My eBay Store

So, finally, I have an eBay store.

I only started it yesterday, and there is a LOT to do to make it look really nice, plus, of course, populating the store with the stuff I want to sell, but I am really, really excited to have started this venture.

I'm calling it "OwlLynxMagick," to honor my two primary power animals, as well as honor my Druidic path.

I've been wanting to run a metaphysical shop, and it is easier to start one online than it is to run a brick-n-mortar place. Secondly, with an eBay store, you get all these cool marketing tools to help with promotions.

I've also got my Amazon store to keep up too, and I need to build a main website to direct people to my various ventures, so it looks like I am going to be extremely busy these next few weeks.

All this and applying for a different day job, too. Whew! *wipes brow* ;-)

But I'd rather have my plate full like this than be bored outta my gourd with absolutely nada to do. Haha...thing is, I would CREATE something to do, for sure!

Check out my store link. It's pretty bare now, but I'll make a follow-up post when it looks a bit more lively. :-)

Blessings,
Kat ^.^

eBay Stuff!

In honor of clearing the way for my new path, and finding a way out of working for other people, I've been seeking things to sell on eBay--from Tarot and oracle decks I don't use too often, to things my friend Q gave me to sell.

I've got three things listed so far:

1) A copy of The Renaissance Tarot--very well-used. It was not mine to begin with, and I don't resonate with the art, so after a few months--maybe a year--of having it in my possession and not using it, I'm selling it off.

The Renaissance Tarot


2) A set of Healing Runes by Ralph S. Blum. I have another rune set I resonate with a lot more, and I am not personally crazy with how he has the runes arranged as far as order of appearance. He does not start with the usual order--"Fehu, Uruz," etc. He switched it around to suit his purposes, and that's fine if you are very familiar with the runes, but I would not recommend this set to a novice, or else you're going to get very confused. Study the original lineup first.

Healing Runes

3) Da Vinci Enigma Tarot by Caitlin Matthews. I love Caitlin's work, Da Vinci rocks, and I love studying the Tarot. However, I have decided I needed a firmer handle on reading the Tarot by other means, and Caitlin's creation is a lot more intricate, clearly not for beginning or intermediate Tarot students. Plus I need to create more space in my room, and will likely repurchase this deck when the above two conditions change. I figure, if it is meant to come back to me, it is meant.

Da Vinci Enigma Tarot

I also post brief Tweets about the stuff I sell, so follow me: Kat@TimeAndAWyrd

And don't forget to head over to my jewelry store, Mystic Connections to check out the work I've got posted. I have yet to post new work and likely Tarot/oracle offerings, but that will come in the next month or so. I'm working on finding a different day job, because my current pizza position is a little bit in jeopardy! Time to "Allons-y!" it up with my creative work, I do believe!

Peace,
Kat ^.^

Spirituality Blog...Created!

Well, it's created--and the first post written: My spirituality blog, called Spirit Ocean, Spiral Realities.

This blog--the "Time and a Wyrd" blog, used to be my old blog, Dine with the Divine...for some reason that just didn't pan out. Why? Because I changed, ultimately speaking. My path was taking a different direction. And a lot of the posts there made it seem like I was trying too hard. I was being TOO much in the sphere of the mental, and not from the spirit.

This time, it feels different. I feel like I have the freedom to be less analytical, less "pedantic" and more my REAL self. And that is quite a change from several years ago.

Spirit has called me to teach spiritual things, more or less, and be a healer, more or less. More than less, is what my intuition tells me. And I am not my dad. I don't "do" pedantic and "sermonizing." Not really. I'd rather be the sort of teacher who sits on the back porch or around a campfire discussing stuff with others and sharing what I know, what I've experienced.

So, that's that...call's been made, I answered. Because answering Spirit's call is a helluva lot more interesting and fun--dare I say "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey"-- than the whole "what kind of pizza" spiel I have to go through every day that I work.

Speaking of my day job, time to go sleep. Allons-y!

Peace Out,
Kat ^.^

Spiritual Blog!

Hey, Everyone!

Just a quick announcement...As of this last three weeks, I've been shown a different path to any kind of business success I might want with music, art, etc. It's unavoidable. Signs and synchronicities are showing me a different way and I can't ignore how blatant these signs are. The concept of co-creation with the Divine Source has been a growing part of my life for the last decade or so, and it's becoming more and more apparent I need to follow this road or else I will be spinning my wheels if I try to do everything the typical "Earthly way."

To talk about this spiritual stuff in a blog that's chiefly for promoting what I do in my business ventures is a bit difficult, simply because I know how I get when I talk about my spiritual life--which infuses EVERYthing I do. My spiritual life inspired the name of my business.

Also, I've got all this stuff in my head and heart I want to share with everyone--things I'm learning, the new fork in my spiritual road, and so on. So the only logical thing I know to do is to create a spirituality blog. Not sure what to call it yet. But I am sure Spirit will help me come up with a name before the night is through. And Spirit's assuring me I will get readers...there are plenty of spiritual types out there who will read...

I'm just grateful for a scheduled-post feature, or else there would be no continuity with ANY of these blogs...

Announcement of Spirituality Blog and its name will be forthcoming.

Blessings and Peace,
Kat ^.^

The Shiny Stuff! ;-)

I'm back, folks!

It's been a few months since I last posted but I'm here again. This time, there are two topics on the agenda.

