New Website!!!!

I was so inspired today that I have finally created my website.

Please take a look and let me know what you think.

More will be coming soon..... But at least this is a start.

In My Dreams

My new goal for the next year is to have Odessa's Herbals products featured in two magazines and on Craft Revolution.com. This by far one of the best and most inspirational websites I have been too in a long time. I LOVE it.

Also, I will be opening a new ETSY account towards the end of December.
You will be able to find it here.

I will let everyone know when it is up.

One more thing to inspire everyone today. I have a new hero. Her name is Diane Kappa and she is a fabric designer. Her website is located at www.dianekappa.com and I hope one day to meet her. Her pillows are beautiful to look at, are designed with amazing colors and the intention of her company is one of pure love and creativity. I think I might give her a candle one of these days to help her towards her goal.

Last night I went to Lola's in Seattle. This is one of my new favorite hangout spots. It was snowing and I was drinking a lovely glass of Red Wine. In my bag I had a beautiful Orange Courage candle with me. For some reason I was compelled to give it to my waitress the candle as a gift. I have never met someone randomly and just knew that they needed one of my candles, until today. She had a little artist waiting inside of her that needs to get out and play. We did not talk too much about the candle but I know she needed it and I know it will help her.

Candles ... Candles

This weekend I made 20 candles and I had the best weekend ever. I was able to spend time alone, working with essential oil, wax and energy.

What made the weekend even better was the snow that arrived on Sunday. I kept singing holidays songs out loud. Ahmi, my dog, spent almost all day outside. She loves the snow. The poor cats had to stay inside but they got to sleep on the bed so they were not complaining.

This morning my commute was 3 hours long. I took a nice nap and felt very safe on the bus inside of driving my small car.

I will see some friends tonight from high school. They are the first people I have seen since I graduated over 10 years ago. It feels good to connect with people again.

Working

I am at work today. It is so nice and quiet, I have my door closed and am listening to This American Life over the internet.

Thanksgiving was peaceful this year. I spent some time yesterday giving thanks to the universe and thinking of all my loved ones who have passed on.

My theme for this week is Ghosts and Spirits who are sill around. I have such a wonderful story to write about how this became my theme, which I will write later this weekend.

The candles are back

I am in the midst of making 50 candles by the holidays.

It feels so good to cook up candles again. The candles are getting more powerful and lovely.

My new candle is called Intentional Wealth. This candle has been inspired by Colette Baron-Reid. It is sage green and glows yellow at night. This candle is a two fold candle. First, it will help you to clear blocks that you may have in attracting wealth. You will notice areas in your life where the blocks are and be able to process them. Then, the candle will help you to attract miracles that will help you to realize how wealthy you truly are. It will also help to manifest material things, but more importantly this candle will open your spirit to how rich the universe is and how important it is to never live in lack but to share the abundance.

Vincent J. Barra

My new hero is Vincent J. Barra. He has an internet radio show on Tuesday from 4-6 pm pacific time and I never miss it.

I have to say that I am very impressed by this intuitive reader. He is very good at getting to the heart of a callers issue and helping them.

He also suggest keep a list of 100 goals that people want to create in life. I started my goals this morning. I was very surprised to realize how much my goals revolved around forgiveness of people from my past. I thought my goals would revolve around work, material possessions or traveling. But no, they were about forgiving myself, forgiving other people and realizing how successful I already am.

I look forward to listening to all of Vincents show's and to oneday meet and talk with him.

Please listen to his show and give him a call sometime. It will change your life.

Lesson for the Day

I read this quote this morning that has really inspired me to think differently.

"The Universe wants you to achieve all that you desire, and when you align yourself with the Laws of Success, it will do everything in its power to help you on your way--- but desperation and urgency are deal breakers. This isn't because the Universe wants to prolong your yearning. In fact, just the opposite is true: It wants you to enjoy your life and engage in a different, higher vibration now-- and stop waiting for some vague happiness to come in the distant future. The best energy happens when you let go of urgency and engage in trust, when you rid yourself of despair and choose peace in the present instead."

Oh, this quote just made me weak in the knees and almost shaky. It is true, I have been living in the past too much lately and also living in the vague future of happiness.

This was the lesson I took away from my Sonia Choquette conference yesterday. Live in the present, live in the now and be totally happy and positive about this moment.
I will admit, I had a pretty good time at the Sonia talk. I laughed, I even danced and sang. I would have like to have had more time to interact and give readings to strangers, or have had her give readings but for what she presented yesterday, I was happy.

I am busy this weekend making intentional wealth candles for my seminar in NYC and reading the book that Sonia gave me yesterday. It is raining again in the Northwest so I must stay busy inside.

Friday Night

There is nothing better to do on a Friday night then clean my house, let go of old energy and clear up any blocks.

I have never been that concerned with cleaning in the past. But lately all I want to do is clean, recycle, donate and let go of everything that I do not need anymore. It really is the best way to heal energy that might be negative or stale.

Tomorrow I will be seeing Sonia Choquette and then I am off to the weekend home to make wonderful candles for my friends in NYC!!!!

