My New Business with Sensaria

I wanted to let you all know that I have started my own business with Sensaria Natural Bodycare. It's products that I love so much, and would love to share with all of you! Please stop by my web page and check it out... and click Here to be a fan of my Sensaria page on facebook! I am going to be having a giveaway of some of the awesome products in the next couple weeks also!

Since I am starting up, there are some great promotions that I can take advantage of, and I'd like to make a few goals that I've set for myself this month so I can earn free product and an awesome Sensaria branded calender/planner in a gorgeous shade of soft green. If you would like to help me earn this, please please place an order in the next week! You can order on my website, and it will be shipped directly to you, or place the order with me, and I'll send it to you once it comes in. I'm having a raffle to make it worth your while to help me reach my goals!

Here are the raffle rules:
If you place an order you get one entry.
If you get someone else to order you get two entries.
If you book a Spa Party you get five entries.
If you have a Spa-By-The-Book (that closes by December 17th) you get ten entries.
If you sign up to be an Independent Representative you get ten entries and a free gift from me!

The prize for the raffle will be a gift basket of all kinds of Spa Yumminess!

Thanks for reading, following, and supporting me! You are all wonderful!

Celebrating the Season

This year the Holiday's are turning out a little different than last year. This year we are still living with my boyfriend's brother, because I still can't find work yet. Last year we had our own place. Part of me is very sad that we can't go all out with our decorating and cheer... but I must admit part of me is loving how simple things are. We have had to be very thrifty this year, so our shopping is done, and presents are wrapped. We will be putting up our tree, but only a few days before Christmas, and even then, we weren't planning to decorate. Well, being myself, I couldn't stand a completely empty tree... so I got some pretty blueberry candy canes, and a silver star for the top of our white tree. It will be very simply, but still elegant.
I also think doing the holiday on a smaller scale will be good for me, because I am still struggling with how to incorporate the traditions of my life with the beliefs I embrace now. Because I am not focusing everything on Dec 25th... I can spend more time celebrating Yule, my first one. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on how to incorporate both into your celebrating? I'd love some input.
The pictures included are from last year, so you can see our lovely tree. I have to admit, the white tree wasn't my first choice, it was Chris's... but I am completely converted now!
May the Goddess bless your seasons!

I have been awesome!

I just got the new issue of Glamour magazine, and I just finished reading it from cover to cover. I have to share some of what I love about it! Well, I loved everything about it, but I will only share a little, because if I share it all, you have no reason to read it! :) This is their annual Women of the Year Issue and I am so inspired!

First, I have something political to say. And anyone who knows me knows that I have a strong opinion about politics. If you are not educated and informed about politics, you have no right to have an opinion about them! That being said, I don't usually have much to say, because I am not informed and don't want to be ignorant. However, in this one case, I want to say this. Whether everyone likes them or not, the fact that the Obama's are in the White House is such an amazing leap forward for our country. The fact that Michelle's great great ancestor was a slave who sold for $475 at an auction in the 1850's (pg 60, Dec 09 Glamour) and she is now the First Lady shows how far we have come.

OK, on to less political speak. In an article about finding the best dresses for your body, Glamour actually included Plus Sizes... and they put them first! Usually us bigsexytypes rarely get mentioned along with the dress-your-big-butt-small-boobs-high-waist-short-legs-body articles at all, and if we do, its at the end of the article. But this time, we are first! (pg 138) This is another way that we have advanced as a country, as women, as a culture, and in the media. We wont be the last acceptable stereotype any more! (I'm sorry, I'm seriously on a soap box today. I wont be offended if you stop reading now!)

You need to read pg 84, the story at the bottom of the page. It is a tearjerker! One last thing and then I promise to stop typing!

I am going to lift a quote straight from the magazine. Have you heard of Precious? It is a movie I have planned to see, but haven't yet. It stars a BBBW... a Big Beautiful Black Woman and this was her first movie roll ever! She is quoted (page 94) as saying, "The press paints the picture that I got this role and now I'm awesome. But the truth is that I've been awesome, and then I got this role."
HOW FUCKING FABULOUS IS THAT????
I am so inspired but those two sentences that I texted it to my friends, and put it on my Myspace and Facebook. She is so real and so right to say that. And WE ARE. We are fabulous already. Before the great job, the great man, the great family, the great movie roll, the 200 followers, etc. Already. We "have been awesome" and it sometimes takes those other things before other people realize it. But we should realize it now. And never forget it.
OK shameless (unpaid) advertising complete. I really think you should pick up this issue though, you wont be disappointed.
PS. You are already fabulous!

Isaac Wrote His Name!!!

I can't tell you how proud I am! My son was drawing yesterday, and I noticed that across the top of the page he had written his name! He switched the S and the C so it was more like Icaas... but still recognizable! I don't want to be one of those mom's who has a child dumb as a post, but still thinks they are a genius... but my son is a genius! OK so he is nearly 14... hahaha, just kidding, he is actually 4. Since we have moved back to Moses Lake, I had to find a new daycare, and this one has a built in preschool, which I love. He is doing so wonderful there, and the kids all seem to love him too. When I drop him off, I can hear the kids screaming his name, excited. It reminds me a little of Norm's big entrance on Cheers. Of course with out the beer and nuts!
On another note, I have been really trying to refocus on my Spiritual education and learning and studying more. I have a huge collection of books that I plan to read, but of course they are sitting in boxes in the storage until we get our own place! I have a dear friend who is learning and exploring right now, and she has found herself drawn to Wicca. It has been really nice to have some deep conversations with her about it. Especially considering I don't have anyone in my day to day life that is Wiccan. I know she is still trying it on and making sure it fits, but I can already see it making positive changes in her life, like it did in mine! I have also been trying to reach out into the Pagan community more, I have a deep need right now to feel connected.
I hope all of you are having a lovely November!

