Be Fabulous

 

Happy Monday, my friends. Remember this is your life. Be fabulous whenever you want to. Don't wait to wear those new clothes and shoes. The more that you are who you are supposed to be, it encourages people to be more themselves! Your life can become fun. Be the unique person you are. Delve into your passions and embrace your eccentric sides.  I say all of this because this is what I do.  I am happier being myself regardless of whether people get me or not. 

Lola Jenkins

 One of my favorite shows I love to watch is Sewing with Nancy on create tv. I saw an interview with this creative sistah ,who does beautiful quilts, named Lola Jenkins. I love watching sewing and quilting shows. I learned how to sew at Howard University for my minor in drama. I always said I was going to get a sewing machine and sew again. My auntie Lorrie, loved to crochet, so she taught me basic crochet stiches. I have a simple knowledge how to do both; I feel that is why I find these kind of textile arts shows relaxing to watch.

Lola's quilting is beautiful; They are alive,colorful and inspiring.

This is the video I saw today with Lola and Nancy. It is about five minutes long, I hope you all enjoy it.

Manifest Monday : Magnetizing people to you...

This is one of my top five spirtual books. I have read this numerous times. Everytime I come back to it, I learn something new. I saw this gem and wanted to share it with all of you. 

 

Creating Money by Sanaya Roman and Duane Parker is a treasure of a book. You can always find a copy of the book on eBay for a reasonable price. If you try it out this exercise, let me know your results.  I have used a slightly modified version for myself successfully. I like to adapt certain exercises or meditations to fit me better. 

Happy Manifest Monday, my friends. 

Sunday Success

Happy Sunday, my friends.  Sunday is full of bright energy just like the day star it's named after. I decided to share all my rates below with all of you for an intuitive reading. To book a reading with me you can go to my website michelleofdreams.weebly.com. If you have your own business,  please let me know in the comments below.  I like to support other business owners. 

 

Spring is Spring

Happy Friday, my friends. I know it doesn't feel like Spring. With all of us in some form of lockdown, quarantine, social distancing, it is not life as usual.

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Jake will be doing remote learning starting on Monday. He also has therapies as well which will be done remotely too. I have no idea how it's going to go. I have to do my best to remain calm and stable for him. That hasn't been always easy.Fortunately, I am working on my writing and doing intuitive readings, I am able to keep my mind occupied. By nature, I do look for the positive.

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Today, look at the silver lining. What good can come from all these challenges? It may be hard to find some, I know you can do it. Flip the script. Turn lemons to lemonade.I was just on the phone with my creative partner. He was saying that now he can write with everything shut down. For me, I been loving being comfortable with Zoom now.Thinking about how I use zoom and
skype more for my intuitive business. Find the gifts in all this new normal we are in now.Wishing you all the best. Swan of Dreamers will be here to keep you with pockets of sunshine in my posts.

Happy Friday the 13th

Happy Friday the 13th. Having my very own sweet black cat is perfect for this lucky day.




I know with the threat of the Coronavirus hanging over our heads it may not feel like a lucky time. Still, we can't lose hope. We have to have faith that we ,as someone said online, as the human race will survive this global threat.




“Learn to recognize good luck when it’s waving at you, hoping to get your attention.”
– Sally Koslow

I feel luck is like when you have a great day. Where you catch the bus on time,your check comes in, your clothes feel good on you, it's a blue sky day and you feel happy to just be. That is how luck feels like to me. The more we savor those good feeling days, the more good energy we draw to us. The more luck we tap into.




I always say your life can change in a minute. So if things are bad,it can suddenly out of the blue get better. Always have hope and faith in your back pocket to pull it out when you need it.

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Here are some past inspiration for you here and here
about today. Happy Friday the 13th, my friends.

Pisces New Moon

It is a watery sweet new moon in the dreamy sign of Pisces.
New Moon's are a great time to write down your own dreams
for the upcoming weeks. How about this time write down
your most outrageous dreams? The ones that make your
heart beat fast even just thinking about it.

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Good energy poured into our dreams gives it a boost
of energy. That energy can magnetize people, events
and things that are needed to bring those dreams
to fruition. I will share one of my lavish dreams
with all of you.



