**LOVE TO COLOUR?** Colouring with Cats #115 ~ Getting Your OM’s on with Mandalas on Mondays ~ What Is Smoky Quartz For? And Melvyn Shows Off The Crystal of the Week

 

Supurr Monday greetings meautiful furiends

We do hope mew had a pawesome weekend, and if mew missed our epic Stonehege selfie yesterday, go check it out as we couldn't believe what an epic picture it was! 

We're continuing with our fun crystal series again, and today's epic stone is one of our purrsonal favourites.

Crystal of The Week

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What is smoky quartz good for?

Smoky quartz is such a beautiful gemstone.

It comes in all shades of rich browns, some are very deep in colour, going to almost black and others can be almost clear. They can be tinged with yellow or goldish tones too.

Here at BBHQ, we have tumble stones - top right picture, some of the obelisks - bottom right, and a few multi-terminated clusters, and some elestial specimens. One of which has a small bubble or pocket of water in, these particular crystals are called enhydros.

So let's tell mew a bit about the gem lore surrounding these lovely, rich-toned stones. Smoky quartz is purported to be an excellent stone for grounding or earthing, and there are other ways to do this, which we talked about it here. It also appurrently resonates with the base chakra and would be great to use in a meditation purractice as it assists in raising your vibration, and it's supposedly a great stress reliever.

If mew're looking for a protective stone that absorbs negativity and apparently geopathic stress/electrical smog too, this would be purrfect for that. They are great dotted around the house, obviously out of the way of small, inquisitive paws though! MOL

In some books we've read, they say that smoky quartz assists with bringing a sense of emotional calmness and helps alleviate feelings of depression, negating negative patterns and helping to boost pawsitivity.

Smoky quartz is also said to help with manifestation; if mew're planning things, this stone may help with focus, and keeping mew grounded as mew wurk towards your goals.

It's a really gorgeous stone, and the P.A. doesn't leave home without her smoky quartz bracelet; she loves it.

Melvyn was really fascinated by this smoky quartz flame; it's called a flame because of the carving style; if mew look closely, mew'll see it does resemble a flame. Anyhoo this is our smoky quartz flame at BBHQ, it is a little darker in places than the picture suggests, and as mew can see, a lot is happening inside the crystal structure. The P.A. says it's quite incredible to use a really bright torch and a magnifying glass to look inside the crystals - it's really amazing what mew might see.

If mew're looking for a crystal to add to your collection, this one would be epic as it's a gorgeous stone to have.  

To check out last week's Crystal of the Week, click the link: Rose Quartz.

(Disclaimer: We are not health or medical practitioners; all crystal info is purely for entertainment purposes only.) 

We really need today's breathing exercise, as last night somepawdy tried to reset our Instagram password... this online life is becoming a bit much at the moment...

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We hope mew've all had a totally epic 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 offur 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, we do hope mew like it.

Right-click the image to save and/or print the mandala.

And here's our finished version... we thought a nice yellow/gold centre would wurk well with lush berry tones this week, and it turned out well. 

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

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So on that note, we hope your Om's are on, your Zen Harmonies are happening, and we'll see mew on Wednesday when we'll be here sharing this week's News and Gossip, coming straight to mew live from BBHQ!
Until then

Keep Calm and Colour OM!

Epically chilled purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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