The Goddess Circle with Leonie

I have been following the Goddess Leonie for several years and her excitement and positivity never fails to encourage me to DO more and her honesty and frankness helps me to BE more.  And for a long time now I have wanted to join her Goddess Circle, but so far it hasn't meant to be; just look at how awesome it is...


The Goddess Circle is a powerful & comprehensive program to help transform your business AND your whole life!  Here is what Leonie says you can expect:

1. a business that is growing rapidly + totally in alignment with your soul's purpose
2. a wildly productive, block-free, self-judgement-free creative practice
3. health + radiance like you've never experienced before
4. a home that no longer drags you down with negative energy or clutter
5. a proven system of planning out your goals + making them come true
6. thousands of women (soul sisters!) you can receive support + inspiration + mastermind with in our private forums
7. levels of inner peace + happiness you haven't experienced before.

As you can see the Goddess Circle is so much more than a virtual women's group; you get audio mediations, illustrated workbooks, e-courses, tips... "Everything you need to live, work, play & create like the Goddess you’re becoming." 

And for just a few more days you can get it with the Early Bird price!  On July 3rd the price will DOUBLE!  So if you're interested at all in taking advantage of this incredible package (over $900 of creativity, spirituality + business e-courses for $99!!!), go now and sign up!

Our Magical Menagerie

Faerie Gardens is a place of many wonders. One of those wonders is our magical menagerie. Glittery dragonflies dance through the sunlight, sly foxes peak from behind clumps of red maple, wispy wasps buzz & plump bumble bees bounce! (Yes BOUNCE!)


Magical Menagerie Pendant - Busy Bee
Blissful bunnies munch clover next to sleepy kitty cats while even more mystical creatures flit about. Can you glimpse the shy unicorn prancing on the periphery of your vision? Have you seen the fairies flit across the night sky? Nearly as numerous as the stars!


Magical Menagerie Pocket Rock - Wise Owl
Owls hoot their wisdom to those who open their hearts as well as their ears. Chickadees share songs of both joy and sorrow. Crafty crows weave stories that lead us into the depths of our souls, while the seemingly lowly snail and ever-slow turtle have their own lessons to teach in humility and power of a pause.


Magical Menagerie Ring - Grounded Turtle
For a limited time, the artists at Faerie Garden Fancies will be capturing the essence of some of this magical menagerie to share with you! What animal calls your name? What lessons do you need to learn? Check out The Magical Menagerie and see if you can find something that speaks to you!

Wishcasting Wednesday

What is your heart's wish?

Like others participating, it's hard to think of my heart's wish, without my head jumping in...


The Castle and Heart Shaped Fireworks. By Wyscan

A dream is a wish your heart makes...
Ah, that's better... now my head is busy singing, and my heart can be heard...

My heart wishes for safety, financial security, the knowledge that the bills will be paid on time without having to beg, borrow, or steal.  I know that if this one thing were accomplished then all other issues would fall into place.  Right now I feel Making Money is all I am allowed to focus my energy on - I feel guilt when I take time do something that doesn't fulfill that goal - and heaven forbid I should *spend* money, even indirectly, like driving the car someplace unnecessary... It truly makes my heart sad.

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box [at the link] below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
~ Jamie Ridler

CLEARANCE SALE!

Faerie Garden Fancies must reduce their inventory!  We have TONS of delightful items that are 50% OFF in our C L E A R A N C E section RIGHT NOW!


No coupon codes, no adjusted invoices, just 50% off everything in the C L E A R A N C E section!

This is to make way for a new summer product line that we will be announcing in the near future! Check us out at Faerie Gardens Fancies and enjoy the clearance sale prices.

Fairy Day

Today is Fairy Day!

We're still unpacking and settling back into our usual routines here, after a week away from home at an unschooling camping-conference in the Catskills (*bliss*); so we won't be doing anything special, but I thought I'd share a bit of Faerie Gardens' magic with you all...



Spring Fairy, 8" x 8" Print of Original Watercolor Painting

FairyDay.com isn't up anymore (online casino troll have stolen the site! D: ), but you can find out more on facebook and these other sites:

• Fairy Day Facebook Page
• Fairy Day Squidoo Page
• Fairy Day Punchbowl Page

Are you celebrating?  What are you doing?  Tell me about it!

Delighting

Yesterday Jamie Ridler asked, "What do you wish to delight in?"  But today, she asks, "Do you know what delights you?"  And since I've been doing gratitude posts (semi-) regularly on my fb, I have an inkling, but I really wanted to do her exercise; it's *such* good practice.  So here goes...

5 Delights for Each Sense

I love the taste of…

1. kisses
2. chocolate
3. cheese
4. candy
5. fresh fruit

I love the sight of…

1. Jacqueline smiling
2. Lake Ontario in every mood
3. All kinds of birds
4. Flowers in bloom
5. Rainbows & all things sparkly & purple (ok I guess that's 3 in 1, but really...)

