GoddessGems

About small kitchens

2008-09-24T13:12:00.001-07:00

My kitchen is so small that if I laid down in it my head would be in the oven and my feet would be in the dishwasher.

2008-09-08T11:56:00.001-07:00

I just signed up for Tagfoot. http://ping.fm/lfV6m Come see all my links and comments and my wishlist.

2008-08-31T22:36:00.001-07:00

Want to join ping.fm too? Go to http://www.ping.fm.Use the code 'legendofping' and you could have the luxury of posting to all your blogs in one fell swoop like I do. Way more efficient than doing it one by one.

2008-08-31T22:34:00.001-07:00

I'm not sure what 'ping my default' means but I guess I'll find out when I hit send.

2008-08-28T13:40:00.001-07:00

The week sure went by quick. I had a lot more planned but didn't have the energy to do it. My hands are still sore from woodcarving, and so I've had to lay off the knitting and crocheting. I'm looking forward to the weekend. My daughter may visit. We'll see.

2008-08-27T10:09:00.001-07:00

Come view my Flickr photo stream. Over 3000 photos I've taken are waiting there for your pleasure. http://ping.fm/3TTAi

2008-08-27T09:54:00.001-07:00

I just signed up for Ping.fm to make social networking more effiecient.

My Current Puzzle

2008-02-20T15:14:00.000-08:00

I believe that for every health issue, there is a metaphysical reason. And I've been having this chronic ear infection problem. So I have to ask myself 'what is it I don't want to hear?' Or 'what nonsense am I listening to that is only bringing me down?' Am I listening to bad advice? Am I not listening to good advice?

The May Queen

2006-07-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

A long and thought provoking article on the May Queen. http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/mayday.html
How come I can never find these things before the season has passed?

Runes

2006-05-11T18:15:00.000-07:00

I'm reviewing all the runes for the psychic fair on Sat. I'm also crocheting a casting cloth to fit the small tables they have so the runes won't go flying off the table onto the floor. I'm trying to learn the proper pronounciation of each rune. I should get in the habit of reading runes weekly so I won't keep forgetting the meanings.
For some reason I find them harder to remember than Tarot cards.

Palmistry Review

2006-05-11T15:28:00.000-07:00

I wish Iraq was over

2005-12-04T17:03:00.000-08:00

My friend just got deployed to Iraq for the third time. He made a blog if any of you wish to follow along with a first hand encounter. http://camarine.blogspot.com/

Let's see if this works.

2005-11-01T11:18:00.000-08:00

You Are a Glam Rocker!

You put the "show" in rock show with your larger than life self.
No doubt, you are all about making good music...
But what really gets you going is having an over the top show.
Glitter, costumes, and wild hair are your thing - with some rock thrown in!

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

2005-10-09T10:35:00.000-07:00

One of my angels.

2005-10-09T10:34:00.000-07:00

Green Gourd Fairies

2005-10-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Tiffany. Pen and Ink.

Escalators

2005-07-27T08:15:00.000-07:00

Last night I had a very long dream that included malls with escalators. This is a recurring them for me. In this dream the escalators are very steep. Throughout the dream they get more and more dangerous. Finally, I ended up taking the stairs next to the elevator.
In part of the dream, I was standing in the mall advertising a job fair upstairs. I was shouting 'You too could get a higher paying and better job."

Happy Friday the 13th

2005-05-13T10:34:00.000-07:00

Hope you don't suffer from triskaidekaphobia.

Feng Shui and hellish consequences

2005-03-11T20:43:00.000-08:00

After reading the book Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life I resolved to get all the clutter out of my living room and dining room, which includes about 50 boxes from my last move. It took me four days straight with the help of my boyfriend to get as many things sorted out and moved as possible. We got the living room basically together, but the dining room still has hours to go. But with that much cleaning, surely the feng shui would be affected.
Well, for a week things did indeed get better. I started earning money again, I got a new budget in place, I started a new exercise program. I was happy. For a week.

But as some of you know that both with massage, and fasting, things that have long been dormant can suddenly get stirred up and make you ill. Old emotions can be released. It's a lot like a toilet overflowing. Eventually, it will be better, but it can get way worse first.

Well, way worst for me is my teeth started to hurt. Within a week, I couldn't sleep anymore. I had to go to the dentist like NOW. So I have to have a root canal and an extraction and there goes the budget! It gets worse. The dentist takes my blood pressure, which is sky high. So they won't do the work until I see the Dr. I haven't seen a Dr. in years because I don't have health insurance. So that's another $100 for the Dr. (So now I've spent $300, and still have the tooth problems). So the Dr. wants me on high blood pressure meds for life. (OK I did not need that straw on my camel's back).
Then, while I had the DR. and was springing for the big appt., I say, "By the way, what do you think of this wart thing on my forehead". And she says "Oooh, you have to have that off right away...looks like non-matastizing skin cancer". ($600.)
So yes, Feng Shui may be great, and I do need to deal with those health problems. And eventually it will be better. But had I seen this coming, I would have left those boxes right where they sat.

