Earthy Fall Design in Morocco Fossil

This new fall design features a beautiful and uniquely colored orthocreas fossil. Normally you see this fossil in black and white colors; however once in a while you get the rare slate with slight off coloring of olive or green and brown shades. This fossil comes from the fossilized squid found in Morocco.

Orthoceras are a famous and very large fossil deposit of animals that can be found in Morocco, North Africa. Ancestors to ammonites, Orthoceras are extinct sea creatures, and depending on what source you refer to, they date from the lower Ordovician to Triassic ages (500 to 190 million years ago). 




As they died, their shells accumulated in great numbers on the sea floor where they were aligned by currents, buried by sediments, and transformed over the ages preserved in black limestone. Today, this prehistoric sea floor is ironically, found in the dramatic Atlas Mountain Range in southern Morocco at the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert.







 

The necklace strands are crafted with natural nuggets of prehnite stones, ceramic coins and metal accents in braided disk and puffy smooth spacers. The fossil is hand wire wrapped in a two-tone look of gun-metal and silver non-tarnish wire.  The squid fossil really shows the chambes and is a very nice pendant.

Browse our Rock Yard collection for more jewelry featuring hand wire wrapped fossils!

Fall & Winter Bead Show Season

Football season is starting and cooler temperatures are around the corner; with it comes the fall and winter bead-rock-mineral-fossil show season!! For shows in your area, check with your local paper, hobby/beading store or mineral/rock shop; make sure to check with the show to see if it is wholesale only or open to the public. Those that are wholesale require the buyer to have a business license, state sales tax ID, and business card; so make sure to check out the show before attending so that you won’t be turned down if it’s not open to the public.

The list below is of shows in the surrounding area of San Antonio and Austin; you can check their websites for listings and more information.

Parker Trade Shows

International Gem & Jewelry Show

The Whole Bead ShowAustin Gem & Mineral Show
Fossil Fest / Fossilmania

Looking for shows around the country or in your area? Check out Gem Shows Blog for a very extensive listing of both public and wholesale shows around the country.

A Whole New Set of Collections

Ring in the New Year and with it a whole new reflection of jewelry designs. As you can tell, we’ve spent some time the past year re-designing and developing our blog, website and our line of custom jewelry. What we are did, is truly reflect what our jewelry does, make a statement with a cutting-edge flair all our own. We’ve never been one to ‘color within the lines, more like color outside the box’! In looking over our jewelry, it has evolved into different Collections all with their own style and fashion, reflecting the personalities of our clients; we’ve just taken it a step up this year. Here’s what’s new at Timeless Designs…..

Every Collection will have a variety of pieces, from necklaces, sets, bracelets, pendants and even earrings; no more looking through jewelry categories. Not only will we offer Collections, but there we’ll be offering some raw materials for those who want to make their own jewelry and also a small line of different collars, chains, ribbons, and cords to pick from if you wanted something else to go with any pendants.


Southwest Flair; this collection will house our designs that have a Southwest Flair, most designs cultivated with Turquoise, Coral, Magnesite, Howlite, and many different metals, just to name a few. The styles will be anything from traditional Southwest to a mix of ‘Old West Meets Modern West’.

Mystic Artisan; where mystery clashes with high-end elegance in chic, edgy, classy, and even flirty designs that reflect that personality all ones own; many design will be refined using Agates, Jaspers, Onyx, Pearls, Crystals, Dichroics, and many more.

Wiry Legends, pretty much says it all as this collection will be the home to anything that has been created using mainly wire such as links, twists, swirls, and cones but will also include chain and other metal mainstream components too.

Rock Yard is a new one to our studio; this will be the place to find fossils, minerals, and chunky raw rock pieces, chose from single pendants to funky, chunky and hip brews made to order. You just never know what you might find hiding in this collection.

Supply Closet will be the place for those of you who do your own jewelry designs to find raw materials and create your own pieces. Eventually, Supply Closet will also be the place to find extra chains, collars, cords, and ribbons for purchase to mix and match with any pendants.

So, get going and check out our newly re-designed website, see what’s available for purchase or browse around to get acquainted with Timeless Designs.