The Heather Necklace

My friend Heather celebrated her birthday last month. In honor of her January birth, I originally gave her a pair of garnet earrings, her birthstone. Silly me, I forgot her ears aren't pierced. So I crafted this garnet necklace instead just for her.

Three round garnets on gold filled chain.

When you think of a garnet, you probably think of a red stone right?. But did you know that garnets can come in almost every color? (There seems to be a debate on the internet over the existence of a blue garnet.) Garnets in a purplish red are called rhodolite, orange, cinnamon, or pinkish garnets are hessonite, and tsavorite, uvarovite, and demantoid are all green varieties. There's your gemstone fact for the day. :)