The first time I ever saw Larimar was when I worked for my bead dealer friend in Tucson back in 2005. I had never heard of the stone before and it looked so amazing to me -- the personfication of sand, sea and sky.
You can find Larimar only south of the Caribbean, specifically in the Dominican Republic. There is only one mine and it is controlled by the man who discovered the stone and then named it after his daughter. Caribbean blue-green paired with chalk white and then accented by black-gray-brown occlusion. It's a spectacular stone, highly-recognizable, and for me, an acquired taste.
There are those who would prefer more polite forms like the different shapes of highly-polished Larimar cabachons in cuff bracelets, earrings, pins, etc. that people create from them. Me. . . I was drawn to the unique oddity of these jagged slabs of Larimar, each of which could have made an interesting pendant. I chose to string them together with some brushed silver roundels and double-pointed beads, accented with faceted topaz blue Swarovski crystals. To finish the piece, i used a blue topaz and silver box clasp.
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