Music:Everything- alternative, country, classical, ballads, from Sinatra to Evanescence, from David Grey to Linkin Park, currently listening to a lot of Sting, Dido, etc.
Movies:Action adventure shoot-em-ups, dont like horror, but love most everything else. Try to avoid the movies that make me cry - because...we'll Im a big baby and they make me cry - a lot.
TV:The office, Nascar (Go Jr!), UFC, The Discovery and History channels.
Books:Anne Rice, Stephanie Meyer, Steve Alten, Eoin Colfer, Shakespear, Katie Macalister, JK Rowling, and of course the enchanting books of Art From Amy Brown, Nene Thomas, Jessica Galbreth, Froud, etc.
Likes:My husband, the ocean, Rain, Chocolate, Caffiene, reading, music, my three dogs - (German Shepherd Genghis, Cocker Spaniel Chief Run-a-Muck, and Toy Maltese Belladonna), painting when I make time, and travel
Dislikes:overcrowded airplanes, all those dark green veggies that are supposed to be good for you, bugs and spiders
Hobbies:Painting, Reading, some computer games, Xbox (I had a major shoulder/arm injury a few years ago and could do nothing but sit on the couch with my arm on a sling with pillows and played Halo for about 4+ months straight 8 hours a day with my younger brother.) Remodeling our first house and landscaping the yard. Spending time with my daughter and husband.
Vices:I bit my nails obsessively. I have a lot of trouble putting a book down until I've finished it.
Ous latest newsletter highlights some of the fun Hello Kitty things for school, upcoming signings and appearances from artists, and as always, upcoming holidays and festivals! Click on this link and come take a peak!
Thank you for being an important part of our fairy community. We are proud to be one of your favorite places for all things enchanted and fantastical!
- Just Another Sunset
Celebrate With Just Another Sunset
Full Moon:
July 26, 2010
The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
-Farmers' Almanac
Sun Sign:
Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Element: Fire
Planet: The Sun
Celtic Tree:
Holly (July 8 - August 4)
July Birth Stone:
Ruby
July Birth Flower:
Larkspur
Holidays and Festivals
July is National Ice Cream Month!
We don't need to tell you how to celebrate this one.
July is also National Picnic Month, National Blueberry Month, and National Share a Sunset With Your Lover Month.
Moon Day: July 20
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took mankind's first step on the moon.
Lammas, Lughnassadh or The Festival of Bread: August 1, or sometimes the first full moon of Leo
Named after the Irish sun god, Lugh, Lughnassadh is a harvest festival celebrated with grains, breads, and berries.
To celebrate, try catching your own yeast for sourdough starter. Fill a small cup or jar with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup flour. Place a cloth over the top to keep bugs out but let air in, and set it on your counter or even outside in the shade, perhaps undera tree or special flower. Every day, add 1/4 cup flour and 1/4 cup water and stir it. Within a few days it will bubble - once it is actively bubbly, you have yeast! Bring it inside and add a little flour and water every day to feed your yeast, and in about 2 weeks you will have a strong fermentation that will make the starter sour. You can find tons of recipes for using your starter on the internet or in baking books at the library.
Book Lovers Day: August 9
Some resources place this day on August 9th, some in November, and some all over the place. All we can say is, the more chances to celebrate one of our favorite hobbies, the better.
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In business since 2005, our mission is to provide the best. We personally choose each item we sell, focusing on quality and uniqueness. Each order is carefully hand-packed, and shipped to arrive at you safely. We've gone treasure hunting for these fantasy finds and enjoy sharing them with you. We will be adding extra features and amazing products over the next few months, so come back regularly.
The holiday season is here and we're decking the halls and wrapping presents! Check out some of our ideas for stocking stuffers. We also have gift bags and labels in the store!
Thank you for being an important part of our fairy community. We are proud to be one of your favorite places for all things enchanted and fantastical!
- Just Another Sunset
Celebrate With Just Another Sunset
Full Moon:
December 2, 209
"The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun. "
-Farmers' Almanac
Sun Sign: Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)
Element: Fire
Planet: Jupiter
Celtic Tree: Elder (November 25 to December 23)
December Birth Stone: Turquoise or Blue Topaz
December Birth Flower: Narcissus
Holidays and Festivals:
Black Friday: November 27
Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. In accounting, "red" means a business is losing money and "black" means a business is making money. Since a lot of retail businesses make a large portion of their profit during the holiday season, Black Friday represents the day they go from "being in the red" to "being in the black."
