Who Are We?

Mike & Birdy Diamond – writers, channels, crafters, creators

What Do We Do?

Many things.

This is why we are creating an Empire.

What Does That Mean?

It's an Eagle!

It means that we are multi-passionate people who have realized that to best achieve our Goals of encouraging people to expand their horizons and their worldviews, we need to show you all of us.

(So to speak. :>)

• It means that we provide tips & tricks that have worked for us.

• It means that we share our stories with you: what’s worked, what hasn’t, and some of our theories as to why.

• It means we share our Journeys with you: our life, our stories, our art, our explorations.

• It means we share products with you, both our & others, that will help you along your way.

We do these things in various ways, on various sites.

The Map of the Avian Empire

An Encouraging Bird – At the Talking Tree, we share our Journeys through life: lessons learned from along the Path, tips, tricks, helpers, Inspirations, and Encouragement.

Blanket University – Where we talk about Intentional Crafting: what it is, how to do it, and why you want to.

Crafty Crows – Join us in the Grove at the Heart of the Forest and the Mind Arts Lab of Blanket University as we talk about how to take these tricksy things called magick & psionics and apply them to practical, everyday living.

CrowTarot Tours – Join us on the decks of the A.E.V CrowTarot as we Journey through the lands of the paranormal. Join us as we meet & greet friends new & old, share the results of our explorations & experiments, and generally live the paranormal lifestyle.

Mysticphoenyx Cafe – Stop in at the Mysticphoenyx Cafe for a Cup of Creativity! Prompts, tips, tricks, and thoughts to help you in putting words & creativity down on paper, in pixels, or however your creativity chooses to take form. Also, snippets of our original work, and monthly visits from the Amazing Peeps of the Fiction-writing Directorate!

Roving Robin – Stop by for the latest seeds of awesome I’ve discovered in my flitterings about the web and my life.

TwOOwls Art – Want to take home a souvenir of your visit to the Empire? Visit here for original artworks, Created for You bespoke pieces, and P.O.D. items such as t-shirts & totes featuring photos, quotes, poems, and other bits we find useful/amusing/fun.