Blog — Gift Guides

The day is quickly approaching for us to celebrate the great men who raised us, loved us, taught us and sacrificed for us. I hope we can take some moments to reflect on those men and all they mean to us - whether they’re still here with us or not.

My own father was a professor of history with a deep love of his family, friends, storytelling, the American Southwest and very specifically New Mexico. As early as I can remember, my father excitedly led our family on road trips across the wide open Southwest, where we visited historical sites including Indian pueblos, shopped for inexpensive Native made turquoise jewelry, ate at New Mexican restaurants, and blasted country & western music on the way to our historic log cabin high in the rugged Sangre de Cristo mountain wilderness. This was my father at his happiest. . .

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...