Shopping for Love! :D <3

[windinthemaples]

As I'm sure most of you reading this know, my dear friends mermaiden and willow_cabin are working feverishly to raise the money necessary to put on their wedding next month. If you'd like to help them or just treat yourself to something lovely, you can buy something from one of their cottage industries: Glamourkin book-based jewelry, Garden of Antheia fabric flower adornments, or Sarah's e-book and print publications.

Also, if you're a fan of foodie perfume oils, our mutual friend rubymulligan is selling a limited edition perfume on her Etsy shop with all profits going towards Sarah & Jenn's wedding fund. It's very nom. :)

~*~

So, in the interest of having the best shopping day ever helping these ladies out, I went on a bit of a spree solemn philanthropic mission the other day. I bought a bunch of Glamourkin pendants, some hair flowers, *and* a second bottle of the Sweetest Day perfume. My Glamourkins arrived and I'm just so in love with them! :) I bought some as gifts and some for myself--but these are mine.

I know some of you bought your own the last few weeks--I'd love to see what you got and hear what it was about that one that called to you. :)


I love this Beauty and the Beast illustration, I connect with images of redheads as heroines, and I believe, absolutely, that love is not only the oldest but the most powerful magic.


Strangely, two weeks in a row now, we've had the same reading in our Unitarian Universalist church service. It so moved me, I wrote part of it into the margins of the service program. It reads, in part, We need one another when we are in despair, in temptation, and need to be recalled to our best selves again.....All our lives we are in need, and others are in need of us. I love that image of community calling us to our best selves, of need calling us to our best selves, and so this pendant was absolutely perfect to crystallize and remember that teaching forever.

Comments

[crownofviolets.livejournal.com]

A druid friend of mine and I recently had a conversation about how taking one's place in community is what brings out that best self. Through the gifts and teachings of your community, you find not only compliments to your own path - but the strength to continue discovering what your unique mystery is. Pieces of a puzzle.

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that. I believe it!!! :)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I'm with Sarah--I really like this concept. I do find that when I'm in community, my little abilities and preferences and ways of doing things that seem so small and inconsequential get translated into a place where I can fit in and serve. Like, who knew it was useful that I love to alphabetize things? But all that trivia, that meness seems so much more interesting and worthwhile when I see it through the lens of contributing a small part that is needed, that small part of who I am, to the whole.

/rambling

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

I love you so, so much~ <33333333333333

[aerialmelodies.livejournal.com]

Those are lovely! And I love the idea of community... it's so true. <3

[wanderlustlover]

Oh, I love both of these so much.