Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts

Holiday Tree Decorating


I'm so excited today - we are decorating the Magic Lamp for the holidays!!!!!!!!


Getting the tree ready to go in!


Using the trimmings from the tree to make a pretty tablescape!


I'm not sure what happened but it was like the tree came in the Lamp & lost all it's needles, so viola! Nightmare Before Christmas tree!


I've got skeletons & spiders galore!


And one last thing, BF made a pallet tree, so I painted it, we both worked on the lights!




The New Me




I wanna be a Disney Princess.
Now don’t get me wrong I know I’m a real person with real issues, 
which is probably why I'm sitting here alone, in the dark, crying 
again because my heart feels like it is cracking in half.
Why? You ask.


Because this year has been FUCKED UP!


Nothing major’s happened to me or mine, but really truly aren’t those 
the days that just trudge along?
You feel like you are walking miles and miles, making great really 
strides in where you want to be, then you see a sign post revealing 
that you have only gone no where, yet somehow made it to yet another 
stretch of boring repetitiveness with no end to the drudgery in sight.
These are days that I wish I was a Disney Princess.
At least then I would know that in an hour or so all my angst & 
anguish would be cleared up (for good this time).
Then again knowing my luck, I’d end up Giselleish and get sucked into 
the real world wearing a big poofy wedding dress and be all OMG & WTF 
just happened while trying to maintain my waving wings & glitter habit 
in a world that just simply no longer believes in magic or in magical 
girls.


What catastrophic event took place you ask?
Well, yeah, the Paris attack, and lots of shootings, and other hate 
and crap, but those events aren’t enough to trigger plummeting to the 
depths of depression and distraction.


Nope, in this case – I’m a human being.


I lost my connection to a few people I had considered to be my very 
closest friends.
And with the New Moon’s darkness highlighting the tangles of 
information are now shining bright and clear.
I know that I need to release the connections that no longer serve me 
or mine and forge an even stronger bond with myself.


For I have been reminded that:
I am a princess who can stand on her on two feet.
I am a warrior that can fight her own battles
I am the Moon capable of great change in a single month.
I am the Witch standing proudly in the fire with my head held high.


I am choosing to push forward with my own health and healing in the 
year to come.


All this and a bag of rice cakes
(hey don’t tell me it’s supposed to be chips, chips taste good and 
this is crappy kinda like rice cakes – so there), while still





I will be the heroine of my own story.
Or at the very least the Villainess.


Yeah she probably has way more fun.

International Folk Festival

We woke up this morning and since I am feeling better we decided to
brave the weather (cool & drizzly)
to go to IFF!



Ok, so my town is abso amazing!

I love the fact that we (as a town) celebrate all kinds of things,
but my favorite is the Folk of the Town.

We have a parade and then you can eat your way around the world.


Loving the start of the parade



















Gotta get this type of outfit for the Bunny




This man makes me smile so very very big each and every year.
This year that smile was marred by tears, because it breaks my heart that he marches alone.









End of the parade - the Motorcycles!



And after the fact we walked around downtown.

Bunny got lamb from the Greek booth, I scored a crab cake and then
we tried perogies from the Ukraine & FryBread from the Native American booth.





Pagan Pride Raleigh

It's time for on of my FAVORITIST times of the year!!!!!!


I am so excited for this weekend, it is truly one of my abso must go events of the year!
I love seeing all the peoples I haven't seen in forever and learning
new stuffs. But my very favorite thing
IS THE SHOPPING!!!!!!!!! Yes, the shopping!!!!!



Bunny & Me catching kisses in the park


Pan even showed up!



This is a shot of one of the areas where shopping occurs


Lovely little screech owl - he collided with a car and is now a rehab bird


Bunny with his new drinking horn - doesn't he look so happy :)


And this was my crowning piece of the day! 
Bunny bought me a gorgeous leather journal to use as my new Book of Shadows.
It has hand made cotton pages, and embossing on the cover.
I just want to pet it.