The following links are some of my favorite places to visit online. Some are friends and all are terrific.

Art and Craft

The Purple Unicorn: Cynthia Cole Page and her entire family have worked to make this the most wonderful renaissance [and other periods] clothier.

The Quilter's Cache: Great instructions and block ideas and styles given step by step. It started me quilting.

Mary Hanson-Roberts' The incredible illustrator who did my favorite tarot deck) wonderful whimsical site.

Hrana Janto's illustration site. She did the art for the Goddess Oracle and her work is tremendous.

Robin Wood's (another incredible illustrator) wonderful site of artwork and more

Fairy Steppers A/W/E Sparking shoes Help the World Project. I make this wonderful, whimsical shoes in exchange for your donation to an animal rights, women's rights, or environment-oriented organization. You get me the shoes, you donate to a worthy cause and you get a pair of brilliant shoes. Go to the site for more information.

Food

Fabulous Foods: A great site for recipes, terrific presentation ideas and just plain old fun food stuff.

Friends, games, performers, artists, and other incredible stuff

Rich Potter's cartoons and all sorts of other goodies.

Rich Potter's performance site (Juggling and other disasters).

The John and Gina Show: Ginohn's great site that includes: haiku movie reviews, tombstones, and lots more.

Wunderland: Just like their house, this site is a fantastical playland. Go and explore.

Looney Labs: (Games and oh so much more)

Reneé Camus: Dancer, artist and all-around awesome woman

Alex Bradley: Artist, dreamer, and terrific person

Petra Mayer: Artist, Producer, Singer, and more

Dorian: Friend, genius, and adventurer

Zareen: Fantastic, joyful middle-eastern dancer

Music and Musicians

Fairewood Studios: Al Petteway and Amy White's wonderful site for their music, photography, and other wonderful stuff.

Absolutely Boxspring

Loreena McKennitt's Quinlan Road

David Wilcox's site

Emerald Rose (they have a great site)

Wishing Chair (Kiya Heartwood and Miriam Davidson - incredible musicians and amazing songs)

Indiegrrl (a network of independent women musicians and those who support them)

The Wrigley sisters (Jennifer and Hazel). Amazing instrumental music from the Orkney Islands. Their Compliments to the Orkney recording on Mither O' the Sea is some of the best music I've ever heard.

Local band Kiva - spiritual, spirited and fabulous.

News

Common Dreams Newscenter: This is a site that prints rewrites of news and views of the Progressive Community.

Spirit

Jamie Sams: spirit, teachings, lore

Lunaea Weatherstone's site on spirit, tarot, the goddess, etc.

The Witches Voice: a great site that is dedicated to connecting pagans, witches. Here is their Mission statement: Mission Statement: The Witches' Voice is a proactive educational network dedicated to correcting misinformation about Witches and Witchcraft. Witchcraft - Wicca IS a legally recognized religion in the United States and it is our mission to protect that right through education and awareness.

The Covenant of the Goddess Home Page: a site for the international organization of cooperating autonomous Wiccan congregations and solitairy practitioners.

Ars Circuli's Magic of Mandalas page: A beautifully-made page with some really great info and links.

Rik Lostrito's terrific site on Uechi karate, reiki, and much more.

The aikido dojo to which my husband and I belong and where we study.

Environment

Here are some environmental/conservation links.

Here are some animal rights links.

New Ear Training Interval Chart with midi files and graphics.

If you're interested in learning to read music...

I have developed an interval ear training web page that will allow you to find intervals by looking at and listening to those intervals in commonly-known songs. The theory here is that if you know a certain song, it will be easier for you to pull the intervals out to sing them if you reference known intervals from known songs for singing new songs.

Here are the simple intervals (simple means an octave or less) from the minor second to the Octave (we'll get to compound intervals later). You'll see that the interval is to the left, the song and phrase that illustrate the interval under song (the bold indicates the exact phrase that gives you that interval ), a midi file that plays part of the melody (the part that includes the interval) for you, and a graphic representation of the interval. The words up or down indicate the direction the interval is going.

New Chakra Description Charts (Male and Female), Chakra Representation Chart, Chakra Meditation Spiral Chart Now Available at Healers Arts.

In an effort to work more concretely with the chakra system, I have created these charts. The first is the Chakra Description Chart. I spent a good deal of time in meditation on the chakras and created and developed my own images for the energy vortexes in their appropriate colors. The chart also includes their meditations, appropriate crystals/stones and energies. My main sources were Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith and my own meditations on the chakras. If there is interest, I may sell photo quality copies of the Chakra Description Chart at some point. Coming soon: a Chakra Balancing Meditation.

I have also created the Chakra Representation Chart (Male) and Chakra Representation Chart (Female). These charts are a representation of the body with the chakras in their appropriate places. The last is a Chakra Meditation Spiral to help in accessing the chakras while meditating.

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