Lilacs CAN bloom in Winter

"I am living proof of what I say...what I recommend and what I value.  If the day ever comes when this is not true, I hope to no longer be at all."

To some people, I may be nothing special.  But those are not my people.

Today is Wednesday- actually, St. Patrick's Day!  Today I am taking stock of where I am in the process of creating products that I love that are handmade and that are practical.  My desire is to make items that we commonly buy at stores, and that we all use and need.  Perhaps not all of us will use them, but I am basically identifying items that we use that are heavily chemical laden when we purchase them in commercial environments.  I am discovering how to create some of these household items using quality ingredients.  As I make these discoveries, I am documenting and recording the process as well as investing in ways to market these products on my Etsy Shop.  Eventually, I hope to bring that same "store" experience to a physical brick and mortar neighborhood store.  

As I sit here crunching numbers in my husband's green Chevy tee shirt, the house is silent. Every week on Wednesday, I record the purchases I have made over the past week.  I review the products I am working on and this is a checks and balances opportunity for me to take stock of what materials I have and what project will be next.  It has been an interesting process.  I have invested a LOT of time and money just to have created a FEW items.  Some people would have thrown in the towel here.  But I am completely undeterred.  I seem to have wrapped my heart around this new endeavor and have decided it's my new purpose.

Ultimately, my purpose is to bring spiritual awareness to anyone who is open, or is trying to open or is actively growing.  How that links to the things I am creating is a bit more detailed, but we will say that it is along the idea that the products are great because they are lovingly and personally made.  They are infused as we say in the business.  Another piece of spiritual growth is developing sensitivity to things such as the highly processed foods we eat and the overly chemical laden products we clean with and use on our bodies.  Part of this involves my own changing lifestyle choices as well.

Being at home as much as I have these last few months, has opened my mind up to the need for self-sufficiency.  Unlike many people, I feel NO NEED to go anywhere.  I do not "miss" anything.  I am actually very happy being at home with my family and my cats and our dog.  I enjoy taking care of them, cleaning the house and helping them to achieve their individual goals.  My hope for MYSELF is that I can re-enter the workforce at the end of this year but not as a Property Manager, which I have been for many years.  Although I cannot tell you what I might want to do instead, I am sure I do not want to go back to what I was.  So I am determined to create a new path for myself- one which I believe I am paving as we speak.

Perhaps I will work two part time jobs instead of one full time career.  Perhaps I will only earn money through my products and my business.  The perhaps(es) could go on and on.  The truth is that I am NOT thinking about a future point in time where I "reenter the workforce".  I am just enjoying the now.  The now is truly all there ever is or was or will be.  Every moment we breathe is a new moment of a new life.  We just don't experience it that way.  We as humans, experience chaos and stress much more often then peace and joy.  Malcolm Gladwell would suggest that we need to modify that calculation until 51% or better of our energy is in the positive.  Then we can reach the "Tipping Point" and create a new reality for ourselves.  Or let's go better- can we get to a point of actual saturation?  Let's aim for that.  Let's aim for 85%.  I know it can be done.  I am doing it now.

There was a time when I could not see how performing my Tarot Card or Oracle Readings for people might sustain me financially.  I was afraid to start what I could not keep going.  In 2016, I spent a year trying and always feeling that I was not making it.  I decided the timing was off.  I had lost my father during the process and I was just not myself.  After a few years, I began to come out of the dark cloud of depression and grief.  Now I feel amazing and awake fully.  There has never been a better time for a reading with me.  In addition, I really want to teach and coach and mentor others on this journey if they are trying to become masterful with Tarot Card interpretation.

The idea to make things was not always there within me.  That is actually a newer desire.  I began my creative journey with music- instrumental and vocal.  From there I moved into dance and movement.  From there into Tarot and Divination and from there to where I am now- some sort of Domestic Diva meets witch.  I love to garden, cook and create homemade stuff.  I am starting to feel like I belong to a little tribe of people out there who are like that too.  The more I become it, the more I find them.  The Scandinavian idea of Hygge really ties in to the desire to make things simple yet elegant.  That is why my Instagram name many years ago became "GlamSimple".  Because I have an eye for what is glamorous yet I want what it is simple.  I am complex.

Making my first two products and opening an Etsy store has taken most of my free time since January 2021.  As we progress into Spring, I am working on about 4 new items in addition to the ones I have already created.  Also, I am doing weekly Tarot Card Readings.  When I don't have a booking, I create Free Tarot content on my YouTube page to help people explore themselves more and to consider having a personal reading with me.  I have a pretty busy life!  It just doesn't look like it from the outside. As the weather becomes better for working outside in the garden, I will definitely become busier than ever!

So for now, I am happily hanging out and writing while sipping herbs and water and planning when to start my first batch of soy wax candles.

More later.

~Namaste

Lilac