What Did He Say Now Part... (Who the Hell is Counting Anymore????)......

Triplets!

Isaac Iron Man

Triplets Again

My family had a Halloween Party on Friday night this week... My sisters and I dressed up as triplets... which people thought we were all the time as kids. This was of course due to the fact that our mom loved to dress up her three blond haired, blue eyed daughters up in matching dresses and swimsuits... But we pulled it off quite nicely. I have decided that I am the fat one of us three (sad I know, but true... FOR NOW :) ) but we all decided when sitting side by side.. that I have the perkiest boobs! Go me! Or maybe its Go Lane Bryant for the fabulous bra! Either way... I'll take it. Ok that was a little off subject... but I had to share since I've missed TMI Friday for two weeks in a row... But I digress...
Isaac and I spent the night at my parents house, and drove home the next day. It is only a half hour drive, but a great chance for us to talk. He has become so imaginative that it amazes me all the time! He was telling me this crazy story about how we needed to get home into the sky, so we needed a ladder, a big tree, a cannon, a fire gun, and a rocket to get home. He laid them out perfectly into steps also...(Step one... ladder, step two... big tree.....) Then he started just talking and telling the story like a true story weaver. I was just getting lost in his magical little world and enjoying the drive, when all of a sudden I hear him say "Holy Shit its a meteor!"
I almost had to pull over I was laughing so hard, and yet so appalled! And then I tied a little string around that moment so I wouldn't forget it. Ahhhh Good times!

Introductions

I would like to introduce all my lovely bloggety friends to a dear friend of mine. She has recently started a blog about her struggle to define herself, and I'd love it if you would all stop by and welcome her to cyber land! I have her button over on the right... Irish Goddess (I helped her make that too!) Thank you all darlings! And Samhain blessings to you all!

Carve Your Pumpkin!

Welcome Fanciful Twist Halloween Partiers!

Hello all you crazy partiers! I had hoped to pull off a major blog-olution between Mrs. B's Party, and The Fanciful Twist party... but life has that sassy way of getting in the way! So welcome to my festive Halloween page! Please stay a while... I hope you will find something funny, shocking, entertaining, and educational to read here! And if you just happen to be stopping by to say hello... please swing on over to A Fanciful Twist... This is one crazy chick with an awesome creative blog!

TMI Friday!

Hello all... hopefully all of you Walking Tour Fans will stop by again! Thanks so much for stopping by! It's Friday again... time for another TMI Friday! To start I will say that I posted this much later than I planned on today, because I was busy making up some more TMI stories to share! :) That's right ladies and gents.... I was getting bizzy! :)
Now... what about you....?

Welcome to my Gypsy Caravan!

Because Mrs. B is on the East Coast, and I don't get up that freakin early!.. I am posting this Thursday night... for Friday the 16th.

Thank you for following the fabulous Mrs. B's Haunted Walking Tour to visit! She is a doll isn't she? My name is Kristina, and this is my blog. I write about whatever seems to come to mind usually. I hope you will look around and stay a while!

I want to share a little bit about Halloween… and the day that actually started it all. Then I want to share some old-witches tales about Halloween.

Halloween was formerly known as Samhain. The name and the holiday evolved over the years to become what we now know. You may be surprised to learn that Halloween is, to many modern-day witches and pagans, the most sacred night of the year. And contrary to many misunderstandings, Samhain/Halloween is not a holy day of the Devil, (most Pagans don’t believe in the Christian Devil) or an evil holiday. For many cultures, throughout many centuries, Samhain has been celebrated as a harvest festival, a time of mirth and magick, a night of ancestors, as well as a New Year’s Eve celebration. Hundreds of years ago, the Celtic people followed a calendar that began and ended with October 31/November 1st, and they believed that on this last day of the year, the veil between the living and the dead grew very thin, allowing contact across the veil both ways. Many of the traditional decorations of ghosts, skeletons, and skulls have long been used to signify those who have passed before. The same symbols are now used to delight and terrify us!

Over the years, many traditions and old-witches tales were developed for Halloween night, believing that the ancestors who have passed before would help you to divine your future. Many of methods are still around: tarot cards, scrying, crystal balls, runes, etc. Many more customs have not passed the test of time. These lesser known methods of divination were often believed to reveal your future husband/wife/lover. I found them so intriguing I knew I had to share!

• In England, it was once believed that when hemp was tossed over the shoulder at midnight on Halloween, a vision of your future husband/wife would appear.
• To learn the initials of your future spouse, peel an apple in one long piece, then toss the peel over your left shoulder or into a bowl of water. If a letter of the alphabet is formed, this is the first initial of the first name. Repeat for the first initial of the last name.
• To find out how many kids you will have, pluck a stalk of oats on Halloween. The number of grains is the number of children you will have. However, if the top grain is missing, this is a sign that you will lose your virginity before your wedding!

Halloween has such a rich history! It is by far my favorite holiday… and I can’t wait! Also, I promise I’m not nearly this educational on a regular basis! Please come back again and visit!