44 Days of Witchery - Day 31

44 Days of Witchery - Day 31
A favorite pagan/witchy movie.

44 Days of Witchery - Day 30

44 Days of Witchery - Day 30
Witchy tools:  Wand

 I'm not a huge wand user. More of an athame girl. <<shiney>>

But this is from the corkscrew willow in our yard. It's a slow work in progress. I'm not done prepping it.

We also have walking sticks and twigs for crafting from this willow.

44 Days of Witchery - Day 29

44 Days of Witchery - Day 29
Water Element

A person can hardly live in the area I live in and remain completely disconnected from Water.  I live in a city along the Mississippi River (or just, The River).  In fact, where I live is the only place where The River flows east to west.

The River permeates our lives. It floods almost every year, and we adapt. Many people live on one side of The River and work on the other. We who live here are often crossing back and forth if not daily, usually weekly, at least monthly.

It is beautiful; giving us amazing photos of itself, it's wildlife, giving us entertainment. It is ugly; the site of industry, pollution, contaminated water and fish. It drives people to great lengths to clean it up. To avoid it. to seek it out.

I happen to be very fond of Ancient Egypt and it's mythology, and I see The River as that Great River... a reflection of the celestial Nile. The water that flowed through the Nile in Egypt has flowed through the Mississippi. It gives me a deeper connection to the mythology of Egypt, especially since we are nearly at an almost perfect annual inundation every spring/summer.

It is Water, with all it's beauty and challenges. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

44 Days of Witchery - Day 28

https://www.etsy.com/shop/katwise

44 Days of Witchery - Day 28
A picture of a witchy I-want-it-now!

I don't care what color it is.
I don't care how I get one.
I WANT ONE OF THESE SWEATER COATS.

Now please.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/katwise


PS:  She sells a how to booklet on how to make one. I bought it already. I have some sweaters, mostly black and grey. I just need a serger that can stand up to making it! I'm not sure my serger will survive.

UPDATE:  I don't have one of the Katwise coats but I did get myself a sweater made by a friend, Saren, of Vespertine Fabrications. Contact her for awesome fiber art clothing!

Zentangle!

I have yet another new hobby! lol... I'm doing Zentagle... basically it's doodling with rules. I used to doodle a lot when I was younger (in school). I didn't take notes in class... I doodled, and it helped me concentrate on what the teacher was saying.

Anyway, I've come back to doodling. I enjoy the Zentangle style... there's hundreds of patterns. Usually it's more flowing looking, but I had to fill a pentacle from the moment I started playing around with this. :)  I also plan to do some of the zendala (mandala templates filled with zentangle).

There's a whole money-making industry around this, but you don't need to spend anything except for some decent paper and a good fine tip pen. I have mixed media paper and a Sakura Micron 05 pen (which is what is recommended and I like it better than ultra fine sharpies).  I also happened to have the Zentangle for Beginners booklet but I got it free at the CHA Craft and Hobby trade show in Chicago a few years ago. You don't need the book though. You can google Zentangle or you can stop by www.tanglepatterns.com and learn a lot there. That's where I found the most patterns.

A few of the patterns in my pentacle above were zentangle patterns I found. A couple of them I made myself from witchy symbols, like the center which is a repeated protection symbol.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend. :)

44 Days of Witchery - Day 27

44 Days of Witchery - Day 27
Picture of Nature (Earth Element)

Tree
Yellow lichen growing on a tree
very earthy to me

44 Days of Witchery - Day 26

44 Days of Witchery - Day 26
A Witchy Podcast

Well... I don't really listen to podcasts much! I used to but the job I had at the time nixed that.  I never got back to listening to them.

So I went looking for a witchy podcast. I only tasted a couple but wasn't satisfied. I finally came to PaganFM and am listening to it right now. It's ok. I'm not into listening to politics so I doubt I'll keep listening to this, right now I'm waiting for the next song to come on and that's really it.

So, if you have a favorite witchy podcast that's ABOUT witchy stuff and not just politics... frankly, I get enough politics day to day... if I'm going to use my very valuable time to listen to a podcast, then I do not want to have it be about politics. Anyway, if you know of one, do share. I'm interested. :)