beautiful jewelry

You'll want to keep everything else low-key when wearing this breathtaking statement necklace by Adriana Trejo. Glass beads in sky blue, sapphire and apple green mingle with daffodil, candy apple red, marigold and black. The Mexican artist joins each piece by hand in precise diamonds and triangle patterns. The beaded button clasp can be closed with one of several loops that allow the necklace's length to be adjusted.

Mexican artisan Adriana Trejo creates these beautiful blue and white waterfall earrings. She strings petite glass beads by hand to create circular shapes with long beaded fringe below. They measure some five inches long.

Artisan Monica Vazquez of Mexico hand crafts these lovely dangle earrings that feature a Talavera-style ceramic bead painted with a beautiful deep blue leaf motif with a matching crystal bead above and below. The hooks and findings on the earrings are sterling silver.

About her work, the artisan says: "I have a deep admiration and love for everything that has been done in Mexico. I love that with these designs we give women beautiful accessories and highlight Mexican craftsmanship."

Because each ceramic bead is individually handcrafted, the motifs and their placement may vary slightly, making your earrings an original work of art.

Adriana Trejo of Mexico presents a glorious statement necklace made entirely by hand. Days spent watching the ebb and flow of waves on the beaches of a brilliant turquoise-colored sea are brought to mind both by the cerulean color of the necklace's glass beads and the draping garland shape of its design. A button clasp securely closes this beautiful accessory.

An ancient Maya legend tells how the gods gave a specific mission to each being they created. But they realized none had been chosen to carry thoughts and desires from one place to another," says Rosa Padillas of Rosa Roja. "So they carved a small piece of jade into a a slender arrowhead, and it became a beautiful hummingbird with iridescent feathers — the x ts'unu'um. Its mission was to carry good thoughts to all human beings, even those who had died.

"Today, if a hummingbird appears in front of you, it is delivering a message of love from someone who is thinking of you. And if we wear the image of a hummingbird, we carry good thoughts and desires to others.

"The hummingbird legend says that we can fly to the six cardinal points of the universe, therefore the hummingbird is the ideal link to transmit thoughts of love, of respect, tolerance and peace to all creatures on the planet."

The talented Mexican artisan reinterprets the legend as a necklace of dramatic beauty. She creates a hummingbird pendant in the pre-Hispanic style, and adds an agate geode representing the hummingbird's nest. It poses on a strand of gray cultured pearls.