I love the feel of…

1. Cool sheets on a hot night
2. Heavy warm blankets on a cold night
3. Jacqueline's skin
4. pencil on paper going exactly where I want it
5. wind in my hair while driving

 
I love the smell of…

1. fresh ground coffee
2. Jacqueline's hair
3. the air just as it begins to rain
4. lilacs & roses & lily of the valley
5. men's cologne

I love the sound of…

1. Jacqueline singing in the kitchen
2. engines revving
3. rain on the roof
4. all kinds of birdsong, from the cawing crow to the warbling robing to the trilling vireo
5. loved ones talking & laughing

Wishcasting Wednesday

What do you wish to delight in?


1. In Route, 2.  08-30-10 Swimming, 3. money8, 4. kiss

• I wish to delight in the security of a reliable vehicle, knowing that when I want to go some place it will be there, ready to go, no problems or issues to worry about.
  


• I wish to delight in lazy days by the lake shore, swimming and laughing and playing.
  


• I wish to delight in a steady income, enough to support my family in all our needs and desires.
  


• I wish to delight in more passion and play in my relationships.

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box [at the link] below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
~ Jamie Ridler

LGBT Love Stories

In honor of LGBT Pride Month, the Queer Etsy Street Team is telling their love stories. Each Saturday this month you can find the story of one of my fellow team members on the team blog. Click here to read the first post, which will have links to all the stories by the end of the month.


Rainbow Empire State Building
Originally uploaded by Lisa Bettany {Mostly Lisa}

Sale at Faerie Garden Fancies

Tomorrow is the last day you can get 20% OFF at Faerie Garden Fancies if you used the Coupon Code MEMDAY2012...


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ENDS JUNE 1ST!

P.S.  Don't forget, I am open to commissions as well!

Sale at Faerie Garden Fancies

Now through JUNE 1ST you can get 20% OFF at Faerie Garden Fancies if you used the Coupon Code MEMDAY2012...


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Memorial Day Manicure

I thought I'd try something new on my nails this time...


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Some red, white, and blue wavy ribbons and one with just a bit of star showing...

What I did:

1. Base Coat of Nail Magic Nail Hardener
2. Background of Artmatic Silver Dust
3. Wavy stripes made using a thin brush with China Glaze Ruby Pumps & Blue Iguana and Sally Girl Pure (812000) topped with Wet 'n' Wild #438 (I apparently need some kind of super sparkly white, eh?)
4. Top Coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust (very hard for me to leave this out of any manicure! XD )
5. Top-top Coat of Out The Door

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And on the other hand, I did a red, white, and blue comet on my thumb, adding a single silver star glitter, and since we always cook-out on Memorial Day, a burger!  Complete with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and a sesame seed bun!  ^-^

For the burger:

1. Paint the bottom bun first with a mix of my unknown brown color, Sally Girl Pure (812000), DuraGloss Sea Shell, and China Glaze Lemon Fizz.  (Still not 100% happy with the color, as I feel it's a bit too grey, but what're ya gonna do?)
2. Lettuce next!  I used China Glaze's Cha Cha Cha with a stippling of Lemon Fizz.
3. Then the burger, which I used my unknown brown stippled with black and a tiny bit of the bun-mix.
4. Nina Ultra Pro Like Butta made an excellent cheese,
5. and Revlon Dragon Red made wonderful tomatoes.  However, this one ALWAYS smears when I add the top coat.
6. Finally I added the top bun & dotted it with Lemon Fizz sesame seeds.
7. Topped it all with Hard Candy's Matte-ly in Love, and then went over the tomatoes, cheese, burger, and lettuce with my usual Out The Door topcoat.

I'd love to see yours!

Pinterest?

So yes, I've decided Pinterest is a good thing.  Instead of saving recipes & links & images I like to my hard drive, I can now just pin them!  I always try to make sure I find the original source and give proper credit, but sometimes it seems nearly impossible!  I wish others were as careful. 

I think it's great for businesses and artists too!  What a great way to get your art & products out there where people can see it!  Even if it's not linked back properly, if someone wants it bad enough, they can drag & drop the image to a google image search and find it!

Anyway, I tried 2 recipes I found there yesterday and I thought I'd share my results!

I came across these cute flower cookies (not my repin or my friend's, but I can't find either!) and had wanted to make them for Jacqueline for her birthday, but I wasn't sure how pretty they'd be; so I had to look high & low to find images of the finished recipe.  I finally found it here, and then realized I'd need to make some color sugar, which happened to be another pin I saw one day (again, can't find mine or my friends').

So the cookies I thought were sooper fussy.  I was glad for Lia's help, but even still we decided to do only one sheet.  They didn't come out as pretty as expected either.  I think the sugar wasn't as vibrant as it could have been, and would have been prettier if we'd have turned the flowers over after cutting, before baking.


