Happy New Year, all our friends and customers! Customers are friends, and we hope our friends are also our customers! Welcome to 2010. It is a new year and that means lots of new things coming our way here at Pangaia Metaphysical Store. Starting with this month, we have introduced a new feature our front page, Artist/Author of the month.

Arden Ellen Nixon is our first artist of the month. Visit our front page to get a little bio-blurb on Arden and check out her art work in our online catalog.  And just a bit more about Arden:

I met Arden purely by accident. One day in September I was on lunch break at a hellish job and decided to go for a walk downtown. I stopped in at my favorite used book store, A Novel Idea, and visited with the owner. It is so rare that I get to visit with her as she is usually gone when I am able to come in. Anyways, as we were talking she remembered that a local artist had brought something in for her to look at that morning. And what was that item? It was a deck of playing cards, slightly over sized, created by none other than Arden Ellen Nixon. This deck is part of her art work inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

I thumbed through the deck and liked what I saw. The Queen of Hearts in particular was quite eye-catching. With her bloody scythe and maniacal grin I instantly saw Death from a Tarot deck. Simply stunning! Cinnamon at A Novel Idea gave me the deck, “I think this might be more up your alley.” Which it definitely has been! Included in the deck was contact information for this wonderfully talented artist. I called her right away.

Arden and I met over hot cocoa at Meadowlark Coffee House and made arrangements for Pangaia Metaphysical Store to take a selection of her fabulous art with us to Mystic Fest 2009 in Omaha, NE. We took quite the selection with us, include her remaining Alice decks and nearly sold out of them at the show. Her other art was very popular as well.  We enjoyed working together so well that we decided to continue the venture and have added nearly forty items to Pangaia’s catalog and are working with Arden to design our new store logo.

Sarah and I are very excited to be working with Arden and we hope to continue to do so in the future. We are very much looking forward to the finished logo. Everyone who visits Pangaia Metaphysical Store will definitely be seeing that piece of Arden’s work prominently displayed as soon as we get it!

Remember to check out Arden’s work. And remember, these are original pieces of art! We are working on a deal to get some prints made of the most popular pieces, but in the mean time….when you buy one of Arden’s paintings from Pangaia Metaphysical Store you are buying a one of a kind piece of art!

Other new stuff for Pangaia Metaphysical:

Pangaia Metaphysical Store is now on Facebook. Become a fan!

New logo design in the works with Arden Ellen Nixon.

More indepth and informative blog articles by the owners and guest bloggers, such as Cairelle of WitchyLiving.

New exclusive wood crafts being added to Runic Creations.

we are planning on do so much more with the store in 2010, so keep your eyes peeled and check us out on a regular basis. You may be surprised what you will find when visiting Pangaia Metaphysical Store.

Brightest Blessings upon You in this New Year!

-Phil & Sarah