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Agia Marina Shop during off season - Open!

The physical shop remains open most of the off season as it is my atelier. However, my schedule are more flexible as take walks in nature around to fetch some material and inspiration. You can always send me a message prior to your arrival if you want to pass by and arrange a day to visit to see if something is calling you (no purchase obligation) and I will arrange my schedule accordingly.

Atelier & Workshops

The shop also turns into a larger atelier where you can come and be creative. Some ateliers are on-demand usually for groups of 3 to 6 people but can be arranged for one or two too. So, you can totally imagine coming for a personal or group creative retreat, enjoying the quietness of Agia Marina in winter (especially appropriate if you need a bubble of peace with easy access to nature).

Note for EU customers (out of Greece): Due to the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulation from the EU:
Currently, I cannot keep shipping within Europe for now.

While I am all for ecologic approach to shipping, the EU did not come up with a unified tools to manage its new eco-law on packaging. As a result, for a couple of international order within the EU, I would have to apply to all countries and pay in advance taxes in some without knowing if I would have to ship there. It is not manageable for a small business like mine. So, unfortunately, I can only ship to Netherland and Ireland which have implemented a law taking small business into consideration and asking taxes above a certain KG shipped per year, or to UK and Switzerland. 

While the sun and warm is still stroking the shore of Aegina Island (and will until mid-october or maybe even longer), the squirrel is gathering nuts and food in the main land and central Europe. I love this animal which for me is one of my favourite embodiment of pivoting can be healthy.

This year the Squirrels comes with new motivational or statment t-shirts and hoodie, handmade incense holders and of course its series of messages on the Animal Spirit blog (see below),

The Bear Spirit Invitation

Some spirits arrive as a call to action. The Bear arrives as an invitation to stop. If you have been running on empty, mistaking exhaustion for purpose, it may have come to remind you that rest is not a reward you earn but a wisdom you are allowed. You do not have to be "on" all the time. You do not have to explain your need for stillness, or apologise for the time you take to heal. Welcome to the cave. You belong here — exactly as you are, exactly where you are.

The Bear Spirit Inner Work

The Bear asks you to slow down, but slowness is not passivity — it is a kind of courage. Its inner work is to help you meet your own power without flinching: to honour your need for solitude without guilt, to listen to the quiet wisdom of your body, and to recognise your strength not as domination but as presence. This is the work of returning to yourself. Of learning that the parts of you that seem the most still are often the most alive.

This month, is a gentle dance with the heat, the wind and the AC. You can easily find me in the morning crafting bracelets, painting handmade coasters or weaving necklaces just outside my shop. But as soon as the temerature is going up, I shelter in the cool to work on some website disign and content for clients, earings or casting batches of turtle magnets and soap holders.

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