Welcome to Botanicals from Wise Weeds...

Our next Champaign Urbana Illinois Psychic Fair takes place Saturday, January 23, 2010.  Check out our Wise Weeds Blog link at the bottom of the page for more details. Our new class schedule is also posted there, including a Making Mandelas workshop with artist Evelyne Tardy,  Aura Smoothing Relaxation Class with Debra Joy Hart, and a Dream Catcher Workshop with optional Pipe Ceremony for participants with Marlita.

Remember, here we have the tools to help you focus on bringing positive energies into your life.

Check out our new Bead Board Folder. Great for keeping track of jewelry making tools, as well as working on projects for the beader-on-the-go.

Here on our website you will find the finest handmade mystic, magical and romantic oil blends and incense made with pure essential oils, herbs, resins, cosmetic grade fragrance oils and more. Our small family business has grown over the years, but we still take time and pride in making our products.

We're proud to be bringing back 15-hour votive candles made by us with our own oil blends for helping you on your magical and spiritual path. I'll be getting them up on our website over the next couple of weeks.

Hopefully we can help you "bring a little magic" into your life by inspiring you to grow in whatever positive way you chose: creatively, financially, healthfully, romantically, mindfully and spiritually.

Tarot Readings by Phone and email. Click on the Tarot Readings links for more information on how you can schedule a reading.
More and more I am finding that Spirit is calling to me to focus my healing activities on tarot readings. Which is really weird, as I am also a certified medicinal herbalist, certified hypnotherapist and Reiki practitioner. As usual, though, if you have any questions in these areas, please feel free to email me. I will get back to you as soon as possible. Or schedule a consultation. Book early as my schedule is getting full faster and faster.

Lately Beads N Botanicals, our storefront in Urbana, IL, has been getting mentioned a lot on local news shows and in newspapers. Most recently WCIA Channel 3 visited us to see what our Recyle, Reuse, Repurpose: Making Paper Beads class was all about on Saturday, June 6th. Another paper bead making class is scheduled for Thursday, July 9.

Our psychic fairs here in Champaign-Urbana have also hit the news. Want to see what it's all about? Stop by and say hello!

Beads N Botanicals is located at 117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: 217-365-9355

Deciphering Destiny at The Buzz

From The News-Gazette March 4, 2008
IS IT IN THE CARDS?
Hoopeston woman takes consulting approach to
mystical readings
By MELISSA MERLI

CHAMPAIGN — The biggest obstacle for people who might want to move forward
in life is that they don't give themselves enough options.

That's where Catherine Novak comes in.

She reads tarot cards, among other things. She has used the tarot seriously as a counseling tool for the past 20 or so years but began reading them earlier, when she was in high school in New Jersey.

"I just present information and try to do it as honestly as I can with what I see in the cards," she said. "I don't always tell people what they want to hear but what might be coming up."

The Daily Illini, November 2007

Tarot Readings, Fine Line Between Reality and Hoax...an article about my readings at a local place in Urbana, IL.

Come back and check out our site as we add more features, more products, specials and pictures.

Also, we are adding more and more products to our line all the time. Check out our crystal jewelry line. And we are now carrying tumbled stones, healing crystals, semi-precious stones, mini-candles as well as our ever-growing line of mystic oils and mystic incenses.

BTW, if you need a basic listing of our oils and incenses, please email us and we'll send a copy to you.

If you are in the Urbana, IL area, stop by to see us in person. We are now offering Jewelry Making, Beading, Herbal, Aromatherapy, Natural Perfumery & Origami Workshops, as well as classes on Meditation for Relaxation, Tarot, Dreams, Intuition, Psychic Protection, Spiritual Cleansing, Astrology, the Chakras and other topics.

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Always feel free to email us with questions. We try to accommodate special requests whenever possible and love to chat with our customers.

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