Crazy Cat Ladies Unite!

I just wanted to show off my recent "Crazy Cat Lady" sculpture done in a modern take on the Day of the Dead aka Dia de los Muertos.  She's sitting on the sofa journaling surrounded by her many cats!

This item is for sale HERE!

Manifestation Report #3

The other day, I was thrifting for stuff (thrift store shopping that is) and I randomly decided to research Blenko glass on my phone in the store.  My mom has a pitcher made by Blenko and I starting thinking I should get familiar with their pieces in case I happen to find some on my shopping trips.  I did find a rare Italian Bitossi box recently without even knowing what it was so it's nice to study up!  As I was standing there in the kitchenware aisle at Goodwill staring at the stream of images from the Google search "Blenko glass flower plate", I looked over and saw a clear organically shaped glass plate with gold border on the shelf right next to me and it was the same plate at the image!  At first I had seen this plate and thought it was just some mid century look alike probably made by Target, etc.  But no, it must have been made in the same mold as the plate in the search image!  It wasn't Blenko glass, but somehow searching for Blenko led me to that beautiful plate.  I didn't realize its beauty until I picked it up and examined it, noting the slight patina of age to the hand painted gold border and the heft and quality of the glass which was too fine for the likes of Target.  It turns out it was made by IVV Italy in the 1950's.  The gold border is actually 10K gold!  So cool!  I consider finding a manifestation because I followed inspiration and even though, it didn't lead to Blenko glass (yet), I found something equally cool and learned more about mid century antiques along the way!  Which was my intended goal anyway!

Fun Ways Money/Wealth May Randomly Arrive in Your Life

This is about imagining wonderful, often fantastical ways wealth/money may arrive in one's life to get happy-freedom-abundance feelings about money flowing:

• In the pocket of an old coat at the thrift store
• In the cushions of an old sofa.  I heard some guys found $20,000 this way in NZ!
• diamond ring at a bus stop, by a bridge, etc
• briefcase of money on the side of the freeway
• A tree growing money somehow with little cash leaves!
• jelly donut with money inside instead of jelly!
• a box found in the ground with valuable treasures inside
• a wallet with no identifying material in the middle of nowhere
• an old car with money hidden in the seat
• money in the walls of your old house.  I heard some people once found an old speakeasy.
• a goose with gold eggs
• fish with gold caviar (is that too weird?)
• pull up paver stones only to find valuables
• money on the ground in a parking lot.  This one has happened to me!  $18 is not bad!
• instead of water coming out of the faucet, it's gold pouring out!
• For an hour after midnight on the full moon, everything non living you touch turns to gold 
• money drops from the sky randomly.  Who knows why?  shrugs shoulders.
• people come to your door with a giant check, balloons and roses saying you are a millionaire
• you find a lottery ticket on the ground and do the second chance drawing only to win!
• someone gives you a bunch of money for no reason
• you find a time capsule with a super rare packaged toy inside and get your Ebay chops on!
• hiking you find a secret grove of truffle mushrooms which are super valuable
• money accidentally falls off the back of a truck and you find it
• a friend wins the lottery and gifts you a bunch
• an old relative leaves their estate and wealth to you
• you get money for a collective lawsuit you didn't realize you were a part of (this happened to me)
• Nice people in a foreign country mistake you for someone else and bestow many riches upon you
• a baobob tree explodes with gold inside and you are there to catch it
• a pinata full of money breaks open with you nearby
• big denomination bills are carried very far by the wind and litter your yard with money
• you accidentally uncover a secret cave full of jewels
• you write a story, it all comes to you easily, and the first publisher you send it to loves it
• a seemingly empty piggy bank that actually had $1000 dollars stuffed inside
• a vintage purse with money stuck between the lining and the leather through a hole
• finding gold jewelry in popular snorkeling areas This happened to my friend. Found a ring
• people pay you to talk with them about whatever
• people pay you large sums to do your favorite thing
• a bundle of money appears in my bank account every morning
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Manifestation Report #2

Hello again!
I have more amazing manifestations for you to savor.  I also had an idea for bringing prosperity into one's life.  Invent a pretend sweepstakes hosted by the universe.  You are the only entrant so of course you will win it but like most sweepstakes/contests/lotteries, there is a time component.  You enter everyday and at the end, you win!  I wish there was a website that could host the faux sweepstake for each individual.  Who knows what you will win!  I guess that depends on what is in your vortex.  For definition of the Vortex, google Abraham Hicks and Vortex.  Weird but awesome!

I've been craving juice but keep forgetting to buy it from the the store.  I think it wasn't just forgetting.  Part of me wanted fresh juice, not oxidized, packaged juice.  So, I found a giant bag of fresh juicy, heavy oranges!  Yes, FOUND it on the side of the road.  Oranges do not grow in Oregon so it wasn't that type of windfall.  I went on an evening walk last night and there was a bag full of oranges on a box.  Very random!  I inspected them and nothing was wrong with them whatsoever. So, thanks for the fresh juice, Universe!

