The point, you ask?  I found some help in the form of an inexpensive little capsule made by Biochem called DHEA Complex for Women.  I didn’t take it for the migraine help and only realized last night that the headache that had greeted me when I woke and which had persisted past dinner, was gone.  The only thing I did was take the DHEA after my meal.  Aha!!  A wonderful discovery!

I make no money from this recommendation and am just passing along a good thing that might work for you too.  Go get it here, a reasonably priced online supplement retailer, Vitacost: http://www.vitacost.com/Country-Life-DHEA-Complex-For-Women

Enjoy!

Debra

Another agency that does similar work probably on an even larger scale is the International Justice Mission Please check them out too and see if maybe you can provide help in whatever way you feel is right for you.  Thanks.

I have owned a juicer for about, um, wow! 19 years and love to make green veggie and fruit drinks. Said juicer has several drawbacks as you might expect from an almost antique appliance. It does nothing with the peels and pulp and spits out various parts as it pleases from the loading chute, which makes for a lot of clean up. The end product, however, is pretty good.

I need to do some research into a better model that utilizes the pulp and doesn’t decorate my kitchen in multi-colored splatter. I’ll post my results and some options here when I have them.

Juicing is just part of a raw foodists regime, I now know; the rest involves much more research and creativity. The benefits are understandably immense in health recovery, future illness prevention and weight loss and some even say the weight loss is painless. Hmmm, we’ll see about that. Raw foodists apparently call weight loss, releasing weight and I like that because it does seem that until we choose to take action to release it, we do in effect hold onto it. The psychology of that is someone else’s area to investigate.

Well, more on this subject as the story unfolds. For now, I’m only juicing for breakfast and adding raw almonds as a snack, instead of who knows what.

I have to give credit to my daughter for renewing this interest and making me hunt down the delinquent juicer. She recently adopted a vegetarian way of eating and in finding recipe variety for her, I have encountered a whole potential other way of eating.

On a crafty note, I am elbow deep in creating a more elaborate than normal card for dd which involves no paper or card stock.

One thing I realized is that those who are successful at living a crafty life have multiple streams of creative income:  selling work in various online and off venues, teaching, marketing their “how-to” products, testing and recommending (or not) new products and resources, representing craft manufacturing companies and travelling to train or support their wholesale customers and many more, I’m sure.  

We’ll get more into that issue later.  First of all, before even attempting a lifestyle change, forget everything you’ve been told about art or crafts being just a hobby and you can’t make money from playing.  Over and over, established artists talked of being creatively blocked by well-meaning family and friends early in their lives.  That’s the standard thinking, right?  Well, don’t believe it. Perseverance and passion for your work can make things happen. Now, I’m not saying you’ll be able to buy an island and live the life of a multi-millionaire, but that’s not the point, it is simply to have the time and funds to create, while living decently, whatever that means to you.

The other thing to get over is the “but is it art” thinking.  Please, have you seen some of the work labelled as art in the well-funded arena of public art? If it comes from your heart, from your spirit, expresses something, then it is art and will be appreciated by someone.   Don’t let people (family and friends primarily) demean your work choice, especially those who don’t have a similar creative spirit.

While learning new thinking, I discovered several new to me art forms.  As a victim of art/craft ADD, that too is not unusual.  I mean no offense to those who live with the daily challenge of ADD, but simply, I have trouble settling on one form and frequently jump from one to another and back again.  I guess that indicates I haven’t found my heart niche, though the one craft I always return to is bead embroidery.  

Fused glass bead embroidery pendant

We’ll talk more about the others next time.  Meanwhile, here’s a good article on the 6 steps of change that came to me today from womem to women.  

http://www.womentowomen.com/womenshealth/howtomakelifechanges.aspx