I want to stay two nights at the famed Plaza Hotel.
I walk by it all the time since I live in New York.
Ideally, I spend my birthday there. That is one of
my big dreams that makes me happy and relaxed
thinking about it. Whatever your dream is take
time under the New Pisces Moon to write it down
and make baby steps to make it come true.

My Birthday Adventure

I started of my magical birthday adventure being
blessed by the bountiful Empress on my day.



I found myself in Atlantic City where I made a wish...



I followed the signs till I found my old friend:
The Unicorn, showing me that I was on the right on path.



I found the beach and continued on my way.




I was greeted by seagulls who cried Happy Birthday to me.



Happy to be alive and free on this glorious day.



I soaked in the ocean air.



Before I left Atlantic City. I said goodbye to the ocean
and the sunset. Knowing I be back again someday soon....

Manifest Monday: Give me five minutes!

Happy Manifest Monday. Today is the first Monday
of the new year and new decade!! Did you know
it is also National #ThankGoditsMonday. To celebrate
the great things about Monday. Read about it here.

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What do you want to manifest this year? Or should
I say womanifest? Either way, what do you want
to create? It is your life. Your life should
be what you want it to be, right?



Manifesting is making what is currently invisible now visible - Bashar

No action today. Just daydream, noodle, visualize, imagine. What
as Bashar says is invisible you want to make visible in your life.
Take a notebook, tablet or phone write down your dreams. Then
spend time on each one till you feel a inner tug from one of
them. Then make that your manifestation goal for this month.
Each day spend maybe five minutes on your dream. I know it's
a small amount of time. Five minutes each day adds up to 35 minutes
a week. By the end of the month that's over two hours and a half.
You can use that five minutes to do or feel something toward
your goal. Good feelings creates momentum that attracts good
energy to you. Don't sleep on having good feelings!

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Now, I am going to spend five minutes on a creative goal
I have been working on for a while. Have a great Manifest
Monday, my friends.

My Word of the Year: Commitment

Happy New Year. Happy 2020, my friends.
As always, around late November or
early December, a word begins to float around my head.
I know that word is going to be my word of the year.



Last year's word was Magic. So many amazing
events happened to me. I also embraced my own personal magic
in a bigger and new way for myself. One of the things I
am most proud of is doing youtube videos again.

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My word of the year is Commitment. I know it may
not seem as exciting as previous words: Magic, Bliss,
Romance, etc. It is a quite sober word. There is
a bit of passion in that word. Like a quiet steady
flame that keeps through all weather or circumstances.
The definition of Commitment.I found various definitions.
An agreement or pledge to something in the future.
A promise or firm decision to do something.
The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause or
activity, etc.

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All those definitions echo the same feeling. It feels
right to me as my word for 2020. Also, kicking off the
decade. I am excited to see how Commitment will bloom
and manifest in my life. I know it will be wonderful to see.
Do you have a word of the year? Please share below,
I love to hear all. If you leave a comment, please
know I will respond back to you over at your blog.
Or in another post.

Happy New Year!!

Dream Roundup: July - December

Happy Monday, my friends. Here are some of my favorite posts
from the past months. Catch up and enjoy.

Manifest Monday: Speak your desires



Mae West's birthday



Creative Notebook: Part Deux



Beauty for Friday #2 : Lipstick



Manifest Monday: Autumn or 99 days left



October 3rd



Farewell Diahann



All Hallow's Eve




Easy Tips for Empaths, Intuitives and other Sensitives...



Happy Birthday Ricardo



Somewhere in Dreamland




Manifest Monday: 22 days till Midnight




Emily Dickinson's birthday



Manifest Monday: Ride that creative wave

Manifest Monday: Ride that creative wave

Happy Manifest Monday. Can you feel the time
ticking down. It's going to be Winter on Saturday!
And Rise of Skywalker comes out Thursday night?!
I'll be seeing it on Friday.

I am sharing my favorite way to create content.
Here goes,it's real simple. Especially if you
don't have a lot of time to create. Create
when you get inspired. Here's the trick. When
the inspiration hits, create and create till
you can't anymore. Ride that creative wave!!




When I feel like that, I write, work on my monologues,
plan out goals I want to accomplish. I use that sacral chakra
energy which is from right above your belly button.
I let it all out. I get a lot done for myself.
I co wrote a screenplay with my creative partner like
that. I wrote blog posts, newsletters and other creative
writing way in advance. When I couldn't create because of other
obligations,I still had content to use.That is how I keep Swanofdreamers going
since 2008! That is how I keep all my social media accounts running.