Advent Begins: November 30
Advent is a Christian Holiday that counts down the 4 Sundays before Christ's birth.
Traditionally, there is an Advent Wreath set on the table with 4 candles, 3 purple ones and 1 pink one. On the 4th Sunday before Christmas, families light the 1st purple candle and say a prayer. On the 3rd Sunday before Christmas, the 2nd purple candle is lit. The pink candle is lit on the 2nd unday, which represents Joy and is called Joyful Sunday. The last purple candle is lit the Sunday before Christmas.
World AIDS Day: December 1
This day was created in 1988 b the orld health organization to promote AIDS awareness.
Pearl Harbor Day: December 7
This day commemorates the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
On this day in 1791, 1o amendments were added to the United States Constitution that guaranteed such rights as the freedom of the press and of religion, the right to bear arms, and the right of due process of law.
GUIDANCE FROM THE GUIDES
Let's face it, life is a challenge sometimes. We try our hardest to do the best we can, but sometimes still feel like we are not successful. We ALL have challenges in this life, regardless of how it looks from the "outside" perspective. The key is to learn and grow from our challenges and let them open our hearts to compassion and love instead of closing us off and keeping us entrenched in fear and doubt.
How do we look on the "bright side" when we feel like there isn't one?
I have health challenges. I have written about them before. They are not something I am able to control, although I spent almost a decade trying to do so. In my controlling and ego-based mindset, I thought if I just ate a certain way, or didn't eat certain things, or took the right combination of supplements, then I would feel better. You wouldn't believe the hundreds of combinations I have tried over the past ten years!
What I have discovered though, is that the answers do not lie in controlling behaviors. For me, answers do not lie in pills to mask the symptoms. My answers lie within my heart and have always been there, I was just too afraid to look. The "bright-side" that we look for is the hope and love and connection to "Source" that only come to us through our hearts.
My body imbalances are here to help me open my heart to compassion and love. Let's face it, all of our challenges are here to help us find our heart center and true nature.
So, do you let the circumstances in your life drive a wedge between you and the world? Do you embrace the fear and use it to keep you shrouded in the illusion of separation? Do you think that it is really you versus the world?
Channeled and written by Tobi Titchener, Psychic, Medium and Spiritual Intuitive.
www.myspiritguides.com Services available include, private readings, healings, group sessions, phone readings, email questions, classes and workshops, platform mediumship and intuitive coaching. Tobi has been working with Spirit for a number of years, and it is her passion to help others to move forward on their paths and connect to their own Spirit!
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Upcoming movies we look forward to seeing:
Avatar (12/18/09; stars: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Wes Studi)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel (12/25/09; stars: Justin Long)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12/25/09; stars: Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell)
Now that the holidays are fast approaching, we want to let you know we have a lot of beautiful and inexpensive gifts. We know you need to be judicious with your holiday funds, and we are grateful to be one of your favorite stores for finding that special something for the important people in your life!
Thank you for being an important part of our fairy community. We are proud to be one of your favorite places for all things enchanted and fantastical!
- Just Another Sunset
Celebrate With Just Another Sunset
Full Moon:
December 2, 209
"The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun. "
-Farmers' Almanac
Sun Sign: Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)
Element: Fire
Planet: Jupiter
Celtic Tree: Reed (October 28 to November 24)
November Birth Stone: Topaz
November Birth Flower: Chrysanthemum
Holidays and Festivals:
November is Aviation Month, Internationa Drum Month, National Adoption Awareness Month, National Epilepsy Month, Peanut Butter Lover's Month, and Native American heritage Month
Great American Smokeout Day: November 19
Held every 3rd Thursday in November, this is the day to finally quit your smoking habit for good.
Thanksgiving Day: November 26
First celebrated in the early 1600s, this day is set aside for expressing gratitude for the blessigs in our lives. Congress made it a national holiday in 1941 and et it as the 4th Thursday of every November.
