Bah! Don’t Spoil it!

Truth be told I watch too much tv. There’s something about background noise from the tv that I find comforting. Wait, tv shows that I choose, not just any tv. The downfall to this is when I get sucked into a new show because it is so good that I can’t let...

Not Quite Picture Perfect

I’m not sure if you noticed, but in the last post the picture wasn’t exactly perfect. Someone, who will remain nameless, forgot to remove the barcode tag from the top of the jar. Insert bashful look.   Now that I see the error of my way I thought I would...

Finding Calm in the Sparkles

I’ve been taking great solace from my recent dive into learning meditation. A quiet and peaceful mind is not what I typically carry on my shoulders. We all constantly feel like we’ve forgotten something, that we don’t have enough time to do what...

Stocking Stumper

This past Christmas my Mother-in-law put a box of garnet gemstones in my stocking. She said it was up to me to do what I wished with them. Opening the box, this is what I found. Beautiful, flat pear-shaped garnets. Oh, so pretty! But what to do with them?  Hmmmm. Do I...

Hello world!

Today is Thing 1’s birthday. Sort of fitting that today also be the start of Three Charmed Gems blog since Thing 1, Thing 2 and Thing 3 will be gracing future posts. I’m a stay at home Mom of three kids, retiring from the work world when Thing 1 was born. My house is...