Talisman Tales

After that first talisman for little Ben, I was inspired to make talismans for family and friends who were having particular problems.  Let me share just a few of them with you here.

I made an easy-to-wear stretchy bracelet of amethyst, garnet, and rose quartz for an anxious new mother and her colicky baby.  

A woman I know does amazing healing work with animals, using homeopathy, reiki, Chinese medicine, and more.   While she's extremely skilled and certainly doesn't need my help, I figured I'd just add to her healing tools, and made a simple wrap bracelet of amethyst, sodalite, and green aventurine.  Here's why I chose those three.

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My First Talisman

I’d been making jewelry for a few years when the opportunity for creating a healing talisman presented itself.  One of my dearest friends, who happens to be a skilled herbalist, had a little grandson who was troubled by night terrors.  Benjamin’s mom would sing, rock, and otherwise try to soothe him when he woke in the middle of the night terrified. 

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I'm Baaaack!

I know, I know, I haven’t been here in weeks.  Ok, months.  Trust me, I thought about my blog often.  It’s made it to my to-do list on several occasions.  But it’s never happened.  Why?  Life.  It somehow always intervenes. 

I have what I think are good reasons, but then I’m the queen of rationalization.  I can rationalize anything.  I usually know when I’m doing it, but I’ve gotten so good over the years that I can fool even myself.

In case you have any interest in what’s been occupying my time (and I’m not that saying you do, or that you should), I’ve spent a lot of time weaving.  I learned to weave last year, and decided to get into it big time a few months ago.  In keeping with my many other obsessive-compulsive behaviors, I couldn’t do it just a little.  Weaving has taken up a room in my house, my conversations with friends & family, my money, and virtually all my spare time – and it’s not like I had a lot of the latter to start with. 

Then, once I had some weaving done, I had to update my website to add my weaving.  Well, of course, that meant taking pictures, re-designing web pages, and all that rot, so many more hours were sucked up into the virtual ozone. 

 It's not that I’m complaining, mind you…I fully realize that these are all choices I made, and that I could have made different ones.  But, I admit it, I was really enjoying myself, both with the weaving and with the challenge of making my website better.  I’ve learned to do TONS of things in the past 12 months, and although it's all been very challenging at times, my stubbornness keeps my plugging away.  Eventually I figure stuff out, often with the kind help of others, and then I have that whole sense-of-accomplishment-of-difficult-tasks thing going on, and that keeps me going on, spending more time and learning more stuff.  The way I figure it, all this creation of new brain paths can only be a benefit.  Although sitting in front of my computer or my loom doesn’t do a thing for my thighs or abs, it does great things for my grey matter, and a good mind is hard to find.  At least in my house, it is.

So now I’m finally able to get back to working with gemstones, and they’re calling out to me.  I WILL get back to making regular entries in this blog, I promise!  I'll also follow through on what I said I would -- my next entry, which will be within a week, WILL be about how I've used talismans to help my family & friends.

Oh, yeah, Happy 4th of July!