Tarot love

The most interesting form to gain knowledge is from yourself, really! Decided to try out my psychic intuitions, and trust for inner self this summer, as it has been one of solitude, and a break from outside influences. Although there are many books that teach about tarot the best guide is yourself really, looking at each card and trusting your own energies to intuitively explain the meaning of each one. Even I get nervous when people ask me to do them a reading, and I quickly open my books to look at each meaning and make sure I give them the right messages that life has in store. But doing a tarot reading for myself the other day, I realized( through the cards) that I was not trusting myself enough, and was relying on random books to explain personal situations happening here and now...it doesn't really make sense does it? So relax, learn to quiet your mind so that you can listen to your OWN truth, and figure out situations, people and life through the mysteries of the cards!

Ways to practice:

1.shuffle the cards in your hands while thinking of one specific card, imagining the feeling you get from the card, what it looks like, and how it relates to you. When you feel like you found the card flip it over and see, be sure to flip the ones before and after it as well to see how close you were. Don't be discouraged if it takes a while to learn this trick, nothing happens right away without any work!

2. Keep a tarot notebook, having at least a few pages dedicated to each card, including major AND minor Arcana. Instead of writing the definition for each one write what YOU feel about the card, any dreams you had about it, any readings that came true that had to do with it.

3. Going in order of cards, sleep with each individual card under your pillow each night,(try thinking about the card too before you go to bed so you can dream about it) and in the morning write down any dreams you had, or how they may have been influenced by the card. This may help you understand the card better, in a more intimate way. 

As many have been misinformed, i feel it's important for me to mention that tarot reading is NOT a form of weird voodoo  magic, nor is trying to predict any specific future for anyone. Tarot is only to help increase your intuition, as well as a picture form to understand certain feelings your going through, remind you of situations you may have overlooked, and a way to get a channeling message from bigger forces from above, trying to give you some hints!

Don't be scared of any cards, ( like trying to pick out good cards or bad cards) they are all equal, some may just remind you of any fears, bad feelings, or behavior problems you may be trying to avoid. Any "bad" card can also be interpreted in a good way, just like any learning experience may seem bad at the time, you realize that it may have really helped you in the long run!

Anyways good luck for anyone willing to try it out, and I hope any of the people reading this will go out and pick out their own tarot deck;)

Day18:Summer Sundown

“We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over.”













There it is...the last sundown of summer, well at least the last sundown before we head off for school. Another beautiful summer full of beaches, sandy hair, adventure, and sunkissed skin, but here we are, back to routine once again. Don't get too depressed though, here are some new tunes that kept me going throughout these two months, they'll  help you enjoy those last little bits of summer:) Relaxing and happy, these will always calm me or cheer me no matter what mood I'm in:

1.Belle and Sebastian- I want the world to stop
2.  Jack Johnson-Sitting, waiting,wishing
3.Blonde Redhead- 23
4.Bob Sinclair-Love generation
5.Bon Iver-SKinny Love
6. Matt and Kim-Daylight
5. Sweet Thing-Change of Seasons
8.Little Joy- Next Time Around
9.Lykke Li- I follow Rivers
10. Florence+ The Machine -what the water gave me
11. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes- Home
12. The Love Language- Heart to Tell
13. Mumford and Sons -little Lion Man
14. Fleet Foxes-Mykonos
15. Sea Wolf- You're A Wolf
here's another site if your looking for more music, and one to download the music into mp3 form from youtube:

http://8tracks.com/


Downloading site:
http://www.flvto.com/

Day18:WOOhoo No 'Poo

Your probably thinking...wait what? did I read that right? What I mean is no SHAMPOO, yes I have not used shampoo in my hair for two whole months!! And it is not a massiev grease ball full of insects and dirt:) Actually lots of shampoo has many toxic chemicals, that go through the skin and sit in your blood stream for a very long time, it may make your hair look good from time to time, but after a few days your hair starts to look greasy and dirty, and may need a wash with shampoo again! It's like a whole cycle, and that's what the companies want...for you to buy more and more of their shampoo!! Shampoo cleans your hair but it also strips many of the natural oils your body produces and NEEDS, to keep your hair soft, strong, and healthy. When you strip all the oils in your hair, more start to form in your hair, therefore making your hair even greasier, but when you stop stripping the oils, your body can naturally replenish them, and does not produce as much.
If you want to still clean your hair use
1.Baking soda
2. Apple Cider Vinegar

This is the one we use- it's super good!

