Giving Thanks Today

Thanksgiving tradition is turkey dinners, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, football games, and shopping. It also brings with it the changing of nature from warm temperatures to colder, trees change colors and lose their leaves, only to be replaced by snowy white. Today is a day to reflect back and look at what we have to be thankful for….As we at Timeless Designs look back over the past year our thanks are for family and good friends, to happy times and challenges that helped us to grow.

Warmest Wishes from Timeless Designs for a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving Holiday!

Tourmaline Garnet Agate

Some of nature’s beauty comes from Tourmaline, Agate is also just as stunning as rarely do you find the same slices or geodes. In this new design, it is a mix of Tourmaline, red Garnet with silver end caps and Crystals; all highlighting a stunning Agate slice that is handcrafted in non-tarnish silver wire. Dangle teardrop earrings in the same Garnet and crystals completes the set.

Agates: Balancing physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies; perceptiveness, strength, inspiration, awakening talents.
Garnet: Health, removing negativity, awareness, commitment, regeneration, order, insight.
Tourmaline: Energizing, soul-searching, releasing.

Browse and purchase from our website uniquely handcrafted designs all in nature’s most spectacular gifts.

Citrine Amethyst Agate

Historically, the name citrine is derived from the Latin word citrus, meaning “lemon”. Until the Middle Ages this name was used to designate a wide range of yellow stones. Citrine has been highly regarded as gemstone and healing stone for almost six thousand years. The soldiers in Caesar’s legions wore citrine on their chest because the stone was believed to have life-saving properties in battle. As befits its color, it is recognized as the stone of light, sun, and life.

Citrine is yellow to brownish quartz and resembles yellow topaz. It is colored by hydrous iron oxide, and is found in the same hexagonal crystals as the other varieties of crystalline quartz. Natural citrine is much less common than amethyst or smoky quartz, both of which can be heat treated to turn their color into that of citrine. Most citrine that is available is in face heat-treated amethyst, although heat-treated smoky quartz comes from some locations.

Citrine occurs principally in localities that produce amethyst, and it is sometimes found as a zone of citrine in amethyst, when it is known as ametrine. Gem-quality citrine is found on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, the Ural Mountains of Russia, India, France, Brazil, Spain, and North Carolina.

Citrine is believed to have healing and traditional properties of Intuition, comfort, protection, creativity, physical energy, wealth, mental awakening. The purer and more intense the color, the greater the stone’s healing properties. It is linked to the star sun of Gemini and Virgo.

In this new design, I’ve mixed both Citrine and Amethyst together, highlighted by a smoky purple Brazilian Agate slice.


This and many other designs in natural stones browse and shop our website.




*Research from various mineral/rock/crystal books and websites.

Know Your Show Tips

Doing shows is ultimately a necessity for an artist, designer or small business. How you present yourself and your product to the public is yet another line item in the ‘make or break’ of any business. It’s all in the presentation and how professional, business like, and in some cases your ability to entice the public to not pass you buy, either on the net or at a show.

I’ve done shows for years, in a couple of different industries and several states; but what remains the same is being able to get noticed. Here are a few things I’ve learned through trial & error along the way. I’m by no means a ‘professional’ at this, just passing on what I’ve learned to give everyone a starting point and something to build upon depending on your own style, company or business.

*Be aware of what type of booth you’ve been assigned. Have several different configurations in mind that can fit a variety of booth spaces; 10’x10’, 10’x15’, 10’x18’, or 10’x20’ are all standard booth configurations. Also know how to work with a front only verses a corner booth.
*Try to keep the same booth space from year to year at the same shows. Your customers are often looking for the booth location verses the business or product.
*Try to keep your booth displays and configurations the same from show to show. After the booth location, customers are next looking for the booth type verses the person, business or product.
*Be professional and know not only your products, but also your customers. If you know something special about a particular product (i.e. how it was made, a special part, etc.), tell the customers about it.
*Dress as nicely and appropriately as possible and always welcome your customer by name (if you know it) and with a smile. Ask how they’ve been if you haven’t seen them in a while, introduce them to your new or improved products and find out what they like or dislike. The acts of ‘personal attention’ to your customers are something seldom felt in the world of today’s global technology.
*Don’t be pushy and know when to ‘back off’ of selling to a customer. You’ll know if a customer is willing and ready to make a purchase.
*Above all, have fun with your products and customers. If it isn’t something you enjoy, then it’s probably not the right place for you or you may need to make adjustments somewhere.

These may work for some and not for others, but like I said, it’s a place to start. Build your own style and presentation of your products; make a lasting impression that invites everyone back.

Holiday Gift Shopping

In the San Antonio area, come down to the 30th Annual Holiday Showcase at the Freeman Coliseum!

Saturday/9:00am-5:00pm
Sunday/10:00am-5:00pm

Timeless Designs and Jewelry by CnC will be there; in the main building on the floor, all the way to the back under the overhang, last booth on the right!


The “Big One’ is billed as the largest craft and gift show in South Texas; with over 400 vendors between the main building and two outer barns.

Shop among vendors from Texas and across the United states; bring your list to get in on great deals, shop a variety of vendors, eat a little, shop a little, enjoy a lot and get your shopping done all under, three roofs!


And to wet your appetite for your holiday gift giving, we’ll have pendants, wire designs, stone designs, and much more!

These are just a snag of what will be there….hurry, the designs are custom for a truly unique gift for that one-of-kind personality!

Check out the websites for more designs....
Timeless Designs
Jewelry by CnC

Wire Technique in Bails

Though I’m no expert by any means; there are many different ways you can wire a bail. Whether you are using a cabochon, drilled or glass pendant, how someone finishes off the piece by making the bail will sometimes make or break a particular piece. I’ve learned many different styles of bails, incorporating my own little style into some of them as my own ‘added touch’. But in the mainstream, whatever you create, make sure it sets off the pendant or piece; rather the pendant will stand on its own or be incorporated into a necklace.

Here is a simple bail to the right that many people call a ‘rabbit ears’ or ‘simple bail’ or ‘tv ears’; whatever your definitions, it’s how the bail is finished either with swirls, spirals, or whatever makes the pendant ‘pop’.

This bail to the left, is a spin of the rabbit ears simple bail. All I have done is modify it a little and twisted wire back and forth between the ‘ears' to give it a textured look.

With these two bails to the right, I learned it recently in a class with a national instructor. What I did was modify it slightly to be used with a coil instead of a graduated bail.

On this last bail to the left, I simple used a regular pic-bail and highlighted it with large double coils. It really added to the piece and as an added bonus, it gave a large silver look near the bail and less ‘spacers’ were used.

Learn from others, take their advice and expertise and create your own piece of art. It’s just a matter of letting your imagination run and creativities explode!

30th Annual Holiday Showcase Freeman Coliseum

This weekend is our very last show of the season, just in time for your Holiday shopping!!

In the San Antonio, Texas area, we are combining with Jewelry by CnC at the following this weekend....

30th Annual Holiday Showcase "The Big One"
Freeman Coliseum
San Antonio, Texas
November 21st-22nd
Saturday: 9:00am-5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am-5:00pm

Our booth is on the floor of the main building, come all the way through the show to the back, first ‘cubby’ section, last booth on the row!!!

Come early as we have knocked down prices for the coming Holidays!

Wide selection of custom jewelry featuring some of the world’s most unique and unusual natural stones and cuts; and as always, each piece comes with it’s own tag describing what type of stones are used in each jewelry design.

So grab your list, check it twice and come on out and get great deals on our jewelry at year-end clearance sale prices!!