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One of the best ways to spend $5 in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico is at Kasha Katawe Tent Rocks National Monument about 50 minutes from the capital city. At Tent Rocks, you'll be bathed in nature, see glorious vistas, hike through a slot canyon, and play to your heart's content. Here's our Local Guide to Tent Rocks.

Valentine’s Day is a holiday that so many LOVE to hate. One complaint about V-day is that people are forced to give meaningless, mass-produced love-themed junk (to the tune of 20.7 billion dollars last year!). Others view the day as one which only exists as a sad reminder of their undesired singleness or their unhappy relationship. If you’re currently a Valentine’s Day hater, I believe that you can rebel against some of what irks you without eschewing the celebration all together. Native American jewelry provides the perfect antidote to the inconsequential and contrived holiday-themed novelty items that are most often...

Tufa (pronounced toofa) is a type of porous volcanic stone that can be found regionally in the American Southwest. It's widely available on the Navajo reservation. Casting jewelry using a mold hand-carved of the volcanic tufa material is a traditional jewelry making technique