The Joy Weaver

09/10/2025

.ms has an astounding array of costumes, SCA garb, dresses and more! If you are wondering where to get your Halloween costume or next dress from, come here in Gulfport, Ms!!

08/10/2025

Good morning friends! If you would like Finklepott's Original Fairy Hair BEFORE the end of the month you have two days this week. Today is in NOLA as I'll be at Miette and tomorrow at Treasures Market: Formals, Costumes, Holiday & More with Mississippi Fairy Hair - Finklepott’s Original Fairy Hair(I'll be back for one day on the 21st before the last week of October here in Mississippi.)

🎃Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 10:15am to 6:00pm
✨NEW ORLEANS✨
Miette on Magazine Street
2038 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
SIGN UP HERE: https://FinklepottsFairyHair.as.me/MietteNOLA
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🎃Thursday, October 9th, 2025 3:00pm to 6:00pm
✨GULFPORT✨
Treasures Market
15053 Dedeaux Rd, Gulfport, MS 39503
SIGN UP HERE: https://FinklepottsFairyHair.as.me/TreasuresMarket

Miette is an amazing artist's shop from NOLA artists and it's just an amazing fun and eclectic shop with lots of great gifts and trinkets and headpieces. Treasures Market has costumes, dresses and so much more. If you've got a vibe you are looking for Suzanne is the best at helping you figure out what works. It's an awesome store and I usually walk away buying something marvelous 🙂

02/10/2025

Did you know Joy can feel like many different things? Joy is not just the big feelings, but it's also cozy but it's also lovely, but it's also something that brings you warmth and delight.
make a list of the things that bring you Joy, or make you smile, and write down how they make you feel and you might start noticing. Joy is sprinkled out in your life in many different ways!
Comment below with what Joy feels like for you!

02/10/2025

Today's episode on the podcast is a Spark note Version of the Joy Challenge! We dove into so much goodness so here's the summary of the main takeaways and some of my reflections!

Oh My Goodness! with Aj Smit · Episode

30/09/2025

I spent 5 YEARS wanting a rainbow tie-dye sweatshirt, telling myself "It's too much." This summer I finally bought it. It's everything I hoped for and MORE. How many years are you going to wait to wear what makes you happy? Today is the last day of the September “F*ck it, Why Not, We Need It” Joy Challenge, and it’s also not the end.

You don’t need my permission to lean into joy. You have your own.
You don’t need to wait to embrace joy till the pain is over; you can have both.
You don’t need to dye your hair to feel like you (although I get it and you can), it starts on the inside.

What do you desire? What do you want? What is your heart’s calling your soul song?

It’s not just a break, it’s something deeper. Come join us in Embodied in Joy because even if this challenge is ending, we are going to continue leaning into the both/and of a world full of wild things and embracing our hearts full of wild songs.
Plus…the replays are staying, so if you want to dive in for the first time, or again, you can!

29/09/2025

The ripples are real.

On occasion, people will tell me it doesn't really matter what they do or if they choose Joy or how they show up because nobody cares. But that's not true. You have people in your life who see you. Who notices what you do and do not do. Perhaps it’s people watching and looking at you as inspiration, and you don’t even realize.

Maybe that's kids that you have given birth to, or a neighbor who notices if you've had a bad day. Maybe it's the way you talk to your grocery store clerk.
I had somebody reach out recently who took the dances I’d taught at Knutepunkt last year at a larp conference and brought them to a summer camp for kids. And went all out around a bonfire, and the way he was telling me about the experience and how the kids were in awe and really just let themselves dance and enjoy the evening and it ended in a big group hug, and that the kids when leaving camp kept their wrist lights and said that they would never forget dancing together with their friends in that way.

This might seem like a bigger picture idea, but me showing up in trust for the tug I felt about ritual dancing and how much of a connector that can be, and a beautiful moment that makes a Tap Root that you are worthy of goodness and worthy of celebrating, and sharing that with other people, gave someone else permission to do the same.

Now there are kids I will maybe never meet in my life that now have that same idea because somebody else thought that they could do the same thing because they had permission from me, and now they passed the permission on to those kids, who knows how far that Ripple is going to go.

The conversations I have with people might be more obvious in the evidence of the ripples, but let me tell you that the ripples in our lives are so real, even if you don’t see them at first.

Trust. Trust that you smiling, or tending yourself, or helping a friend, or trying something new, or posting your soul’s truth on social media is all permission slips in different ways for all the humans trying to navigate this world. We’re all just doing our best, and seeing others walk with their head held high and trip up and laugh and try again reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously but to do our best with what we’ve got.

28/09/2025

Tell me three things you are enjoying lately, whether it’s a video game, a song, a person, a moment, or a thing you are doing for yourself!

Sometimes we get stuck on all the bad things that are happening, but speaking about the things we are enjoying out into the world helps other people get ideas on what's possible, but also reminds us of the ways we are taking care of ourselves without maybe even realizing it.

Things I am loving lately is going to bed 30 minutes early with my husband, and we just read books and cuddle and chat, and it's just this nice unwinding time to just exist and read. I am also very much loving my rewatch of the show Grimm, and my sunrise runs/walks. I live near the water, and I haven't lived by the water for about 12 years, and I've been near the water on and off on different occasions, but to live this close feels like such a gift, and every morning I just Revel in how the Sun looks over the water.

27/09/2025

Did you know I’m headed back to my favorite castle in the world?

College of Wizardry is a LARP in Poland that happens once a year. Maybe you have heard me talking about it before. Essentially you head to a castle for one weekend with 140 other people with a character and all play out a story together. The first time I went in 2017,it completely blew my mind and opened me to a world of possibilities and to play, and it was the first time I danced in the woods in ritual.
Since then I have led and joined in on dancing around the world, but this Castle will always be my home. Our game runs December 11th-14th and we would love to have you join us.

You get to take classes, there are professors, and students, there's a Forbidden Forest and a ball, it's absolutely epic, and I hope you join us. Head to Witchards Society to discover more or send me a message!

This photo is from my second game of my house, which was Durentius! You would be amazed at how fast of friends you make when you are attending Wizard College together.

The magic and play is real, and now is the time to join.

26/09/2025

This book deep dives into spiritual history, living in divine truth, tough stuff, and finding true joy in the life you are living. I feel like Aj facilitated true God work, writing healing magic into this text and it has truly changed the way I see myself, my circle, and the world. Aj, you are truly an Angel on this earth!!! Thank you for sharing your heart and soul with this book! You are so loved! -Anonymous Amazon Review

26/09/2025

I have no chill about twirling on a normal day but when I've got layers that twirl beautifully. How can you walk like a normal person when you could twirl through your living room?!? 😂
Ever since helped me realize my style vibe was everyday colorful Ren faire bard witch, it's just kept getting better. 😍🎉
Wear clothes you love y'all. Life is hard enough, might as well be comfy and twirl on occasion.

25/09/2025

Call 7 of our Joy challenge is happening today at 2:30 pm Central, 930 pm CET! Today we get to just put the gas pedal on joy, we are gonna be dreaming, expanding, delighting, embodying and it's gonna be great. Charting a course with joy 🔥🔥 come join us, wear what you love and there will be time for coaching and questions as well! 😊😊🤩🎉🪇
The link is in my free fb group Embodied in Joy 💙
This is our final learning call, for this challenge as our eighth call next week will be our final one, and is a celebration and reflection call that will also be very nourishing but come play with us. You don't have to have watched the previous calls to join, it's going to be a blast.

And all replays are in the group if you want to catch up and do a deep dive on joy, capacity, and embodying your full self!