The PRE-RELEASE of "Bezert's Next Adventure" begins MAY 1st! The actual book launch will take place May 20th. Later this month I will be sharing the details on how you can place an order for your very own copy. Between May 1st and May 20th there will be opportunities to get BOTH Bezert books as a set at a really great price–basically buy one get one free. Also, the first 65 people to PRE-order will receive an original handcrafted Bezert-y totem sculpture for FREE. I've already started crafting them.
In other news, I launched my Patreon page today! Let's get something straight, I love and appreciate your support whether you become my patron or not. I also want to let you know that Patreon is an inexpensive and satisfying way to gain more insight on your favorite artists and creators, and even free art, while supporting them along the way. Through this process you are helping them to make MORE of the great work they are already producing. Honestly, I have been following my favorite artists on Patreon for a while now and I love the special perks, so I decided that maybe I should create my own page to generate my own support for the work I love to do. I launched my page today and I actually just posted a video for my future patrons that highlights the last 5 months of Bezert prop & photo creation. It's really fun and I can't wait to share more.
Until then, I will also continue to post other tidbits on Instagram and Facebook. If you'd like to journey along, feel free to join in the fun!
Thanks always for your support!
Love, Maria
It's MARCH already and we are working like little bunnies to be able to release Bezert's Next Adventure to you by SPRING. Can't wait to share! But until then, there is still plenty of fun to be had. If you are not already linked, we've been posting progress on Instagram and Facebook. If you'd like to journey along, please follow and join us! We've had a blast sharing video clips, excerpts, photos and other progress along the way because, honestly, there are so many important stages that go into writing, illustrating and publishing a book. Some stages are tried and true, others are just like a great big organic science experiment. Our hope is that eventually all of these intuitive bits and pieces will be able to be cobbled together into a full "Making of The Bezert's Next Adventure" video for those who might want to someday journey down a similar path.
For those of you who may have joined this list via the TOTUM FAUNA sculpture work, if you have never experienced the world of The Bezert, I encourage you to check out the book and website for yourself. There's another little blog there for you too!
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Albus Dumbledore
Symbols of Love come in many forms. Glimpses of these symbols serve as reminders and convey messages of compassion, ardor, passion and tenderness to us every day. If you desire more of this in your life, or wish for more in the lives of those around you, all you need is to concentrate on the energy of it. Keep it present. Open up to love and love will open up to you.
These Loveburd Totems are symbols of Love. For some, they are a focus point to bring more enchantment into their lives. They bestow their keepers with warm hearted fortunate feelings. Keepers can choose to use them in their daily ritual to give these feelings a more prominent appearance in their lives.
Choose one that speaks to you. Put this symbol in a prominent place where you see it often. Meditate or sleep with it and invoke your Totem before sleeping and again upon waking, always remaining positively focused on your highest idea of Love. You may also choose to give one (or two) as a "GIFT of LOVE" with this intent.
Of all the feelings felt by the heart, LOVE is most certainly the most noble. It is everywhere and in everything. It is us. When we align ourselves with it, it responds by showing itself in our lives.
Love,
Maria
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The energy and delicate physical beauty of autumn has temporarily vanished underground and with that comes much needed rest and rejuvenation for both flora and fauna. Within the frozen pod of winter lie their spritely spirits, alive and still well, enjoying slumber but preparing for that first breath of the anticipated equinox. Winter solstice is nature's cue that more life & light will soon be on its way as the hearty WINTER TOTUM FAUNA remain watchful and alert throughout this frozen season. They dig in their earthy roots, grow their downy undercoats and fluff up their feathery finest.
Enjoy this time while the veil between worlds is thin and creativity, love and gratitude prevail. Remember, light is on its way.
Peace, Maria
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Golden Milk is a perfect way to enjoy a few of these spices and reap their benefits daily. Drinking this warm comforting beverage before bed promotes relaxation and helps boost the immune system while sleeping. Here's how you can make your own!
Ingredients:They flow in an endless stream. But counting these beings is a difficult task. If one tries to count them as one would cherries or eggs, one soon notices that they cannot be counted that way. When one has reached say three, then there are suddenly a lot more. So counting them is no use; nor is any other form of calculation, for they immediately play tricks on you. Suppose you put two on one side and two on the other in order to say twice makes four. One would be wrong, for through their super-cunning they would appear as seven or eight, making out that two times two makes eight, or something like that. Thus these beings defy being counted. It must be acknowledged that the intellect developed by man in recent times is very impressive. But these super-intelligent beings show a mastery over the intellect even where it is merely a question of numbers.
~Rudolf Steiner, The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind, May 1922
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