In a small container I put in a tsp. of baking soda, dilute with water, then massage the paste in my hair in the shower. In another container I add a bit less than a tsp. of the vinegar, dilute with water, and dump it on my hair, and the ends of my hair. The baking soda gets rid of dirt, dandruff, and sebum, and leaves your hair clean, while the vinegar acts like a kind of conditioner, and makes your hair alot softer, and silky like (almost like shampoo).
TRY it out:D here's a site that helped me out a bit:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2eFRU7/simplemom.net/how-to-clean-your-hair-without-shampoo

"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness"

Drink of The day: Vanilla Steamer

-cup milk
-whipped cream
-spoon honey/sugar
-spoon vanilla extract/vanilla bean(taste aloooot better, if you can find it)
-tsp cinnamon
-tsp nutmeg


Heat milk in a pan, and then froth with a wisk, add in sweetner,vanilla, then whipped cream, sprinkle cinnamon, and nutmeg on top!Easy Peasy!

Day17:Rain Shmain!

What to do when it's pouring outside like today:
1.clean
2.Read
3.Bake
4.Make an awsome multi-purpose ointment?
Let's skip the first two for now.... but here is a really amazing recipe that you should try out, that'll take you the whole rainy day, but don't worry it works EVERY time-and it's definately worth it!!!
Cina-mmm buns

Before Oven

MMMmm... yummmy goodness

Ingredients
(yeast mixture)-tsp sugar, tbsp active dry yeast, 1/2cup warm water
(dough mixture)-1/4cup white sugar,tsp. salt, 2 eggs, 4 cup flour, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 cup butter
(filling mixture)- 3/4cup butter, 3/4cup brown sugar, cup chopped pecans/walnuts/raisins, 1/4 cup cinnamon, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup melted butter

1. a small bowl dissolve the sugar and yeast in warm water, and let sit for about 10 minutes
2. Warm milk in saucepan, and mix in the sugar butter, salt, and stir it into the pot.
3. In large bowl combine the yeast mixture, the milk mixture, along with the eggs, and flour, and mix.
4. Put the dough on a floured surface and knead it for about 8 minutes.
5. Lightly oil a big bowl and put the dough in to rise, cover with a damp cloth, for about 1 hour. It will double it's size.
6. (filling Mixture) melt 3/4cup butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, stir in 3/4cup sugar, and pour some into a a greased pan(not all though, or else the cinnamon buns will burn).
7.Combine the remaing 1/2cup sugar,butter, and melt, then add in the cinnamon, and some more nuts.
8. The dough should be ready by now, and roll it onto a floured surface, into a big rectangle.
9. Brush the rest of the butter mixture onto the dough.
10. Starting at the long side, tightly roll up the cinnamon mixture, and brush the outside with any remaing buttery mixture. Cut into 18 peices, and put down into the greased pan with butter mixture in it.
11. Let the cinnamon buns rise again for about 20 minutes, and then put into an oven, preaheated to 375 degrees F, bake for about 30 minutes, until they are golden brown and start to smell!! Good luck!

BeesWax Ointment
Honestly a magic ointment!!! I have used this stuff as after bite for mosquito bites, after a sun burn, skin moisturizer, and hand softener, face cream for night, works as lip balm, healing oil for cuts burns bruises, probably a whole bunch more too!! Live this stuff, and the recipe is so easy you can't mess up:

In a pan heat
-1-2 spoons grated beeswax
-4 spoonfuls of coconut oil
- a bit of honey
- 3 spoons avocado/olive oil
Then pour into a little bowl and mix with peppermint/lavender essential oil, and half a spoon of oats. Add in any other oils you like- jojba oil is good for your skin, and other essential oils work fine too. Pour your concuction into a little spill proof container, and put into the fridge until it's hard and cool:)

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. "


Drink Of the Day: Blueberry Bliss
-cup blueberries
-banana
- black currents
- half peach/nectarine
-coconut water
- frozen mangoes

Day16:Organizing crafty storage

At first this may look useless, and unpractical, but if you think about it, it really comes in handy! I used a tin lid off of a cookie box, and glued on magnets on the bottom of jars, so that the can fit right in the little lid, without falling, or being knocked off very easily. If you don't have room for shelves, or just don't have any of good size this might help:) and it helped me organize my little craft table a bit.

Cut the magnet so it fits  the bottom of the jar

Glue on with SUPER GLUE

For the lid, I glued on fabric. Press it on around the edges, with glue

pretty lid:), I wrote on with fabric paint.

I stuck on pictures and stuff with magnets to the board

"Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing"

Super food GREEN Smooothie;SOO good it even radiates!

-coconut water

-apple peeled and cored

-tsp.spirulina

-handful mixed greens(spinach,romain lettuce,arugula etc.)

-mango

-banana

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Day 15:Birdy Stencil

Use card paper, and draw out picture (make sure it's simple, and has thick borders), place on cutting board, and cut out the frame, and detailed areas with X acto knife.

Put stencil on whatever you want and carefully paint(with fabric paint) onto the empty spaces you cut out.

Finished :)