Alright dear ones, it's time to make a little announcement.
For anyone reading this without context, let me provide some:
My partner & I own Rancho de la Libertad: a regenerative agricultural project and spiritual & artistic sanctuary in the high desert. We host ceremony here, provide a landing space to travelers interested in what we're doing, I provide ritual tattooing to those who need it, and we're doing the slow work of regeneration of soil and moving to turn back the ecological desecration that's occurred here in the last 150 years since the settler & gold rushes.
But it's in trouble. We're poised to lose our primary income stream soon, and this means that we won't be able to carry the current mortgage on our house. We're looking at purchasing instead a plot of vacant land between 40 and 60 acres and living in tipis, completely off grid. This positions us actually better for a few different kinds of opportunities. We can expand our regeneration efforts, live more sustainably, eliminate our energy costs (currently a huge part of our monthly bills), provide more living spaces for less money for travelers & residents, and have animals that we don't have the space for here, like horses & cattle.
Losing Rancho de la Libertad wouldn't just be devastating for our family, but for the artists & wanderers that we routinely host here for ceremonies, stargazing events, tattooing rites, and more generally so that they have the space to escape the city and have physical space in which to create and rest.
With that being said, we don't want anything for nothing. I recently (as you all know) opened up a ko-fi store, and am going to be releasing an Etsy store in the next 24 hours as well. We will be using our collective creative skills to craft meaningful spiritual objects in an effort to try to begin an alternate revenue stream.
I additionally will be posting a goal on ko-fi to crowdfund land and get us started. If I've held space for you, provided a beneficial meditation, or if you've stopped by the ranch and you have 5 dollars to spare, please consider if we're worth some of your support.
I will still make a point to not turn this into just a sales channel: I don't aim to trade this beautiful community I've found for sales. Occasionally you'll see shop updates or discounts from me, but otherwise the rest of what I share will be the same.
And for fun, I've opened up a discount on my ko-fi shop from now until the Winter Solstice.
The deadline for participating in this group-buy is 31st August 2023. Kindly note that there will be no re-runs of this group buy. Free shipping for orders of 6 keycaps or more....
I got WHITE beeswax last week and am really excited to create white tapered spell candles with hand-carved sigil designs this week. First and foremost, I'll be creating these for our "Sacred Resetting" solstice event on Thursday, but will also be adding these as a customizable item to my shop.
The yellow tapers I made are really beautiful and burn wonderfully, but I think the white will be just that much more refined and pure. I'm looking very forward to having some photos to share in the next few days.
Hey Fediverse! I'm a jeweler specializing in fused glass out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I do some really beautiful and interesting pieces at reasonable prices, including Pride jewelry sold year-round. https://nora.jewelry/
It has been a hectic but transformative few weeks, but I'm very excited to share that I finally got around to updating my shops with hand-dipped spell candles!
You can choose from pure white or sigilized candles, and can even send me an image of a sigil YOU designed to be carved into the candle.
I've also added birthday candles to the shop, something I'm very excited about even though it's out of the norm a bit. As I was dipping the taper candles, and letting my kiddo run around with her very own "mini candle", I remembered her first birthday when family members arrived with those awful paraffin wax candles from the grocery store. I would have loved to have celebrated with candles that I could trust (rather than having to delicately explain to my stepmother why I didn't want those candles dripping into my kids first ever cupcake). So, it's a little "off brand" (but fuck it, I'm not a brand), but there they are! Ethical & safe birthday or celebration candles for your next wish :)
One constant source of irritation for me with #Laravel is the way #Artisan works. It instantiates every command on every run in order to get the command configuration details. Which isn't usually a problem... until it is.
"In the heart of every craftsman, there's a love for the material, devotion to craftsmanship, and the silent pride in saying 'I made this.' Each piece is not just an item; it's a story being told." - Unknown
"Making is not just about creating new objects. It's about imbuing every piece with a part of your story, a fragment of the world as you see it." - Unknown
Got an unruly beard or a face that hasn’t seen the sun since last summer? 🧔♂️🌞 Time to treat yourself with Verdant Gent’s artisanal grooming goodies! 😉 Visit https://verdantgent.com or our Etsy shop: https://verdantgent.etsy.com and make your face happier than a dog in a bacon factory!🐾🎉
"Making is not just about creativity, but a deep conversation between the soul and raw materials. Through this dialogue, artistry emerges." - Maya Monroe
Hello internet! I am going to be closing my shop in 11 days, with a planned reopening date in early August, to prepare for and recover from surgery. https://nora.jewelry/
I'm not in financial distress or anything right now but having a little extra cushion for takeout and video games during my recovery would be nice.
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The deadline for participating in this group-buy is 31st August 2023. Kindly note that there will be no re-runs of this group buy. Free shipping for orders of 6 keycaps or more....
[GB] Dragon Sigil Artisan Keycap