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Bead Together Come make connections & bracelets! "Compassion is the FRUIT of CO-REGULATION" - Neil Hughes • Live with a Commitment to Compassion & a Message of Wholeness

07/04/2026

🇺🇸✨ Happy 4th of July! ✨🇺🇸

Today, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's independence, we want to wish our entire community a safe, happy, and memorable Independence Day!

If you're heading out to celebrate, please be extra careful in this extreme heat. Stay hydrated, take breaks, and be sure to check on family, friends, neighbors, and pets.

Need a place to escape the heat? Spelled Ink is OPEN today! Come cool down in the A/C, browse our shelves, discover your next great read, work on a craft, or simply relax for a while before the evening festivities begin.

Don't forget that our monthly Bead Together gathering starts at 4:00 PM! It's the perfect opportunity to spend a creative afternoon with fellow makers, cool off, and unwind before heading out to enjoy tonight's fireworks.

Here's to celebrating 250 years of history, community, and the freedoms that allow us to gather, create, and share stories together.

Have a wonderful, safe, and Happy 4th of July! ❤️🤍💙🎆

Bead Together

03/15/2026

This Saturday, March 21 — Peer Support Gathering 💛

Come spend 90 minutes with people who understand the importance of nervous system support and community.

No pressure. No rules.
You can share, listen, or simply sit with others.

We’re also loosely connecting our conversations with the book Natural Born Heroes, which we’ll discuss more deeply at our April 4 Book Club.

The support group, the book club,
andBead Together gatherings are all connected spaces where we practice something simple but powerful:

Community.

Because strength and resilience can grow in many ways…
but community is something we build together.

Come as you are.




03/04/2026

🌷✨ Our March Calendar of Events Is Here! ✨🌷

March is shaping up to be one of our most creative, community-filled months yet — and the full calendar is now available in the shop and online!

Here’s what we have planned:

📚 Friday, March 6 | 6–7:30pm
Thrills & Chills Bookclub

📿 Saturday, March 7
4–5:30pm – Bead Together Event
5:30–7pm – Bead Together Bookclub

🚀 Tuesday, March 10 | 6–7:30pm
SciFi Bookclub

🌿 Saturday, March 14 | Beginning at Noon
Earthly Nurse offering free/donation-based holistic health care sessions

🎲 Monday, March 16 | 3–5pm
Free Play in the Game Room (air hockey + tabletop games)

🎨 Tuesday, March 17 | 6–7:30pm
Ink & Imagination Night — We’ll be making book dioramas!

🖌 Wednesday, March 18 | 5–7pm
Warhammer Painting Night

✍️ Thursday, March 19 | 6–7:30pm
Writer’s Group

🌸 Friday, March 20
1–3pm – Self-Care Series featuring guest aromatherapy provider, Hannah
6–7:30pm – Burning Desires Bookclub

🤝 Saturday, March 21 | 4–5:30pm
Peer Support

🧶 Sunday, March 22 | 4–6pm
Heart & Hand Circle Community Meetup (Potluck Style)

🚪 Monday, March 23
Closed

🎨 Friday, March 27 | 6–7:30pm
Vision Painting with Susan Baccei

🥚 Tuesday, March 31 | 6–7:30pm
Egg Decorating with Susan Baccei

There truly is something for everyone this month — creativity, connection, books, wellness, games, and community. 💛

Sign-up sheets are available in the shop and on our website, or give us a call at 540-547-8190 to reserve your spot.

02/21/2026

This is today! 🌞😀

Not therapy.
Not advice.
Not a place you have to explain yourself.

Just a quiet room, a few chairs, and people willing to sit together.

You can talk.
You can listen.
You can just exist for a while.

3rd Saturday of each month • 4:00–5:30pm
Spelled Ink Bookstore

Come late. Leave early.
There will be a chair for you.




02/07/2026

Today we’re gathering for Bead Together, then flowing right into Book Club 💛📚

This month we’re reading Natural Born Heroes, and sitting with a powerful idea:
that the people who protect communities, build safety, and stand up to bullies often do so because they know what it feels like to be different.

