Friday, January 27, 2012

Witchcraft is my religion, not my phenotype

Read this first: http://heathenbydesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/flakes-faeries-and-dabblers.html

I love a good costume as much as the next girl, but Heathen By Design is right. There is a time and a place for Witchy/faerie/what are you? costumes, and if it's not Halloween, you should leave it at home.
People think witches are very much, the insane, green skinned, warty old woman. I am not going to satisfy the Christian idea of a witch. So I wear jeans and tee shirts, because even though I practice Witchcraft, it is not my phenotype.
Genetically, I am Homo Sapien sapien, pheno-typically, I am a white girl with brunette hair, and a strange set of eye-brows.
Being a witch does not mean you are so different. We are all the same.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Prayer/Chant Beads

 Hey, finally a post! I haven't made much these past few weeks and I'd like to try to make more as I get used to my new schedule.

Anyway, I made these prayer beads for three reasons.
1) I've always like prayer beads, and wanted some that weren't filled with energy from another religion.
2) The long bead kind of looks like a Goddess figure, and I haven't been able to use it for anything else.
3) I saw these, and I just wanted to make my own.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/67925690/bramblevine-witches-ladder-prayer-beads 



Oh, and I finally have a "real" pentacle, that I can wear everyday, and my parents won't freak. And I think it looks like a fun piece of jewelery, so no one would know.
I say "real" because I don't think it was specifically made as a pentacle, it just looks like one; but I really like it.
Also, I added the tigers eye and leaf thing because it was only a little gold bead before, and I thought that it looked ugly.

Thanks for looking, Blessed Be.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

2012 and many mazes

Hey, I didn't do much of anything the last month of last year; unless you include trying not to cry because my older sister kept hurting my feelings. (golly, I'm a whiner :P)
Anyway, I spent Christmas with my family, so I couldn't do anything Wicca related, so I spent the month reading "Looking For Alaska" and "Paper Towns" and "The Fault in Our Stars" all three books by John Green of the youtube duo: The Vlogbrothers (see also, Nerdfighters.com) . (Read them, you will not regret it, also "An Abundance of Katherines" is really good - same author. But I don't reccomend Will Grayson Will Grayson)

Anyway, another thing I have been doing, while I wait for my pell grant to come in so I can buy my school books, is making graph paper mazes.


It's relaxing and fun and it makes me feel like I'm doing something educational for my brain-parts. It's actually a little harder than you think, because you have to keep from boxing yourself in, but you still try and make cool designs. The maze in the upper right hand corner was the hardest, as I could only make diagonal marks. It's fun, if you have a little time and some graph paper, I highly reccomend it as a quick brain challenge.