Best Cookies Ever!!!! My Gift to You

The Holidays are upon us and it is the season to share one's talents with friends and loved ones.  Special treats are a tradition this time of year and many people are busy making caramel corn, candy and cookies.

 I am especially busy during the Holiday Season as I do cooking demonstrations for DACOR (Distinctive Appliance Corporation) and am called on to do desserts quite often.  Cookies are almost always on the menu and as I am frequently being asked for the recipes , I thought I would share them and maybe they will become your favorites too.

CRANBERRY WALNUT

This Holiday Cookie is a fun, moist and slightly sweet cookie.  It tends to be very cake-like....

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter 

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup milk

2 tablespoons lemon juice

3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, stemmed and chopped

1 cup walnuts

Cranberry Walnut

Preheat oven to 375 degrees, measure flour, baking powder, soda and salt into a bowl; stir with a fork to mix.  Cream butter and sugars in a large bowl until fluffy;beat in egg, milk, and lemon juice.  Stir in flour mixture, a little at a time.  Until well blended; stir in cranberries and walnuts.  Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, about 1 inch apart, onto greased cookie sheets. ( I use Silpats or parchment paper on trays)  ...Bake 15 minutes or until firm and golden.  Remove from cookie sheets and cool.  Yield: 8 doz.

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Ginger Pepper Cookies

This is an amazing  old fashioned cookie and is the most requested recipe  of all the cookies I make. I highly recommend this one....it is a very strong flavor but even kids see to like it.    TRY IT!!!!

GINGER PEPPER COOKIES

Sift together:

4 cups of flour

4 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

2 teaspoons cloves

2 teaspoons ginger

2 teaspoons cinnamon

Mix together until creamy:

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups shortening (Crisco)

Add:

2 eggs

1/2 cup molasses (regular)

Directions:  

Preheat oven to 350 degrees - Add flour mixture into wet ingredients and mix well.  Roll dough into quarter size balls and roll in sugar.  (I roll in organic sugar for more sparkle).  Bake on a greased cookie sheet (do not press down) for 10-12 minutes in a conventional oven....8 minutes in a convection oven...DO NOT OVER COOK .

The cookies will rise and when they begin to crack on top they are ready to come out.  they will flatten out as they cool.  The result is a chewy ginger/molasses cookie with a slight kick at the end.   I know black pepper is a strange ingredient to put in a cookie, but wow!  It really works in this one.

To keep cookies moist and chewy, keep in a sealed container.  Yield: 72 cookies

I really cannot overstate how good these cookies are.  The recipe was gifted to me by a woman who rescues heritage recipes.  According to her, this cookie recipe dates back to the Civil War.  

ENJOY!!!!!!!

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Next up:  LEMON CRINKLES

My husband's new favorite.  I would describe this cookie as a almost a short bread with lemon flavor.  YUMMY!

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

1 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon lemon zest (from about 2 lemons)

1 large egg

1 large egg yolk

1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (use the 2 lemons you tested)

3/4 teaspoon lemon extract

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup powdered sugar (for rolling dough in)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.

In the bowl of an electric stand mixer with paddle attachment, whip together butter, sugar an lemon zest until pale and fluffy.  (occasionally scrape down bowl though out entire mixing process if not using an attachment that constantly scrapes bowl)  Mix in egg then blend in egg yolk.  Add lemon juice, lemon extract, vanilla extract.  Mix until combined.  With mixer on low speed, slowly add in dry ingredients.

Poor powdered sugar into a small bowl.  Scoop dough out about 1 1/2 teaspoon at a time an shape into a ball, drop into powdered sugar and roll to evenly coat.  Transfer to a parchment paper or split lined baking sheet,  space cookies 2 inches apart on baking sheet.  Bake 10-13 minutes or until the cookies begin to crack.   Cool.  Store in an airtight container.  Yield:  3 dozen  (not nearly enough for us so I make double batches)

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This last recipe is a sure fire hit with people who love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter.  This a Peanut Butter Cup Cookie and it is super fun to watch people bite into it through the chocolate and into the peanut butter.  SURPRISE!

