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Celebrate All Soul's Day on Friday, November 1st in Downtown Urbana, Central IL

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Facebook Event Updates According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Day_of_the_DeadDay of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration takes place on November 1st, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (November 2). In honor of these an d other traditions, Debra Joy will be leading this event filled with prayers and remembrance, as well as a celebration of life. While Debra cannot guarantee that everyone who attends will get a personal message from family, friends or other close ones, she will also give mini-readings (in a group setting) to attendees. Attendees looking to hear from loved ones are asked to bring photographs of them.   Light Refreshments will be served from 6 to 6:30pm   Event tak

Bead Trunk Show Lands in Urbana, IL at Beads N Botanicals in Central Illinois

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ChaCha Beads Trunk Show at Beads N Botanicals in downtown Urbana, IL will offer seed beads in Size 11, 11 hex, 10, 8, 8 hex, 6, triangles, bugles, teardrops and squares. ChaCha travelled to Hiroshima, Japan and Murano, Italy to find new and unusual beads in Fancy Finishes and Great Colors to spark your creative imagination! Japanese seed beads are precision cut to enable you to make precise designs in woven beadwork. The newest finishes are permanent metallic and anodized beads. For example, you will find Size 6 and size 8 beads for your kumihimo necklaces and bracelets in hard-to-find colors and finishes. The Italian beads are different when compared to Japanese or Czech beads. The color you see is the actual color of the glass, not dyed or coated. The Pinks and Purples have real Gold in the glass, causing it to 'strike' different colors when it is made into beads. They are made in small handmade batches, not by machine like the other seed beads, making them

Keeping Healthy with Kitchen Herbs: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

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Keeping healthy with kitchen herbs means thinking of ways to use your kitchen spice shelf as a medicinal resource. If you do little cooking, or if your spices are more than a year old, you'll need to get a fresh supply. Good quality spices make for tastier foods as well as more effective medicine. (Please note: if you have a serious medical condition, please consult a medical practitioner.) Sometimes the simplest of kitchen spices that we take for granted are among the most useful medicinally. Of the following four herbs, three of them contain very strong essential oils that can really aid in fighting off illness. Parsley, while not as strong as its other companions, nonetheless is a very useful herb. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, a member of the Umbelliferae family, acts as a diuretic, expectorant, emmenogogue, carminative and, according to some, may even be an aprodisiac. (So in a restaurant, eat parsley, rather than throwing it out.) Medicinally, parsley has several uses. Firs

Energy Art Readings with Debra Joy in downtown Urbana, Central Illinois

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Deb brings inspiration, compassion & joy to every consultation. Not only are her Energy Art Readings extremely accurate and informative, they are also empowering, providing clients with helpful insight into their life situations. She's also a well prepared and responsive teacher, providing students with the tools and techniques to access their own intuitive abilities. $20 per 15 minute reading; $40 per half hour; $80 per hour reading. Call 217-365-9355 to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome. Beads N Botanicals 117 North Broadway Ave , Urbana, Illinois 61801 View Map · Get Directions Energy Art Readings

Beginning Aura Reading with Debra Joy in Urbana, IL

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Beginning Aura Reading with Debra Joy Hart, R.N., CLL (Certified Laughter Leader). Find out what an aura is, why it is important, ways to sense and feel auric energies, as well as a bit about chakras and how they relate to color/energy. Develop your own personal seeing/ sensing style. Debra Joy is also a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association. Deb brings inspiration, compassion & joy to every consultation. Not only are her Energy Art Readings extremely accurate and informative, they are also empowering, providing clients with helpful insight into their life situations. She's also a well prepared and responsive teacher, providing students with the tools and techniques to access their own intuitive abilities. DATE: Thursday, Sept 26th, 6pm Cost: $25 at the door. LOCATION: Beads N Botanicals 117 North Broadway Ave , Urbana, Illinois 61801 View Map · Get Directions Beginning Aura Reading

Blue Chalcedony's Crystal Healing Properties

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Chalcedony absorbs negativity and promote harmonious emotions. Blue Chalcedony is often used during public speaking, which is not a surprise to me as blue crystals are usually associated with the Throat Chakra.  Some say Blue Chalcedony aids telepathic communication, as well as assists in spirit communication with other realms, especially the Angelic Realm. This healing crystal may give relief from depression and is even said to boost the immune system. Blue Chalcedony’s soothing energies also come through during mediation or energy work.  We now have some beautiful larger tumbled blue chalcedony available at the shop ~C

New Tarot Decks feature intriguing artwork

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If you haven't been to Beads N Botanicals in downtown Urbana, IL in a while, you've got to stop in. Why? Because there's lots of fun & fascinating new items at the shop. In addition to carrying the "standard" decks, such as the Rider Tarot and Thoth Tarot decks or Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Playing Cards, we have many "nonstandard" but beautifully drawn oracle and tarot decks including the following decks: In The Archeon Tarot deck, Artist Timothy Lantz has skillfully woven together intriguing elements from mythology and mysticism to create a hauntingly beautiful tarot deck.  For each card in this 78-card deck, Lantz’s booklet offers a thoughtful quote leading into the interpretation, with an upright and inverted meaning given.  Newly published tarot with beautiful imagery. The Tarot of the Hidden Realm evokes the powerful wisdom of the fae. This powerful deck uses the raw elements—water, air, fire, and earth—to speak directly to one's