This picture was taken on my wedding day. One ring is my engagement ring with a pear-shaped diamond and small round diamonds on the band. The other ring is the wedding band w...

July is the month for Ruby! I couldn’t help but listen to the song, Ruby Baby, by the Drifters as I wrote this post . You can listen to it here while you read. In Sanskrit, the...

  Rutile. Have you heard of it? Rutile is a titanium oxide mineral found in rocks throughout the world. But interesting to me, it occurs as needle-shaped crystals in minerals a...

June is the month of pearls. South Sea Pearls are the highest quality you can find! Why are South Sea Pearls so valuable? A great deal of time, effort, and precision is involve...

I used to hate Valentin's Day. It was too much angst about a date or a present. It was exhausting. Until I met someone special!