This is a handmade necklace. The pendant is a real turtle claw with an apatite stone bead strung on deer leather lace.
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Each stone, crystal, animal bone, animal horn, has metaphysical properties that can help aid in specific situations, help boost certain body functions/body parts, and can even offer different insight into the seen and unseen world around us. Below is a list of all the different gemstones and animal pieces used in this necklace and their healing properties.
Turtle: Represents the world or Earth and all that inhabit it as a whole. Turtle gives the ability to stay grounded, even in moments of disturbances and chaos. It teaches us and helps us slowdown in this fast pace life and pace ourselves, while still remaining determined, motivated, and persistent with our goals. Turtle also represents emotional strength and understanding ancient wisdom.
Apatite: Is a stone that can stimulate thoughts and ideas. It is used, often in conjunction with meditation, to increase intellect, imagination, and intuitive / psychic awareness. It is said to help you maintain focus, learn, concentrate, think clearly, and communicate better. It also helps repress physical hunger while opening up one to the hunger of knowledge. This stone boosts learning skills and is thought to help people learn things much faster, as well as apply them accordingly.
Deer: This animal helps you to seek safe people and safe places. Deer helps you to trust in your gut instinct and to go out in to the world and live life. Also to be gentle with yourself and others.
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Most Necklaces I make are very long and actually to big for most people. The ends of the leather used for the necklaces are knotted twice and can easily be cut and retied so you can easily make the length of the necklace shorter to best suit your look and body type. The reason I did this, is so my hand made necklaces can fit anyone. It is best to have the necklace to long, yet easily resizable, then to be to small and unable to be resized at all.