United Earth Assembly Craft Faire
October 2nd & 3rd 2010 in Irving, Texas
sponsored by the
Texas Local Council of Covenant of the Goddess
If you have any questions send an email to Vendors@UnitedEarthAssembly.com
Come and visit our fabulous vendors!
Join us to explore all the wonderful shopportunities that await you!
You will discover surprises you didn't know you needed!
Elizabeth Cunningham
Elizabeth Cunningham is the author of The Maeve Chronicles as well as three other novels and two collections of poetry. She has just released her first CD called, appropriately, MaevenSong. She will be vending her books and CD and just might autograph a copy for you!
http://www.passionofmarymagdalen.com
Elizabeth is our featured guest speaker at United Earth Assembly this year. She will inform us with her Keynote address: Our Bodies, Our Earth in her keynote speech after dinner where she will delight all with a brief dramatic piece from her award-winning novel The Passion of Mary Magdalen, one of the central novels of The Maeve Chronicles, the feisty, pagan, Celtic Magdalen who is nobody’s disciple.
Her afternoon workshop will invite us to sing our hearts out. We’ll begin by singing the seed syllables that correspond to the chakras, and then move to simple chants as a basis for creating connection, raising energy, and taking off into improvisation. During the workshop we will also create a new chant and discover how simple, joyful, and healing it can be to make music in the moment, for each moment.
THE MAEVE CHRONICLES
Why does Mary Magdalen make only a brief, dramatic appearance in the Gospels and then vanish? Maybe the world simply hasn’t been ready to hear what she has to say—until now. Meet Maeve, the feisty Celtic Mary Magdalen. Speaking directly to her 21st century audience, she tells her story with wit and humor, wisdom and passion. And it is her story. No one’s disciple, she is lover, bard, priestess, and healer. And like her beloved Jesus, Maeve incarnates the divine redemptive mystery of love.
The Maeve Chronicles recount the life adventures of this refreshingly unconventional Magdalen. Each novel is designed to stand alone, and the series can be read (and re-read!) in any sequence. Think of The Maeve Chronicles as narrative Celtic knotwork: the stories spiraling out and spiraling in, each one whole, each one leading to the others.
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning
Prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen
In this Celtic wonder tale, young Maeve and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Born to eight warrior-witches on a magical isle, Maeve heads for druid college with high hopes of meeting the Mysterious Other she has glimpsed only in visions and dream.
From the start, Maeve and Esus, as the druids call him, are sparring partners, by turns delighting and outraging each other with their opposing views on just about everything. Their pleasure is overshadowed by a brilliant but unbalanced druid who knows a perilous secret about Maeve’s past. He also becomes obsessed with Esus as a perfect victim for the most sacred druid rite.
In a daring scheme, Maeve risks everything to save the life of the one she loves.
The Passion of Mary Magdalen
This central novel of The Maeve Chronicles follows the intrepid heroine’s perilous journey through slavery and prostitution in Rome to founding her own holy whorehouse in the good-time town of Magdala on the Sea of Galilee. Throughout her trials and triumphs, Maeve never gives up hope of finding her lost beloved, a young man she once knew as Esus, whose life she saved at enormous cost to herself.
The ultimate reunion of the lovers is as stormy as it is ecstatic. As we make our way through the terrain of the Gospels—healings, exorcisms, miracles, feastings, riots, and terrifying prophecy—Maeve and Jesus fight and make love, nurture and confront each other, infusing this unique passion narrative with their passion for each other.
And in the end, they dare together the most awe-full mystery of all.
Bright Dark Madonna
Sequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen
After playing an intimate role in the mystery of the Resurrection, what is left for Maeve, the Celtic Mary Magdalen? Never a follower, will she emerge as a leader of the early church? Will she retire quietly to mother a sacred bloodline? Will she set sail for France to proselytize and go spelunking?
The answer: all and none of the above.
No sooner does Maeve open her mouth to preach the gospel her way than a fierce debate begins about what to do with the child she is carrying. Maeve has her own ideas about where best to raise the savior’s scion. When she returns to Temple Magdalen, the holy whorehouse she founded, a custody battle of biblical proportions ensues.
Maeve, her infant daughter Sara, and Jesus’ mother flee to the remote Taurus Mountains where they live in hiding among the Galatians until a mysterious man is dumped on their doorstep more dead than alive. When Maeve discovers the identity of the man she has healed, she is appalled and determined to keep her family’s secret. But Maeve has reckoned without the will of her brilliant, angry adolescent daughter who resolves to find out the truth about her father—for herself.
