Author Archives: Cynthia

Come See My Jewelry This Weekend 3/27-3/28

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I’ll be showing my jewelry out at Kingstone Marble which is located inside of Garden Essential. The address is 5350 Monterey Rd in GILROY. This address is out on the frontage road and is in the greenhouse where Zen Flower Garden used to be. Call 408-842-5497 if you need directions to the store.
I will be [...]

Gilroy Businesses | Happy Smog Check

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Happy Smog Check
http://www.happysmogcheck.com
7896 Monterey Hwy, Suite B
GILROY, CA 95020
408-846-1318
Happy Smog Check does regular and TEST ONLY smog checks and they make it painless.
I was dreading having to get my car smogged and, frankly, was anticipating having it be royal pain in the butt, like so many other duties associated with the DMV. I pulled into [...]

CANCELED! Showing jewelry one more day before Christmas!

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This event has been CANCELED. Garden Essential is now closed from 12/21 through 1/5 and will reopen Wednesday January 6th, 2010. I apologize for the mix up. Happy Holidays!
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I will be out at Garden Essential with my jewelry one more day before Christmas. I’ll be there Wednesday, December 23rd from 10-ish until at least 3pm, [...]

Great last minute xmas gifts… Friday, Dec 18th

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As some of you might know, I’ve been a jewelry designer with my own line of handmade jewelry since 1998. This post is just to let everyone know that I’ll be selling some of my jewelry designs at Garden Essential on Friday, December 18th, which is the pottery store my son manages. I’ll be there [...]

Valuable Free Service | CrimeReports.com

Did you know there is a service that will tell you all the different crimes near your address for the week? The site is located at www.crimereports.com. Last I heard it was not available everywhere, but it’s definitely available for Gilroy, CA 95020. If you’re not from Gilroy, try it and see if there’s any [...]

Pardon the dust!

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Happy Friday! I hope you’ll pardon the dust. I’m in the middle of changing themes, so things aren’t as polished at the blog right now as they soon will be. It’s a nice colorful theme, but I’ll need to tweak it to make it more personalized.
I got an email from someone, so I’d like to [...]

Gilroy’s Best Kept Garden Secret

My son manages a really interesting business called Garden Essential.  It’s located in the old Zen Garden greenhouse on the frontage part of Monterey here in Gilroy.  Their address is: 5350 Monterey Rd.  They’re on the left and you park outside the gate.  If you want to give them a call, their number is 408-842-5497.  [...]

Best Garlic Fries | Red Robin Morgan Hill, CA

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Last night Tim and I went to Red Robin in Morgan Hill, CA. We didn’t have anything in particular we were in the mood for, but just wanted something good. Finally, we settled on Red Robin because of the allure of their Garlic Parmesan Fries. Mind you, I’m not normally a fries eater because cooked [...]

Little Neighborhood Stores | La Flor de Jalisco

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La Flor de Jalisco is about a block away from my house, so as you can imagine, I stop in a lot. This is my favorite little store on the planet.
I’ve loved little stores ever since I was a little kid living on El Camino Paraiso in Hollister, CA. in the late 60’s. My parents [...]

Panhandler, CA

I submitted a Red Phone about this topic to the Gilroy Dispatch, but they didn’t publish it. To be fair, it was submitted through a digital medium (their form) so perhaps it was lost in cyberspace and they did not receive it.
But could it be that Gilroy doesn’t want to talk about the rampant pandhandler [...]