kinda excited!

I've been wanting to open a "new age/spiritual" store for a while now. It's something that has been bubbling since Shakti closed her store in SJ as it was the only one in basically all of NB! :(

Anyway, I have been attending a tarot group being held at a friend's house once a month, which has been steadily growing through word of mouth. That's the good thing! The bad thing is that tarot decks and tools ingeneral are not easy to come by in SJ!

I went to coles (we have 3 of them in town - no other book stores though to choose from) and they only had 1 tarot deck available for purchase on site and it was a japanese anime deck. I'm not by any means an anime fan, but I also HATED the fact that there was only ONE option out there to anyone who might be interested - even remotely - in finding a tarot deck, using a tarot deck or adding to their collection of tarot decks, which basically was the impetus needed to get me working a bit more on making good and unique tools available in the area.

I have brought in 8 decks to date and I have 3 more waiting to come in. I have sold 2 so far at $20 each.

I want to see the decks at $20 each and I also have italian charms for pagans, wiccans and spiritualists available for $5 or $10 depending on the size (I have some MEGA charms which can have 2 charms stacked - very cool!

I have also brought in some stone to sell - some loose stones for $1 each and a couple of gemstone balls and a nice quartz crystal cluster.

I have to finish making some tarot bag/treasure bags and start stock piling some spirit bells and I'll be ready to roll it out.

I'm hoping to get in to a spring craft show - once I find one I want to go to as Rhoda's is just a junky flea market :(

And I had a suggestion to go to the Kingston farmers market as well, which I think I just might do.

I'm rather excited - I want people to have the ability to choose some nice, quality tools for themselves. If I can make money as well, even better.

I can totally see what vanessa meant when she was opening up her store in Hfx - that she wanted to be able to make money, but didn't want to make too much or seem like she was making money off of spirit. It's a bit of a fine line indeed.

I guess we'll see if there is any interest or need to fill in this area here in SJ by the end of the summer. If there is, I can see this continuing. If there isn't, then I've got a few nice decks to add to my collection, as well as some nice stones and jewelry too! :)