Tuesday February 18, 2025

Hello, hope whoever is reading this is doing well. I am well myself, back in California but not back to work yet. This Saturday I will set up at the Old Town Temecula Farmers Market. It will be my first market in over a month. My longest break in Spiritual Twist career. I definitely needed it. I have done so much cleaning out and organizing. So unlike me, but I guess this is The Time!!!! I am super happy about all the things i have done, now i just got to start making new pieces for this weekend. I do have lots of new beads and prisms from the Tucson Gem and Bead Show. I also have metal pieces i cut at my Dads shop I gotta get those made into Art.

But before I get into creating i wanted to share about my time off. Share about some things that I did that could be encouraging to the reader….. hopefully someone is reading this 🙂 That made me laugh out loud!
Ha! Laugh, my Mom told me you need to laugh everyday for your health. While I was visiting her we cracked up quite a few times. That was great.
Ok, let me get back to the start of my time off. I had a little over two weeks at home to start this course I am doing online to get an Art Therapist Certification and to organize my Art supplies. That was a nice time at home, i did some working in the yard, cooking, organizing and doing the listening and taking test in this Art Therapy course. Man, it is hard. I haven’t been to school in a while so i am so happy we are given pre-tests so i can go back and study what i missed. It will probably take me a little longer then i expected it to finish this course but i am really looking forward to helping people through Art Therapy.

Soooooo my first two weeks off I Logged Out of Facebook and Instagram and i moved them off of the first page of my phone. The first couple of days i went to my phone, like it was just habit, but there was nothing for me to see. During the day I would see numbers and think “oh i gotta share” but i didn’t have to share. I kept all those special times to me. After a few days i was loving not being on my phone so much. It is very freeing. I thought i don’t need to know what everyone is doing everyday. And people don’t need to know what i am doing all the time. Those were just my thoughts. Have you ever felt like that?
After the two weeks i almost didn’t want to log back in but i did.I am limiting myself, really not looking at anything for too long. I am logged back on for my business Spiritual Twist, but i am trying to direct people here. To my awesome website 🙂 So that was what happened the first part of my time off…. i paid more attention to things other then my phone and i loved it!!!!

The second part was going to Arizona to visit my parents. Plans were to go to Tucson and buy stuff and for me to create art while i was at my parents house. When i go to Arizona i am usually working all the time. Working with metal, sewing, beading, helping my parents etc. I never feel like it’s a vacation. I drive to Arizona on a Sunday, then my Mom and i leave for Tucson on the following day,Monday. We shop,shop,shopped and then made it to our hotel to take it easy for the evening.The next morning my Mom and I did some positive reading and sharing and we pulled some Oracle Cards. I asked for some guidance and direction for this time in Arizona because i was already thinking about all the things i need to do on my visit. I pulled the Vacation Oracle Card. How easy is that! My Angels helped me pick that card so i could read it and live it. I was on Vacation, never ever thought of it like that. The card said I deserved rest time.

The card said so little but said so much. Rejuvenate and nurture your/my mind, body and spirit. Once I said that, I continued to say that ” I am on Vacation. ” And i did feel like I was on Vacation, taking a needed break. I didn’t push myself everyday to make,make,make, instead I went with the flow. I did help my Mom quite a bit because she did have some surgery on her right hand and she needed some help. Glad I was there. I did a lot of cooking because I like to cook! And i was on Vacation so i cooked good stuff.
Zucchini Muffins, Peanut Butter Cookies, Carrot Muffins, Chocolate Cake, Lemon Pancakes, Oatmeal Pancakes, Salads, Tuna Melts, Rice and Bean Soup, and SO MUCH MORE. And every recipe was a Healthy One!!!! I will have the Zucchini Muffins in the March News Letter.
While I was at my parents I was not on the phone like I usually am. Did not take pictures of every single thing. I just enjoyed the moments. Yay!!!!!!!!!
It was a very nice visit.

Now I am home. My break is ending soon and I have a BUSY MARCH SCHEDULE. I feel like things will be Great because I took this me time.
This is such a long post but I enjoyed writing it. Maybe it can help someone get off their phone more or take a break for themselves or do things like you are on vacation.
I want to say a Special Thank You to my Husband Mark. I couldn’t do something like this without you. I appreciate you so much.
Enough out of me.
Blessing to you.
Peace and Love and Light Always!
Dawn
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