The oranges remind me of a time I was riding my bike home from downtown Portland.  There was a random bag on the side of the road full of brand new unopened face wash and toner.  I'm still using those products because there was 4 or 5 bottles of each!

I also found a brand new Ralph Lauren purse on the ground with two unopened body washes.  I consigned the purse at Village Merchants and used the body wash!  Portland is like that.  People leave stuff on the side of the road a lot here for others to take. I could make a long list of great items we've found on the side of the road but I don't feel that they all count as manifestations.  Oh, there was that time we found an unopened bottle of Rose' on the way home from a very long bike ride.  What a treat!

Very recently two long desired circumstances have come into my life.  Abraham says that if you have asked and do not think against what you want, it will come.  So it had to do with my body.  I was overweight in a strange way.  I had always believed what people said about diet and exercise but over time became depressed and my body was not taken care of as well as I'd like.  Not that long ago, I tried two things to help along the lines of diet and exercise.  I was riding my bike to and from downtown, sometimes twice a day, which is about 12 or 24 miles.  One way is about 6 miles. These were trips I would normally make everyday in a car.  I was also hauling groceries back on my back.  The way back home is uphill.  The slope is relatively gentle but there are some chunks of the trip that are hard to ride and the overall trip can be taxing.  I was also eating the paleo diet.  I ate no wheat, no dairy and lots of veggies and fruit and some meat, nuts, etc.  I followed the paleo diet very well.  I was addicted to roasted brussel sprouts.  I had lots of energy, got great sleep and lost some weight on the scale.  My body did not seem to reflect all my exercise and good diet.  I lost 7 pounds but didn't really look different.  It was also hard work after a while.  I became exhausted over time.  I did this for more than 3 months and saw no significant body change results.  I stopped riding downtown and lost hope for a while.

I had put it out there (asking the universe) that I want a fit body rather than flabby.  I have been following Abraham's advice of trying not to contradict that request in any way such as with negative self talk or constantly noticing the current reality and instead focus on the things that are going well with my body right now.  I found a lot of great things.  I am ridiculously strong and resilient, my skin is beautiful and even the things I formally thought of as bad, I have come to realize are because my amazing body is protecting me.  I also avoiding any activity that would make me feel bad like judging myself in the mirror, wearing clothes that are clearly too small, infact clothes shopping at all, envying the beautiful bodies of others, etc.  I'm not saying you should do things my way.  I was inspired to these thoughts and actions and you may be inspired to something else.

The two body related things that have been manifesting are:
I seemed to have stopped biting my nails all the sudden after a lifetime of biting.  I have always wanted beautiful nails instead of short stubby ones.  I can finally see the seed of this desire germinating!  In the past, I stopped here and there, but my hands would still be in the mouth as I obsessively tried to not bite them.  No more!  I'm not even trying to not do it!  It's like whatever was causing it has dissipated!

The other thing is that I followed an impulse to watch a youtube ad from a doctor, Dr. Eric Berg.  The video was about adrenal body types and explained why one may try to lose weight and fail because the reason they look overweight is not sloth and gluttony but adrenal hormone imbalance caused by cortisol and/or insulin.  I have been a stress ball for years and to think that it's been building up and causing me all these problems!  It's funny!

 A couple days before I had watched this Dr. Berg video, I had been walking long walks and had decided that this was the exercise I would do because everything else seemed too stressful and hard.  It turns out that long walks are the solution for adrenal types because it lowers cortisol unlike other exercises!  I felt a big "Aha!"  Since walking everyday for almost 2 weeks now, I have noticed changes in my body's appearance.  My body is letting go of some fat from the tummy area because the cortisol levels are going down.  I'm actually smaller, leaner and firmer all over.  I do not have an exercise regime that stresses me out.  Eventually I can start doing more strenuous exercises, but for now, I will relax into it.  Believe it or not, I actually enjoy heart pumping exercise.  I know the pleasure that can come from it, but I prefer to keep my body safe and to enjoy every aspect of it.  I actually have had to slow down my walking to remember that my goal is not "exercise" but cortisol lowering.  Look at the trees, clouds, birds, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

I've started to think more about manifestations through the best metaphor that works for me; the seedling.  A desire is like a seed planted.  It takes time to germinate.  If we keep digging it up to see if there are roots, the roots cannot take hold.  If we don't water it because we haven't seen signs of growth, a feeling of what's the point or even anger at it, it cannot grow.  If we pour salt on our garden, it will not grow.  If we, like a wise gardener, wait patiently and tend to our seedlings, they will grow.  Sometimes they take longer than expected because seeds only pop up at the right time.  You do your part, nature does her part.

