Aug 13, 2021 | Only Life is More Colorful
There we were on the hillbilly highway slowly scooting around the hairpin turns, the forest’s thick growth providing cool shade along with alarm as we wondered what crops and bodies were hidden by that lushness. My 17-year old daughter and I left Asheville an hour...
Jun 29, 2021 | Jewelry Care
#1. Avoid Chlorine WHY: Chlorine & hand sanitizers pit metal surfaces and destroy the luster and polish of pearls and many colored gemstones. DO: Take your jewelry off before swimming in a chlorinated pool, bathing & dishwashing. Put your jewelry in a safe...
May 31, 2021 | Designing Eye, Gemstones
“I adore Pink; it’s the Navy Blue of India,”… …revered Vogue editor Diana Vreeland exclaimed excited by the photographs taken in India by photographer Norman Parkinson. I suspect she meant just as navy blue is a classic color element in...