BUCKEYE PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1 tablespoon milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

for filling;

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

organic sugar to roll cookies

Directions:

In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda; set aside

In a large bowl, combine butter, 1/2 granulated sugar, brown sugar, and 1/4 cup of peanut butter.  Beat with an electric mixer o medium seed until combined.  Add egg, milk, and vanilla, beat well.  Slowly stir in flour using a spoon.  Form chocolate dough into about 28 balls.  the balls will be about 1 1/4 inches.

In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar and 1/2 cup of peanut butter.  Knead if necessary.  If the dough is not forming, add more peanut butter.  Shape into 28 balls that are smaller than the chocolate ones.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  On a work surface or in the palm of your hand, flatten chocolate dough, top with a peanut butter ball.  Shape the chocolate dough around the peanut butter filling.  Roll the dough into a ball.  Repeat with the remaining dough.

Roll the dough balls in the 1/2 cup of granulated (organic is better) sugar.  Place balls 2 inches apart on an engrossed cookie sheet.  Lightly flatten the balls.

Bake for about 8 minutes or just until the surfaces are lightly cracked.  Cool & ENJOY!!

Yield:  3 dozen  (Once again, not nearly enough...so double batch it is!)

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I hope you and your love ones enjoy these as much as we do.

May you be blessed this Holiday Season with much love, joy and peace. 

 May life be forever sweet to you.

Margaret 

The Art of Color Pencils

Green Tara
Framed original available for sale
margaretjoyceart.com

Working with color pencils has been a passion for me
for many years.  I started sometime in the '80's with taking a community education evening class at the local Jr. High.  My first piece was quite small, about 4"x4", and was executed on very poor quality paper.  It was a still-life of a bunch of radishes and although it was not great,  it did inspire me and set me on my way.

In the beginning, I experimented with many different brands of color pencils and different types of paper as well.  A good quality acid free paper  is essential to the successful outcome of a piece.  Also, learning about the colorfastness of certain colors was very important too.  You don't want to spend hours on a piece and then watch it fade away before your eyes in a couple of years!  Eventually I settled into using Prismacolor pencils almost exclusively.  As they are really a colored wax set in a wooden barrel, they are easy to use and have a smoothness that I like.  They blend well.

It is possible to get an amazing variety of effects with colored pencils.  The finished pieces are no longer drawings at all but "paintings" covering the whole surface from corner to corner.

American Paint Turtle
in private collection

One of my "discoveries" was that I loved to work on a surface that was already colored.  The Green Tara pictured above is actually done on a piece of jet black museum board.  The black that you see (her hair) is actually the paper.  The black underneath creates a depth of color and tones down the brilliance of some of the colors.  The piece is actually a mix-medium as I also used a metallic gold watercolor on her aura and some of the details on her attire.  The tips of the  flower buds are touched with a bit of white acrylic because I couldn't get the pure white with colored pencil over black paper.  However, her shirt is all white pencil that was heavily burnished.

The American Paint Turtle piece was done on a piece of green acid free matt board. He is one of three pieces that were a commission.  Each one was done on a colored paper.  The Frog was done on black.

Iguana
in private collection

Frog
In private collection

Travis with Grandpa Vic playing Uncle Wiggly
in private collection

My subject matter has always been all over the place.  Landscapes, portraits, animals, still-life, I pretty much created pieces based on whatever attracted my attention and inspired me.  This picture of my son, Travis playing Uncle Wiggly with his Grandpa is one of my all time favorites.  (Note the Darth Vader Tee) .  This piece is now owned by my son, I gave it to him on his 30th birthday.

Joining the Color Pencil Society of America, CPSA, allowed me to participate in some lovely art shows featuring color pencil work.  Twice I was juried into, and shown in, International Color Pencil shows, a landscape of Lake Powell, Utah in one, and a portrait of my Grandmother in the other.  My work has been featured in two "Best of Color Pencil" books, volumes #2 and #4.

It is interesting to look back at a body of work and see the shifts as the artist evolves, or to be able to see the life experiences that are reflected in the work.  For me, my spiritual life has become a major component to my pieces.  I truly believe that the state of consciousness and your intent will affect the final outcome of your art and that art will be "imbued" or carry that energy to whoever is in contact with it.  Think about the sand paintings of the Hopi or the huge mandalas created by Tibetan monks.  Both are created with intention and prayer having a great impact on the viewer.  For the last few years my goal has been to infuse that same type of intention and prayer into my work no matter what medium I am using, felting, eggs, pencil....sound.

