How I Use Stones

When making my girls I nearly always try to include a stone at her core.  I am a great believer in the comfort stones can give and like the herbs I use in their stuffing giving a gentle scent, the stones add to the nature of each dolls.  Each doll I make is unique, no repeats of the same combinations and the stones help to define their characters in my mind.

Rose Quartz - Love

I use rose quartz more than any other stone.  My great grandma taught me about stones and to her they were all precious because they were so hard to get hold of in the early part of the twentieth century.  Now you can pick up a piece of rose quartz for pence but then they were a treasure.  She taught me their meanings and I think she would approve of how I use them.

Rose Quartz if a stone for love, warmth and gentleness

Smokey Quartz - Gounding

Smokey Quartz is another stone I use quite often, it is a stone for gounding, for keeping your feet firmly on the earth and for giving a sense of balance, with Smokey Quartz I sometimes use a tiny piece of Quartz for balance, it makes for a gentle combination.

Amethyst is for peace and tranquillity.  I use it often and I like the feeling it gives.  I always use tumbled stones because they are easier to get hold of but more importantly they are smooth so they won't pierce the fabric.

Amethyst - Peace

 Turquoise come in a variety of shades of well turquoise and I use it for gentle strength.  Its been used as a sacred stone the millennia

and has a warmth & colour like not other stone.  When first out of the rock it is often the softest turquoise but the colour gets stronger when exposed to the air.

Turquoise - Strength

I used to tumble my own stones as well as buy them from local shops.  Quite often in the stones I found around our local woodlands and footpaths were lots of Moss Agate or Tree Agate.  It is a stone close to my heart and I use it quite often.  To me it means hope and joy in the future, a very posititve stone.

Moss Agate - Hope

  It is a form of chalcedony which includes minerals of a green colour embedded in the stone, forming filaments and other patterns suggestive of moss. You would think that moss has been trapped in the stone and preserved.

The others stones shown here I don't use as often and usually only when requested in commission pieces.  If someone wants a particular stone that they use or are fond of I will try to get hold of a piece for their doll.

Jade - Balance

Lapis Lazuli - Clarity or Insight

I also have used Pyrite for protection and Calcite for calming. I like my stones and for me they only add to my dolls.