Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
DECORATING & STOCKING SHELVES!!!
Things are getting REAL this month! All the construction workers who’ve been a part of our daily lives since July packed up their tools and said their good-byes, with promises to come back and visit once we’re up and running. The building sign went up,
while we literally danced in the parking lot, grinning from ear-to-ear! And NOW … (drum roll, please) … we get to start moving the furniture in and setting up the displays!! Stay tuned … more pics will undoubtedly be coming!
Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
BUYING FRENZY: paint, light fixtures, ceiling fans & flooring – check. Computers, Point of Sale software systems, bookcases, display cases, coffee bar, tables and chairs, jewelry, crystals, herbs, books, books, and books … oh my!
Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
In one of those eerie, ‘the Universe SO provides’ twists, Deb’s new neighbor turned out to be our new able-to-do-anything-you-could-never-need guy. Between him, his family and friends, in no time, those drawings on graph paper Cat obsessed over started turning into walls. This was getting r-e-a-l!!!!
Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
W
e hit the road for our first buying trip foray to the International New Age Trade Show in Denver. Rows and rows of gorgeous, fascinating stuff and booths overflowing with books … but yes, a few disappointments as well. (‘Whaddya mean there are no food booths here?!?’) BUT we survived and bought so much wonderful stuff we had to rent a U-haul to bring it home … and NOW we really were a store. We had stuff to sell!
Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
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Author: Cat Kelly
My first experience working with the energy of crystals was being dragged with a friend to a class at Pathways in St. Louis. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve always liked rocks. They’re pretty, decorative, interesting. But the idea that they had healing or energetic powers seemed a L-I-T-T-L-E wacko to me. Just sayin’.
Thankfully, the woman leading the class, (an amazing teacher and powerful soul — the late Deborah Bourbon, founder and owner of Pathways), ignored my oozing skepticism. Instead, she thrust a clear quartz point into my palm and told me we would begin with a meditation to ‘charge the stone’ to be our guide in working with the rest of the stones. (Um, sure. ‘Cause stones, like, talk too, I guess. Whatever.) It was a nice meditation, but of course I felt nothing from the quartz crystal clasped in my sweaty palm. Confirmation this was all nonsense, just as I’d known all along. I mean, really!?!