I finished cooking the pumpkins yesterday. Four small pumpkins make 18 cups of pumpkin puree (12 pies worth) and two to three cups of toasted pumpkin seeds. The seeds keep disappearing so it's hard to estimate what we ended up with ( Read more... )

I had a headache for most of Samhain, so I didn't end up doing a ceremony (although I did get the altar room all cleaned up and rearranged. Is it bad form to use your athame to scrape candle wax off the altar? I put the candle sticks in the freezer and whaduyaknow--it really does make it easy to get the wax off of them ( Read more... )