Through the years my pieces have gotten larger and larger.  No more 4" x 4" little pieces anymore!  Oh No! I worked on big pieces that took months to complete.  The consequence  of holding that pencil for hours on end was, unfortunately, a repetitive stress injury to the joint at the base of my right hand thumb.  Because of this, I have not done a major color pencil piece for over 5 years.  

Lately, my hand has felt pretty normal and I am thinking that I will get back at it.  There will definitely have to be an adjustment though, like using a ergonomic pencil holder so that I am not holding the pencil so tightly.  Wish me luck!  

The majority of my work has sold (or been gifted) and gone off to private collections.  I do, however, have originals that are for sale and also prints and a line of cards created from my images. Available at  margaretjoyceart.com

Fellow artists...please be aware of the safety of your supplies and the toll of repetitive movements on your body

Blessings,

Margaret

 

My Big Show & upcoming events

Eggs on display

It was a big night for me.  Lots of work and planning, but I have to say..."I ROCKED IT"

Lots of gratitude to my sweetheart husband for all his help and support and, most especially,  for his ability to put up with my pre-show crankiness.  He is definitely a saint (but don't tell him I said so).

The eggs got lots of attention...and how could they not. ... Look how colorful and sparkly they are.  I sold several and I also got a commission for a custom egg as well.  So I am very happy about how the eggs looked and how they were received by the attendees at the show.  

I found the response of people to be interesting because this is the first time I have shown the eggs in a non-metaphysical venue.  Everyone seemed to be curious and very accepting of their Spiritual nature.  The collective consciousness is definitely shifting.

The booth at RAW Artists Show

There was a large selection of my felting there as well.  Several small pieces sold, one big Earth Dragon.   I got a commission for two dolls, Diego & Frida.  It will be a fun project and I am excited to get started on it.  Luckily, I don't have to have it done before Christmas.

Recently, the Water Dragon sold on my ETSY site so it looks like I am going to be felting some more Dragons in the near future.  It will be fun to see how they evolve and change.  Originally I planned on doing four, one for each element.  At this point only the Fire Dragon is left and I never did get an Air Dragon made to go with the original set so I have work cut out for me.

The Dragons will be posted as they get done....So watch for them.

Here are pics of the ones that sold.

Water Dragon

The RAW Artists Event was probably the biggest show I will participate in this season.

It was well attended, well advertised and I felt like it was very successful.  We shall see what happens now.....you never know what might manifest after a show like that.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

BILQUIST BAZAAR:
November 21st

Earth Dragon

Bilquist Elementary School
15708 S. E. Webster Road
Milwaukie, Oregon

Will have needle felting and felted hats



CELESTIAL AWAKENINGS
November 4th-11th-18th ( Friday Evenings)
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Celestial Awakenings
7831 S. E. Stark St. #100
Portland, Oregon 97215

Will have Goddess Eggs and felted Goddesses


 For all my creations Check out my web-site:  margaretjoyceart.com

Blessings to all,
Margaret

Journeys in Sound

My "bowl room" & assorted toys

How it began:

Some time ago I sat with, and studied with, a Native American Elder.  My family has Cherokee heritage and a series of events leading to a spiritual awakening, and many questions, led me to a Cherokee Woman and Elder who became my teacher for many years.  I was given the name Crystal Heart.  A name that seemed to me to be a little bit New Age as I was expecting something more native.  (a lesson in expectations)

One day my teacher turned to me and said...."You need to study sound, go sit with------" (A woman who was a sound healer) and I did.  For two years I was immersed in the study of sound as a hearing modality.  During that time, I was exposed to the sounds of Tibetan bowls and crystal bowls for the first time.  I loved both, but my soul sang with the crystal bowls.  I decided that I needed to have crystal bowls in my life and started to purchase them as I could afford it.

