This, that and so much other stuff

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People have been so generous with their time doing the dreamboards that I decided to have a secret raffle for one of my pendants for those who participated and Bohemian Single Mom won!

I'm so amazed and inspired by all of you creative people out there! I really appreciate you making dreamboards and/or supporting other people with theirs.

Another cool thing happening is that Magpie Girl interviewed me for Blogher! She also participated this month with her fabulous stage-inspired dreamboard. This is the first time I have been interviewed for anything and gotta say, it was tons of fun, flattering and inspiring. It's great that I can be a portal for other people's dreams. It is truly an honour. Oh and check out some of the links! You will recognize some of the names and blogs I shared in the interview. :)



Here are some of the treasures I have recently gotten in the mail! I bought this fantastic collage from Magical Muse on Etsy.



Michelle from With Towel In Hand is a dear friend of mine who is releasing her material possessions so she can sail away in her own sailboat in the near future. I am lucky enough to be someone who inherits a lot of her books! Thank you Michelle and happy sailing dreams to you! I support you 100%.



AwtemNymph the Faerie Whysperer mailed me a couple of lovely packages that included incense and beautiful enchanted earrings! Quartz and amethyst. They're so beautiful my friend! And that incense is gorgeous and magickal! I have worn the earrings a lot already, they're absolutely perfect for me.

A dear friend from my publishing days drove through with her family and picked up two pendants!



They look perfect on them! I couldn't believe it, they really suited them 100%. It was so nice to spend time with her and her family, they made me miss Ottawa which is not a small feat! She is such a beautiful and supportive loyal friend.

So that's all my crazy news and stuff I needed to share! My husband is doing an online course so I am on the computer even less these days so I had so much bottled up and wanted to show you that I decided to just throw it all out there. On that note, I've also decided to pull a lot of my pendants from Etsy. Since I started selling, I stopped making. I think I need to regroup and figure out the next step in my creative journey. Don't despair, I think it's going to be very, very interesting!

And check out my chocolate-covered strawberries! Yummy! Trying to beat the heat without missing out on dessert.

The story of an organic dreamboard spell

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This month I wanted to approach my dreamboard like a spell. I wanted to use natural elements and symbols for money. Interestingly when I did try to come up with images for money I came up with: Kitchen Aid mixer, Canon's Rebel camera and an iMac laptop. It revealed to me the three things I am interested in most: food, photography and writing/connecting. My husband thought it seemed material, he didn't "get" that it was symbolic so if he didn't get it maybe the universe wouldn't get it....

I read online about many, many different things that draw money and seeds is one of them. The pentacle of course is a symbol, a super powerful one in general, but in the tarot it's used to represent coins. So I painted one from a template and did the outside outline and added poppy seeds to it. I used flax seeds for the inner lines to show that this symbol is of a star inside a circle.



A powerful personal element to my dreamboard are the coins. I made that little crafty jar of joins for my grandma when I was a child. When she passed away, it was the only thing I wanted that was hers. In nine moves, I've lost a lot of the flat beads that I glued to it as a child but the power resides in there. Those are my grandma's coins. Using five of them was very important to me, like the points of the pentacle. I cried after I glued them, I could feel her energy with me.



In the center of the pentacle is a large piece of citrine, a stone associated with finances. It felt right to add an earthy element to the pentacle.

The hardest part was the text. I struggled with what I was asking for. I had a dream a while ago that if I wanted money I had to start writing novels. I don't know if I can do this. I fought this idea the entire week. Finally I decided to just write that I was going to make money writing because what you resist, you persist. I was done persisting this idea. I open myself up as easily as a tight clam resting under a treasure chest at the bottom of the ocean to allow this idea to be launched to the universe, fighting the entire way. But I did it. It'll either happen or it won't but at least I'm done fighting it.

It's the first time I am not sure I want my dreamboard to come to fruition but at least I had the courage to say it aloud and in as powerful a way as I know how to do. I hope no one else had quite as difficult a struggle, this is supposed to be a fun thing to do!

