Making a Fairy House

This week Zahra and I got it into our heads to make a fairy house, but firstly let me say that making a fairy house is very serious business and should not be taken lightly.

The fae have very specific needs and this must not be overlooked when taking upon oneself the task of inviting them into a home you have build yourself, otherwise you may find yourself missing important items around the house, waking up with knotty hair or worse!

The first thing we had to do was gather together all the best things that fairies like. This was an easy task as the kids bring in all sorts of pine cones and goodies from our weekly walks in the forest. Then I had an idea to bring up to the deck an old stump we had in the garden to put the house on top of, which worked like a charm!

Then we tied together a triangle structure with sticks and string and then glued bark all over it, most of which came from the old stump.

Then of course we had to  add moss and make little mushrooms and ladybugs and a table, and a swing……

It really is in the small details, like a ladder to get in and out from, a hidden nest at the back, and berries for the fairies to eat, but most importantly, lets not forget to write them a note to let them know that the house is for them!

And when it is all done place it in the garden just by the offering shrine and tucked behind the bees for good luck!

And now we wait for the magic to happen!

Welcome Fairies!

Old Spider Woman

Old spider woman
Quietly makes her way up to the top of the hill
in the time of the red moon.

Once there

she sits quietly weaving,
and singing her songs through the skin of her drum,

and she cries out to the hearts of her daughters.

Daughters she says,

join me

gather all of the strings of your life together

and bring them to the meeting place,

at the top of the mountain, when the moon is high.

 

And together we shall weave and sing,

and dance our stories

until all the healing is complete.

By Nikiah Seeds

unfinished, just begun, done……

I have been working on some lovely projects over here this week, and I have been working back and forth between rooms, lovingly looking at one project, touching up another and finishing yet another….

This way of working has been transformational since I moved into my new craft room, as the same piece I left off with the day before, does not always call me when I wake up in the morning, so I need to move on, in order to listen to what is coming through in that moment…

It may mean that something that only needs a clasp does not get finished for a week or so, or something that is half finished and needs to be done in a timely manner gets left{like soaking rattle skins in dye for three days} only to be discovered that they did  not in fact rot, but rather the skin went really soft and the dye permeated it in a way I would have never known had I pulled them when I was supposed to!

Things happen, they succeed or fail, I never know which it will be until it is actually finished- and it is time to either take photos of it, or take it apart!

This morning I had a dream that I was walking into a room to teach a drum making workshop and to my great surprise the class was full–in fact over full and filled with both men and women. I was thrown off and then I realized to my horror that in my excitement to be teaching I had forgotten the actual drums!

The students took it well and agreed to come back the following week–I wonder what that could have meant? I do have a drum making workshop coming up but…..

Today my projects have spilled out into some photos for here, as my camera called to me this morning to the chagrin of my unfinished wolf necklace…….

And the Swan smudge wand I am working on using beautiful Swan feathers  found in England.

Oh- and the Deer antler rattle I am smoothing out to make a large rattle with, I can see this going to a wonderful and spiritual man with big hands.

Then there is the wonderful Maala using beads from Shanti Uganda, I have been asked to make for the Journey of 108 beads, I am praying and saying the Om mane padme hum, mantra over each bead, so I have to be calm and centered for this work, it is slow going but wonderfully meditative.

Once done the beads will travel all over the world and be used and prayed over 108 times, when the last person has worked and prayed with them they will then be sent back.

*sigh* And my bee boxes, which I am prepping to paint using the natural powder paint pigments I bought in England this past summer.

Setting up my silversmithing studio and getting my new soldering torch fired up!

There is so much to do, with updating my etsy shop and re-taking all of my jewelry shots to show them actually being worn...well it is fun and I am truly amazed every day that I sold my business in order to truly embrace my souls calling, that I had the support to do it and am following the call, wherever it takes me….