Spirit, of course, guided me to a woman who became a dear friend and happened to be a distributor for crystal bowls.  She made sure that every bowl I purchased was perfect pitch.  I now have 18 bowls in my collection, from 4" to 22" in diameter,  a full scale plus sharps.  Because they are perfect pitch, or nearly so, I can play them like an instrument and the sound is much more musical in nature.  

I have been playing them for many years now and am considered by some to be a "Master".  I'm not sure about that, but I do know that my name , Crystal Heart, makes perfect sense.

About Crystal Bowls:

Crystal bowls are 98-99% quartz crystal.  They were originally produced for the computer industry as crucibles to grow silicon wafers in.  Someone must have tapped one at some point and discovered the incredible chime-like quality.  Now, they are produced for their unique sound and sold to musicians and to people in the metaphysical community world wide.

Sound Healing:

The human body is a great conductor of sound because we are mostly water.  Sound will hit us at a cellular level.  We are bombarded all day, every day, with all sorts of sound,  most of which is not good for us.  We are meant to hear the movement of the air in the trees, the sound of the ocean, birds singing, or children laughing, but what we hear in our modern world, unless you are lucky enough to live in the country, is the sound of traffic, sirens and the hum of electricity.  The sound produced by crystal bowls is a very high vibrational sound and the human body will entrain with it quickly and easily.  If it is perfect pitch, then each aspect of the body that is "out of tune" with dis-ease will entrain with the sound, raising the vibration to match the perfect pitch.  That is where the healing takes place.

I have witnessed amazing healing with the crystal bowls.  However, what I witness most often is people being "lifted", deeply relaxed and with a heightened sense of well-being.  Most people look younger, eyes look clearer and they feel as though they have just had an extraordinary experience.

One hour CD/three tracks

About the CD:

My CD is 60 minutes long and is in three tracks,  the first two are bowls only and the last one is me chanting with the bowls.  The playing of the bowls and the chanting was totally intuitive and Spirit guided.  Part of my training with sound was to learn to be a "hollow tube" and be able to set my mental process aside and simply allow Spirit to take over.  I a very pleased with the result.  I was also blessed to be able to record this CD in a professional studio with state-of-the-art equipment.  The quality of the CD is very good.

This CD has been used by numerous massage therapists and has also been used by several midwifes as background to the birthing process.  Babies have come into the world hearing MY CRYSTAL BOWLS!!!!! It totally makes me humble and happy.

The bowls are set up in my home.  The room that use to be the dining room is now all bowls and other sound instruments.  I do take appointments for private sound sessions and also do meditational events with the bowls.  Sometimes, I have events in my home with groups of people ,or, I take them to other locations.  Although, I  can't take all 18 bowls since some of them are just to big and heavy for me to transport.  Yoga studios are one of my favorite places for me to play.  I love the sound going through the wood floors and moving through such a " sound-live" spaces.

If you are interested in booking a session or attending an event, contact me a margaret@margaretjoyceart.com

Blessings of Light, Love and Laughter

Margaret Joyce

Grandmother Crystal Heart

Adventures in Fiber

I have said previously that my primary goal is to be in balance within myself  and with the world around me, and for me, listening to Spirit and working with my hands keeps me in balance.  I am so happy when I am creating something that is three dimensional that I can actually hold in my hand.  Color and texture are inspirational and what can be created is only limited by imagination.

How it started:

Several years ago I encountered needle felting for the first time.  If you are not familiar with needle felting (lots of people are not),  needle felting is a process of interlocking wool fibers with a long, very sharp, barbed needle.  For this process you use short fiber wool roving as in wool that has been washed, possibly dyed and carded but not spun into yarn.  The wool is in a soft billowy state.  As you run the felting needle through the wool, the fibers catch on the barbs and the fibers start interlocking making the wool tighter and firmer.  This process can be used several ways.  You can do a flat piece like a wall hanging, embellish clothing or actually create a three dimensional fiber sculpture.  I am creating sculptures with a single needle and wool roving.