A strange premonition.

2005-02-23T17:09:00.000-08:00

A few days ago I was sitting on the couch and I glanced through my window slats and I thought "Wouldn't it be bizarre to see a tiger strolling across my front yard?"
The next day the news reported someone spotting a big catlike animal disappearing into the brush leaving huge pawprints in the mud near the Reagan library in CA.
A few more days went by. I flip on the news and they found the big cat. And they shot it. And it was a tiger between 400 and 600 lbs. spotted by a resident as it roamed through his yard.

I am sad they weren't able to save it.

My color list

2005-01-13T16:51:00.000-08:00

Colour Chart by Fayme Harper
Red - Primal urges, anger, aggression, passion, basic instincts, explosive, violent, sexuality.
Pink - Compassion, sentimentality, romance, family forgiveness, softer love, combining purity (white) with passion (red).
Green - Growth, healing, attracting abundance, mother nature, spring, fertility, lust, fairies, open mindedness.
Blue - Communication, angel awareness, public speaking and teaching, calmness, water, emotional stability.
Orange - Commercial endeavors, expansion, bravery, leading with your gut instincts, gregariousness.
Purple - Third eye energy, psychic awareness, dreaming, evolving, mediumship, air, taking the higher path, angel communication, wealth, royalty, ghosts and cemetaries.
Yellow - Education, teaching, left brain thinking, warmth, masculine power, summer, cheerfulness.
Brown - Ancient wisdom, past life learning, fertile beginnings, grounding, voluntary simplicity, terra firma, stability, fossils.
Black - Shielding from outside influences, magnetic, underworld, darkness, secrets.
White - Purity, innocence, divine intervention, clean starts, healing on a cosmic level, angel and guide awareness.
Gold - masculine, materialism, financial security, vanity, high magic.
Silver - female intuition, rebirth, new soul awareness, moonlight, night time, sisterhood, fairy magick, ephemeral, temperary, elusive.

Goodbye to 2004

2004-12-31T10:56:00.000-08:00

This will be my last post of the year. Tomorrow is a new day and a new year. Today I added new posts and photos to my Hypno Kitty blog and my cat blog Tres Gatos. It is raining like cats and dogs outside today. I'm happy to be cozy in the warm interior of my apt. I don't drink and I have no plans to celebrate the new year which is a little sad. I usually have some gigs as a psychic reader so I don't make plans on purpose, but then when no one hires me, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do at midnight.
If you are partying tonight, then be safe and don't drive. Sleep over...call a cab...etc.
Happy New Year!

2004-12-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

My betta Charles.

A way cool clock.

2004-12-07T01:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.suite101.com/files/mysites/AskAlice/Clock.htm

Lessons

2004-12-06T11:53:00.000-08:00

Someone said that nothing is free, and you get what you pay for, but I can think of many things that are free...each new day, the air we breathe, the opportunity to seek forgiveness, the new cells our bodies make each moment, the blood in our bloodstream, the milk of human kindness, the herbs that grow with no help from us, the beauty that is found everywhere we look, the new chance to learn from old lessons.

2004-11-30T17:32:00.000-08:00

Juggling 3 clubs or pins. I just added more juggling stuff to my website at http://www.spiralcharms.com. Click on performing arts, then on juggling.

I'm getting back into juggling

2004-11-30T17:25:00.000-08:00

Why you may ask? Because I was taking myself to seriously. "A merry heart doeth good."
Noboby likes a sourpuss.

Practice make nerfect.

2004-11-29T15:24:00.000-08:00

If I spent half as much time dancing as I do on the internet, I'd be a size 4 about now. I've been working on my website, and now I know where the term middle aged spread came from...from spending too much time at a desk playing chair jockey. So as soon as I finish this post, I'm going outside to dance or juggle or something. It's a bit nippy out there but I warm up fast.

I got to play piano for a little while yesterday. I want to follow that up today with some more practice. Note reading is difficult when I'm rusty. I'm okay with notes on the staff, but when they get way above or way below, I start guessing and it sounds like it as I hit the wrong keys.
Ah well, if it were easy, we'd all be Mozart.

