We all know this feeling: walking on a beach and seeing a beautiful shell... Ah... How pretty it is! I want to take it home! Or create a piece of jewelry with it! 

Living close to the ocean teaches us something different: shells which you find on the beach aren't just pretty souvenirs - they’re actually doing a lot of work for the marine ecosystem. Here are few reasons, why we decided not to use any shells in our jewelry.

Pearls are organic gems that grow inside of a living saltwater or freshwater oyster or other shelled mollusk. Ancients from the Middle East believed that pearls were teardrops fallen from heaven. The Chinese thought that they came from the brain of a dragon. Pearls have long been associated with purity, innocence, wisdom, and integrity.

Crystals has been used for ages for their healing powers. But what exactly makes crystals so powerful?

As crystal we understand any solid material whose particles are arranged in a highly organised repeating microscopic pattern. Its symmetrically arranged plane faces and surface regularity reflects its internal symmetry. The word “crystal” comes from the Greek word krustallos, which means both “rock crystal” and “ice.”

Work of Masaru Emoto, Japanese scientist, gives us evidence of how the molecular structure in water transforms when it is exposed to human words, thoughts, sounds and intentions. Emoto observed that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure, and that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water and that water was a "blueprint for our reality".