Crafting a Magical Life outlines twenty magical/spiritual items that you can craft yourself, thereby utilizing the focus of your desire and intention to improve your spiritual connection and bring the mystical and magical into your life. Each chapter contains fascinating background information and provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help you create your own powerful objects of intention.

176 pages paperback, more than 100 colour photograph

Manifesting Your Heart's Desire through Creative Projects

Make dreams come true with spiritual things to make and do.

Filled with straightforward, accessible information that can be used in everyday life with dramatic positive results, this compendium of craft ideas provides clear instructions for constructing 20 practical magical and spiritual items and shows how to employ simple metaphysical techniques to maximize their potential. Projects include a magic wand, a divine dream pillow, a gemstone amulet, a divining pendulum, prayer beads, power talismans, mystic runes, and magical beeswax candles.

Each chapter features fascinating background information, illustrated examples, and other creative tools to help stimulate the imagination, such as chants and prayers. Additional magical association keys—including guides to color, astrology, moon phases, crystals, metals, and numerology—help crafters focus their intent to achieve specific goals, from love and wealth to happiness and health.

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"When is the last time you read a spiritually-oriented book and could actually say it was a fun read? This is exactly what Crafting a Magical Life is: a fun read. The reason it is so much fun is that the author gives various projects the reader can use to enhance their manifestation skills. She walks us through making our own pendulum, manifesting map, power prayer beads, traveling altar, dream pillow and so much more.
The author gives specific instructions as well as explaining how to use the various items and techniques. Crafting A Magical Life gets you out of your head and into your heart and soul. By using some of these projects and making them your own, you will enhance your own clarity while increasing the power of attraction in your energy field. Both of these can only support you in manifesting the life you are destined to live."
–Krysta Gibson, Editor, New Spirit Journal

"Finally, someone has put together a fabulous collection of crafts and activities for manifesting that anyone can make and use with confidence. Easy, fast, effective and fun, just what I like!"
—Judy Julin, Founder and CEO, CosmiKids, Inc., Author of Romancing the Future, Certified Fourth Stage Black Sect Feng Shui Practitioner

"With the success of The Secret, it seems that everyone’s more inspired to co-create the life they want. Now Carol Holaday has just made it much easier for us all to accomplish. Holaday offers a wealth of practical tools, techniques and keys to unlocking the power of your mind and harnessing the alchemical process of intent to manifest whatever your heart desires. Crafting a Magical Life is destined to become a real bible for those seeking the keys to mastering their own destiny."
—Sandie Sedgbeer, Editor in Chief, PlanetLightworker Magazine

Carol Holaday was born in Lubbock, TX on February 20th, 1957 and shares her family tree with the sleeping prophet, Edgar Cayce, through her great grandmother Edna Brown. A 1988 graduate of Texas Tech University and certified teacher, artist and writer, Carol has long been interested in the magical aspects of folk craft traditions, particularly those that involve crystals and minerals. Carol has written many articles on the spiritual and magical uses of crystals and stones for the international monthly online magazine, Planetlightworker, for which she also writes an exclusive monthly forecast called the Crystal Star Oracle. She lives in San Diego, California where, along with husband Chris, she owns a crystal and magical crafts business called Wisdom Crystals and teaches spiritual and metaphysical classes on a monthly basis.