Black Friday: November 27
Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. In accounting, "red" means a business is losing money and "black" means a business is making money. Since a lot of retail businesses make a large portion of their profit during the holiday season, Black Friday represents the day they go from "being in the red" to "being in the black."
New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
-Twilight Series, Book 2-
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006)
Hardcover, 600 Pages, Young Adult Fiction
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene vi, Lines 9-11
From the Cover: "I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough. ... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today." For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just the beginning. ...
My Review: So, I thought it was all just a phase I was going through. That I really wasn't as into the (non-)lives of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen as I thought I was. I thought it was all over. I was wrong. I still can't believe just how into these books I really am. I am in constant denial. The books don't leave the house (I would never dare admit on campus that I read these books, let alone let someone see me reading them). I pretend I don't know what the seventh- and eighth-grade girls I work with are talking about when they debate the merits of Edward v. Jacob like it was the latest verdict handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, for some stupid reason, I can't stop reading these books.
I was up until 1:00 a.m. reading New Moon, trying to finish it, before I had to finally succumb to sleep. The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was grab the book to finish before my wife and son woke up, so I could read without interruption. Is that bad? Are these the actions of an addict? Swap New Moon for meth or heroin and the essential thoughts behind the preceding sentences remains the same. "My name is Bryan Terry, I'm a 31-year-old male and I'm a Twilight addict. It's been twelve hours since I last read something by Stephenie Meyer..."
So, what did I think of New Moon? In my defense, it is not as compelling as Twilight was. The first 100 pages or so drag on and on, but once Jacob Black and the other Quileute Indians enter the story things pick up a lot. From there the story takes off with the same compelling characters and simple plotting that was seen in Twilight but Meyer's writing has gotten better from Book One to Book Two. I can only imagine that it is much better in Book Three.
This is the same thing that is seen in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. The writing starts out very simplistic in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and progresses to being very mature in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But it is still Meyer's characters that drive the story (and reader) to the last pages and beyond.
I think that this is what makes these novels so addictive: the characters. Even though the plot is somewhat basic and almost formulaic, you read because you are fully-vested in who these people are and how they interact. Also, in New Moon is where we get the beginnings of the soul-crushingly important and teen-girl obsession of Edward v. Jacob for the heart of Bella.
I hate to admit that I am far more invested in this love triangle then I reasonably should be. (As mentioned below.) Jacob is far too hot-headed and dangerous to be worthy of Bella. Edward, on the other hand, has much more self-control and a better sense of Bella's well-being than Jacob. Jacob thinks he knows what is best for Bella but he is too easily swayed by his "friends" to know for sure what is best for Bella. That's why I think that Edward is the best choice for Bella. And that is too honest and candid and embarrassing a confession than should be aired in public, but there you go. These books really are horribly addictive. "Literary Crack," as I said in my review of Twilight.
Also, New Moon introduces some very compelling new characters that were only hinted at in Twilight: a coven of ancient vampires in Italy known as the Volturi. I can only hope that we see more of the Volturi in Eclipse and then in Breaking Dawn. Tomorrow I'll be returning New Moon to the teacher I work with and beg her to borrow her copy of Eclipse because, as was the case in reading Twilight, the teaser chapter for Eclipse contained at the end of New Moon has just whetted my appetite for more. I don't know what I'm going to do when I finish Eclipse and have to wait for Breaking Dawn to be released in Fall 2008. Sigh... I really need help...
In business since 2005, our mission is to provide the best. We personally choose each item we sell, focusing on quality and uniqueness. Each order is carefully hand-packed, and shipped to arrive at you safely. We've gone treasure hunting for these fantasy finds and enjoy sharing them with you. We will be adding extra features and amazing products over the next few months, so come back regularly.
Livermore... I used to love treasure-hunting at Shadowcliff, getting there early in the morning to set up the windsurfers, but stopping in the roped-off wading/swimming area first thing, while the waters were clear. I'd find bills galore in the weeds beneath, regularly pulling up around fifty bucks or so every time (though it was heartbreaking to find the crawdads finishing off a twenty with no serial numbers left)!
The new store sounds great, and I'll visit next time I head out to visit friends in Fremont. In the meantime don't forget "Tanglewood Forest" in Nevada City! ;^)
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