In the book, Churchill recognizes the true danger of Hi**er not through power or bravado, but through lived experience — having been bullied himself, having sensory needs, having learned how to protect instead of dominate.

This conversation is for anyone who’s ever been told they’re “too much,” “too sensitive,” or “too different.”
Those differences may be exactly what the world needs.

Beads in our hands. Stories in our circle.
4pm — Bead Together, Book Club right after. Come as you are.








02/06/2026

Tomorrow at 4pm 💛
Bead Together → Book Club

We’re talking about Natural Born Heroes and the idea that courage isn’t flashy — it’s natural, quiet, and rooted in community.

Also: goats 🐐
Effortless movement. No fear.
Deep awareness. Strong boundaries.

Beads first. Books second.
Community always.








❄️ Due to incoming snow, this week’s gathering has been rescheduled to February 7.Bead Together🗓 February 7🕓 4:00 PMA gr...
01/23/2026

❄️ Due to incoming snow, this week’s gathering has been rescheduled to
February 7.

Bead Together
🗓 February 7
🕓 4:00 PM
A grounding, hands-on beading circle focused on nervous system co-regulation, creativity, and connection.

Book Club (immediately after)
🕔 5:00 PM
We’ll continue the conversation together through Natural Born Heroes.

👉 Ask Cindy at Spelled Ink how to purchase the book before the meetup.

🧠 NEW! Neuro Peer Support Group

Every 3rd Saturday of the month
(starting February)
🕓 4:00–5:30 PM

A welcoming space to explore nervous system awareness, shared experience, and community support.
(Our goal is to make this a hybrid virtual + in-person meetup.)

📍 Spelled Ink Bookshop — Orange, VA

These gatherings are open, inclusive, and centered on understanding how our nervous systems work — and how connection helps us regulate.

We’re deeply grateful to Cindy and Spelled Ink for holding space for this community. 🤍









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01/23/2026

❄️ **Winter Storm Update & Schedule Changes** ❄️

With this weekend’s expected winter storm approaching, we wanted to share how our schedule will be impacted.

• **Bead Together** (previously planned for tomorrow) will be **rescheduled**. Please keep an eye on our page—we’ll be announcing the new date very soon.

• Due to the uncertainty around when the worst weather will arrive tomorrow, and because my family needs time to prepare our home for the possibility of power loss, heat issues, and other storm-related impacts, **we expect to be closed tomorrow, Saturday, January 24th**, so my children and I can make those last-minute preparations.

• **At this time, we are also expecting to be closed on Monday**, but I’ll be closely monitoring the weather and conditions and will keep you informed as I know more.

💙 **Thank you for understanding and supporting our little shop and family.**

✨ **To say thank you**, we’re offering **10% off EVERYTHING in the store today**
(excluding items consigned by our local authors and artisans).

🕙 **We’re open today from 10am–6pm**, and this is a great chance to:

* Stock up on some interesting reads (maybe even step outside your usual genre 👀📚)
* Grab one of our **adorable book lights**—perfect for reading if the power goes out
* And please, if you need shelf-stable food for the weekend, take whatever you need from our Sharing Shelf before hunkering down at home.

Stay safe, stay warm, and thank you for being such a thoughtful, supportive community. We’ll share updates as conditions become clearer. 💙❄️











01/10/2026

Community is how we regulate — together.

Bead Together
January 24
4:00 PM
A grounding, hands-on beading circle focused on nervous system co-regulation.

Book Club (immediately after)
We’ll continue the conversation together through Natural Born Heroes.

👉 Ask Cindy at Spelled Ink how to purchase the book before the meetup.

🧠 NEW! Neuro Peer Support Group

Every 3rd Saturday of the month (starting February)
4:00–5:30 PM

A welcoming space to explore nervous system awareness, shared experience, and community support.

(The goal is to make this hybrid virtual meetup)

📍 Spelled Ink Bookshop: Orange, VA

These gatherings are open, inclusive, and centered on understanding how our nervous systems work — and how connection helps us regulate.

We’re grateful to Cindy and Spelled Ink for holding space for this community.








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