"We could see it was something really exciting as despite more than 1,000 years in the ground we could see glints of the possible garnet setting."

How lumpy our bed was with all her lockets and bangles and her garnet ring.

Any sweet potato will work — Japanese yams, garnet sweet potatoes, jeweled sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes — whatever you have available.

"Such radial cracks can only form if the host mineral, the garnet, stays very strong," explains Duretz.

Otherwise he’d be running the sideline in Texas Christian purple, Auburn burnt orange and navy blue or the lovely garnet of Florida State.