1) I have a jewelry store called Mystic Connections. I have about thirty items there, but I am looking to add more in the very near future. And, if recent non-blog happenings are telling me anything big, it seems I have been called to do things like Tarot and other oracle readings, so it is likely I will add listings for that sort of thing. I will blog about this a bit later in more detail.

2) I have a Twitter account: @TimeAndAWyrd. Follow me there to get brief updates on what I'm doing with Amazon, eBay, and Mystic Connections.

I have yet to make a proper blogging schedule for this and my other blogs here. I am also thinking about making another spirituality blog so I can serve others that way and connect it up with what I'm doing with my Tarot/oracle work and keep my other blogs more geared to general geeky stuff.

Anyway, that's the latest news! I will write more once my blogging schedule is created.

Peace,
Kat ^.^

Once And Future Geek Blog is up and going!

Just a quick announcement:

My Once and Future Geek blog is up and going. I have yet to create my own background and header for it, but I figured I'd start posting anyway, just to get the search engines crawling. :-)

So, without further blah-blah, here is the link.

Peace, Love and Awesomeness,
Kat ^.^

Finally!

So I finally managed to create an appropriately-sized background. Problem is, with the way the design came out, the right side of the BG won't show at all at the 1800x1600 size. Managed to make the entire BG less than 300 kb by reducing the image quality when exporting/saving. (That's one thing about the newer versions of GIMP I don't understand. Why "export" to PNG or JPG when the "save as" function worked just as well?)

Yet in order for you to see the finished work, I have to post the pic here:

The background whose right side can't be seen...

Interestingly enough, Blogger resized it instantly, which is helpful.

So, that's another blog project done and off the "table." And all the while eating my breakfast! Time to go get some other stuff accomplished!

Later,
Kat ^.^

Slowly I Draw...Pixel by Pixel...

Getting a background created specifically for this blog has been more than a little frustrating.

For example, Blogger's upload size for a 1800x1600 px background is limited to 300 kb.

Secondly, the ideas I have in mind--or the ones I've been messing around with in GIMP are going WAY over that limit, into the MB level, which, of course, "mega-bytes." :P Maybe it's because in GIMP, you can only "Ctrl-Z" so far back and then it stops...and the more info and layers you add, the bigger the byte size gets.

So, until I can get things the way I want them and still be only 300 kb or less, I've uploaded the background that I used on my jewelry store.

I'm very close though...seeing this other background on my blog's given me an idea to make it look awesome, yet simple enough to meet Blogger's 300 kb restriction.

The jewelry store, by the way, is something I will blog about later, maybe tomorrow. I just want to get this blog's background done and off the "drawing board," as it were.

Until then, I think it's bedtime. I have other things I need to do, like wash clothes I've purchased for selling on eBay and I need to get pictures taken and items listed, among other things that need doing before I will allow myself to have a Who-fest. I'm right at the end of Season 2--and from the description I read on Hulu, I think I'd better have the tissues ready.

Love, Peace and Pixelations,
Kat ^.^

Ch-Ch-Changes!

I sometimes think my blogs could start their own reality show called "Flip This Blog."

I kid you not. I started with some ideas that were okay when I thought of them, but because I changed, the blogs HAD to change right along with me. BQ (my best buddy Q) wondered what was wrong with the old "Foolbard" idea (the blog that is now "Of Grails, TARDISes and Towels"). I just told him the truth: it felt like an old, stale idea whose purpose I'd really and truly forgotten and that I've changed, so the blogs I have need to change with me.

This blog, now "Time and a Wyrd," used to be my old "Dine with the Divine" blog. Let's put it this way: I've put in as many hours reconstructing, moving things around and whatnot, I could have easily just completely deleted "Dine With the Divine," and started over with new posts. But I've already got Analytics and AdSense plus my Amazon affiliate stuff set up. It would be a pain in the behind to redo EVERYthing!

The only thing that's not showing up right now is the AdSense and the "Followers" gadgets. That's mostly due to "Googlogger" changing their display code for SSL (secure socket layer) sites as well as needing to verify this and that for my AdSense account thanks to their security changes. Which is fine. When updating blogs, update the nitty-gritty details that make a monetized blog worth, well, monetizing. :P

The only blogs that either did not get completely deleted or name-changed (I feel like I should have naming ceremonies or something, I've done so much "flipping" and "re-creating") were "21st Century Flower Child Sunshine Health" and "Once and Future Geek," both of which I will not link to from here yet because there's nothing to read on one and only one post on the other.

I swear on the Doctor's sonic screwdriver that there will be more posts. Just give me time to finish this main blog and some more fiddling with OAFG, some light schedule-making and it's "Allons-y!" with the blog posts from here on out! (Don't ask me why I've taken on David Tennant's Doctor's quirks...I can only say it's a Whovian thing. Though as both a fan of Dr Who AND Jon Anderson, I'd have a VERY hard time making up my mind which ship I'd fly on: the Moorglade Mover from "Olias" or the TARDIS. My Libra side asks, "Apart from the fact that the Doctor is a fictional character--why can't I alternate?")

Anyway, here's to fresh starts, blog regeneration, and weaving other good things into my life that come of really starting one's own business. Pretty soon, I will have more updates and postings on what's going on with this whole new world of mine.

And yes, I will explain why I have named my business what I've named it. It's fairly summarized in the header image text, but I figured I'd break it down further for everyone who's curious.

Now, onto bed! Allons-y! ;-)