I'm very inspired by this holiday card holder from Pottery Barn. But there's no way I'm shelling out $40 + shipping for something I can make myself with things I have lying around the house.

(I'd love to do this, but we don't have a bannister like that in the house ( Read more... )

As part of my homework for the Feri training, I took a 24-hour (well, closer to 33-hour) word fast yesterday.

( A what? Why? )

When buying pumpkins, I found a large gourd which, if it dries well, might make a fine little ipu hula (Hawaiian gourd drum). I don't have any kapa cloth to play it on, but tatami will probably work ok ( Read more... )

Warning: syncretism ahoy.

So, another idle fantasy project I have is to make stephanoi for Beltane and Samhain. (Oh hell, I already have a stephanos for Yule, this isn't that bad.)

Beltane - pawpaw flowers (I'll have to make those myself, there's no way I'll find artificial ones anywhere), poppies, hyacinth, lily-of-the-valley, orchids, willow ( Read more... )

I had several fantastic dreams last night, one of which involved me doing a ritual to Dionysos. During the agon one of the things I did was take pieces of wild-harvested grapevines and processed them into charcoal in the tripod. After the ritual, I took the charcoal and set the best pieces aside for ritual drawing purposes. The other pieces, in ( Read more... )

I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don't know what that gift will be yet, but I promise you will receive it within 365 days. The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making the same promise on your blog.Hell, you can pay it forward in other ( Read more... )

I picked up some new essential and fragrance oils - clary sage, white thyme, rosewood, frankincense, china musk, green tea, and vanilla. These fill some holes in my kit ( Read more... )

If you had a garment that looked like this, what would you call it ( Read more... )

• Iowa was cold. Hmmm. I should write that up as a separate post.
• triadruid's family rocks.
• Art galleries always remind me that I need to get off my ass, make more stuff, and start overcharging for my work.
• Finally got an old piece of art scanned, cleaned up, and uploaded to my gallery: Silence (click the 'zoom in' magnifying glass to see detail)
• Found lots of ( Read more... )

This may only be of interest to candle whores and Hellenic folks, so I'll use a cut.

( Hestia Economics )