Stone of the Month – December 2021

Blue Chalcedony This month’s topic title, from the Holistic Institute of Wellness, is Reflecting on this year. Moving forward into 2022. I don’t know about you but the idea of ‘Reflecting on this year’ conjured in me a very old habit of getting on...

Stone of the Month – November 2021

Stone of the Month for November – Rose Quartz This month’s topic title, from the Holistic Institute of Wellness, is Season of Gratitude. November is THE month for gratitude, fueled mostly by the Thanksgiving Holiday of course and also by thoughts of the coming...

Loving Kindness

The subject of Kindness has come into my awareness multiple times recently. It leads/nudges me to want to write about it. You’ve all seen the endless memes on Facebook: Be kind Always be kind Be kind, you don’t know what others are going through It costs...

Stone of the Month – October 2021

Stone of the Month for October – Black Obsidian This month’s topic title, from the Holistic Institute of Wellness, is Modern Shamanism. At first glance this may not seem relevant to a lot of my readers but hear me out if you will. I believe there are titanic, I...

Elasticated Bracelets

Extending the life of your elastic jewelry. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people yanking on their elastic bracelets (and the bracelets I have on display for sale. I’m sure you can imagine my raised eyebrows!) This may seem like such a...

Stone of the Month – September 2021

Stone of the Month for September – Tourmaline This month’s topic title, from the Holistic Institute of Wellness, is Physical Wellness. There were an enormous number of categories that came to mind and, at first glance, my full list of potential crystals...