Then when I can't create, I spend time filling myself up.
With watching movies, youtube, reading books, walking,
watching the clouds sail by, listening to music, playing with my son,
spending time with friends. I fill myself up creatively then
when I am ready I can let it flow out of me.
Fill then Flow..Fill then Flow..It may not work for
everyone. It works for me. It's simple. It may work for
you.





If you have that creative ideas you need to do. Try this
way. Leonie Dawson calls it riding the Donkey. We are
all born with creative gifts. Don't let them fester.
Let them out. This method requires no lists or planning.
Promise me, if you feel the creative wave upon you, ride
it. Let yourself be surprised on how much you can get
done in your life!

Manifest Monday: 22 days till Midnight

Happy December, my friends. It's Holiday time.
It's also Manifest Monday! See Billy Dee knows
it's time to manifest greatness in your life.



I know people like to wait till the New Year to start anew.
Why wait till January 1, 2020 to start! Start today
to plan your new life. So when 2020 comes
you will already be ahead of the game.


Here is a simple way to start. Get a fresh composition
notebook. Here is a picture of my cover of my book
of ideas.



Take the second page, if you have fear of the first
page. Now, here is the easy part. Write out your dreams.
I don't care how "silly" or "small" or "outrageous" you
think they are. Sometimes the best ideas come from
these places. Write them all out until you are tired.
Then pick one dream or goal.

Then do what the author Sark calls a "micro step".
Break down your goal into easy micro steps to do.
Here is a goal I am all too familiar with: lose
weight or as I like to call it release weight. To me
Losing weight implies that I want it it back! It can stay
gone!!



So you can start today with that goal. One of my favorite ways that
have helped me with weight loss is drinking more water. Today,
ditch all the juice, soda etc. Today drink water as much
as you can. If you feel hungry, drink water.

How about start intermittent fasting? I love doing that.
Today, how about stop eating at 6pm pr 7pm. Then tomorrow when you
wake up, stretch your fast till noon. Then eat till noon to 8pm.
You can do that.Look at that two easy ways to help release weight. You can start
today. Seriously. Today or heck, even tomorrow. By 2020
you'll be fully on your weight release journey. Whatever
your goals are. Start today not till the a new year or new
decade starts!




Please come back, next Manifest Monday. When I talk about
one of my favorite ways to create content.

Manifest Monday: Autumn or 99 days left

Happy Autumn, my friends!! This looks like a beautiful country Autumn road that I like toget lost in for a while. How was your summer? Was it all that you wished it to be? If so,that is great. If not, guess what you have another whole season to go on new adventures to.

This sweet Autumn faerie has come in to remind you that you have 99 days left of the year.

99 glorious days to manifest, make merry and be the best you can be as the year and decade ends. That's right. We will be going into a new decade.


Your book of Autumn for '19 hasn't been written yet. It starts today. Start anew. Make new resolutions. Make new dreams. Sail away to new destinations.One of my Autumn goals is to release at least 10-15 pounds. Do my best to deal with stress sweetly instead of overeating.



So wish me Autumn luck my friends. I look very Autumny in my orange sweater.I am wishing you all the best and brightest this season. Share with me in the comments your Autumn goals, dreams and wishes. I love to hear.

Creative Notebook : Part Deux

I am true Aquarius because I am filled with ideas. More than ten years ago,I started keeping notebooks with all my ideas. I prefered paper only becauseI know all too well about losing creative ideas on your computer. They are portable, so I can bring them wherever I go. The screenplay I co-wrote came a two page scene that morphed into two years later a 135 screenplay.So from humble beginnings, great beginnings can happen.

This is the cover. Image of me, actor related pictures and a young Mark Hamill.



This is the inside of the book featuring David Cassidy and Jordan Peele.



I started making collages as well for more inspiration.



Pulling out my favorite pages from catalogs to eventually order from.



Divine downloads, as I call it, and poetry.




Meditation and thoughts to live by.



On the back of my creative notebook is Judy Garland looking bright and full of life.



Do you have a creative notebook that you write in? If you do, I love to hear about in the comments. Or you can always email me privately at jettswan@gmail.com. If you are interested, here is a creative notebook I shared a few years ago right here.