| | One of my earlier posts I wrote about losing my muse. Well apparently it is coming back to me in abundance. NOW I'm too busy! So busy I discovered I'm now suffering from exhaustion. When it rains it pours. Hubby and I decided to address the issue of cross stitch and why certain themes just drown in so many while other areas have nothing. After numerous conversations, we are now in the throes of creating pagan cross stitch kits. Which is not as easy as it sounds especially when you are doing it from scratch! We struggle from paycheck to paycheck even though I continue to make sales on my Etsy site and bring in money from writing freelance articles. But dh has ordered me a cross stitch program because he has become 'dotty' from attempting to create the graphs for the cross stitch designs I've come up with.
His talent as a former Boeing welder has also been put to good use. I've been designing some necklaces and earrings and laying them out in jewelry molds. At night, when I'm working that boring part time job he gets out his little pliers and gets to work putting them together. Too many years of working as an artist has strained my eyesight and at least he doesn't have to take off his glasses to see the 'small stuff'.
My muse seemed to return to me in two different ways. I ran across a sister site to a site called 7witches.com. It is called real_wishes.com. I found it while looking for vampire graphics for a girlfriend's MySpace site(she has dialup and we all know how that is!). The site promised free wishes by this group of 7 witches. Sounded hokey and like an e-chainmail but I was stirred on to give it a try. Afterall, I didn't have to give them any money, right?
So I did and asked for a 'this-isn't-going-to-happen-in-a-million-years' kind of wish. To win a million in the lottery. I haven't yet but odd things began to happen.
My muse came back and with it my items in Etsy(which hadn't been selling) were selling both on and off the internet. My articles were deluged with hits(I get paid a minimal payment for the articles but get bonuses for the viewhits) therefore my payments skyrocketed. The second part was the conversation of recycling and renewable housing with a friend. The next thing I know I was staying up late to search the world wide web for a former dance instructor who was now building sustainable housing...in Huntsville. Then my Facebook page was hit with all these people from my past....in Huntsville. Then ideas began flowing about how to use recycled items as part of my art.
The reason for my wish was that we could move back to SE Texas to the town of my alma mater...Huntsville, Texas. My youngest daughter who didn't want to leave before became excited as the prospect. We began talking more seriously about this not just as a place to go to retire but as a reality(which we never let ourselves feel this way before).
I was told(in the wish site) that I would see the time 11:11. I did. I was told to believe. Well I didn't really but dreams of why we wanted the money in the first place began to occur. I still don't know if it will work. I've always accepted my lot and the fact that I was most likely going to be stuck in this town but now....as my dh told me, "I'm not willing to say no to anything anymore. Stranger things have happend so why not that?"
Why not indeed.
 Aviv
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