New tattoo

I had been planning to get a tattoo that commemorates having my son. I fell in love with this wolf design, which has enough similarity to my siberian reindeer that it works for me. 

It's on my front shoulder, with the head turned toward my heart but it's forward motion away off my shoulder... very much like my son!

For those that might not know, my son's second middle name is "Wolfe".  I am very happy with my newest tattoo! My artist is K-Inks Tattoo, she has done ALL my tattoos.

Blessed Imbolc!

Blessed Imbolc!

One of the traditions of Candlemas is to make candles.

So I got things set up and Kevin and I made beeswax candles. First we dipped. I used a clothes drying rack to hang the tapers between dips. That worked very well.  Kevin enjoyed doing it but I ended up doing most of the dipping, as it's a long repetitive process. But not as long as you'd think... the wax builds up quickly.

Once we were done making tapers, we poured some pillar candles into empty juice tubes. You need to make sure to buy the juice tubes that are cardboard so that you can rip off the cardboard when the candles are set.

We ended up with some lovely candles when we were done!  We use the tapers for meals at the table, to make eating together a little fancier. The pillars are used mostly for magic. :)