and “Bouquet”, a bronzy-keishi pearl necklace.
Left Turn VIPS like Monica, Lisa, Laura and Monica are what make our days here at our shop fun!
