Crafts and new Creations

A Gallery of our latest Unique Handmade Statements!

I'm sorry our Blogger post is 26 hours late this week ladies and gentlemen! I've been working my day jobs and doing our latest craft fair, and didn't find the time until now.

Here is us at Boughton Mannor House in Nottinghamshire on Sunday 3rd August, it wasn't quite the right venue for us, but we did manage to get another booking from it!

Serendipity Jewellery at Boughton Mannor House 3rd Aug 2014

Serendipity Jewellery at Boughton Mannor House 3rd Aug 2014

Now we love attending our craft fairs, and we are always disappointed when venues are found to be booked up, but recently in the last week ive gotten 4 booking for 2015 (get me miss organised!) another 4 for August, big ones too, we are at Marshall Yard Shopping Center in Gainsborough the 30th, and Newark Chilli Festival 16/17th! And i do believe another fair in October and November - but still we feel like we are not doing another to spread the Serendipity Word out there.

If you are an event holder in the Nottinghamshire/ South yorkshire / Derbyshire / Lincolnshire areas Please do give us an Email, any events of any size are considered. 

We have also been busy organising a few "craft swaps" with our fellow crafty ladies, im trading a few of our pieces for some crochets blankets, plaques and all sors of other gifts for my buddies at christmas.

Aside from the procrastination part of crafting, we have been working hard to bring you some real #925sterlingsilver beauties, using an array of semi-precious gemstones and sterling silver charms/pendants..... I Hope you love! <3

Sterling Silver Cherub on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Amethyst Heart on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Green glass on  a 925 sterling silver chain £30

Hematite Dragonfly on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite Fertility Loop on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite Dolphin on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite Butterfly on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite Double Heart on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite 3D Star on  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Hematite Droplet  a 925 sterling silver chain £35

Sterling Silver Feather on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Clove/Club on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Dragonfly on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Rose on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Key on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Elephant on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Foot on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Skull on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver LOVE on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Sterling Silver Butterfly on a Sterling Silver black plated memory wire necklace with screw clasp £35

Hematite Sun/Moon Pendant on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

Hematite Cross Pendant on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

Snowflake Obsidian Droplet on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

925 silver wire wraped amethyst heart on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

Heart Howlite Pendant on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

Hematite Elephant Pendant on 925 sterling silver Necklace 16" £35

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Serendipity Gems: Zodiac and Birthstone History and Explainations

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Id just like to firstly say this will be a weekly blog on a Sunday evening around 9pm so bookmark us :) We also have a massive double giveaway over at Serendipity Jewellery until July 30th 9pm.

As we write this we are thinking about the significance gemstones have in each and everyone of our lives. From precious heirlooms to a seemingly worthless rock that signifies something memorable.


I have lots of fun pictures to share and knowledge of course!

Above is a table which shows quite clearly the Month the colour of the gem, what the gem is named, and the associated qualities of the stone or person born in that month. Just below you will also see an image stating which birth months correspond to the zodiac signs that are written in the stars and to this day spark inspiration and wonder around the world.


From what i can find it seem the history of birthstones originates in the first century. Jewish historian Josephus believed there was a connection between the twelve stones in Aaron's breastplate, the twelve months of the year, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Translations and interpretations of the passage in Exodus regarding the breastplate have varied widely, however, with Josephus himself giving two different lists for the twelve stones. (Kunz argues that Josephus saw the breastplate of the Second Temple, not the one described in Exodus). St. Jerome, referencing Josephus, said the Foundation Stones of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:19–20) would be appropriate for Christians to use. In the eighth and ninth century, religious treaties associating a particular stone with an apostle were written because the book of Revelation stated "their name would be inscribed on the Foundation Stones, and his virtue".Practice became to keep twelve stones and wear one a month. Wearing a single birthstone is only a few centuries old, although modern authorities differ on dates Kunz places the custom in eighteenth century Poland, while the Gemological Institute of America starts it in Germany in the 1560s.

Modern lists of birthstones have little to do with either the breastplate or the Foundation Stones of Christianity. Tastes, customs and confusing translations have distanced them from their historical origins, with one author calling the 1912 Kansas list "nothing but a piece of unfounded salesmanship."




Ancient traditional birthstones are society-based birthstones. The table below contains many stones which are popular choices, often reflecting Polish tradition.

The Gregorian calendar has poems matching each month with its birthstone. These are traditional stones of English-speaking societies. Tiffany & Co. published these poems "of unknown author" for the first time in a pamphlet in 1870


By her who in this month (January) is born
No gem save garnets should be worn;
They will ensure her constancy,
True friendship, and fidelity.

The February-born shall find
Sincerity and peace of mind,
Freedom from passion and from care,
If they an amethyst will wear.

Who in this world of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise,
In days of peril firm and brave,
And wear a bloodstone to their grave.

She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; this stone,
Emblem of innocence, is known.

Who first beholds the light of day
In spring's sweet flowery month of May
And wears an emerald all her life
Shall be a loved and happy wife.

Who comes with summer to this earth,
And owes to June her hour of birth,
With ring of agate on her hand
Can health, wealth, and long life command.


The glowing ruby shall adorn,
Those who in July are born;
Then they'll be exempt and free
From love's doubts and anxiety.

Wear a sardonyx or for thee,
No conjugal felicity;
The August-born without this stone,
`Tis said, must live unloved and lone.

A maiden born when September leaves
Are rustling in September's breeze,
A sapphire on her brow should bind
`Twill cure diseases of the mind.

October's child is born for woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know,
But lay an opal on her breast,
And hope will lull those woes to rest.

Who first comes to this world below
With drear November's fog and snow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.

If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on your hand a turquoise blue;
Success will bless whate'er you do.


—Gregorian Birthstone Poems
Modern birthstones

In 1912, in an effort to standardize birthstones, the (American) National Association of Jewelers met in Kansas and officially adopted a list. The Jewelry Industry Council of America updated the list in 1952 by adding alexandrite to June and citrine to November; specifying pink tourmaline for October; replacing December's lapis with zircon; and switching the primary/alternative gems in March. The American Gem Trade Association added tanzanite as a December birthstone in 2002. Britain's National Association of Goldsmiths created their own standardized list of birthstones in 1937.




And i have one final piece of interesting information about of favourite and most popular gemstones.... They are different and surprisingly similar throughout different ancient cultures, which of course is where we find some of our Serendipity Inspiration.





I hope again, this was an interesting read for you! I certainly found the writing of the blog very enthralling!


Take care, Freya <3