The Magical Joy of Giving. Our main intention for The Jewelry Project is creating abundance, so that we can use the resources to give back. In helping others, we feel we are helping ourselves too. 

Through the years we have continued to grow due to it’s original intention: To help you uncover the best part of YOU, your personal, TRUE WELL BEING.

If we look back in history, crystals and gemstones have held a revered place in our lives. They have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt, adorning the breastplates of warriors, and sparkling in the crowns of sovereignty.

Watch how the Jewelry Project started.

I also believe the word friendship can represent the idea of supporting those who need it most. So in celebration of and in thanksgiving for friendships of all types, my guru friend Elizabeth Irvine and I have collaborated on a special bracelet that we named the Mitra bracelet. Mitra means friendship in Sanskrit. I believe we are all here to help one another and Elizabeth and I wanted to create an object that symbolizes supportive, loving energy.

A common goal comes back to the simple message. Women want to feel beautiful. We share the belief of empowering women from the inside out. Riane has great style and understands how to help women feel beautiful. She also understands the intention and meaning behind The Jewelry Project. Women supporting women.

What could be more precious than your health and well-being? Why do we find it so difficult to carve out time for ourselves, even when we know that by doing so we will be happier and healthier and everyone around us will reap the benefits? What if you held the tools to live in a way that transformed daily stress into peaceful moments, creative insight and purpose-felt action? You hold the power to live with authentic health and happiness.

What is your favorite thing about Santa Fe?

Join us this Friday October 21st at the beautiful Jung Center in Houston. In this 1.5 hour workshop you will learn how the tools of gentle yoga, guided meditation, and affirmation “work” can help you create the life your soul is asking you to live. Allow your “work” to be a vehicle that transforms daily stress and living into creativity and purpose-felt action.

Our workshop coordinator, Allie, created a video to teach children about yoga.

Driving across west Texas, the rain finally stops and the sun comes out, brightening up an enormous Texas blue sky. The familiar ten hour drive gives the perspective of distance and as the time and landscape change I begin to let go of our  home in Texas and transition to our simple adobe in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

It is really not surprising to find out that any guy near Baton Rouge has been in his boat looking to rescue someone. The media coined these men the Cajun Navy, and this Southern state knows the word kindness as a verb. I am here to help, do you know anyone who needs to be rescued? What can I do for you?

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot;
Together we can do great things.”
– Mother Teresa

About fourteen years ago, we drove through a tiny strip of a town chiseled out of red rocks in the middle of no where, and vowed we would return one day. Last week our family took that trip back to Moab, UT.

GILT City Serendipity: Introducing guest blogger, Holly Crawford

And that moment’s click brought me to you now. My editor liked the pitch and assigned me the article, so I had the good fortune to sit down with Elizabeth for coffee one morning. Little did I know it would turn into lunchtime as hours elapsed like minutes, and it would be the start of a special friendship. They say there are no accidents, and I’m a believer. She came into my life at the exact right moment with her calming voice and valuable perspective on everything from affirmations to meditation.

This post is in honor of my dad. Today marks his birthday and the one year anniversary of his death. Besides being a good dad and a professor who loved to teach, he was passionate for books and reading. He passed this love on to many, me included. This image is of some books from his library.

She recently created some magic in her life and we thought it would be fun to share this experience with our readers. Her manifestation of a dream she held for herself is a testimony.

The Soul Space Retreat was the universe’s way of bringing a magical group of women together. We were meant to connect and help each other relax, let go, share, & dream. Allowing our body & mind to create soul space.

Three days of yoga, meditation, & soul work at the enchanting Travaasa Resort in Austin, Texas. Our group ranged from artists, designers, business women, mothers, & daughters from all over the world. Including local Austinites, Houstonians, Californians, and friendly foreigners from Canada & London.

My dad went to heaven today. A poem we both love felt appropriate to share.