Effy Bouquet 14K White Gold Diamond Cluster Earrings |
Effy Bouquet 14K White Gold Diamond Cluster Earrings |
Here's the recipe I came up with ... a step beyond chucking 12 almonds with a bit of honey into my mouth. Fast and easy, we can do it:
Simple Rustic Nut Bars
Photo: Uniqlo High-Rise Denim Shorts |
Uniqlo 3/4 length shorts |
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Photo: The Spruce Eats |
Photo: Funamada |
THE SAVVY SHOPPER continues to be primarily a writing, not a photo blog. It's why we're not on Instagram. I don't write blogs on my phone. Moreover, I don't take photos and then decide to write a blog. I write the blog and then find (or occasionally) take photos.
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Photo: Dinner than Dessert |
Photo: Laurel |
An amethyst is a violet variety of quartz (SiO2), a silicate mineral. It is the most valuable of all the quartz crystals and like all quartz, forms in lava when gas bubbles become trapped, letting crystals form inside the cavities created by the bubbles. Containing impurities of iron and sometimes other trace minerals, the amethyst's purple shade is the result of irradiation (i.e., its exposure to radiation). Just like with other gemstones, it takes millions of years for the earth to make amethyst.While amethyst can range from a light lavender to a deep purple, today its value is determined by its clarity and depth of purple color. Collectors look for flashes of red in the stone. High quality amethyst is mined in Siberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Uruguay. Once undesirable in hue, pale purple (or lilac -- sometimes called "Rose de France") amethyst is also becoming popular thanks to a successful marketing campaign.
Amethyst scores a 7 on the Mohl's Scale of Gemstone Hardness making it very suitable and durable to wear as jewelry. The lovely purple quartz falls sightly below an emerald (7.5 - 8) and higher than tanzanite (6.5 - 7), peridot (6.5 - 7), opal (5.5 - 6.5) and pearls (4.5).
Photo: Omaha Steaks |
Photo: Carae - Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England, mother of the princes in the tower. |
Catherine of Aragon & how she'd look today |
The 5 eldest children of Charles I by Van Dyck 1638 - Mary, James, Charles, Elizabeth and Anne |
1) Stuarts - Mostly like them despite their faults. The Stuart Kings were good fathers and (except for faithful Charles I) philandering husbands, but who protected their wives when needed. History is hard on James II, who had become a Catholic. His chief flaw was his stubbornness. James lacked the charm of his older brother, Charles II. As King, James passed laws showing tolerance of Catholics and Quakers alongside the Church of England, reforms unwanted by segments in the Church of England who had benefited from the previous history of stripping the Catholic Church of its property; and it lead to the loss of his Crown. James II was followed by his 2 Protestant daughters: Mary II and Anne (skipping over his infant Catholic son from his 2nd marriage). Queen Anne's death ended the Stuart line.
2) Tudors - Dislike Henry VII and Henry VIII. What a bloodthirsty, greedy, miserly dynasty.
Like Catherine of Aragon and Mary I, who were both victims of their tyrant husband and father, Henry VIII. Dislike Anne Boleyn (What somebody will do with you, they'll do to you ... and worse ... as she discovered!) Catherine, the wife married to Henry the longest, remained popular with the English people who considered her their true Queen and recognized her worth until the day she died in spite of Henry and Anne's efforts to erase her. Anne lasted 2 short years as Queen and never earned the love of the English people regardless of her Englishness. Have great sympathy for the other wives. Jane's reign was short, dying in the childbirth of Henry's only legitiment living son. Anne of Cleves got a raw deal, then negotiated a lucrative divorce. Poor young Catherine Howard was in over her head and lost it; and Catherine Parr married an overweight, ulcerous King and outlived him. Haven't gotten in-depth into Elizabeth I ... but will likely think she's ok.
Richard III - face created based his skull. |
Photo: The Telegraph |
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