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Rockhounding for Opal – Marilee’s Rockhound Report takes us on the hunt for precious Opal in Virgin Valley, Nevada - home to several well-known precious opal mines, offering great potential for finding these brilliant fire-filled stones. Read about Opal in Virgin Valley.
 

The Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit by Whitney FerreThe Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit - If you can spill paint, this new guidebook by Whitney Ferré will help you turn your creative potential into reality. Read more about The Artist Within.

 

 

The Lover's KnotThe Lover’s Knot - Throwing off its grandmotherly image, quilting is now following knitting as the next hipster trend. With a charming, but fresher take on the art than the more traditional quilting mysteries, The Lover’s Knot  introduces twenty-six-year-old Nell Fitzgerald who soon finds herself entangled in the hobby, and in solving a small town murder with the help of her grandmother and her quilting circle, in Clare O’Donohue’s debut novel The Lover’s Knot.

 


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