I can only imagine what Julie and her husband went through getting their gorgeous late 19th-century home ready for the Etsy MN Fall boutique last week. It’s a brave thing, inviting tons of strangers into your home to buy and sell – it makes me think old-school merchants were brave people, braver than me, certainly! [...]

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Why I love it: I love Twitter. To me it’s the perfect web socialization tool: I don’t have to stop in the middle of whatever I’m writing to respond to a chat (or have that horrible jump when yahoo shrieks “Uh oh!” at me) and it allows me to call attention to my daily work [...]

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It’s well established I’m a bootstrap/shoestring seller. I have no business debt, and I refuse all business credit. For me, this works: perfuming is a supplement to my life, and while I love doing it, I am facing the ever-present possibility of change. As technology and science advance, I may have to change what I [...]

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The Minnesota Etsy Fall Boutique is next week – stop by for goodies made by local artisans. Magickal Realism will be there, and we will have available the following stock: 2008 MN Etsy Street Team Fall Boutique See something you like? Contact me privately and I can set one aside for you. See something in [...]

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The Minnesota Etsy Fall Boutique is next week – stop by for goodies made by local artisans. Magickal Realism will be there, and we will have available the following stock: 2008 MN Etsy Street Team Fall Boutique See something you like? Contact me privately and I can set one aside for you. See something in [...]

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Facin​g North, a revie​w site on occul​t mater​ial,​ has poste​d a revie​w of the Spell​casti​ng Pictu​re book. Says Lisa McShe​rry about​ this book: “No nonse​nse,​ no mucki​ng aroun​d,​ no moral​izing​,​ and total​ly direc​t.​ In anoth​er,​ it compl​etely​ belie​s the absol​ute FUN that the reade​r will find herei​n.​ A spell​book,​ fun? Absol​utely​.​” Share on Facebook

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In the last two weeks, I have to confess, I’ve been getting kind of sick of doing the morning pages. And the posts. And, because I was feeling a bit defeatist about them – not every Artist’s Date works out, because there is a blind dating factor to trying anything new – kind of sick [...]

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One of the most liberating things in the world is to create something without any concern on your first, second or third try about being good at it. In fact, this is how I can smoke out my crazymakers right away: in a no-stakes creative process a person insisting I do things “right” when it’s [...]

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If I had an explanation for why I did this, I might tell you. But ultimately, I really don’t have an explanation. I just went nuts with the Crayola products and the poetry, and this pdf displaying my absence of any drawing or sketching skills is the end result. The end result is that this [...]

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This was probably the hardest week for me during this process – I was sick for 4 days, only completed one exercise, and while I did the morning pages while I was sick, the last two days of this weekend I skipped out on morning pages because of the illusory concept of being “behind” in [...]

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