A Crystals and Jewelry-Making Fanatic Gone Wild

Yes, there's a real live human being behind CrystalsAndJewelry.com! (At least, I think I'm a real human being. I'm pretty sure I'm not a file cabinet or a stuffed goose. hehehe Not on this reality level, at any rate.)

I'm Robyn Harton, the crystals and jewelry-making fanatic. I feel like I should stand up and say "My name is Robyn and I'm a crystals-and-jewelry-making-aholic." I've been collecting rocks and crystals all my life to some extent, and more seriously for over a decade now. I've been making jewelry one and off all my life too, and pretty danged seriously for the past 5ish years. "Pretty danged seriously" as in, it's been what I do with my life mostly for those last 5ish years.

Parenthetical Side Trip
I have great memories of finding Treasures in the yard and the driveway -- sparkly gravel with quartz, chunks of rust encrusted snow quartz covered with the red North Carolina clay of my youth. I remember decorating the tiny moss neighborhoods I created in the yard with chips of quartz and flint and whatever other little bits of stone goodies I could find. I even still have my first cabochon, a moonstone given to me by my father when he returned from a trip to Atlanta when I was about 6. I wonder if he knew that as a Cancerian, moonstone was totally appropriate.

CrystalsAndJewelry.com is the web shop and hopefully helpful resource of my company, Robyn A Harton Creative, and my home on the web. I design and create handmade jewelry and gifts in my own studio. I also occasionally help out budding jewelry artists or other friends, such as Beth, by featuring their handmade jewelry and other goodies. I also carefully choose the crystals and stones, both for my jewelry, and for other uses. One of the things that makes my jewelry and other goodies special, is that I gather and craft them with intent and prayer for blessings for the wearer or owner.

More Parenthetical Historical Side-Tripping
In 1981 I was a post-hitchhiking-across-the-continent- high school drop out working at McDonald's when my Grandmother said to me, "If you'll just go to school, I'll pay for everything." By that time, I knew a life as a McDonald's cashier wasn't for me, so I jumped on it. Of course, being me, I jumped a bit off to one side of where my Grandmother expected, got my GED and applied to the Virginia Commonwealth Univerity School of the Arts. (I choose the School of the Arts because everything else in the VCU catalog sounded not a lot more appealing than cashiering.) Well by gum, did I ever get an education! I walked in having no clue whatsoever. I remember my dismay in my freshman year when they told me to buy Xacto knives and pink pearl erasers and a ton of other esoteric things I'd never even heard of. And it just got wilder and wilder and more wonderful. I worked like I had never worked before (and only in the last 5ish years, since). I learned more than I knew there was to know about quite a few things like traditional jewelry design and fabrication, swimming in rivers without bonking your head on the rocks, sculpture, glassblowing, how stupid art teachers can be, how wonderful art teachers can be, how to draw at least somewhat competently, that boyfriends are fun but making things is much funner, ceramics, how to tell off a University professor, graphic design the old fashioned way, how to commit to a program of work, how to play Star Wars at the local arcade, how to play quarters and then how not to play quarters, that people really believe that guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses, enamelling on metals, jewelry design and craft in a limited series, lost wax casting, how to teach a lot of these other things I've learned, plus so many other things. and then the big life stuff ... practical problem-solving, how to find or manifest resources to do what I wanted to do, that I have no tolerance doing the same thing over and over 3000 times, and that I love making beautiful and interesting things even if it's not "In" to do so. Somehow, in spite of all the learning, I graduated in December, 1985 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in jewelry design and creation.

This and more has all combined to be my experience of this reality, and I love having this website. I have a changing variety of handcrafted jewelry and gifts, and some fun stuff, and some information. For the folks who are interested in the metaphysical, I have free New Age and metaphysical properties of stones, chakras information, and crystal grid patterns. Have fun. Communicate. Live. :)

Quotes from moi

"Life is a bowl of cherries -- just spit out the pits."

"If everything is just as it should be, why the h*** am I unhappy with it?"

"Oh, you can complain about it, all right. It won't do anything but give you indigestion. But you can complain all you want."

"The only thing that can possibly make you happy is deciding to be happy. And, of course, following through on that decision."

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