Manifestation Report #1

Hi y'all
I will now commence one in a series of reports on things I have been manifesting using the little understood law of attraction. Not "The Secret" style which is like a crash course and not pragmatically helpful in the way that Abraham Hicks is.   Part of me is wanting to show others that there really is something to it, but these posts are really for myself.  Perhaps you'd like to explain it away.  I don't really care because as far as I can tell, it totally works!
         Recently, it was that I entered a bunch of sweepstakes just to see if I would win something.  I didn't really care what, just something.  I won a super cute nautical tote bag with an author's autograph on a frameable piece of paper (it was Jane Green's promo of her new book, Falling, published by Penguin Group) and included were three cosmetic products.  One of the products, I have been wanting (asking the universe for) for a while.  I did not justify spending the money on the product, but low and behold it turns up at my front door! Plus there was a moisturizer which I had just been noticing I needed the other day.  Manifest!
        For a few months now, I have goaded my little family into picking up money they find on the ground. No penny is too sad or unwanted. I always thought it was foolish to abandon even a penny; disrespectful to the spirit of money or something.  All of the money is wanted.  Since then, money is turning up everywhere. I can hardly go on a walk without finding some.  I even have a little song now!  As I was telling my mom how I find coins and even paper money all the time, I found some coins right then.  A couple days ago, I was trying too hard attempting to will the money into being on the ground, but toward the end of my walk, as I relaxed and thought, oh well, next time, I found a shiny dime!  The day before, as my bf and I were talking about it, I found a quarter.  In fact, it seems like we now find dimes and quarters more than pennies!  Think of all the wishes I get to make! I realize you may be thinking that this doesn't amount to a lot.  Perhaps not.  We counted up $40 in our jar since we started looking which was since last December I think.  I even found $18 randomly in a parking lot, but it was after I passed up a penny in the store because someone was standing over it.  I thought to myself, "that's ok, there will be more.  There's always more money on the ground for me to find."  Then I found paper money!  I definitely felt like it was manifestation!  Some went to my daughter because she likes to randomly "tax" me here and there but the rest went into the jar.  It's just a fun little thing we've come to do.  My plan is that when we get $100, we'll play with it by trying to invest it or something.  That would be a fun financial headline; Family Makes Millions from Money Found on the Ground!  Love it!
          A while ago, I was looking on the West Elm website.  There was this brass anchor decor object.  The orientation of the anchor was unusual and it caught my eye because I had never seen one like that before.  The price, even on sale at $40 from $70, was prohibitive.  I went to bed and the next day went thrift store shopping like I usually do.  I could not believe my eyes when I found a 1970's version almost exactly the same as the West Elm version.  Same enough for me!  It was only $4!  Needless to say, I bought it and keep it where I can be reminded all the time of what kind of weight that anchor pulls in my life.  Very cool!

           It happened again not long after with a brass mister like the Hawkins brand from Terrain.com.  I have seen these misters in thrift stores before, but I wasn't really looking hard for one there since usually they are beat up, don't work, flimsy, etc.  I was showing my daughter my wish list on the Terrain site and I had needed a mister for my plants in the downstairs bathroom.  I didn't even mean to go to the thrift store that day.  I was dragged there by someone who doesn't normally like thrift shops.  Everything was half off that day and I got my fancy, high quality, perfect-working-order brass mister for 99 cents!
           Oh did I mention how we manifested our cat?  I guess it was co-manifesting because she came to us a couple weeks before a month long planned vacation.  My daughter was eager regardless of the logistics of cat acquisition.  Our cat wish list had been: female, striped, soft short dense fur, lets you touch paws (most cats would never), funny personality, wise, sweet, gentle, all knowing gaze, comes to you when you're hurting, my daughter wanted the cat to like her the most, kitten like though I wanted unkitten like.  So this wish list had been floating around our conversations for a while.  My daughter also needed a therapy animal, so our cat is not a pet, but actually a companion animal.

             One day I was walking up the way and I saw an adolescent cat (kitten like, but not a kitten) popping it's head from under a car.  I could see that the neighbors had put a box and some water out for her (a female) but no food.  They didn't know where she had come from. No one seemed to be missing cat of her description. She was dangerously skinny and tawny (very faint stripes on a siamese/tabby, aka lynx point).  Later she grew into darker stripes as lynx points do and my mom noticed how she looked so much like my childhood cat, Jamie.  This was exactly the type of cat I was looking for!  I coaxed the little hungry kitty into my place and fed her tuna.  She stayed for good.  We ended up taking her to the vet for the whole shebang a week before she was babysat by my bf's cat loving grandpa who still calls her by her initial temporary name, Squeaker.  Her name is Quail.  Named because it suits her and also because we once knew a family with cats all named after fish.  We named some fish after cats and the idea died away until we met Quail. She was a manifestation for sure and she's currently gazing wisely at houseplant with a resident spider.  I touch her bean toe paws everyday!

              There are many more manifestations to tell you about but I've written a lot so that's enough for now!  Enjoy!