Farewell Angel

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I write this in honour of my husband's family dog Angel who passed away last night. This was one of the sweetest, loveliest dogs I have ever met. It has been a hard week here and she hung on long enough to make sure everyone here was OK before passing. We will miss you dear one.

Here they are!

Michelle's Dreamboard

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Michelle's July Dreamboard post at With a Towel in Hand

Lucas' Dreamboard

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I did it!

I got them up! Yay! I really rushed to do it since the full moon was pretty much the time I got home this morning, around 3 am, I know so many of you worked so hard to create these little dreams and got them in on time and I couldn't bare not launching them to the Mead Moon on schedule.

Mine was one heck of a struggle but I'm glad I did it. I worked through a lot of fear and resistance to embrace the idea of making money with my writing. Talk about baggage! But I did it. I will write about the process a little later.

I am so proud of all of you, you did such a great job and your dreamboards are wonderful. You all deserve to have magick come into your lives and make them even better. I am rooting for all of you!

If you don't see your dreamboard up here, it got lost in the shuffle so please contact me and let me know at sueridler at gmail dot com. I could just do bare bones this month and only one photo and no text! Please celebrate each other's work of magick, it's been quite a month for a lot of us, we need some mojo magick.

Mrs B's Dreamboard

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Mrs. B's Dreamboard post at Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom

Amy's Dreamboard

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Amy's Full Moon Manifestation post at Magical Musings

Shell's Dreamboard

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Shell's Vision Board at Swan of Dreamers

Claire's Dreamboard

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Claire's Hopes and Wishes Post at The Country Mouse Tales

Nydia's Dreamboard

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Nydia's Sacred Suzie's Full Moon Dreamboard post at Bringing Up Salamanders

Sacred Suzie's Dreamboard

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Rachelle's Dreamboard

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Rachelle at Magpie Girl

Bohemian Mom's Dreamboard

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Bohemian Single Mom's If You Build It He Will Come post at Words From a Single Bohemian Mom

Tanya's Dreamboard

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Tanya's My First Dreamboard post at Acting Out Art

Jamie's Dreamboard

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Jamie's My Dreamboard ~ July Full Moon post at Starshyne Productions

Cat's Dreamboard

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Cat's I know I said I was going to aim higher... post at Cat's World

Dreamboard Delay

There is going to be a bit of a delay with the dreamboards this month. There was a family emergency here last night and it was a very late and difficult night. Everything's going to be OK but it's been rough and as a result the dreamboards will not be published right away but hopefully soon. Thanks for understanding and thank you to all who got them in on time. I'm sorry they're going to be a bit late.

Dreamboard Challenge

Do not despair if you're having a hard time with your dreamboard because you are not alone! I worked on it all day yesterday and it felt all uphill so I am going to do something completely different and see if that feels rights. It doesn't help that the heat is scrambling my brains.

So if you do manage to get a dreamboard done please send it and a link to your blog to: sueridler at gmail dot com so I can put it up tomorrow.

Remember, it's not about art. It's about figuring out what you want (the hardest part for me) and then asking for it. Period.

OK Suzie, now take your own advice!

Rainy Dreamboard Day

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How it poured yesterday! It was so dark and dreary and cool but icky with humidity and then the sky fell! I wanted to bake but couldn't bare to turn on my oven and let any heat in here so I made an upside down pineapple cake in the crockpot!

We are getting similar weather here today and I figured it would be the perfect time to finally get my butt in gear to do my dreamboard for the launch this Friday to the Mead Moon. I will share a secret with you, my dreamboard is going to be about money this month and serendipitously I found out that the Mead Moon is a time for prosperity magick! How cool is that?

Remember the "deadline" is this Thursday and the launch Friday, if all goes well. My time on the computer is more and more limited these days so I will do my best. Thank you all so much for the fantastic comments and support! I will try and get to your blogs soon but until I brew up a little prosperity magick, my online time is very scarce these day. Hmm...that's given me more ideas for my dreamboard. How is your dreamboard going this month? Would you like to just repost what you did last month? That's OK, just let me know!