How the craft takes over:

Working with the fiber to create original dolls, animals and fantasy creations have become a passion for me.  I now work on eggs during the day in the studio and work on felting in the evening in our "media room"  (my son's old bedroom).  The "media room) has now become my needle felting studio and is packed with stacks of plastic tubs holding the massive amount of wool that I have collected.  Wool is dyed in many wonderful colors and combinations of colors and I just keep adding to the collection......because you never know when you will need that exact color.  I have thought about dying my own, but so much of our house/studio is dedicated to art, there just isn't any room to add another process.

I have found some wonderful suppliers who have everything you could possibly want in the way of roving.  My tow favorites are Living Felt and Opulent Fibers, although I often peruse through suppliers on Easy as well.  There are some wonderful things out there.
 
As with all the things that I create, I approach needle felting with the same intention and connection to Spirit.  Some of my little Goddess figures even contain a packet similar to what goes into the eggs.I put all the "medicines" onto a piece of roving, felt it into a little oval shape and then felt the figure around that.  There are bigger figures that are suitable  for putting on an altar, or to be used as a talking stick at a women's circle.  "Please Pass the Goddess".  There are also little goddess figures that I call "Pocket Goddess"  that hold prayers, come in a little silk bag with a certificate listing what is inside.  It's a sweet gift.                   Pacha Mama-Earth Mother..............

All my figures, animals land dolls are original, one of a kind, fiber sculptures.  The designs are totally my own creations.  Lately I have had a passion for creating Dragons and have been working on an Elemental series.  So far I have done Earth, Fire and Water Dragons and still have Air Dragon to do.  It has been a challenge figuring out how to create them and the Air Dragon is the biggest challenge yet.  So watch for the Air Dragon to be coming soon..........Fingers Crossed!!!!!
Here's the Fire Dragon.

One of the most recent dragons was created while at Oregon Country Fair.  The wool was purchased there from a vendor at the fair.  I like to sit and work on a project while people go by.  Such interesting conversations from all sorts of people.  Little kids like to watch and hope that you might give it to them, grown men stopped because they were intrigued by the stabbing motion of the needle and fellow crafter/artists stopped just to visit and investigate a new
craft.  Lots of Waldorf folks (Waldorf schools teach felting) pointed out the needle felting to their kids, hopefully, to give them inspiration.  It was fun and the dragon turned out well.  I gave him a crystal point to hold.  He is pictured at the beginning of this blog.


The Adventure Expands:

After needle felting for a couple years, I started to experiment with wet felting.  Wet felting is a process that interlocks fibers using soapy water and agitation.  Learning this process has enabled me to expand what I am able to create.  Some of the dragons have wet felted wings and some of the doll's clothing is at least partially wet felted.  Lately, I have been creating felted fascinators, hats and headbands.  Take a peek at a couple fascinators........     Yummy!













That's it for now.
Love Light and Laughter to All
Margaret Joyce

It's All About The Eggs

I strive to be in balance within myself and with everything in my world.  (All That Is) that is my primary goal, and, I believe that is my primary purpose as well.  For if I am in balance, then that which is around me has the opportunity to be in balance as well.  For me, listening to Spirit, creating things with my hands and expressing myself through sound, keep me in balance.

The things that I create go in many directions, from fine art, jewelry, working with glass, to felting and, of course, the eggs!  My favorite quote is:  "The important thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer"  Henri Matisse.  I use that quote often and it is a sentiment that I firmly believe.  For many years now, I have been creating art with a spiritual theme that is imbued with prayer and intention.

Duck egg with Amethyst cluster

How I started making eggs:

Eight years or so ago I started experimenting with decorating eggs.  I had been inspired by an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum that featured some Faberge eggs from the Hess family collection.  The gift shop was festooned with hanging egg ornaments that attracted my attention.  The eggs were lightweight glass ornaments that had been hand painted in China and were VERY expensive.  On closer inspection I realized that they were very crudely painted and in the words of crafters everywhere.....I said "I can do better than this".  The first eggs were pretty, ornamental and a little bit Easter-like.  The eggs were blown, sanded, then painted with flowers and lattice designs in pastel colors with a pretty ribbon loop on the top to hang it with.  I was pretty pleased with myself and with the results.

