I had the absolute most wonderful week. First, I stumbled upon an artist who’s so absolutely inspiring in so many ways. Kat O’Sullivan is an etsy artist who’s sold over 2500 gypsy coats since she started in 2006. Each has a price tag between $200 and $300. OK, so as a wannabe artisan, I find that very cool. However, when I poked around her website, I saw that she’s lived a VERY colorful and inspired life. Most ironic, was her resume, which was written in 2006. I wonder if it was the impetus for her launching the etsy business. She’s got quite a following, each of her coats is one-of-a-kind and her fans know each one by name. Their names are things like “Storm the Castle” and “Seven Years in Tibet” and “Queen Bitch.” She also sells arm warmers. All of her products are made from recycled sweaters. Visit Katwise on Etsy to see more of her work. If you want to check out her personal website, I guarantee it will be a treat. She has the most phenomenal bus she’s painted and if you make it as far as her Facebook page you’ll be amazed with the paint job on her house. She’s totally amazing. Here’s just one of her coats:
But finding Kat wasn’t my only amazing gypsy-soul experience this week. I love this next story.
So here I am, minding my own business speaking to a group of local business owners about why they should have a blog on their website, when a woman (a radiant glowing woman with a twinkle in her eye) comes to thank me. We chatted for a minute and she says “Are you an Aquarious?” I said “Nope, December 7th” and she brightens up, looks deeply into me eyes and gushes “You’re a gypsy” I’m sure it took me a minute to scrape my jaw off of the ground, I said “OHMIGODTHATSME” you have no idea, I’m gypsymom.com, Gypsy has been my screenname online for so very long, I am SO a gypsy, and then I started blobbering all my favorite gypsy-ish things. It turns out she’s an evolutionary astrologer. I’d never thought much about these things before, but as soon as she said that, I KNEW I needed to hang out with her a little more. I did some computer work for her in exchange for an astrology reading. I know it sounds silly (It did to me, anyhow) but it was awesome. She confirmed a lot of what I already knew about myself. She gave me some huge insights into my own thinking and process that I hadn’t thought of before (consciously) and I’ve come away so… excited to be me. If this makes any sense to say, the best I can describe it is that I have a different relationship with my identity now.
I AM a gypsy, a storyteller. I’d decided a few weeks ago to write a screenplay and I’ve been plugging away at it for the last few weeks and in the reading, I became filled with confirmation that my story needs to be told. I felt this, now I damn well know it.
And gypsies can have houses, too.
Anyway, the lady I visited with The Enchanting Experience. I don’t know if she does long-distance readings, but she was awesome.