White Jade, Amethyst, and Mother’s Day

If you’re one of those people who actually gets presents before the absolute last minute, you have my admiration. And I have a suggestion for a wonderful Mother’s Day gift.

My “White Jade and Amethyst Mother’s Necklace” has a large white jade briolette, natural amethyst teardrop, and a lacquered paper pendant charm with the Chinese pinyin, or writing, that says “Mom”. (The chinese word actually is “ma ma”!)

If you’re married just a year, with a new baby, of course this would be PERFECT. Your paper anniversary (the first year anniversary), and a new mom too? She’ll love it – and you 🙂

Star Trek: Scents. I’m not kidding.

I would say “I’ve seen it all now” but I’m totally not going down that road. Still, this one made me laugh. I was bumbling around this morning, looking at this and that, first cup of coffee, have to Get Moving in a Minute, and stumbled on this: Star Trek: the perfumes...really
Star Trek: perfumes. Really.

And they have one named “Red Shirt”. They have named a perfume after all the poor suckers who died! I mean, it’s funny and all, but… please explain the marketing strategy to me. Why would some committee somewhere think that is a winning strategy?

I got a chuckle out of this whole thing, mostly, but… Red Shirts? Maybe I’m just missing the point?