It’s been a fun packed weekend at the Body, Mind & Psychic Expo and I had so many wonderful experiences across the two days. Working with the amazing Tracy from Paganchild again always makes me smile. She is so talented and creative and she just blows me away. It’s a privilege sharing a stall with her.

Having Kylie help us all day yesterday was simply amazing. She made such a huge difference to our workload with all her help and support and seriously, the day wouldn’t have been half as much fun without her wonderful smile.

Meeting the gorgeous Stacey Demarco after all these years of email correspondence and Facebook commentary was a massive highlight for me.  Stacey was the one person who really encouraged me to pursue my PhD in which I looked at how witches learn to be witches when no one else really thought it would work. Thanks to her encouragement and support, I did the PhD and can now proudly call myself Doctor. It was her support that spurred me on so for me she is my hero and my inspiration. To finally give her a hug after all this time was tremendous.

Being surprised right at the start with a gift from the beautiful Narelle and her Mum and Dad just rocked my world on the Saturday morning and brought me to tears. That folks so talented, so kind, so caring would go out of their way to give me such an amazing gift just blew my socks off and I was speechless. Narelle, Indira and Jasper are such generous and caring folks and I am humbled and blessed to know and love them.

Conducting another workshop this year on magic was so much fun and it was fantastic to meet so many people at that workshop who were interested in putting a little magic into their day. Once we overcame the technical difficulties at the beginning, we had a great time.

And finally, doing a tonne of readings for amazing clients across the weekend really stretched my energies at times but goodness, it was so fantastic! I met the most amazing people and shared stories and laughter and tears with them and they taught me as much as I gave them.

The next few days I will be slowly coming back down from this amazing high and all the while I am so grateful for the experiences of this event once more. Blessed dosen’t even cover half of it.

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

That dam procrastination elf has popped in to my house this morning and won’t seem to leave again. I have a bunch of housework to do, a workshop to write, expo stall prep to do, promos to attend, guitar practice to do.... you get the picture. Anyone want to adopt my procrastination elf?

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Yesterday, after several weeks of thinking and contemplating, I went a brought a new guitar. I have no idea how to play it so am learning as I go and while it’s just a cheap guitar (but it’s purple!) to begin with, I’m having a ball learning notes and techniques. My left hand finger tips are numb which apparently is a common and temporary response when you first learn and I’m frustrated that there are certain notes my left fingers find difficult bending into the required shape to make the note without buzzing and dull noises. But, my fingerpicking technique is developing and I love that gentle riff I can create albeit rather amateur at the moment! Great fun.

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

My memory (or lack of it) on occasions is nothing short of astounding. I had a meeting booked with someone, which was in my diary, and which I knew about and made another note of yesterday. This morning however, my brain went on holiday and I totally forgot. The doorbell rang and there am I, standing in my PJ’s, dressing gown, bed hair and not altogether with it, and my client is standing on the doorstep. Aggggghhhhhh!!!!! Embarrassed to say the least! They were very understanding thank heavens and laughed at my senile lapse of memory.

Note to self: If I write appointments in the diary, I also need to look at the diary!

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst