It’s that time of year…
Divali is coming up!  This year it’s on Saturday, October 17 (this Saturday).  I am going to do the annual sale a bit differently this year and host the sale in my Etsy store.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with Etsy, it is a fabulous website for handmade objects and objects related to making things.  I find that it’s so easy to get lost in the pages and pages of fabulous things there.  I have long wanted to get an Etsy store going, and have never really put in a concerted effort.  All of that is changing this week.  I have started listing Divali Sali items, and will continue to lis

“When the journey of the soul is recognized…”
I’ve been going in a direction lately that feels a bit strange to my soul, but it’s the right direction.  This I know.  I’m being drawn forward, like a moth towards the flame, to something that I only understand in its periphery.  To say I have scratched the surface is being liberal.  I am making realizations, finding truths, opening doors, and hearing sounds that are ancient and true, and far from what I have ever consciously known.  And I’m fascinated.  I know this all seems very vague, very foreign, not what you usually find at this blog.  But please bear with me, we are going in a good direction. One of the things that has inspired me today is thi

After the sparkle, and new designs from the heart
The aftermath of the wedding sparkle has been a bit, well, not so sparkly.  I didn’t realize how exhausted I was.  And it didn’t help that I returned to the inevitable mountain of paperwork and past-due orders, with boxes upon boxes that needed unpacking, full of contents that needed re-stashing.  Talk about out of the sunshine, into the clouds.  Things went from happy and cheery to back the grindstone rather abruptly.  But I forged through and have to say that married life has been fantastic thus far.  We are happy and in love, and that’s a beautiful thing.  But it doesn’t give me the re-energizing that I needed.  I’ve been trying to take it slow fo