My homemade holiday gifts!

For Christmas I made my each of my girls a mushroom... it's made out of the coil bowl from Wee Folk Art website with the COOLEST tutorials on making stuff! Anyway, they provide the how-to for the bowl, and I imagined a mushroom!


The cap comes off the mushroom to reveal a little gnome inside. By the time I was done the gnome had accumulated a few accessories... a few tiny hand painted mushrooms, a wooden tree, and some crystals. I wrapped it before I took pics of the whole ensemble!


Also, earlier this week a friend taught me how to wet felt... and I ran with it! I created a whole bunch of flowers, but I only had time to make a few into barrettes and headbands.

Anyway, here's my mad post as I try to get ready to get our celebrations going today! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

My kitchen altar

So, I thought I'd introduce myself a bit by way of posting about some of my altars. I'll start with the kitchen...

My kitchen altar is dedicated to Hestia, and thus has a red "cauldron" with a black grounding stone underneath. I have an iron toy grinder, representing ye olde kitchen "gadgetry". I made the clay cauldron and Goddess a long time ago especially for this altar. Hestia doesn't have many representations, other than fire, as she was a hearth goddess, whose worship appears to have been so ingrained in everyday life that little was left to tell her story. In this sense, I really like having Hestia as a Goddess in my house... she is what she is to me... and in some ways that's easier when I don't feel like I'm going "against" others' perceptions.


I have the tiny flowers in the vase, usually daisies. The cauldron is full of dried rose petals symbolizing love coming from my hearth. The fairy card is just there because I like it ;)

The following is a picture of my season table all set up for Spring. I like to make felted dolls of wire and wool, and my season "fairies" are my favorite of all. They're the only ones I don't let the kids play with. Some of the props such as the amethyst and larger branches are consistent from season to season, but others change. The doll in this picture is a maiden in spring... and she's pouring meadow flowers from her cornucopia. The strawberry children are present, representing the early fruits and other crops.


I love keeping up with my season table... although speaking of it, I should go change it to summer! I'll post pictures again when it's made the metamorphosis!