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Cocktails & Caftans!

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Kitchen Witch teas & herbs available

These are fresh, just overstocked. Buy me out before I move! Kitchen Witch Ginger Turmeric teas Kitchen Witch bulk herbs Kitchen Witch books on Amazon Audible.com

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Ohio Scottish Arts School is next month?

I can’t believe it’s only a month until the Ohio Scottish Games, followed by Ohio Scottish Arts School. When I first discovered OSAS, I sought something to keep my harpist engaged with her instrument of choice. She loves a challenge! By chance, I found harpist Ashley Lake’s knowledgeable mother, Stephanie Taylor Lake, who let me in on Luneita Cotton’s tutelage. She’s just the right teacher for…

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New stuff!

Yes, I started my Podcast back up a few weeks ago. It’s such great lovely wonderful nice mental health practice. Come listen if you wanna, or watch:The Leslea Show on YouTube: If all of that is too much noise, you can read along (maybe, possibly), in a more intimate fashion than I have been sharing on PlanetTash.com. For right now, it’s got a personal blog post, but I’m also thinking about…

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A Literary Game Night Proposal

Have you ever read a physical book with hand-written annotations? It’s a trend, and a great one, I think. I am considering starting a game night/book club thing where we play some kind of mystery game or other RPG and pass around a book. Everyone would get a turn taking the book home and adding their own notes, and then when the book has been annotated by all, everyone would get a chance to read…

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A cozy fantasy midlife mystery

Hey! Happy New Year! Have you heard of “cozy fantasy”? Oh, it’s divine. A lot of it is set in fantasy worlds, but some of it is more on the magical realism side, or low fantasy, where the magical world intrudes into our everyday life. Cue Miss Fitz! I’m now subtitling these as “Cozy Fantasy Midlife Mysteries.” AND, obviously an entirely new aesthetic! I really loved the original artwork I had…

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Harping on the harp

My child is playing her fingers raw preparing for her first ever solo gig, and I am so proud, while also SO the bad guy, because I am not letting her slack. She’s really GOING for it and her little fingers are growing callouses, but it feels like she’s conquering something within herself. It’s difficult to say, as a third party, but it’s beautiful to watch. And, yeah, I am the bad guy, but I…

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First trip out of the house this year!

Tomorrow is really the first “normal” Monday of 2025, and we just paid a ridiculous amount of money to have our driveway shoveled, so the obvious agenda for today was LEAVING the Treehouse! We made two stops! One for food, and the other for…food. You can’t go to the grocery store hungry, after all, unless the grocery store has an appealing restaurant within. Ours does not, so we indulged in a…

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Spirit Animals

Cozy Kittens & Animal Symbolism This morning–just a moment ago–I was visited by another of my spirit animals. It was a cozy kitten. Not too surprising, considering the eight inches of snow that fell overnight. Nestle in, settle down, and rest. Keep warm. I know what she wants. They’re never this detailed in real life, but it was something like this. ^ It isn’t the first and hopefully it won’t…

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2025

It’s really here. We’re a quarter way through the century, and it’s disconcerting sometimes how very quickly it all happened. I’m still a little kid–tall, lean, buck-toothed…my knees constantly skinned and my voice always too loud. I could fall down right now and rip a hole in my jeans on the basketball court. I could dive into a swimming pool and swim the length of it underwater, holding my…

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Glow up time for ZuZu in her children's chapter book

Chicken Impossible Cover makeover ZuZu’s lazy freeloader chickens fail to hatch any chicks, so she sets out on an adventure with her family to add three tiny fluffballs of chickeny goodness to the family’s backyard flock. With the help of Mom, Dad, and three older brothers, ZuZu becomes a chicken agent, nonpareil. If you loved Junie B. Jones, give ZuZu and her family’s adventure a read.…

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It's beginning to look a lot like Witchmas

As promised, the winners of the Miss Fitz Magical Mug situation were announced today! Did you miss it? Check your spam or trash folders (and mark the email as “not spam” or “not trash,” by all means). There were four winners in this giveaway! In other news, work continues rapidly on the next story in the series. I told newsletter readers all about it, so if you are interested in downhome cozy…

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PlanetTash.com

As much as I have enjoyed tumblr, and before that, Xanga, I recognize that people aren't really blogging the way they once were, decades (!!!) ago. So.

Tim and I have a website that we update once in awhile:

PlanetTash.com

I don't know if I will be back to Tumblr. The Fabulousness meant a lot to me. It certainly got me through some rather difficult times in my life. It's not really the way things are done, anymore...but you can find me on social media if you would like to stay in touch. Otherwise, give me a follow at PlanetTash.

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Witchy midlife besties and an enchanted mystery, #1 on Amazon and free for a short time. I never do the “free ebook” thing, but with the audiobook coming out soon, why not? Enjoy 😊🧹🐈‍⬛📚☕️✨And tell your favorite familiars 🧙🏻‍♀️🔮This spell will go POOF soon… #reading #pwf #cozymystery #witchaesthetic #witchyvibes #justwitchythings #mystery #midlife #midlifemagic #cottagecore

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Princess Gwendolina character sketch

Princess Gwendolina was born in Singularity and raised by her mother, the High Queen of Candy Mountain, located in the Tyridescence server. She was genetically engineered to be the picture of feminine grace: lithe, blonde, graceful...she’s as close to fairy princess as a real life girl can be, although she knows next to nothing about real life.

Gwendolina has the closet to top all closets, filled with clothes that would make the richest player in World of Warcraft cry with envy. In-game, she can hover and fly with wings, shoot bad guys with candy-powered weaponry, and she is always surrounded by pixies, gnomes, forest animal babies, and other adorable companions. She is known for her multiple Gold medals in the Pegasus Olympics, and is regarded as a celebrity in Tyridescence. Behind the good looks and the celebrity, though, is the heart of a child. She works with young children at Friendship Academy, and shares their sense of childlike wonder.

Gwendolina is recruited by her mother to join SPI, with the intention of reporting back to the High Queen any juicy news or tidbits she might learn about the other servers. To Gwen’s surprise, she forms a bond with her assigned team (Zephyr and Jaxa), and becomes enthralled with the mysteries and every day magic of The Mortal Realm.

Gwendolina has the best toys! She wears a tiara and carries a magic wand wherever she goes, and her boosts and buffs often get her and her friends out of harm’s way. With her featured player status in Singularity, she also has high level security passwords that help the SPI Girls access information that would otherwise be off-limits.

Gwen seems like a curt snob with a wand and wings, but once you get to know her, you find out she is a true and loyal friend with a strong moral compass.