**Love To Colour?** Colouring with Cats #138 ~ Getting Your OM’s on with Mandalas on Mondays ~ Crystal of the Week PLUS **Your Crystal Questions Answered** What Is Lapis Lazuli Good For?

Supurr Monday greetings beautiful furiends

Welcome to another Colouring with Cats and a brand new week to be supurr and extra fluffy with all your zen harmonies happening! MOL

We're continuing our crystal journey today, and this week, we've got a lovely gemstone to share today.

Crystal of The Week

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What is Lapis Lazuli  good for?

Lapis Lazuli is a stunningly rich, deep blue stone and can be flecked with gold and/or white and black. It can have a veined appearance or slightly mottled effect depending on each individual stone.

At BBHQ, we have several pieces of lapis, and here is our newest acquisition, which was acquired a few weeks ago when the P.A. visited a gem show nearby. The P.A. really liked this stone as it reminded her of a sandy beach and deep blue ocean.

Here's a little about the gem lore for lapis lazuli; being a blue stone, it is ideal for the throat chakra, although it is reputed to be excellent for opening the third eye chakra, which is located mid-eyebrows and up a tad. It is said to facilitate psychic abilities, enhance dream work and assists in stimulating spiritual power.

Apparently, it is renowned for its protective properties and can assist against psychic attacks, and no the P.A. didn't have many crystals back in the day when she experienced a ghostly encounter.  

It is also said to harmonise and balance the spiritual, emotional and physical planes to create uplifted feelings. It can facilitate freer expression of words and thought if used on the throat chakra and helps with creativity. So, if mew're struggling with any blocks in those areas, this may be a crystal to try.

Lapis is a supurr crystal, and there is loads more info online to discover regarding the various healing and beneficial properties. And there are lots of different jewellery designs available such as rings, pendants, bracelets and earrings etc.

 If mew have any crystal questions; email us, DM us or ask us in the comments below.

To check out last time's Crystal of the Week, click the link: Black Tourmaline.

(disclaimer; we are not health or medical practitioners; all crystal info is purely for entertainment purposes only.) 

Anyhoo, we do hope mew've all had a totally pawesome weekend, and that mew're ready for the week ahead, so let's jump right in and start as always with our little breathing exercise, which we're sure mew all have down paw by now... but if mew've forgotten, stop what mew're doing for a moment and take deep fulfilling breaths- counting to five on the inhale and five on the exhale:

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Smooch is here again to offer mew assistance in getting your OM's on and Zen Harmonies happening, so just press play, close your eyes and follow his instructions.



Don't mew feel better already?  I know we do!

All the mandalas featured are created & designed by us, aka The B Team.

Here's this week's mandala.

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And here's our finished version; this time, we used a delightful green and magenta palette.

Coloured on the iPad and then transformed in Prisma, this time, we chose the effect - Bubblegum.

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So, on that note, we'll say bye for now and hope to see mew on Wednesday with more Midweek News, and mew won't want to miss that, though we can't say any more right now! MOL

Until then

Keep Calm and Colour OM!

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