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We made some other shapes and then just made the balls rolled in the colored sugar and squashed them.  They were pretty good cookies too!  We used the recipe that was posted at RubyLemons' blogspot and actually saved about 1/2 the dough to make another Pinterest favorite, which I'll post about after we make it!  ^-^


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I also recently shared a pin that I thought I should share with my readers as well.  I wish I could take credit for the idea, but it was all Jacqueline!

Pop the top out of your empty salad dressing bottles (we use a fork tine, bamboo skewer, or chopstick) then snap it into other bottles that don't have the smaller hole.  You'll be amazed at the bottles it fits into!  We use them in dressing bottles w/o that smaller hole (this keeps us from dumping too much on our salad), our BBQ sauce (squirt out a nice line on hot dogs and pretty squigglies on omelets), and even in our vegetable oil bottle for easy measuring of small amounts & splashing  just a bit into frying pans.


So do you have a Pinterest?  I'd love to add you!

FlatRock and the Oswego Harbor

Last Thursday we headed up to town and stopped at FlatRock, our favorite place to hang out!  Lia & I took some time to walk out on the pier, but we only went about a quarter of the way to the lighthouse.  It was so windy, it kept blowing Lia's hair funny and her shadow looked like she had cat ears...


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Despite the wind it was a very nice walk.  We even got a nice picture of our swimming spot from a different angle!  Sadly it was still too cold for swimming...


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On the way out, we saw two very large birds arguing over a lamp post on the power plant property.  They were ospreys!  This one won.  ^o^


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I can't wait til we can go up and stay for a longer visit, that includes floating in the lake...

Wishcasting Wednesday

What do you wish to walk away from?

I wish to walk away from the voices in my head that say I am a failure, that remind me daily of what a disappointment I am to them.  I am not a disappointment or a failure.  Those words are just me judging myself more harshly than I would ever judge anyone else!

And it's a downward spiral, a self-fulfilling prophecy:  When I doubt myself, I come across as insecure, and others doubt my abilities, which leads to more insecurities in me, and so on.  By walking away from those voices, I can lift my head and proudly show myself to the world, with all my imperfections and silliness, and the world can see how beautiful being joyous and self-confident can be.


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You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box [at the link] below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
~ Jamie Ridler

Eight Years

Eight years ago today I embarked on an adventure that took me places I had never even IMAGINED.  I learned things about myself I didn't know, I pushed past limits, and discovered new ways of making things work.  All because of one beautiful shining woman...

Jacqueline.

She pushes me to be my best, challenging old habits and ways of thinking, and supporting me even when I'm *not* my best.  Without her, my life would be so much emptier.

I am so blessed and humbled by her love and cannot wait to see all the adventures the next eight years and beyond will bring...


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Shadow

I am amazed by the detail I got in this shot...


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Those veins!  *flail*

Lia's Nails

This weekend is the final gathering of Lia's RE class, an overnight camping trip, and she asked me to do her nails. (Kinda funny if you actually think about it, but it's not that kind of camping trip!)  Her class is called the OWLs, standing for Our Whole Lives, so she asked for owls on her nails and I was happy to oblige!  ^-^


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I had planned on doing some cutesty little pop-culture owls, but... well... Everything comes out with more realism than I intend... >.<  A great-horned, a saw-whet, and a snowy, all with glow in the dark eyes.  I should have added glow in the dark paint to the 'OWLs' too, but I just put a little gold shimmer over it.  She did her own basecoat, and the pic was before clean up...

Photo Friday: Walk

Labyrinth on the Pier

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Yesterday was a beautiful day to walk the pier. Lia & I found the labyrinth I walked 2 years ago and she walked it this time...

Wishcasting Wednesday

Today Jamie Ridler asks us...

How do you wish to grow?


GROW

Usually I like to answer the prompt before reading other people answers, but I needed a little guidance with today's question, and it seemed I wasn't the only one.  When I got to this post from Gaelach with the Clan of the Moon Goddess, and read the first line of her poem: "I wish to grow like a weed," I remembered a drawing a did on the summer solstice a few years ago.  The painting that evolved from that drawing is the one you see above...

I *do* wish to grow like a weed, self-confident, unashamedly naked before the world, sharing my natural gifts and talents, creation, inspiration, magic, joy, and love, rainbows of joy & creativity sprouting from my finger tips, prosperity springing from my footsteps.

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box [at the link] below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
~ Jamie Ridler

New Pendants at Faerie Gardens

These images do not do these pendants justice.  I wish you could see them in person!


1. Mermaid in a Bowl Pendant, 2. Bejeweled Early Autumn Leaf Pendant, 3. Magical Unicorn Pendant, 4. Blushing Blue Moon Pendant
Be sure to click through to see more images and details!