Monday, February 25, 2008

NEW!!!! Tarot Readings at Carmon's in Champaign



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Tarot Readings at Carmon's in downtown Champaign, IL




I'm excited to share with you that I will now be doing readings in downtown Champaign, just a few blocks from the Amtrak/Greyhound bus station and in the center of a lot cute shops, restaurants and theatre. You can read the details down below.--Catherine



Stop by Carmon's, a casual, fun bar and French cafe,

on Tuesday nights, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. for tarot readings by Catherine Novak of Beads N Botanicals. Catherine has read cards for many years. Bring your questions about love, life, career,

health and business and see what insights she can give you.




Ten-minute readings run $15. Sign up at the bar for a look at what your future may bring.



LOCATION:

Carmon's

415 North Neil St

Champaign, IL

217-352-5880



Carmon's is a French bistro with

great food and drinks, including the mysterious and formerly forbidden

liquor, Absinthe.




Catherine Novak has served as an

adjunct faculty member for Northampton Community College, Bethlehem,

Pa., been a featured speaker at Barnes & Noble; and spoken about

medicinal herbs on the Health Nuts NJ radio show. She appeared on the

Judy Lewis show: Psychic World. Most recently she and her son appeared

on ABC's Sunrise This Morning out of Champaign, IL.




Catherine is available for individual

herbal and health consultations, hypnotherapy for behavior

modification, relaxation and pain management, Reiki energy balancing

and classes at her office at Beads N Botanicals, and can be reached at

at 217-283-6380 or beadsnbotanicals@gmail.com












Friday, February 22, 2008

Dreamcatcher Workshop

Let’s Make A Dream Catcher…..

Marlita (Rainbow Buffalo) will lead us in this workshop.

You will use your vision, energy and creativity to make
your own dream catcher and decorate it the way you desire, while learning the history and application of this sacred medicine.

All materials will be provided.
However, if you have special beads, feathers, animal hide or hair with which you wish to decorate your dream catcher, bring them.

If you choose to gather willow or grapevine from Nature, gather it in a Sacred Way.
Address and give thanks to each direction - The Creator, Mother Earth, the East, the South, the West and the North. Give a tobacco and Cornmeal offering to the plant,
and now you can cut your branch.

There will be an optional Pipe Ceremony before the workshop. (starting at 12 noon) It is traditional to gift the Pipe Carrier with tobacco, sweetgrass, cornmeal, beads or some token of thanks and respect wrapped in red cloth. (money is unacceptable)

DATE: Saturday, March 29, 2008
TIME: 1p.m. (12 noon for the pipe ceremony)
COST: Adult: $65.
Child accompanied by an adult $15.
Elder: (65 yrs +) $45.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call:
Beads N Botanicals to R.S.V.P.
and pre-register with payment at 217-283-6380,

Class starts at 1 p.m. at Beads N Botanicals, 227 S. Market St., Hoopeston, IL 60942

Store owner, Catherine Novak, has served as an adjunct faculty member for Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pa., been a featured speaker at Barnes & Noble; and spoken about medicinal herbs on the Health Nuts NJ radio show. She appeared on the Judy Lewis show: Psychic World. Most recently she and her son appeared on ABC's Sunrise This Morning out of Champaign, IL.

Catherine is available for individual herbal and health consultations, hypnotherapy for behavior modification, relaxation and pain management, Reiki energy balancing, tarot readings and classes at her office at Beads N Botanicals, and can be reached at at 217-283-6380 or beadsnbotanicals@gmail.com
Webstore: http://wiseweeds.net

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Wire Wrapped Tourmaline Pendants


Wire Wrapped Black Tourmaline Crystal Pendants

I love working with healing crystals and find that making them into beautiful jewelry gives people an opportunity to not only benefit from the crystal's healing energies, but also from the beauty of the artisan-crafted piece itself.

Like many artisans, I go through phases of making one style of jewelry and then move on to another. I did this with my Flower Garden bracelet series (which I may feature in a future blog) and have also done this with the creation of a series of Chakra Crystal bracelets and Crystal bracelets featuring clear quartz and other semiprecious stones, such as Turquoise, Amethyst, Fluorite, Moonstone, Tigers Eye and others.

Right now I am in the middle of a wire wrapping frenzy!

I got in a new shipment of rough Black Tourmaline specimens, some of which are terminated, and others are slices which make wonderful pendants.

These wire wrapped tourmaline pendants have been very popular. I haven’t even had a chance to photograph some before they flew out of the shop.

Some of their popularity has to do with the beauty of the pendants themselves. It probably doesn’t hurt that Black Tourmaline has a reputation for being a protective talisman against negativity.

As you’ll see, copper wire makes a beautiful contrast to the stark, dark black of the tourmalines.

I hope to have some of these pendants listed in my webstore for sale shortly.

Black Tourmaline

Taken from Wikipedia: A complex silicate of boron and aluminum, whose composition varies widely because of substitutions. Black (schorl), blue (indicolite), pink and red (rubellite), brown (dravite), green, multicolored, rarely white; vitreous; streak white. Hexagonal, usually short to long prismatic crystals that commonly have a rounded triangular cross section, striated lengthwise; also radiating, columnar, compact. Tourmaline is harder than apatite and further distinguished from apatite and beryl by striations. Tourmaline forms in igneous and metamorphic rocks and veins. It occurs with lepidolite, microcline, and spodumene in granite pegmatites and others.
Tourmaline is widely used as a semiprecious gemstone.

Metaphysical Properties:

Can be used to enhance psychic protection.

Clears oneself and one's surroundings of negativity and disharmony.
Good for releasing negative thinking, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem.
Protect's one's energy field from psychic attachments, entities and energetic debris.
Grounding and calming influence.
Deflects and repels negative energy, especially psychic attack.
Protects against microwaves, radiation, "spells," and ill-wishing.
Grounds spiritual energy, increases physical vitality.
Defends against debilitating disease, strengthens immune system.
Treats dyslexia and arthritis.

According to Melody's book, Love is in the Earth,
some of the properties found in Black Tourmaline (Schorl) are:
Can be used to both repel and protect against negativity.
It acts to protect one from being victimized by the negative energy of another.
It has also been used as an energy deflector, being an excellent stone
for those with potential for exposure to excessive amounts of radiation.
Also used to activate grounding between the first chakra and the earth.

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