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Happyyyyy New Year!

I felt like this gnome for the first week or so of the new year... but now i feel like the pig! YEAH! Ringalingling. No seriously it was a rough start cuz I got sick over NYE, but i am better now and ready to party!! um I mean get back to work. Actually I am so excited about 2012 and all the opportunities everywhere. I am feeling a real creative surge happening. Now is the time to bring the all the dreams to reality...it's here and I am ready! 2012 bring it on! 

I am wishing the same for you. Whatever you want to make happen in your life... now is the time! Lets do this together! 

PEACE 

We are overjoyed to be on a plane right now one our way to VACATIONLAND after a very busy and successful holiday selling season!!! The Renegade, Unique and Bizarre Bazaar shows were all amazing but this past weekend really takes the cake! WE LOVE YOU SAN FRANCISCO! Thanks for letting us know the joy of breaking all our sales records and thanks to all of you that came and told us how much you love your 11:11 items, it really means the world to us!!

Also FYI today is/was the cut off to order your items to arrive in time for Christmas - but if you don't need them by the 25th, go ahead and order, we are still very much open for business and can fulfill your order no problem! Thank God for the Elves!!!

Much love and many blessings to you all in this sacred holiday time. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

(photo by my friend Harimander, when we did that fast motion shoot of me making the notebook)

So I've been writing a lot of bios and blurbs lately about myself and my business and quite frankly its nerve wracking! Writing about ones self in the 3rd person and not making ones self sound like a jerk is hard! In related news, a camera crew is coming to my house tommorow to interview me (for this website omg!) and its totally doing my head in. My husband and I are knee deep in holiday preparations for 11:11 and my home and office are well... not pretty. I don't know what to do but just to own it. Own the mess, own the imperfection, and just roll on and represent the best I can. Time to put the perfectionist not-good-enough voice in my head to bed, forever. Hello world! My name is Jamila and I am a messy freak just doin the best I can in the world! Love you! 

I found this really interesting article written a few years ago by this amazing activist, writer and Pagan witch named Starhawk. I love her. She wrote a book called "The Fifth Sacred Thing" which I really want to read someday if i ever have time again for those sorts of things. No time because shit is getting real up in the 11:11 holiday headquarters, AKA my living room. I used to go all out on Halloween. One year I even dressed up as a faucet ( complete with a vintage faucet  coming out of my beehive) ( I have a thing for faucets, more on that later) and did all my business meetings in midtown Manhattan like that. I had strangers asking to wash their hands...NO ONE else was dressed up in that part of town... it was so bizarre and so fun! This year its all business for me though. I played so much hooky this summer and I have so much to get done before the holidays really hit that its all work a no play for me today. I hope you have a creative and spooky day though!  and a night full of magic and moonlight! 

This is my new decision: Today is the best day ever- EVERYDAY! Superlative living man!  feel it! know it! live it! It can be true if we want it. ok? ok. now back to work ;)