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Galatea Queen Bead Collection

With Galatea's unique Queen Bead design, you can have hard carved pearls that levitate almost magically on your bracelet, necklace, or earrings! At Gemstone Creations, we are very excited to bring this innovative line of distinctive jewelry to you and all our customers in the Fredericksburg, VA area. The Queen Bead collection, like all of the exquisite jewelry from Galatea, comes from the fascinating designer Chi Galatea Huynh. When Chi was growing up, it was of the utmost honor and privilege to be an apprentice to his father. Since his father was an inordinately talented and respected jeweler in his home country, Chi was more than willing put in the six months or so cleaning the shop and making jump-rings. "Progress" was made by spending day in and day out creating simple rings, only to be asked to melt them down and begin again because they weren't round enough! Chi remembers that, "the great mystery of why he was so hard on us was finally revealed to me the day he said 'If you want to be a good jeweler it takes skill and repetition. To be a 'great jeweler' also requires patience, dedication, courage, and a special love for your trade. Having these qualities makes you worthy to work in my shop'." Today, Galatea doesn't just employ "jewelers", they have what they refer to as an Olympic team of designers and craftsman. Every single one shares a dedication and love for their trade. The sketches of each design are done by hand and then sculpted and finished to the highest standard of an old world Artisan yet also combined with inventive techniques developed at Galatea. All Queen Bead designs are available in black South Sea, white freshwater, and peach freshwater pearls in standard or levitating style. When it comes to inspiration for his designs, Chi says that his "inspiration comes from nature. I toss a pebble into a pond and watch the ripples gently and pleasantly hypnotize me for hours…I watch a child hold a flower innocently in her hands as she watches a butterfly dance in the garden. At these moments nature shares and reveals to us the secret of natural beauty. To me, art is like music, the musician understands key, melody, composition, etc. This enables him to create music rather than noise. Likewise, I have come to understand line, light, shape, color, texture, and the mystic harmony of their relationship in creating music for the eyes." Because Galatea carefully selects authorized retailers, based in part on location and clientele, we at Gemstone Creations are incredibly proud to bring this innovative, exquisite bead collection to Fredericksburg, VA.