Happy Thanksgiving 2004

2004-11-25T09:27:00.000-08:00

When the clock ticked over past midnight last night I stayed up to write my Thanksgiving list of things I'm thankful for. Here goes:

100 Things I’m Thankful For
Thanksgiving 2004

Living in the land of opportunity.
Growing up in the land of enchantment.
Having 2 wonderful brilliant children.
Having a guy that loves me.
Having customers that treat me like a goddess.
My teddy bear.
My mother’s last gift to me.
Enough creativity to get me through anything.
A strong and able body.
A quick mind.
A sharp wit.
A spine.
A love of beauty.
Artistic talent.
That I took singing classes.
My love for color.
A bed to sleep in.
Long brown locks.
Art supplies aplenty.
Archery skills.
The inspiration of others like Johnny Depp, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Zelwigger.
The Bound cartoon before the Incredibles movie.
The Krikorian movie theater.
My stash of fabrics.
My truck.
My new website.
Paint Shop Pro
The Sims
My online friends.
The SCA
Fiber arts.
Belly dance.
Forums like Live Journal and Tribe Net and Where’s George.
Fantasy
The internet and all the art I can access.
Sex
The technology that allows me to have a business.
Mail art and friends to share it with.
The furniture folks have given us.
AAA (American Automobile Association).
Stores close by.
The neighborhood kids.
Wallop, Rocky and Black Bob
Charles my betta.
John Chafe called me after being out of my life for over a year.
I managed to unpack most of the boxes in the living room.
Storage.
Guy’s truck.
Telephones
A body that is not so far gone I can’t fix it.
Determination.
A roof over my head.
My garden.
The altar in my garden.
Time enough to dream.
Never ending opportunities to reinvent myself.
Musical instruments.
Gypsystones.
Improved art skills.
Sewing machines.
A washer and dryer.
A love of poetry.
Tarot cards.
The Thomas Guide map system.
The US post office and UPS and Federal Express
I can read and write.
I have all my body parts.
Psychic ability.
Boots
All the skills I have from needlepoint to pottery.
My pattern collection.
My bead collection.
My piano.
Decent skin.
The memories of my teachers and my childhood.
My blue eyes.
My perfect height.
My nose…I love my nose.
Asia restaurant
Bookstores and books and Amazon bookseller.
My yarn collection.
Wildlife.
Birds.
San Luis Obispo.
Mediumship.
Tolkien
Self fashion.
All the dogs I’ve had.
My hermit crab.
Living in California.
My oriental rug.
My Café press store.
Guy’s cooking skills.
Chainmail
My bank accounts.
My new ISP Peoplepc.com
Aisling the artist and Eddie Breen.
Soft fabric dolls
Dobyville
Electricity, candles and all forms of light.

2004-11-12T16:12:00.000-08:00

Wild about blueberry muffins.

Wild Blueberry Muffins

2004-11-12T16:10:00.000-08:00

Of course my tummy is happy too.

2004-11-12T16:08:00.000-08:00

I just read that blueberries are good for the brain. So I whipped up some wild blueberry muffins.

Salutation

2004-11-12T13:49:00.000-08:00

The Salutation of the Dawn
Listen to the exhortation of the dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lies all the
Verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Translated from Sanskrit

2004-11-10T21:06:00.000-08:00

Third time's the charm.

2004-11-10T20:56:00.000-08:00

2004-11-10T20:55:00.000-08:00

Aura photo from a few year's back.

Green thumbs welcome

2004-11-10T11:54:00.000-08:00

I realized a lot of my posts have been about gardening, so I decided to give them a home of their own. So I made a gardening blog. http://prettymaidsallinarow.blogspot.com/

Psychic Faire this Sat.

2004-11-10T11:19:00.000-08:00

For those that know me in real life and like to go to psychic faires, I will be at the Learning Light Foundation's monthly psychic faire this Sat. It goes from 10 to 5 but I will be there from 10 to 4 doing readings. They also have vendors and free lectures. If you get their free newsletter, be sure to grab the back page with the 'get in free' coupon. See you there. http://www.learninglight.org

2004-11-08T11:41:00.000-08:00

Maybe I should put one of these on Yule cards for the holidays.

2004-11-08T11:38:00.000-08:00

So cuddly to be in a coat like this.

2004-11-08T11:37:00.000-08:00

Turquoise and garnet pendant.

2004-11-08T11:35:00.000-08:00

Now I just need to find a witches ball to wear this to.

2004-11-08T11:34:00.000-08:00

Reminds me of Dr. Zhivago.

2004-11-08T11:32:00.000-08:00

Candleglow.

2004-11-08T11:31:00.000-08:00

Purple Lining

2004-11-08T11:30:00.000-08:00

Winter Queen.

2004-11-08T11:20:00.000-08:00

Paper narcissis blooming in my flowerbed.