My daughter came for a visit shortly after I started my exploration with decorative eggs and I proudly showed her what I was doing.  She liked them but said...."Mom, you've got to crack them".....Hmmmmmmmmmmm.  How do you make a decorative egg and then crack it?  So more experimentation with so-so results and then...one day I picked up a Drummel tool and drilled a big opening in the front of the egg.  Revelation!!! The egg was a vessel that could contain anything.  At that point Spirit was definitely guiding the process.  For years now it has been "all about the eggs".  The final result is an egg that looks like it is in the process of hatching jewelry.  I like to think it is a metaphor for breaking through the shell or barriers around us in order for the light and beauty within us to shine out.

Duck egg with Tangerine Quartz

So, for the last 8 years I have been producing what I call "Goddess Eggs".  I try and use eggs from organic free range birds,  but some of the eggs come from sources that I have no idea, like ostrich and quail eggs.  But the duck, goose and chicken eggs are all locally sourced and I am sure they come from happy birds.  I even have a source for some exotic eggs like pheasant, and peahen (peacock) from a friend who raises them.


 Most of the shells I use start out as fresh eggs that must be blown, cleaned, sanded and then painted.  The eggs are then put together in a "Medicine way" as a sacred object.  this means that they are smudged and every step of their creation is done with prayer and intention.  I even sing into them and to them as I work on them.  It is a very meditational practice.

What goes into an egg:

I constantly collect things to go into the eggs and have been gifted often by people who give me things for the eggs.  Things that range from items collected from sacred sites all over the world, healing or blessed water and totem energies.  At this point I have a huge inventory of "energies" for the eggs.

All the eggs the following:  Lavender for sweetness (bridal lavender), rose petals of beauty (valentine roses), white copal for protection, purification, consecration and frankincense & myrrh for spirituality.  A piece of corn for creativity (Green Corn Ceremony), mustard seed for faith, snake skin for transformation and heron medicine for balance and ability to see through illusion.  A piece of Magnetite stone for grounding and integration of subtle energies.  After that, each egg receives an affirmation, something special at the very center and finally, a prayer, in the form of a tobacco prayer. At this point the egg is sealed and set with gemstones or crystals (sometimes both) and rhinestones.

Each egg is given a number and a certificate.  The certificate lists all the energies that went into the egg and the final prayer.  The egg is a vessel of creation.  A promise from the divine creative source that life continues with all its diversity, abundance and beauty.  Each egg holds prayers of health, balance, peace, love, prosperity and transformation.  It holds a vibration that is intended to facilitate connection to your highest expression of self.  Each one is unique inside and out and is just waiting for the right person to claim it.  It is fun to see where they go and who is drawn to specific ones.

The egg as a vessel
Custom Eggs:

Many times during the last eight years I have been asked to create eggs for special occasions.  Sometimes as a gift for someone's wedding, a new baby, to mark a significant event or birthday.  Many, many eggs have been created for people, especially women, to mark their 50th, 60th, or 65th birthday.  I call these "Eldership" eggs and they are a great honor to produce.  Eggs have also been used to hold ashes, pet and people.  I have created memory eggs, containing baby teeth, locks of hair, pictures and many other little memory mementos all sealed up in a beautiful bejeweled egg.  If a custom egg is something you might be interested in, please contact me at margaretjoyce@me.com

Guinea egg with Peridot

Some custom eggs are ordered by people for themselves.  The process for a custom egg is a little different.  I do a series of readings and then create the egg according to the information I receive.  These eggs, and the regular eggs that I do, are all intended to be tools for transformation.  Through the years I have come to trust the process as I have so many affirmations of their effect.  It's Earth Magic!

If a custom egg is something you might be interested in, please contact me at margaretjoyce@me.com

The some eggs are available on ETSY.. and...Drumroll please.........my NEW WEBSITE  IS COMING!!!  It will have the eggs and all my other art too.   It is almost done and ready to go.

If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, they are available at Celestial Awakenings, 7831 S. E. Stark
If you are in the Sebastopol, California area, they will soon be  (again)at Milk and Honey on Main St.

Blessings of Light, Love and Laughter
Margaret Joyce
Grandmother Crystal Heart

Goose egg with Fluorite

Goose egg with American Turquoise

Goose egg with Pink Tourmaline

Goose Egg with Lapis Lazuli

Goose egg with Charoite