Not like, a dollhouse filled with tiny beds and toilets and stoves.
But like, a dollhouse where each room is a small shrine to a different deity.
Wouldn’t it be cool to start with something like this [source]….
… and have each room decorated as a shrine for a different deity? Paint the attic area dark blue and add sparkling stars and a moon, and add icons of Nwt and Khonsu, or images of ancestors. In that bottom left room, place your prayer books and books of myths on the left side of the room, and put statues of Djehuty or Minerva on the right. On the second floor, fill a room with small paper flowers and add a statue of Hethert or Aphrodite next to a cocktail glass for libations or a small vase of real, fragrant flowers. Maybe one room serves as a dining room with a miniature fine wooden table where you leave offerings for the whole pantheon.
Whatever floats your boat, and your gods’ boats!
I generally like the idea of having all the little individual shrines right next to each other, to combine into a bigger sacred holy space. I wanna do this now.
Wings for Nightbird is a free pattern for a gorgeous shawl that can be knitted in sport, dk or aran yarn. The pattern is available from Knitty, and you can put it in your Ravelry queue here.
This detailed tutorial shows how to use LED Lights in DIY Fashion:
“By using a pre-programmed LED chip from Cool Neon that can be controlled by remote, I avoided the need for arduino coding, making this project quite a simple one. I also used a new kind of LED strip that just became available: fully addressable rgb side emitting led strip.”
So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there – come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.
I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).
See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.
So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.
Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t
really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and
then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.
Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.
Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.
Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.
Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!
Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girls’ pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.
Today I stumbled across these bitchin’ binders on Zazzle. That’s right, these are 3 ring binders. Bound in faux leather, customizable, and with 3 different size options, these are a great alternative to a huge leather bound book for those of us on a budget. It also caters to those witches that prefer the 3 ring binders, as opposed to permanently bound books, but gives that beautiful and desired look for a Grimoire/Book of Shadows. I just can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before now. You can find them here for $25 a piece.
This is pretty freakin’ cool. I love binders because you can ORGANIZE easier.
Spell Candles Transfer text from tissue paper to a candle using wax paper and your hair dryer. You can print something too by taping the tissue to some card stock before sending through your printer. Use color tissue for color candles. You get the idea. Endless possibilities! Good tutorial here: http://www.theshabbycreekcottage.com/2011/10/day-5-easy-print-candles.html
(Note: candle will drip more than usual, so use a safety plate, or something, underneath the holder.)
Roll out log shapes or use cookie cutters to create your crayons
Leave crayons out overnight to air dry and harden
In the morning you will have tools to mark up your bath with magic that can easily be washed away with water
Tips:
You can separate your mixture to create different colours
If the mixture is too hard to mix with a fork use your hands to knead the mixture together
Spice jar candle
No green candles. But, I have an empty glass spice jar for a container, green crayons for color, a shit ton of tea lights for wax, a length of wick, and prosperity oil for power. All of these ingredients combined with the fact that I have to make the candle/s with intention, this is literally better than having what I need on hand.
The Carving Witch 