One of my necklaces broke, so I decided to take the wooden beads and make something new.
My aunt gave me some Lapis Lazuli beads that I basically adore. I think it's one of my favorite stones.
It turns out the original place what Lapis Lazuli was mined was a place called Lazhward, which is Persian. Lapis is Latin for stone, and Lazhward underwent some linguistic changes to become Lazuli, so it means a stone from Lazhward. What I thought was interesting is that the way of saying "blue" in many romance languages is derived from this name and the blue color of the stone. Lazuli = Azul
The necklace is kind of heavy, but it's worth the extra poundage.
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