Seven African Powers Incense

4 TBLSP. Frankincense (small grains or powdered)
3 TBLSP. Myrrh (small grains or powdered)
2 TBLSP. Cinnamon (powdered)
1 TBLSP. Sage (powdered)
1 TBLSP. Sandalwood (powdered)
1/2 TBLSP. Dragon’s Blood (powdered)

Finished The Cloak

It took halfway to forever, but I finally managed to finish The Boy's cloak.  The outer fabric turned out great and has an awesome color and a little shimmer.  We're both pretty satisfied with it overall, which makes me pretty happy.  We may put something on the back with a bleach pen, if we like the way it turns out, but... we'll see.

My Creations So Far

I've been working on some crafty stuff for FaerieWorlds and finished a couple of them last night. One is a brown shirt with leaves sewn around the bottom of it to give kind of an earth faerie look. The other is a pouch for the boy to carry money in that would match his cloak.

 

I have one more big project, which is The Boy's Cloak.  I also have to patch a pair of his hippie pants, but probably won't put the pants up.  Off to work on the cloak!

Wand Update

Well... My wand is looking good, except it's stuck at about halfway done. I need to saw off the nubs and the end, which isn't going to happen until I get a hold of a hand saw, which isn't probably won't happen for awhile, so for now I've got a random stick floating around and every time I see it, I hear the words "finish me" in my head. I must admit, it's making me feel a little nuts, lol.

Oh Yea!

I totally forgot to mention this! I decided yesterday that along with searching for a job, reading blogs, and working with Photoshop, I am also going to be working more intently on my religion and spirituality. I've been working a bit with herbs, nothing to big, and yesterday I began my wand.

James and I went for a walk yesterday and I happened to pass by a branch. Now, this branch was nothing special, slightly cracked, stubs all over it, to be honest, it was a slightly ugly branch. I stripped the bark off and then under it the was a dark layer of skin, kinda... Forgive me, I'm not a tree scientist or anything like that, lol. Well, under the dark layer of skin, I found a nice light colored wood. I sanded it down and took a break about halfway through the sanding and went to sleep. I started back on it this morning. Stripping away the skin, and sanding, over and over until I had a good 16 inches of it roughly sanded. I did a little more sanding just to smooth out the rough edges, and then remembered reading somewhere that when making a wand, you should oil it. I can't remember why you should oil it, but I went ahead and did it anyway.

I think that so far, I'm only about 50% done with it, but I'm very happy with how it's going so far. Once it's finished, I'll post another blog and add some pictures, but not until I've beautified it.