Unexpected Beauty

We are creatures of habit.  Every day, I follow the same routine - which involves a commute into work via the Park and Ride site to my nearest city.  It's tedious, to say the least - especially with the long dark kicking in, coupled with the frosts and the mud and the cold.  I struggle …

Starstone Magick

Starstone (or blue goldstone) is one of my favorite stones to work with.  Apart from anything else, it sparkles!  This is in fact a man-made crystal, and the glitter effect is down to the copper flecks suspended within glass.  The sparkle goes deep, as you turn the stone you can see more or less of …

Abundance Magick

The summer of 2017, was a summer of abundance magicks. Have you heard of the Rose of Jericho? It is seemingly dead when it arrives, but then when you put it in water it resurrects beautifully green with a greenwood smell.  I placed a small crystal inside it, let the plant dry out, then allowed it …

The Making of Jewels

Last Christmas I pulled out a pattern by Lynda Taylor that had been in my cabinet for 3 years.  It is categorised as an 'Advanced' level project from Interweave.  I'll be honest, it was daunting - all that peyote stitch, shaping...fine stitching, detail.  But it was a now or never moment - I was ready to graduate …

Being Brave in Your Beautiful Mistakes

"Love just needs a witness and a little forgiveness And a Halo of patience and a less sporadic pace and I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes" from "Cracks in a Crystal Ball", by P!nk Photo Source: Zenvita I was listening to this song on my drive into work today.  It made me …

Mandalas

I discovered Mandalas this year - it is an incredibly therapeutic pastime. I like my fine detail, so I make mine complex - I've started my design idea in pencil, going over with pencil once I'm satisfied. This one ended up being worked on a theme of circles within circles, so it is representative of …

The Latecomer

A couple of months ago I planted up some money tree seeds - part of the abundance magick I was working on at the time*.  All grew up differently - some flew, some took their own sweet time.Anyway, I was repotting the plants at the weekend. And I found, buried deep, a little seedling that …

A Part of my Autobiography

The Book of Sacred Sadness

Joy

Photo: - seeking photographer to credit! I'm on day 8 of Effy Wild's Blog Along!  I finally caught up!!  So...the prompt, paraphrased - What brings you joy? Ok not paraphrased at all...just kind of on topic! Love.  Simple connection with my soul folk.  And I have found so many soul folk lately, so my heart …

Purse Dump*

*A Purse Dump is a list form blog that lets you just get all the crap that’s in your head out on the page. Effy Wild I hate the turning season - this end of the year. I love the turning from winter to spring, but this is different.  I get to look forward to …