Nov 28 – Dec 7

The Community Gratitude Altar — Year-End Offerings

A week of devotion, reciprocity, and slow, handmade magic. Every order becomes an offering for your altar and a blessing passed forward into the world.

We ship at a sacred, human pace. If handmade timing works for you, we would be honored to craft something for your altar.

Every year, as the light thins and the days draw in, we open a single altar for our whole community.

This year, more than any other, that altar feels less like an “event” and more like a living room where we can all exhale together.

Our little family has been carried through a season that bent us to the ground: my father’s sudden organ failure and transplant, weeks in and out of hospitals out of state, followed almost immediately by a flood that turned our workspace upside down and locked so many of our tools and materials in limbo. The hammering, the sawing, the constant insurance limbo—none of that has been pretty or poetic.

And yet, through all of it, you have stayed.

You’ve waited. You’ve prayed. You’ve given us the most precious thing any working temple can receive in hard times: patience and trust.

The Community Gratitude Altar is our way of bowing back.

For one week—from Friday, Nov 28 through Friday, Dec 7—everything on this altar is part of a single, braided offering:

• A year-end chance to stock your altar, refresh your tools, and receive some of the most potent work we’ve made this year.
• A way to send a portion of every order directly to a cause that matters in this burning world.
• A moment of mutual support between a tiny, hands-on spiritual household and the wider circle that feeds and is fed by it.

  • What you'll find on the altar

    Year-End Altar Bundles — curated gatherings of oils, candles, and devotional supports for closing the old year with purpose and stepping into the next with a intention.

    Mystery Boxes — chosen assortments of handmade tools, roots, and curios, prepared as if we were stocking your altar personally.
    Deep Liquidation & Quiet Treasures — select items discounted as we clear shelves for the next chapter while honoring the work that went into every bottle and wick.
    Opening Gifts — small blessings set aside for the earliest hands and the most generous baskets; more gratitude than promotion, more offering than urgency.

    Nearly everything on the altar is 30% off, with some deeper cuts on select items we’re ready to retire.

  • Every order is an offering.

    At checkout, you’ll be able to choose one of five causes to receive part of your order as a financial offering.

    It’s important to us that this not be vague or symbolic; each organization is named, known, and doing concrete work on the ground.

    You decide where your offering flows:
    • Toward children in Gaza receiving urgent care.
    • Toward Black farmers and land stewards building food sovereignty.
    • Toward Diné communities protecting land, foodways, and culture.
    • Toward immigrant families here in Colorado navigating ICE and instability.
    • Toward keeping someone warm this winter with a coat on their shoulders.

    We’ll walk you through each of these in more detail further down the page—who they are, what they do, and why we chose them.

  • A note on pace & process

    Everything we offer is made and moved by a real family in a real house with a working temple and a lot of moving parts. We ship at a sacred, human pace. Handmade items take time.

    “Wizard Time” is in full effect:

    A wizard is never late, nor early—he arrives precisely when he means to.

    If you need something on a two-day Amazon rhythm, this probably isn’t the altar for that. If you’re able to give us the time to make, bless, pack, and send things properly, we will meet that trust with our faith, our blessings, and our love.

How to participate

• Browse the Gratitude Altar collection between Nov 28 and Dec 5.
• Choose what genuinely serves your altar, your practice, and your people.
• After checkout, use the email you receive to select the cause you want your offering to support.
• Leave us notes that we can place on the family altar this holiday season

However you join us—by placing an order, by saying a prayer for our household, by directing your own offerings to these causes in your way—please know this:


We see you. We feel you. We are unspeakably grateful to be on this road with you.

May every bottle, candle, talisman and dollar that moves across this altar this week be multiplied back to you in blessing.

Where your offerings flow

Every order placed on the Community Gratitude Altar carries two kinds of offerings:

• One for your altar and your life.
• One that moves outward into the wider world.

After checkout, you’ll be asked to choose one of five organizations. A portion of your order will be directed there. This is not an abstract “good vibes” gesture; it’s a concrete way to turn spiritual work into material support.

Take a moment to read through each one. You can choose the cause that speaks most to your heart, your ancestors, or the spirits you work with.

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PCRF — Children in Gaza

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) provides vital medical and humanitarian aid to children and families in Gaza and across the region. At a time when the news cycles move fast and suffering is both visible and veiled, PCRF has maintained a track record of direct, practical support.

