All Starry Eyed

All Starry Eyed

by | Jun 30, 2014 | Gemstones, Jewelry

When choosing gems I usually stick to natural gemstones.  While many man-made, or synthetic, stones are very similar to the natural ones and the average person can not tell the difference, my preference is to use stones that were created in nature, not a laboratory....
Go West

Go West

by | Jun 27, 2014 | Life

Every year I look forward to taking our family trip to Oregon to visit my Grandmother.  Can you believe she turned 100 years old last fall?  You go, Grandma! Oregon is a beautiful state, especially if you like outdoorsy stuff.  I’m not big into outside. Some of...
Soy Sauce

Soy Sauce

by | Jun 25, 2014 | Recipes

Thank goodness for Chinese take out and the little packets of Soy Sauce they give you. If these didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have been eating tonight. Like almost every day, I sat looking at the kitchen thinking, “what will we eat for dinner...

Little Boys with Fire Hoses

by | Jun 23, 2014 | Essential Oils

Thing 3 is fully potty trained, but to this day is still distracted when he uses the bathroom. Often missing the toilet which makes for a really messy floor after – yuck! Usually we use the Shark Steam Mop to clean the floor but once in a while there is...

Elephants

by | Jun 20, 2014 | Jewelry

A friend of mine recently brought my attention to the plight of the African Elephant.  Every day, Elephants are poached for their tusks, estimated over 20,000 per year.  I had never given much thought to the issues Elephants face in their natural habitat.  At that...