Updates and Current Projects

Mother Marion Kick Spindle Revisited

In an earlier blog post (a few years back) I went over the details of how I made a Mother Marion kick spindle for spinning fiber.  Recently I have just finished a custom order for someone who requested me to make one of these for her, and so I thought I'd share my Etsy link to the actual product, in case anyone else is interested as well.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/181739241

Here are some photos from the recent order that I made:

Proposed Monument Honoring Union Soldiers at Florida’s Olustee Battlefield Sparks Outrage

Last night in Lake City, FL, was the meeting over the proposed "Special Union Monument" at the Olustee Battlefield, site of the largest Civil War skirmish in the state of Florida. Descendents of Confederates who fought for the South's independence were heard, as well as the issues of how this land was donated to the state by the UDC as a trust to keep it as it was meant to be, a memorial to the Confederates who fought and died, at the hand of the Union invaders.

At one point of the hearing, a black Confederate soldier ancestor, a man by the name of H.K. Edgerton raised his Confederate flag and started the tune of Dixie!

     "Passions ran high, at one point erupting in a spontaneous chorus of “Dixie” led by a black man, H.K. Edgerton, who called Union soldiers rapists and wielded his large Confederate flag like a conductor’s baton as the audience sang."

Some points to consider about this proposed monument are such ones as the idea of putting a monument to terrorists at the site of the Twin Towers, or to erect a monument to the bombers in Pearl Harbor that killed American troops. Why would anyone want to honor the invaders and murderers of their ancestors, especially at such a place as a large battle as this?


http://flaglerlive.com/61564/olustee-battlefield

Another holidays season arrives!

I know it's been a while since I've posted on this blog, as is my custom. In just two more days it will be my 39th birthday, followed by Thanksgiving and another holiday season. I have kept myself busy this year, with new clients, new projects, and new endeavors in life in general.

They say that as you grow older your mind grows better and sharper. Sometimes I would question that, but mostly I would say that it is true, that as I get older I find that life has more things of interest and things that inspire me and motivate me more than ever before. I find myself able to do more and do it better than I once was, and can focus on the end result with even more clarity.

So thank you all who have continued to find interest in my ramblings over the years, and be sure to head over to my Etsy shop and by some gifts for yourself or our friends! I've reduced prices on some of my items for the holidays, and even better, if you use the coupon code "TAKE10NOW" at checkout, you can receive an extra 10% discount on your order!

http://aeryckdesade.etsy.com

PBS Independent Lens Asperger Syndrome, Today's Man

Ending My Hosting Service

As most of you who read my blog here already know, I have my actual website located at http://aeryckdesade.com, however, my hosting service expires next month (June 2013). I feel that I can get just as much accomplished without paying such a high fee for a hosting service for my website, by using other social media such as Blogger and Facebook and Tumblr, etc. Therefore, I think that as my hosting expires, I will NOT be renewing it at the aforementioned domain, and just post updates and such through the other forms of social media.

Time Lapse Tree Clearing In My Backyard

Kentucky Colonel Contest Time! 100 Subscribers!

Why I'm a Libertarian

Ka-Bar Bowie Knife Review

Reflecting on Recent Events: Shootings, Gun Control, Government

Flint Knapped Obsidian Knife Antler Handle For Sale

This is the video of our wedding! Amanda and I were married on October 31st, 2012.

How to Clean Up Spirit EVP Recordings With Audacity

I've just made a quick tutorial video about using the free audio program Audacity to clean up some noise from spirit recordings of EVPs (electronic voice phenomena).  Check it out!

A personal thought about my life

I thought that I'd share this as a blog post.  This is from a recent interaction that I've had with a friend on Facebook, but I will only put my part in this post, not the other person's section of the message.  I have traveled down many spiritual paths in my life, searching, but they all have the same ends in mind.

I have been involved with Spirit ever since I can remember. When I was really young, however, it was one of fear mostly.  I was terrified of the dark and used to see and hear things in it and all of that would scare me pretty bad. I chocked a lot of it up to imagination most of the time, but was very unsure.

I was staying with my grandmother during one period when I was hearing things in the house, though; voices, talking, that sort of thing. I thought that someone had broken into our house and was very afraid. I realized that it was NOT my imagination, however, when my grandmother became very concerned and told me to wait in the bedroom and she was going to go see if someone was in the house. I hadn't even said anything about hearing the voices, but she heard them as well, so it solidified for me the fact that I was hearing something.

That may not have been a big deal, except for the fact that we lived in the middle of nowhere in Indiana, and our closest neighbor at the time was about a mile away, and our house was on a small dirt road surrounded by cornfields. Therefore, NO one would have been walking around our property in the middle of the night.

I have had the ability to communicate off and on throughout my life, but it is nothing "solid" per se. At times it is overwhelming and at other times it is nothing more than a "feeling", with energy, much like you've said. There are times, though, that it is intense, such as if we go to someone's house where a person has recently died.

I rely a lot on more modern techniques for reliable contact, I suppose, such as EVP and such. I had a life changing experience when I was about 7 years old that suddenly shifted my fear of the unknown into one of almost complete fascination, and I've been there ever since.

I have rarely made anything public out of any of this, except for working as a private reader for people, and doing mundane things such as astrology.  I have been a reader for many years, though, but have only even advertised it as a service to the public a couple of times in my life. There is such a great public interest and need, it seems, for some ideas on these subjects, though, which is why I decided to write this book. It has become such a public topic and that, to me at least, says that there is an energy that is very prevalent in the minds of a lot of people lately and that they are looking for answers in this, in whatever way that may be. And being a Spiritualist, I feel that to help everyone understand and more fully accept things from Spirit can only be something that is positive.