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Christmas and hope!
Well we are near that time of year when love, hope, family and friends seem to take on a brighter more important light and that lovely cosy feeling of Christmas and giving makes us all excited and happier for a while.
It can I know also be a lonely time for some and a reminder of those no longer with us. It is a time I always miss my Mum as we would plan Christmas presents and food for weeks before, talking and laughing on the phone nearly every day!
The summer passed so quickly time seems to go faster every year I think it could be because as we age there is this feeling of time running out and we still have so much to do!! I do not think this year has been easy for any of us with all the problems with the economy, jobs losses and fear of them but if we are still here and coping somehow then we have done well and I am sure we are stronger for it. So congratulations to all we have nearly completed another year of our journey and are hopefully wiser for it!!
Pictures are Ametrine, Fluorite, Pink fluorite, North Devon where we had a lovely break in the summer and Lindon and Mathew setting up for a show!
A quote of course!! “He who never fails will never grow rich”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am wondering how many failures before the riches though!!
If I do not write again before Christmas I wish you all a very very happy and peaceful one.
Love and smiles
Hilary
Spring time
Hi all, hope everyone is well and enjoying the first signs of spring. I love it, the sun is shining today and the birds are very noisy and so busy!!
I have closed the ebay shop for 10 days to have a break the site shop is still open though. They closed our post office in January which means a 2 mile round walk to the main one so although I may be getting fitter it is taking a large part of the day up and I have found it difficult to keep up with orders for jewellery, writing new crystals and creating new ideas!
So I will probably close ebay once every so often just to catch up!!
I have made a facebook page for colour power crystals link below so please add it to your favourites if you are on facebook or you can join if you are not! I will be putting offers on there that will not be anywhere else and hopefully lots of you will add tips and info to the wall as I will try to do each week. Of course I shall come up with some quotes to!!
“Miracles happen to those that believe in them”
Bernhard Berenson
“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth”
Chinese proverb
Pictures are of some views Lindon took while on a walk when he and Mathew went to visit Ben
and an aquamarine and aqua aura necklace and one of the new money toads we have just got in.
Wishing you all a wonderful spring time
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary
Christmas and 2009
I hope everyone had a lovely restful Christmas with family and friends. We enjoyed the break and extra sleep but I am glad it is passed now as I do not think I could eat anymore rich food for some time to come!!
We would like to thank all who supported us in 2008, our regular customers both online and at local shows and markets and all our new customers. We had a very successful year thanks to you all and we achieved all the goals we set for 2008 which is wonderful.
Next year is a numerology universal year two and the colour association is orange. I do feel that we may need the positive energy and lessons this year brings. “Two” years are all about cooperation and relationships. About enjoying life with all its ups and downs and keeping optimistic, hopeful and helpful. I think we will all need to pull together and support each other this year as it is clearly not going to be an easy one. I am sure that all of us are up to the challenges whatever they may be and will come out of this year stronger and more able then ever. Completely ready for the bright sunny energy of year three in the universal cycle!!
I will definitely be carrying a carnelian with me all year to help me stay motivated and optimistically happy! You can check out your personal year number and colour on our info site www.colourpower.co.uk
Pictures are the orange set of colour healing crystals we do, a beautiful amethyst rabbit, a carnelian dolphin, a rare Bustimite and Sugilite and a lovely carnelian frog.
So all that remains is the inevitable quotes which definitely need to be inspiring for 2009
“Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past”
Anon
“Life’s greatest riches have nothing to do with money”
Anon
So if we all stay in the day and appreciate all the riches we have we will find it so much easier to just go with the flow of whatever 2009 brings our way!!
Wishing you all a wonderful, happy and magical New Year!
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary & Lindon
Christmas, Crystals & Shows
COLOUR POWER
Hi all, hope you are getting in the mood for Christmas although with all this doom and gloom around it is not so easy. I am sure however that we can all raise the vibration and stay positive by being grateful for what we have. What I always remember is what we focus on grows I just wish the media would remember that as well! So I am going to focus on being healthy, wealthy and wise as that old saying goes just not so sure about the early to bed and early to rise bit!!