2004-11-08T11:18:00.000-08:00

I like this self-portrait because it looks like I have a crown made by the tree behind me.

Slang getting rusty?

2004-10-31T22:36:00.000-08:00

I found this online slang dictionary that was good for a few laughs.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/

2004-10-27T20:05:00.000-07:00

the beginning of the eclipse

2004-10-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Blood Moon...full lunar eclipse.

2004-10-24T17:02:00.000-07:00

Star candle

2004-10-24T16:55:00.000-07:00

Use green candles for healing and prosperity. All star candles have magical qualities. The number six (as in six points) is family happiness.

2004-10-24T16:52:00.000-07:00

Goddess please heal my cat.

Birthday Calendar

2004-10-21T01:14:00.000-07:00

2004-10-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

Crystal Divination

Posted by Hello

A girl's gotta eat.

2004-10-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I've gone and done it! I've listed 3 of my handmade items on EBAY. It took me all afternoon to figure out how to do it. And so far I only know how to post one photo to each item, so if you need more views, let me know and I'll email you the other photos.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8138894852
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8138906454&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8138909015&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

2004-10-12T23:15:00.000-07:00

My favorite recent photo.

2004-10-11T14:47:00.000-07:00

Before

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After

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With the professor.

2004-10-11T14:10:00.000-07:00

Things I bent at the Psychokinesis Party.

2004-10-11T14:07:00.000-07:00

A spoon and a fork I bent at the Psychokinesis Party on Sunday night.

2004-10-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Fluffy!

2004-10-11T14:03:00.000-07:00

closeup of beadwork tassle

2004-10-11T14:01:00.000-07:00

rose tattoo and belly dancing beaded bra.

2004-10-11T13:59:00.000-07:00

Looking up.

2004-10-11T13:56:00.000-07:00

Labrodorite pendant.

Photo test

2004-10-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/pigglewiggins/Bellydance/button_turban.jpg

Connect,Command,Release

2004-10-11T09:26:00.000-07:00

I attended a psychokenesis party. To see spoon bending with my own eyes and to do it myself is a real belief system modifier. The spoon actually got hot in my hand. To do it, you channel divine energy into it, and when it gets soft, you bend it.

First you connect with it, then you commend it to bend, then you release your connection. Sometimes the letting go is the hardest part. But just like a watched pot never boils, a watched spoon won't bend.

And so it is with prayer or magick. Once you cast it, you must let it go. (And if you are a control freak, that does not come easily). Just let go and let it fly.

The professor said reiki works the same way, or healing with your hands. As for me, I'm keeping my bend spoons, forks and bbq skewers as concrete proof that we can alter what seems to be solid by the force of our mind.

Belly Dance Vest

2004-10-08T13:45:00.000-07:00

Today I'm designing a new belly dancing vest from scratch. The trick of sewing is to get flat fabrics to go over curves. So I've now drafted, sewn and taken apart two versions, trying for a more perfect fit. It seems like a lot of work now, but if I come up with a final product I love, I'll be able to use the pattern over and over again, and get pleasure from wearing the vests I make while I dance for years to come. So a little aggravation now will be worth it in the end.

Big Rubber Ball

2004-10-07T22:11:00.000-07:00

Today I find myself pondering how to get back on the positive tip when things haven't exactly gone my way. Sometimes a series of small events that seem relatively insignificant all gang up together as if to find a way to bite a chunk out of me. I just have to visualize myself as a giant rubber ball, bouncing back. No matter what comes my way, I need to bounce back. To be resilient and flexible and to realize that no mood lasts forever. Time to bounce.

2004-10-07T20:57:00.000-07:00

Expand your comfort zone

2004-10-06T08:54:00.000-07:00

We all live in an ever shrinking comfort zone. If you spend too much time clinging to the old and familiar, the things that you are comfortable with get smaller and smaller.
Expand your comfort zone by doing something new every day. Write a poem, take up a new hobby, figure out how to crochet, read about fighter planes, draw on some envelopes and mail them to pen pals. Something as simple as changing your hairstyle or rearranging your desk can put you on a fresh path.

Juggle your way out of a rut.

2004-10-05T14:27:00.000-07:00

Are you bored? Need something engrossing to take your mind off your boring life? I just happened upon this juggling vendor that is new to me. The prices are very low, compared to most juggling vendors, so check it out.

http://www.goofproofjuggling.com/index2.php

butterfly

2004-10-05T13:54:00.000-07:00

Each day an insightful tidbit will float into our lives, like a delicate butterfly. We could easily miss it if we are not paying attention. Consider this journal like a butterfly net, waiting to scoop up the next gemlike butterfly of thought to share with you.