Theme of the week

CUT THE CORDS

This is my theme/ lesson for this week. I have some cords that are still connected to heartache and pain from years ago. I have done a lot of thinking this week and I have realized that I really need to let go of the pain, the dreams of these people coming back to me and allow the universe to bring me better energy. I still have energy in me that feels these people are the only people who will ever love me, but if this is the truth, why did they leave?

I feel like I need a healing. Maybe it has to do with the sudden death of my best friend who came into my life at the same time I was attached to this past love that I can not get over. But, for me to be myself and be whole, even the psychic side, I could not stay with this person. He would never except my psychic side.

But I know this cord is still going strong and I need this to end. I need to let him go, I need him to let me go or I need us to get back together and work through all these issues that are still out there.

Any guidance is needed because I feel like I am in a energy traffic jam.

But on the good side of things, my candles are stronger and more powerful. I am making a huge batch of intentional wealth candles this weekend. These candles are inspired by Colette Baron Reid.

Closer to NYC

So I signed up for the NYC conference today. Next week I will buy my ticket and then next month I will be taking a vacation, seeing my family and getting to meet a new hero of mine. All in 5 days.

I am so excited!!!!!!

This morning my one of my best friends who now lives in Sweden called to tell me how much she missed our women's group from last year. We were talking about starting a new virtual women's club on line. So if anyone is interested in joining our online club, let me know.

I figured I would post theme's for the week, writing topics, and book suggestions.

I will provide more details as I get a better understanding.

Next week I am going to see Sonia Choquette speak. She has been a long standing influence over my life for the last ten years and I have never seen her speak. I am interested to see her but also a little shy about it. I know she has music preformed at her events and wants people to dance, which is fine for most people but for me, it is just not my thing. Not saying that I am out of touch with my body or soul. I just connect in a different way then she does. I will let everyone know how it goes next week.

PHARAOH

Today as I was driving home in the blackness I almost hit two dogs.
I was so worried that I pulled over and went after the dogs. I was able to get one and I lost the second one.

One dog was a black lab with no collar on, the other one was a black Doberman pinscher. The Doberman was the dog I was able to get a hold of and took to my car. He had a tag on so I drove around for awhile looking for the second dog and then finally gave up. Pharaoh (the Doberman) laid down in the back seat of my car or got up and gave me kisses on the cheek. He was so sweet and lovely. I knew the two dogs knew each other and Pharaoh was so worried about his buddy. I took Pharaoh home and when the man came to answer the door he looked at Pharaohs collar, which was in my hand to make sure I had the right house, and the man looked very worried. I asked him if he had two dogs missing and then quickly reassured him that I had Pharaoh in my care and he was alive and safe. I also let him know where the other dog was located when he got away.

The man thanked me and said that he was amazed I not only caught the Doberman but actually put him in my car. He said most people were too scared of the dog to pet it much less put it in their car.

I was driving away thinking to myself, I was never once scared of this dog. I was worried and wanted to get him home safe, but never scared.

I guess I don't fear dogs. I don't go out of my way to pet all dogs, nor do I approach dogs I should not but I never fear dogs. Usually dogs love me and want to sit next to me. I can't imagine being scared of any dog. They are so sweet and lovely.

Pharaoh did not want to leave my car. He knew he was in trouble, he jumped in the back seat and laid down. I trusted the man and knew they were not abusing the dog so I gave him back. But now I realize how lonely my life is during the week without my dog. I love dogs. And I had never met a Doberman before, but I really liked that one.

In other exciting news, I started making candles again and they are getting even more powerful with energy. I am excited for this weekend. I plan on getting more supplies and making as many candles as I can for the Holidays.

Reasons why I feel cranky

This evening I had a bit of darkness wash over me.
On the way home I was trying to figure out why I was so uncomfortable and down.

I realized that one reason is I have not set any intentions lately. I got so wrapped up in my friends death that I feel like I sort of fell off the positive wagon. I need to also some some writing in my journal and some dreaming.

So tonight I am going to set some intentions, write in my journal and figure out what candles I want to make this weekend.

I have been doing some reading and investigating on new aromatherapy mixes for my candles and I feel my energy and fire really coming back to Odessas Herbal's. I am so excited to get back into the workspace of creating intentions.

Update for NYC

My candle is burning strong and tall. I dreamt of NYC last night and I received an email this morning with more details about the event.

It is a one day event that is priced within my budget. It sounds really interesting and would leave me time to visit with my relatives in NYC. Plus, I would get to meet new people who have the same interests as myself!

Now to check the airline flights!!!

This intention is coming closer and closer to me.

Theme for the week

Today there has been a common theme for me.

The theme is, I need to go to NYC for an intuitive weekend workshop and I need to make it happen.


I have not felt a pull like this in a long time. I picked up two books from the library about candle magic, both books written by women living in NYC. I then read about Colette Baron Reid doing a conference there and I decided, I need to go see her.

So I made a candle to help me get the courage and finances together and I know in one month I will be visiting NYC and meeting wonderful new people.

I can't wait!