If your heart is pulled toward wounded children, shattered hospitals, and the raw work of keeping young lives going in impossible conditions, this may be your choice.

National Black Food & Justice Alliance

The National Black Food & Justice Alliance is a Black-led coalition working toward food sovereignty, land justice, and economic self-determination for Black communities.

They support Black farmers, land stewards, and organizers reclaiming the basic right to grow food, hold land, and feed their people with dignity. If your altar is often piled with offerings for ancestors who lived under sharecropping, plantation economy, or migration, this might resonate deeply.

Diné Introspective (Navajo Nation)

Diné Introspective is a Native-led organization rooted in the Navajo Nation, focusing on food systems, cultural survival, land care, and the mental and spiritual wellbeing of their people.

They are doing the quiet, steady work of carrying language, ceremony, and relationship to place into future generations. If your work often involves the land, the Four Directions, or healing the relationship between humans and the places we inhabit, you may feel called to offer here.

Colrado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC)

CIRC is a statewide coalition here in Colorado, providing advocacy, resources, and Spanish-language support for immigrant families. In a time when ICE raids, detention, and deportation cast long shadows, CIRC works to defend rights, keep families together, and ensure people know their options.

If your Work is interwoven with justice, hospitality, and protection for the stranger and sojourner, this may be where you send your offering.

One Warm Coat

One Warm Coat is a simple, direct organization: they coordinate the collection and distribution of free coats for people who would otherwise go without.

Sometimes the most spiritual act is putting literal warmth on somebody’s shoulders. If your spirits often nudge you toward the most concrete, practical forms of help—the blanket, the meal, the bill paid—this may be your choice.

How to choose

There is no single “right” choice here. You might:

• Choose the cause that aligns most closely with your active spiritual work.
• Choose based on the stories in your bloodline.
• Choose randomly and let Providence sort it out.
• Divide multiple orders between different causes over the course of the week.

However you choose, know this: each time you place an order on the Gratitude Altar, you are not only investing in your own Work—you are sending a thread of blessing outward into communities that need it.

We are honored to be a small conduit for that flow.

how we ship

Wizard time & sacred space

The Short Version

• We ship at a sacred, human pace.
• Handmade items take time.
• “Wizard Time” is always in effect.

If handmade timing works for you, we would be honored to craft something for your altar. If you need guaranteed rapid delivery on a tight deadline, we would rather be honest now than disappoint you later.

What "sacred, human pace" actually looks like

Most of our work follows this rhythm:

1. Preparation
Oils, baths, candles, and talismans are either made in advance in small batches or prepared to order. In both cases, they are prayed over, assembled, and labeled by hand—often with kids doing homework at the next table.

2. Altar Time

Finished items spend time on the working altar for blessing, petition, and alignment with the larger Work we’re doing as a household and community.

3. Packing
Orders are pulled, wrapped, and boxed by one person (occasionally two) who is also juggling cooking, caregiving, and temple work. There are no conveyor belts; there is a lot of tape and paper and care.

4. Drop-Off
Packages go out in batches. We aim for weekly post office runs and do our best to keep things moving, but the exact day your box leaves us depends on where it falls in the flow.

Wizard Time

We borrow our shipping philosophy from an old wizardly saying:

“A wizard is never late, nor early—he arrives precisely when he means to.”

In practical terms, that means:

• We don’t promise specific arrival dates.
• We’d rather underpromise and quietly exceed expectations than rush, cut corners, or lie to you.
• If known disruptions arise (storms, illness, construction, more flooding), we’ll communicate as clearly as we can.

What you can expect during Gratitude Altar week

• Increased order volume will probably slow things down a bit.
• Some items may require additional altar time before shipping.
• We will prioritize safety, quality, and integrity over speed.

If you have a hard deadline—for example, leaving the country on a particular date—it is perfectly acceptable to include a note asking for a rush, but we cannot guarantee any requests.

A note on respect

The same way we respect your money and trust, we ask for respect in return for the reality of this work. There is no warehouse staff to yell at, no customer service floor to escalate to. There is just us.

If that kind of relationship feels good and human to you, welcome. If not, there are many other options—that’s truly okay.

However our paths cross, may the timing of what you need be blessed.

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