Inexpensive too! Great alternative to passing out candy! I package mine in glassine bags!
These are a complete set of 52 Swami and/or Madame X fortune teller cards from napkin dispenser's in vintage cafes. Also can double up for Twilight Zone parties, since the Mystic Seer was part of the main feature in the episode, Nick of Time, starring William Shatner.
Available here at The Destiny of Things.
Here is the note I received:
Oh that is great about the shipping! As for Halloween goodies, I try to find items other than candy. It will be fun to table these with a fortune telling theme.
All the best!
Many Etsy buyers use these as table confetti, so maybe she is too! These are more inclined towards ice breaker conversations because you are supposed to ask a "yes" or "no" questions and see how it the fortune card answers you. Great to slip inside cocktail napkins and dinner napkins for a little conversational fun!
These fortune telling fish are a little more interactive, since they tell your mood for love by placing the fish in the palm of your hand and seeing how the fish moves and then matching the movement to what is says on the back of the Fortune Teller Fish envelope.
SALE 50 or 100+ Magic Love Fortune Teller Fish vintage retro style fun cracker snap surprise ball filler wedding birthday, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things.
She also bought a game set of loteria cards. It's a game of fortune and plays a lot like American bingo, but from Latin America. Try your luck and see if you win! It's easy to play and includes instructions on how to play! Learn Spanish too! Also, good for Day of the Dead parties!
The game board pieces can be cut up and made into cupcake toppers, just tape or glue on a toothpick! The calling cards can be used as gift tags, floral centerpiece additions, table confetti, place cards, garlands, even art! If you click on the link here, you'll see examples and get ideas.
Almost everything is included: instructions on how to play, 10 game boards for 10 players, 52 calling cards and how to win, all you need are markers, which we use pinto beans, but we've also used pennies and if played at the beach, shells and pebbles. In the classroom, we used scrap paper!
Saying Goodbye: I use the loteria game calling cards for my mixed media art, which is my alternative to hoarding. I use the game boards to make boxes to hold the loteria art cards and also have them listed on my shop for Etsy buyers to use as larger centerpieces with prizes in side or party favor gift boxes.
One can use the box as a nicho or niche to add to your ofrenda or alter shrine. The one above is Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Love Story themed and available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things.
The listing will have a brief story of Frida's life with Diego of love, betrayal, despair and healing.
What I've Learned:
1. I've been MIA, missing in action, on the blog for awhile because I've been learning so much about myself, especially as a recovering hoarder! For example, I've been learning to look inward, instead of outward and have found my life more peaceful, productive and joyful!
2. Meditation has been a big tool to help change myself because it helps me to stay more centered and grounded and not be blown all over the place by outside circumstances. It helps me to take responsibility for every aspect of my life and enjoy life's experiences more fully.
3. Other tools that have been helpful are books. I've been trying all kinds of diets to improve my physical health. The Keto diet was tasty, but I didn't lose or gain weight, but I sure did gain more fat! Now I'm reading Dr. Gundry's books and his pre biotics took away most of junk food cravings! I do not crave organic chips, pop corn, fried chicken to name a few, like I used to. The only craving I still have is french fries, but now I can pass them up and just say "no!"
4. Also, my mind has improved from several books, but mainly from Brad Blanton's book, "Radical Honesty," which has really helped my communication skills and confidence. I feel much more free now.
These are the boxes for party favors or centerpiece surprises and are about 4 inches by 3 inches. They are handmade by me, so sizes may vary a bit, available here. They fit a lot of candy, enough for two people or other treats inside them. Photo via The Destiny of Things.
5. I'm still doing the daily lessons in "A Course in Miracles," which I started to read because of one of David Hawkins books, where I read that if I could get to lesson 175, negativity would be freed from my mind and it has really helped me to deal with life's experiences in a more healthy manner.
6. My most favorite book of all is Sadhguru's book, "Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, " for some reason that book is really balancing out all areas of my life, like my physical health, mind, emotions and energies.
7. Also my art has been selling more at the Etsy shops, so I've been doing more art lately too! I don't have one bone in me that wants to hoard anymore! Not even for art supplies! However I do know my true test will be this coming winter holidays, which is usually the most difficult time for me. "If you think you are enlightened, go visit your family!" I forgot who said that, but it always makes me laugh!
What have you been up to lately? I've also been doing more mindful yoga daily or taking walks in large open natural spaces, like parks, so I know I'm getting a stronger body too!
Here's William Shatner's character getting his fortune card, which we have listed from the Mystic Seer in Twilight Zone's, Nick of Time episode.
Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for sharing your story! I love it! I'm happy to feel like I'm part of your fortune telling themed Halloween and wish I could be a fly on the wall to see how everything goes!
Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy! I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever! And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!
Here's a photo of the Mystic Seer machine and Etsy buyer's husband made for their Halloween party last year!
I still want to list until each shop has 180 items, but now I mainly list on the weekends, due to reading so much. I've also been waking up at 3 am, so I can read and meditate more and waking up that early has also helped my insomnia. Mediation also heals my sciatica when it flares up, which has been less and less.
Sales are still steady and usually one day a week, it peaks past 8 sales per shipping date. We ship out on Monday's, Wednesdays and Fridays, almost routinely, unless a holiday falls on one of those days and then we ship out at our next shipping date. For example, if a holiday falls on a Monday, we will ship out the next coming Wednesday.
I've let go of the Etsy fee changes that were bothering me. I've been working hard to change my thinking lately and this is my new thinking towards Etsy sales and life in general, "I am willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions." For me, this is easier said than done, but I keep saying it. I will need a lot practice and evaluate my old thought patterns that come up and let go of the ones that do not benefit me anymore, until this affirmation rings true for me. The quote is from "Transcending Levels of Consciousness" by David Hawkins.
Here's a photo of an original or refurbished Madame X napkin dispenser machine where you put your penny in and the fortune comes out of the slot. The Swami machine has instructions on how to ask a question and example questions.
Etsy has been adding a lot of new features, but I haven't had the time or inclination to check them out yet. One new Etsy feature I wanted to talk about was "notifications," which lets you know if a shop you favorited has listed new items.
Many people have found this feature annoying because it kind of blends in with your email notifications and it's difficult to tell if it's a notification or an email you've received, so they have been unfavoriting shops, I would never have the heart to unfavorite a shop that I've favorited, so I just let my notifications build up to the max, which is 50 and when I get an email, it will turn to 51. Problem solved for me!
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 176 items, The Destiny of Things- 177 items, VintageToGoEasy - 176 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 173 items. Wow! I need to list more to reach my goal, I'll try and list an hour every Mon, Wed and Fri and see how that goes.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
We won't be restocking the Swami Madame X fortune cards anymore, so get them while you can!
"What you accumulate can be yours, but can not be you!" Sadhguru
This quote means more to me than my hoard. It also means all the knowledge I've accumulated, all the thoughts and patterns that have been ingrained and/or made into habits by me and more! They are not me!
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