Crystals,Temples, Eggs, Sacred Jewelry and Honeycomb.

It has been full, full, full over here in the most wonderious ways! Summer kicked off with the bees expanding, the garden flourishing, chickens finally laying eggs, and my inspiration growing.

Of course I am in full on wedding season, writing ceremonies and watching moon eyes lovers commit themselves to each other. I was also honored to give a talk with my dear friends Madeleine and Suzanne from Lunapads with Kate Muker the mastermind behind Conscious Diva’s as she created a beautiful Red Tent event complete with red scarves and beautiful Henna done by my friend Nicole at Healing Body Art.

With all this ceremonial and goddess energy floating around I was able to channel it into a new line I am calling Ceremonial Jewelry designed with earth loving brides, priestesses and goddess women who are looking for a special piece to wear either to attend or facilitate their ceremonies. So far I have quite a few pieces up at the Shop!

This all came from the most recent batch of beads and crystals that I brought into the studio, just looking at them is inspiring enough sometimes!

Of course I wanted to photograph them on a real model before sharing them with the world, so my good friend and model Hanne brought along her daughter and we drove up to one of the most beautiful places I could think of, a Buddhist temple  in the middle of the city. We made incense offerings and sat down for tea and some lunch and then headed out to the gardens to take out photos while the girls played, it was an enchanting afternoon.

Later that day we came home to eggs laid by Marty Mc-fly/aka Marty 2.0 {the first was a rooster} named by Zubin after Marty in the movie Back To The Future. Our first eggs came just a little over a week ago with squeals of delight coming from Zahra, I shot these photos just shortly after said eggs were found!

And yesterday I went into the hives to do a check, making sure they are healthy and to see how much honey there would be for harvest, which is only in two short weeks-*squee*,  and this is what we saw!

I am always  amazed by what theses little creatures can create!

Tomorrow we head out to drive from Vancouver to California, stopping along the way to visit the Goddess temple and Collage of the Mellisae in Ashland.

I am planning to meet Laura Ferguson the director there, and she has promised to give me the grand tour! Photos and a post on that adventure coming up!

BUZZZZZing off for now……..

Nikiah