Accessible to fans and to those new to The Maeve Chronicles, Bright Dark Madonna takes the reader on a breathtaking journey from the temple porticoes of Jerusalem, to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, to the south of France, and, as always, to the treacherous, beautiful terrain of the human heart.
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SROriginals
Sue Rogers
Your home for quality handcrafted jewelry.
http://www.sroriginals.BIZ
I design and make distinctive handcrafted jewelry in sterling silver and copper, along with amber, jet, vintage mother-of-pearl butt
ons and a variety of semi-precious stones. I especially like to make earrings, pendants, bracelets and necklaces. Please check my website for some of my recent designs, and let me know what I can make especially for you.
I also restring necklaces and knot amber and pearls (or anything else that needs to be knotted).
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The Pixie Chicks’ Cottage
Janet Schmelling and Sarah Tayim
pixiechickscottage@gmail.com
The Pixie Chicks’ Cottage is two women expressing their need to create and share beautiful things. We sell candle-holders and goblets decorated with polymer clay, candle-holders decorated with decoupage, hand-made dream catchers, soaps made with our own original scents, and hand-strung natural stone bracelets and earrings.
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jazzwraps
Linda Perry McLemore
Is your jewelry Green?
Jazzwraps: artistic improvisation Beautiful jewelry, like fine jazz, relies on skilled improvisation to transform a worthwhile theme into unique and inspiring creations. The theme is socially responsible jewelry, wrapped in a real concern for the environment. The result: Jazzwraps ~ unique and beautiful creations to wear and share.
Jazzwraps begin with bits of glass that might otherwise be discarded. In a special process fueled entirely by electricity generated from non-polluting wind turbines, the glass is fired into unique and unrepeatable shapes and colors, then hand-wrapped with sterling silver or gold-filled wire.
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Wren’s Myth and Magic
Karen Pearlman (Wren)
http://www.wildnaturethemejewelry.com
I have been creating items for the pagan community for 20 years. My focus is ancient symbols designed to connect one with the energies of ancestral spirits. I hand engrave stone, glass, and bronze. Some of my original designs were first carved in wax then cast in bronze or sterling silver while others were hand worked with a torch by my late husband, Harry Pearlman (Tsvi.) Many pieces are one-of-a-kind.
All rune sets are engraved and painted according to ancient traditions regarding proper “loading.”
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Gaia's Earth Emporium
Dream Venturini
http://www.The-GEE-Spot.net
Gaia's Earth Emporium (GEE Spot) is an enchanted world of knowledge, enlightenment, and empowerment.
The GEE Spot carries a wide variety of spiritual products from divination tools, ritual tools, ritual wear, incense, incense burners, pagan art, hand crafted Book of Shadows, hand crafted Book of Shadows illustrated paper, spell scrolls, rare crystals, books, tarot cards, pendulums, cauldrons, unique writing tools, pagan wax seals and stamps, candles, hand crafted divination boards, organic spell oils, spell kits and much more.
To see all the products we offer please visit our website http://www.The-GEE-Spot.net. New products are added weekly.
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Coyote Tales Symbol Makers
Jesse Coyote
http://wwwcoyotesilver.com
Jesse Coyote, a pagan silversmith of national renown from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been creating his designs since 1990. His work includes hand woven pentagrams & stylized hand-crafted Goddess shapes. His jewelry line includes Pagan, Celtic, Egyptian, Metaphysical, & Shamanic styles in pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, and earrings.
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Hidden Hollow
Haley Kral
http://www.hiddenhollow.webs.com
Bring a touch of whimsy and magic to your home with your own one of a kind fairy cottage.
Hidden Hollow fairy cottages are lovingly crafted using both natural and artificial supplies as well as a number of treasures that the fairies snatched from their human neighbors. Each home is as unique as the fairy (or fairies) that inhabit it. You will find adorable surprises waiting for you in each of these tiny homes.
We now also offer a limited line of handmade jewelry from natural materials. As well as fairy bells, original art, dolls, and more.
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Sirena’s Creations
Sirena Archuleta
archuletasirena@yahoo.com
214-957-3767
Dreams made to wear!
Sirena’s Creations are handmade articles of clothing for ritual, fun, or play. I hand make skirts, robes, bags, and wraps in luscious fabrics and designs to delight your senses and your pocketbook!
Sirena Archuleta is a graduate of the Art Institute of Dallas and has a love and passion for fashion design and creative arts. I do custom tailoring too!