Nicky has kindly asked us to run a stall again at their Holistic evening at Rectory Cottages in Bletchley so we will be back there on the 29th November from 6.30pm until 10.00pm. Lots of healing Reiki to distress before the December rush so I hope you will all come and visit. The last one was a great success so we are looking forward to this.
The address is Church Green Road, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BJ
We have changed colours on all the sites so please do not think you are on the wrong site!
They are now all purple and green and I love it so I hope you do to.
I have at last got the life path sets up in the shop. They have been very popular at the shows we have done so do have a look. Lots of you will know your life path number from doing our workshops but for others how to work it out is on both the info site and the shop now. I have also added the name personality info to the shop and Lee will be adding it to the info site with pictures soon. We have a new Magical Christmas bag of crystals in the shops this week so do have a look they will make great gifts.
Hope to see you all soon
A quote of course!
“Things are beautiful if you love them”
Jean Anouith
Love smiles and blessings
Hilary
Crystals and shows
COLOUR POWER
Hi everyone, hope you are well and enjoying the sun! I can not believe I have not written on here for so long! We have as usual been very busy although not so much so on ebay. They have changed the search engine to “best match” and it is now very difficult to find anything at all! Multiple listings are all given preference and we can no longer list anything under 99p so if you want a few different tumblestones you will need to visit the website now. It also means that unless you change your search to “ending soonest” in the drop down box at the top of the page which says “sort by” you are unlikely to see many one off crystals to buy now as the first few pages will all be multiple listings that have sales so the whole thing is rather boring if you just want to browse for that special crystal.
If you choose to opt out of this lovely new search engine experience do be aware that you will not see ANY new buy it now listings from any shops at all!!
Our website shop on the other hand is getting busier every day so thank you to all who have bought from us since it went live and for all the feedback we have received. I love our shop and it seems so do lots of you I am very grateful for all the magical e mails we have received. We have new discount codes for each month in the run up to Christmas so if you have not received yours please do mail me.
We will be at a Holistic Fayre at Rectory Cottages in Bletchley this Sunday 19th from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm for any of you wanting to visit it would be lovely to see you. The address is
We have had lots of visits over the last week which Sammy and I love so keep coming! The kettle is always on. We all need to keep very positive with all that is going on at the moment to try to raise the doom and gloom vibe!
Quotes of course
“The English word crisis is translated by the Chinese by 2 little characters; one means “danger” and the other “opportunity” Anon
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship” Louisa May Alcott
So I am sailing through the storm to opportunity and learning lots on the way, how about you?!!!
The pictures are all new stock which I will add to the website soon. A Kyanite necklace, a Lepidolite angel, new Sagittarius necklaces, Sardonyx and some new power animal jewellery I am making so watch out for it!
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary
colour power crystals new website shop
COLOUR POWER
Below is the e mail sent out today to all of you I hope! Yahoo was playing up this morning so if you have not received yours with your discount code for your first order please let me know and I will resend it. Anyone else who would like to have a discount code for ordering please do fill out the contact form or mail me and I will send you one
Hi all hope everyone is having a good month so far.
We have finally got the web shop live hurrah!! So please do have a look and let me know what you think. www.colourpowercrystals.co.uk
There are now links through to the shop on the info website as well
I will be adding stock everyday at the moment so do keep checking back
We have some new colour sets and magic candles great for colour healing and spells!
I will eventually get all the tumblestones up but if there are any you want that I have not done yet let me know.
This has been yet another learning curve for me and I would like to thank Lee and Trudy for their patience with me!
I hope you like our new shop and please do send feedback as to how easy you find it to use etc
Thank you to you all for supporting us yet again in a new venture.
Pictures are some of the new sets and a lovely jasper rat.
