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    WELLNESS: Seed To Skin’s Mood Therapy Collection

    December 14, 2025 - By 

    Born at the Borgo Santo Pietro in Tuscany, Italy, Seed To Skin is a deeply important skincare brand for those who know the power of purity in the ingredients that they put on their skin. Founder Jeanette Thottrup, who couldn’t get pregnant, got very curious on her trying to conceive journey and started to look at what she put on her skin and into her body. The brand was given life on a beautiful farm in Tuscany, where they control 100% of the production process, utilizing herbs from their garden and always using the purest ingredients. And in 2006 her…

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    FINE ART: Ted Hartley’s ONWARD Exhibition

    February 11, 2025 - By 

    Written By: Alicia Kunkel Perhaps if we knew that we would live to 100 years of life, each of us might choose to be brave enough to become all that we wished we could become. A dancer, a marine biologist, a cowboy, a president. Would 100 years be enough time to be all the versions of ourselves that we dream that we could be? Well, without the guarantee, Omaha born Ted Hartley, lives his life with a mission of always moving forward and never letting the past pull him down with regrets and doubt. His 100 years of life have…

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    JEWEL SPOTLIGHT: KUNZITE

    November 28, 2018 - By 

    Arguably the most delicious color range in the gemstone world, Kunzite is the cotton candy colored variety of the mineral spodumene. Delicate pastel pink to intense violet-ish purple, Kunzite is loved for the special hues available making it possible for designers to create impressive designs. In fact the Smithsonian Institution has a prized faceted heart-shaped kunzite that weighs a stunning 880 carats. Due to its pleochroic characteristic, meaning that it flashes two different shades of visible color, it shows the best color when you look down the length of the crystal. The pegmatite deposits that the rough kunzite crystals are…