Soap Happens in Silver City
BRENDA MCFARLANE DESCRIBES herself as “challenged, perspiration-wise.” Store-bought remedies just didn’t work. So McFarlane, who moved to Silver City from San Diego in 2015, spent about two years…
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Category: Lifestyle
Dream Wedding Venues Across New Mexico
GROWING UP, Karly Candelaria dreamed of getting married on the historic farm now known as Houser Raspberry Ranch. “It’s a sentimental place,” Candelaria says of the Mora County property, where her…
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A Healing Labyrinth Takes Shape
FROM ANY POINT along the Trinity Turtle Healing Labyrinth Park, the sounds of cars, pickups, and semitrailers zipping along US 54/70 are almost imperceptible. Maybe it’s the yin and yang of the place:…
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Navajo Craft Meets Smart Tech
CHARLES C. LYNCH doesn’t consider himself a stylish man. “I don’t wear a lot of jewelry myself,” admits the owner of Bilasáana, an Apple Watch band and accessories maker in Farmington. “I wear Levi’s…
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Sew Crafty at Hip Stitch
TUCKED AWAY IN Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights, Hip Stitch celebrates New Mexico’s landscapes and icons, from hot-air-balloon-dotted skies to chile ristras. Sunlight pours through tall windows…
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High Desert Healing in Taos
“WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME you had a massage?” AnnaMarie Vaughan asks. I am face down on the table in the attic of her cozy cabin just north of Taos. Afternoon light hits crystal suncatchers and throws…
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Camping Gear Designed for Kids
WHEN OUTDOOR enthusiasts Tavis and Amber Malcolm took their 10-week-old son, Morrison, nicknamed Mo, on his inaugural camping trip in 2018, they bundled him in everything they could find to keep him…
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Shop Local at the ABQ Collective
KATHERINE AND BOB RIOLO believe business is better done together. After 18 years of selling their handcrafted birdhouses throughout Albuquerque, they envisioned a more stable model. “We realized the…
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Find the Weird and Wonderful at Taxonomy
PART SHOP, PART CABINET DE CURIOSITÉ, Taxonomy is rooted in a love of natural history, local creativity, and offbeat charm. Co-owned by Avian and Kyrstin Thorson Rogers, the store just off Taos Plaza…
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Round Up the West at Black Diamond Curio
DARRYL NICHOLSON believes the West is not just a place, but a state of mind. “It’s about fresh starts and new beginnings,” says the co-owner of Black Diamond Curio, in Santa Fe. The ethos helps…
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