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary
Being Positive
Hi all, hope you had a great weekend we certainly did. I had forgotten what fun festivals can be even in bad weather! We nearly blew away on Saturday and nearly drowned on Sunday but you all still came and we had a brilliant time meeting lots of new people and seeing some of our regular loyal customers. Thank you to all who visited our stall we will definitely be there next year. Thank you also to everyone who ran MK4U especially Hattie it was one of the best organised and friendly festivals we have been to. We saw and heard some very talented young artists during each day and the whole weekend was a very positive experience.
Pictures are of our stall just being set up on Sunday before everyone arrived. Lindon of course chatting as usual!
With all the doom and gloom in the media I think it is time to get positive and realise that all of us can and will succeed at whatever we put our minds to as long as we learn to adapt and change with grace!
I have been so busy with the ebay shop over the last year I had forgotten there is life outside ebay and it is lots of fun so I am going to organise some new workshops more crystal healing based later in the year for all who have asked me to. I am going to call them the positive crystal and colour experience! Let me know what you think and what you would like included before I start writing them next month.
Well back to the website and stocking it. You will get a mail next week with your discount codes.
Of course a quote or 2. I can not believe I forgot last time!!
If we are going into a problem time as all would have us believe these 2 quotes may help to keep in mind.
“Nothing can hurt you unless you give it the power to do so”
A course in miracles
“I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary setback”
Mike Todd
See you all soon, stay positive!
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary
MK4U Festival
Hi all, hope everyone is enjoying the summer the last few days have been great so I am hoping the weekend will be as we are doing the MK4U festival for 2 days at
It runs from 2 til 9 pm each day so please do come along it would be wonderful to see all our regulars. It is FREE to get in!
We will have some great bargains in jewellery lines from £1.00 and of course lots of crystals! If you wish me to bring anything in particular please phone me or mail numbers etc on the site.
There is now a link on the home page to our new ebid shop so do take a look and hopefully next week I will be able to send you all the link to the new website shop as it is all finished now just trying to find time to get it stocked up and sort postage etc. Lee will be revamping the home page so there is an easy link through to the shop.
Everyone on our subscription list will be getting a discount voucher for your first order from the new shop so if you have not filled out the contact form then now is the time to do it!
We are running down our listings on ebay as the new search engine they have brought in and the other changes are making it very difficult to trade on there now. You can not find anything!! I hope this will change in the future but for now it is just not proving to be a viable venue for us. We will still keep the shop open though just not so many items for the moment. So if you cannot find what you want on there please mail me or look on the website when it is live.
Photos are a lovely piece of blue john fluorite, a couple of pendants and the new colour healing magic spell candles we have just got in. There are 12 colours in boxes of 12. They are on ebid if you want some and I will have them with me at the weekend as well as the crystal tarot cards which I know some of you have been waiting for me to get in and they have finally arrived.
I hope to see lots of you this weekend in the sunshine!!
Love, smiles and blessings
Hilary
Ebay changes, Ebid and Website
“A CHILD IS NOT A VASE TO BE FILLED BUT A FIRE TO BE LIT”
Francois Rabelais c1494 – c1553: attributed
Hi all, I have found the last few weeks on ebay very stressful and upsetting. Many sellers are being treated appallingly, being suspended and having their livelihoods just clicked out of existence. Many more are leaving as they refuse to be treated with such little respect. To run the risk of having your businesses however big or small deprecated by just a small minority of buyers is not for many worth the stress or the worry. Many buyers are now apprehensive to buy (that is if they can find what they want before giving up!) in case the seller is no longer there next week or even the next hour!! If we have to be treated like children who cannot take responsibility for our own choices then please ebay take note of the above quote do not fill us with rules instead light the fire of excellence and let us live up to this without the threat of becoming extinct.
