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A Happy Scarf and Tsukineko All-Purpose Ink
Tsukineko All-Purpose Ink makes fabric-painting easy. Learn All-Purpose Ink (API) basics by painting a scarf, using the Colors in Bloom Set. First wash a Light Jersey Circle Scarf, no fabric softener. Then, iron the fabric (for more controlled paint strokes). … Continue reading
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Start an Indulge in Self-Care Binge
Start an #IndulgeInSelfCareBinge! Max out on enough sleep, naps, healthy food, meditation, creative play, herb tea, visits with friends, fun, etc, not harmful overindulgences like junk food. Spread the word, use the hashtag, let’s get ourselves and friends happily healthy. … Continue reading
Happy Sunny Oil
I just finished making dandelion oil. This is a wonderful happy sunny event. Let me share my old herbal journal notes: May 5, 2007: Put fresh dandelion blossoms in safflower oil, in crockpot for maybe five hours. (I forgot it … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit, The Whole Thing
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Artistry, Marketing, Love
Artistry, Marketing, Love is a seven week course about how you can: * be a productive artist, * sell your work without selling out, * and do it all with self-love. However you express your creativity—eg in the arts, as … Continue reading
A Ten-Day Shamanic Treatment to Heal Your Body
This is a Distance Healing May 6 through May 17, I will do a ten-day ritual for healing the physical body. This shamanic treatment is a distance healing. No meeting required, not even by phone. I will take two days off … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Books, and Other News, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged community, Francesca De Grandis, heal, healing, ritual, shaman, shamanic, spiritual
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Wearing Joy: Talismanic Clothing
I am so happy that if I don’t share, I am going to burst. I am excited bc not only do i get to adorn moi, but my art has really taken a leap forward. For the first time in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit, The Whole Thing
Tagged blend, blouse, dye, faerie, joy, silk
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Depression Healing
What pain has dwelt in silence too long? What muted scream of terror unheard? What outrage ignored as, around you, life after life after life is devastated? What pain in you? Find one such pain, right this moment. Now, draw … Continue reading
Sugar Addiction and Mindfulness about Food
To give this post context, here is my personal definition of mindfulness about food, oversimplified for brevity. I have written it as an affirmation. As such, it expresses an ideal, which i strive toward but do not boast of achieving: … Continue reading
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Silk Luminaries DIY
I love candle light and pretty candleholders, but my rambunctious kitty would set the house on fire. Elizabeth Buffington suggested I whipstitch 3″ square silk “hoops” together to make a luminary with LED tea lights. I got obsessed creating designs, … Continue reading
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