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I make all the amulets custom, to your order.

If you help me spread the Blessings, and you give everything away, you’ll soon be unable to continue, unless you have an independent and unlimited source of income.

If you’re not in that particular boat, you’ll quickly understand the need for some sort of income that you can either earn without participating at all except to cash the check, or something that in itself earns some sort of income or at the very least, pays for itself.

I’m in that last category. I don’t need to make a profit, but I do need to cover my costs, so I can continue doing what I’m doing, which is sending out Blessings in a variety of guises, to everyone I know.

Hopefully, you’ll catch the spirit of the thing, and start helping me find homes for my various Blessings items, including pendants, lockets, rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, armbands, tiaras, money clips, tie tacks, treasure boxes, mala beads, Orbs, Godd™ Particles, craft kits, and so much more. Continue reading

What is a Healing Mandala?

Selfie at Atlantis Central Zoo & Observatory, 2016.
Selfie at Atlantis Central Zoo & Observatory, Friday, July 8, 2016, 3:46 A.M.

Before I discuss the Healing Mandala, I’d like to point out that, if you’re planning on entering the spiritual game-field of metal embossing sigils, talismans, pendants, rings, pins, headbands, belts, bolo ties and pocket medallions, you will definitely appreciate knowing the following little factoid:

The 24k solid gold disk at 1.4 grams — which is the ideal weight for the small piece, to allow a reasonable retail price-point — when hammered out with a bit of body still left on it, won’t typically fit on the pin-vise without serious compensation and special mountings.

It’s a total pain in the bazonga to try to carve, even if you do manage somehow to put it into a metal harness, because the retaining pins will block your engraving tool and your fingers, making it nearly impossible to complete any cut into the top surface.

However, a 24k solid gold FOIL disk, which is rolled out, not hammered out, can be easily embossed without mounting on a vise — no vise needed for the foil, and the foil could well be an aluminum craft foil, or solid gold foil. Use your fingers to hold onto it.

Your embossing tool can be controlled with one hand, while the engraving tool simply can’t be. You need your other hand to stop the forward movement of the tool, and to guide it onto the target curve or line or gouge.

Funny thing is, once the gold foil or heavier gold slab is inside the bezel and the protective quartz-glass crystals are in place, you can’t tell whether it’s foil or a thicker beaten-out gold disk. Unless you take the locket apart, the foil gold and the heavier “token” weight gold disk, when viewed inside the locket, look exactly the same. Continue reading