Category Archives: Prayers & Practices

Personal, Meaningful, and Made by Hand: Custom Rosaries & Prayer Beads

Did you know that a custom rosary usually costs about the same as the ones listed in my shop? It’s true — a custom rosary or set of prayer beads is surprisingly affordable. Over the years, I’ve refined my pricing so I can offer something personal and beautifully made, using high-quality materials, while keeping itContinueContinue reading “Personal, Meaningful, and Made by Hand: Custom Rosaries & Prayer Beads”

The Spirit in the Sweetness: Honey as Sacred Symbol

It’s harvest time in many parts of the world. A time to savor the bounty of nature as days get a bit shorter and cooler. We begin to draw inward, slow down and prepare for winter. The call from Our Lady of Bees this season has me contemplating these threads of honey’s symbolism. Honey asContinueContinue reading “The Spirit in the Sweetness: Honey as Sacred Symbol”

Our Lady of the Bees: An Invitation to Community, Care & Joy

The world is so nuts and the last 6 months in the US – crazy town. I’ve felt every flavor of flight, fight, and freeze, sometimes cycling through them all in a single day. I ask myself “what can I do?” “is it enough?” over and over. If like me, you often feel helpless inContinueContinue reading “Our Lady of the Bees: An Invitation to Community, Care & Joy”

Further Inspiration & Evolution

This new year I’ve felt inspired to update/uproot/upgrade many small things. It’s felt quite organic in that I’m seeing more opportunities to re-tune to what is needed and align myself closer to Her. And it’s felt quite natural and easy to do so. With that, my blessing ceremony has evolved and I’ve re-written lots ofContinueContinue reading “Further Inspiration & Evolution”

Aloha Maui Meditation & Prayer Strands

🌴 One month ago today, my beautiful island suffered major wildfires, leaving our community reeling from the losses. I created these bead strands to represent the hope, resiliency and beauty of Maui and it’s people. 100% of the profits will be donated to support the healing of the community. 🐚 $44 was chosen because 4ContinueContinue reading “Aloha Maui Meditation & Prayer Strands”

Mental Health Prayer Poetry & Bees

I love including bee symbols in my co-creations. Bees are rich in symbology and, to me, have always represented the sun and happiness. These tiny creatures are vital to our survival, keeping our ecosystem balanced. They are regarded as a positive omen in nearly all indigenous cultures. I have re-designed one of my most popularContinueContinue reading “Mental Health Prayer Poetry & Bees”

Ancestor Hoops: Using Beads for Ancestor Work

I am super excited to finally be able to share this!!! Many are called to ancestor work when needing guidance, support, healing, or connection. I get the sense that they want to reach us as well. Unless you come from a culture with specific practices around ancestors, you might feel called to connect with themContinueContinue reading “Ancestor Hoops: Using Beads for Ancestor Work”

Self Compassion Meditation and Prayer Beads

The world has been extra crazy these last couple of years. How we navigate it can be expanded and made more bearable with a self compassion practice. I created these beads for just that. The beads chosen correlate to 5 ways to engage with compassion for yourself and then extend it out toward others. YouContinueContinue reading “Self Compassion Meditation and Prayer Beads”

Free Range Rosaries Origin Story

One year ago today I sold my first Free Range Rosary on Etsy. This was my first official sale and it just so happens that the same person who purchased it, just bought another one of my creations yesterday. I’m still unclear on whether it’s freerange or free range or free-range but that hasn’t stoppedContinueContinue reading “Free Range Rosaries Origin Story”

What is a Free Range Rosary?

I started making rosaries a little over a year ago. I had started praying the rosary again last year out of need, desperation really and I came to make rosaries out of a need to create love out of misery; to walk a spiral around the difficulties of the worst time in my life, spreadingContinueContinue reading “What is a Free Range Rosary?”

Hail Mary: A Cathlo-Buddhist Mashup

I wrote this prayer about 10 years ago. It’s a mashup of the Hail Mary and the Buddhist Metta (Loving kindness) mantra. I was inspired to write it in part to quell my Catholic Mom’s worries that I’d become a heathen (anything not Catholic in her view). Also, I was longing to connect with GreatContinueContinue reading “Hail Mary: A Cathlo-Buddhist Mashup”

Rosaries For Rebels: Non Churchy Ways to Use the Beads

This article is by my dear friend and podcast co-host Cyndera Quakenbush. It was originally published here on Your Tango. Check out her work with Story Through Stone. If you’re anything like me and about 23% of all Americans, you are not affiliated with any religion. What cannot be captured in a poll, however, areContinueContinue reading “Rosaries For Rebels: Non Churchy Ways to Use the Beads”

Our Art of Heaven Hallowed Be a New Prayer

This summer I found a beautiful translation of the Our Father prayer and shared it with my Rosary Circle. We soon adopted it into our rosary practice, using it for the first Pater (Our Father) bead. This translation is from the original Aramaic and was done by Neil Douglas-Klotz, who is a religious studies, spirituality,ContinueContinue reading “Our Art of Heaven Hallowed Be a New Prayer”