Pandora Turquoise Pearl and Moonstone Earrings

If you have a friend or loved one with a birthday coming up in December, the last thing you are probably thinking about is their gift! There are a million and one Christmas presents to find, as well as work to do to fund the holiday season, turkeys to roast, trees to decorate, and mistletoe to kiss under … ! A wonderful, easy way to choose a birthday gift for your December-born friends this year is using their birthstone, which is the turqouise. This gorgeous stone is hardly a common inclusion in jewelry – so read on for our top picks of December birthstone jewelry.

Pandora Blue-Green Pearl Necklace

Pandora Paraiba Topaz Flower Dangle Charm

Pandora Turquoise Butterflies Charm

Pandora Turquoise Leather Necklace

Topaz Heart Necklace with Diamonds

Blue Topaz Heart Earrings

Topaz White Gold Signity Ring

While turquoise is now the recognized birthstone for December, it has been slowly becoming less and less common in jewelry. Turquoise is a gorgeous naturally striated mineral, and the color actually gets its name from the stone, and not vice versa! It means Turkish in the French language, and has been used for thousands of years to adorn mosques, grand houses and jewelry in Turkey. Commercial mining today is often not profitable though, so the blue topaz is now widely recognized as the sister birthstone for turquoise for December birthdays.

If you’d like to keep to the spirit of the first modern birthstone, you can try a piece of jewelry like the Pandora earrings with turquoise pearls and moonstone dangles shown at the beginning of the article. Pandora almost makes a specialty out of including little-known, very individual gems in their jewelry – hence this piece. These drop earrings are simple enough to wear day to day, yet special enough to complement evening wear beautifully. The gems are set on oxidized silver, an old-world material that gives the piece a mature, very different look. The moonstones are cut with a myriad of facets, and the flower attachments connecting the hooks to the drops are the uniting motif with this and the matching Pandora jewelry. You can see the blue-green Pandora pearl necklace, as well as the topaz flower dangle charm (turquoiose’s sister birthstone!) pictured at right.

To truly bring the exotic feeling of turquoise to your friend or loved one’s birthday gifts (as near as possible without the actual stone!), use a few of the Pandora turquoise butterflies charms (these are set with turquoise enamel, on a sterling silver base. They are one of the more cost effective, bright and cheerful of the Pandora beads, and if you also choose to get some topaz jewelry to complement the Pandora bracelet or necklace, the colors will match beautifully. Set it off with a turquoise leather necklace for the base.

While there are some lovely options for turquoise fanatics, the jewelry range incorporating this lovely stone, and color, can be a little limited! We mentioned that topaz is actually turquoise’s companion birthstone, although not just any topaz – specifically the blue color varieties, including paraiba and buick topazes as well as regular blue gems. Check out the topaz jewelry section – you’ll find around 140 products, giving you a much wider base from which to choose a great December birthday gift. If you click on the gemstone tab here, you are able to filter your results to include only blue topazes – any other color belongs strictly to November’s birthstone set. Although you can cheat if you want, we won’t tell!

Here you’ll find gorgeous, stunning yet simple options like the blue hearttopaz and diamond pendant shown at right, as well as the heart topaz earrings below. Even if you are not buying for a romantic partner, but for a sister, mother or other female relation, everyone likes to know they are loved – as Mozart said, love is the soul of genius! The heart-cut topaz pendant features nearly a 1 carat stone, along with two genuine white diamonds set on 9 carat yellow gold, making it quite an affordable piece. The gem is approximately 6mm across, large enough to catch the light and catch the eye, also! It is a stand alone item, so you can pick the chain that best suits your friend.

Pair this up with something like the heart cut topaz earrings shown. These simple earrings stand out beautifully, with the unusual gold bordering around the stone. Again, the topazes here are quite large, almost 5mm across. The stones are bezel set in 9 carat yellow gold, the perfect match for the pendant. And if you have a blue-eyed babe to buy for this December, they’ll set off her features like the sun against a summer sky! These earrings feature free shipping across Australia, and cancel the shipping costs on anything else you buy on the same order also.

Topaz also has a fantastic, midday-sky shine when set against white gold. You can see the difference in the blue topaz., white gold ring pictured at right. The white gold is 9 carats, keeping the piece affordable with the inclusion of so many gemstones – the signity branded topazes actually number nine, each measuring 2.5mm across. This ring is quite easy to re-size, so if you are looking for a surprise gift, the signity topaz ring means there is no need to spoil the look of amazement and delight on her face, by having asked her finger size a few weeks prior!

If all this talk of gemstones and alternatives has left your head swimming, just click on the Live Help link at the right of every shop page to have December-themed products explained to you by one of our trained staff. If you’re set to go, keep browsing, in the topaz jewelry section, or the turquoise jewelry collection. Happy gift-hunting, for this birthday and for Christmas time!