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ABOVE: A piece made of
Nelsonite, the State Stone of
Virginia, rests next to uncut
slag glass (above).
form it into jewelry. Mary says that the
turning point of the business came when
they dedicated themselves completely
to what people wanted and abandoned
their own agenda.
"I don't feel like we're selling anything," says Mary. "We just talk to people."
Much of the source material for Treasure Tree comes from a small Blue Ridge
radius near the business. Pink and green
unakite originates with a landowner near
Crabtree Falls. Nelsonite, the freshly
anointed State Stone, hides in secluded
nooks in Nelson County, where ancient
forces graced it with valuable titanium.
Even the owner of Rebecca Furnace, a
19th-century iron furnace that may soon
become a historic site near neighboring
Lexington, is a source. Through the caretaker of the extensive site, the McIntires
learned the owner wanted antique jewelry fashioned from glass slag, a byproduct
of his property's former industry.
One client has a two-generation mineral bond through the family barn. She
requested bracelets fashioned from its
limestone foundation. Part of the inspiration came from her daughter's Hokie
Stone, decorative limestone mined at
Virginia Tech as a cottage industry.
So what is trending in the realm of organic jewelry? "Fairy stones," says Mary.
The popular oddities shaped like Maltese
crosses come from a creek bed in Stuart,
Virginia's Fairy Stone State Park.
On a visit to the creek bed, the McIntires encountered a little girl in a dress
RIGHT: Robert and
Mary McIntire use their
certifications in wire
wrapping, cabochons and
other aspects of jewelry craft
to create unique pieces.
Nelsonite, the freshly anointed
State Stone, hides in secluded
nooks in Nelson County, where
ancient forces graced it with
valuable titanium.
sitting among the gravels. She had a fine
collection of fairy stones she had gathered. She looked up and asked, "Do you
believe in fairies?" She went on: "I am
having tea with one right now." Finding
the girl gone when they returned, they
looked in vain for a car that could have
brought her there.
At a business seminar, a fellow at-
tendee noticed the Treasure Tree jewelry
Mary wears and asked where she bought
it. When she explained that it came from
source stone at Fairy Stone State Park,
he exclaimed, "You've been there?" The
topic of the little girl came up and he offered, "I saw her too." Treasure Tree networking goes a long ways out.
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