Candy jade is an interesting stone made of what the Chinese refer to as "Bai Yu," or White Jade by its common name. This type of natural stone is hard and white or semi-translucent white in color. After being cut and polished, the stones go through a complex color enhancing process, penetrating from surface to center with wonderful colors, thus their common name, Candy Jade.
Candy jade can have a marbled appearance or nearly the same color throughout. The colors are often bright like magenta, fuschia, ruby-red, green, lavender, pink, purple and more!
I market my handcrafted Candy Jade jewelry as "The Sara Jane Collection". I often design drop style necklaces using carved candy jade rose pendants, faceted teardrop pendants, freeform pendants and more.
In creating candy jade jewelry I use sterling silver findings usually including the easy to fasten toggle type closures. Some of my jewelry is created using stunning laser cut sterling silver beads. Other times I use Sterling silver Bali beads.