How I chose the name "Touch of Mystical" for my brand:
After years of friendship and mischief together, one of my closest friends from middle school, high school & college, coined the nickname "Mystical Missy" for me**, which was eventually shortened to just "Mystical." To me it felt like the utmost complement. Finally someone who saw my persistent daydreaming and wacky weirdfulness for what it was and instead of changing me, celebrated it!
To me, being "Mystical" represented my unconventional take on spirituality, my open-minded thinking, the seriousness of my dreams (both sleeping and awake), my boundless imagination, my penchant for glittery, sparkly, shiny, colorful beauty in all forms, my sensitivity to nature in all its forms and the insatiable draw I had towards everything magical, mythical, fantastical, and ethereal. A general dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and an optimism for what it could be.
Thus, long after I should have grown out of silly nicknames (and rainbows and unicorns and fairies, too, some might point out,) I am embracing the name, my inner child, and all it represents for me personally, in the most publicly scary of ways, by centering my business around this idea.
You see, "Touch of Mystical" as a concept began way back in my childhood, when I stubbornly refused to put aside my play things and grow up. Instead of adapting into the socially acceptable types of interests older children and young adults are meant to have (socializing, romance, pop-culture, appearances and being cool, no thanks!), I continued to collect figurines of unicorns. And juvenile paintings of kittens. And shimmery rainbow colored objects. Only for the simple joy and soothing they brought me. An offering of escape into a magical world where I could be whoever I wanted to be.
All these years later, as an artist and a grown up, I am really interested in reconnecting with the inner child in all of us. And while I hope to continue to grow and mature as an artist and a person, I hope to retain "a touch of mystical" in all that I make and do.
Welcome to my own little bit of cyberspace! I hope you anticipate the products of creativity that will come out of this joining together of ideas as eagerly as I do! I promise to keep you updated with all my wild new ideas and any offerings I create. If you are interested in staying in the loop, just go ahead and sign up to be included on my email list whenever it unfolds.***
With all my gratitude,
Melissa, aka Missy, aka Mystical
Visionary for Touch of Mystical
**(okay, well for the sake of accuracy, it began as Mistical Misty, which is just a whole other story for a whole other day that I won't get into here)
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