All sellers I am sure like me are finding all the new rules and regulations along with the search engines just not working properly enormously stressful. The last straw for me this week is the removal of the link to see all matching shops on the search pages. As a buyer this has really annoyed me as I always use these to shop. As a seller I am wondering what the point of having a shop is!
“The new ebay” do not seem to understand that the original ebay was FUN that is why it worked. Yes it could be a risk buying or selling but that was part of the enjoyment of it. With user ids hidden now auctions are no fun the competitive feel has gone. The new feedback rules really debilitate the whole meaning of it. When risk is taken away so is all the fun and excitement. When we buy a lottery ticket we know the risk is we may lose our money but we may win to! The excitement is what makes it worth the risk. Great entertainment value and the gratification of winning is part of what made ebay what it is! All the new changes have had an enormous impact on moral and you can feel this wherever you go in the site. I only hope there is a silver lining somewhere for us all to find and I wish that it becomes apparent soon.
Due to all this we have now opened an ebid shop (link to left) so please do have a look. I registered with them a long time ago and never got around to opening a shop but as I no longer do auctions on ebay I wanted to find somewhere to do some, so Lee sorted out our new shop “ crystal power” on ebid for me. It is a really friendly site and easy to use once you get the hang of it and it is easy to find things a big plus!! For me it is a lot easier to list and the fees are way less. For you that means cheaper crystals!! I am stocking it at the moment and will start to run auctions this week so do check it out.
The long awaited website shop should be up in a couple of weeks and I will let you know here as soon as it is and mail all of you on our website subscription list as well.
I had thought perhaps a couple of open days in September may be good any thoughts on this would be great. We are doing a few festivals and markets in the next few months locally and I will add them here as they come up. We also have some parties booked so if you would like to have a magical crystal and colour party please do contact me.
As always anyone is welcome to call in. Just phone first though to give me some idea of what you are looking for and to check we are in of course!
Pictures are a beautiful blue fluorite sphere, Sammy when he looks neat! A tanzine aura tumblestone, me and Sammy in the snow to remind us all it really is not that cold for June!! And a lovely Amethyst point.
Hope to see you all soon
Love and smiles
Hilary
Copyright © Hilary Ottaway 2008
Sunshine, Crystals and Beads
Grow quietly with peace in mind
If you fell down yesterday stand up today
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Hi all, I love the sunshine and somehow it always makes everything easier doesn’t it.
We have had as usual a busy month with lots of visitors and none of you seem to mind all the mess of hundreds of crystals everywhere!! I have been trying to sort all our stock out and given up now there is just too much!! I have also started to write again so hopefully I might get nearer to finishing that elusive book!! The site shop is a bit nearer to actually happening and I will let you all know when that is finally going up.
I have at last started to put up the beads in the ebay shop I am sorry to all who have been waiting for this. As some of you who visit us know we have hundreds of beads and I will try to list a few new ones each week but please mail me if you are looking for any as it is highly likely I have some. The same goes for any crystals we have so many that I have not had time to write up and therefore have not listed yet.
The quote at the top is one I often remind myself about when it all gets to overwhelming with one challenge after another. I know we are supposed to attract our challenges to help us to learn what we came here to learn but sometimes I wander if I came here to learn to much!! My Mum always said that we are never given more then we can cope with in one day and she is right I never have been. It is our minds that take us to the past or future and make the present seem impossible! I do try to stay in the day as much as possible but have yet to manage a whole day without drifting off to yesterday or tomorrow!
Pictures are of the woods near us. Lindon and I and Sammy went for a wonderful long walk last Sunday it was beautiful I love all the bluebells and primroses at this time of year. It is so uplifting to see everything so green and new.
You can just see Sammy in amongst the bluebells in the second from bottom picture!
As always anyone is welcome to call in. Just phone first though to give me some idea of what you are looking for and to check we are in of course! Although we are not having open days at the moment we are still doing parties so you can have your own open day!
Hope to see lots of you this month it is always a welcome break for Sammy and me.
Love and smiles
Hilary
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