rise and root

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The Flame Haired Solstice Dreamer

Cold winter brings the Everfrost and jewels every tree
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
A flame~haired dreamer wanders there and shelters from the wind
And spins her dreams around the trees to break the ties that bind
She takes her thread and spins anew and how the Greenwood smiles
As she spins a spell for freedom and for her spirit Wylde

The dreamer finds an ancient oak and shelters in his lee
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
Tis summer now and birdsong weaves its magick through her spells
And humming bees drum drowsily in the foxglove's bells
The dreamer sits beneath the oak with yarn upon her knee
And spins and knits and weaves her dreams and sets her spirit free

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"When birds fall from the sky and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people...shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. they will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow"

Hopi Prophecy

~waxing moon ideas~

well the dark moon has slipped by, this month my body welcomed this period of the moon with headaches and the days running up to it i was furiously working for a week to get my latest essay finished and to my tutor.

so now as she slips into waxing we enter again the time for new beginnings, new ideas, so what i ask myself will be new for me?

again i find myself thinking of time, my time and what i do with it. i find myself realising that with my studies i don't allow myself time for other things~i am so concerned with keeping ahead i do nothing else and that the day passes me by. so i have resolved to spend the mornings with my books and the afternoons free.

i want this time free for i have had a new idea, well not really a new idea, i am returning to an idea i had a few years ago and never really did anything beyond thinking about it.
well now, whats the point of ideas if i don't carry them through, i ask myself? no point at all i reply to myself.
a few years ago i registered with etsy with the aim of opening my own little etsy store...and that's as far as i went! about as useful as a chocolate fire guard don't you think?!
well the last few weeks i have been thinking about it again and thought...is it time now? yesterday i thought about it even more and i think its time.
i discussed it with swampy, because he has been working on a project for someone using the artistic skills he has and he seems to think its something we can both produce work for.
my ideas are varied but revolved around useful, interesting items.
in the past i have knitted little merino wool mobile phone and ipod holders for me and my sister, merino wool wristbands and bracelets and i have ventured into jewellery making, bag making and ceramics which i have given away to people over the years, or just kept stored away.



these have been stuffed in my knitting bag, although i made my sister a thick red wristband with a pewter dog charm attatched...



i love to make necklaces and bracelets with leather thongs and using pewter charms and beads...



my own well handled and worn ipod holder, i made a blue and grey one for my sister and a lilac mobile phone holder for her as well...

i have a few pages in my moleskine devoted to sketches of my new ideas...i just now need to bring them to life.
i am especially excited about some new jewellery ideas and cant wait to get out and buy my supplies (although typicallly, the camper has broken down and the replacement part will not be with us from france until early next week!) and i have asked swampy to get out his inks and other art supplies to make me up a few things...talk about crack the whip!

speaking of cracking the whip~time for me to get my books out!

5 comments:

Twiggy said...

Good luck with the new venture, love the necklaces.
Twiggy x

Anonymous said...

Awesome!
I love the pewter wristband and I love this whole post.
I am taking some time this week to work on my moon dreamboard for this month.
:)

Jopanofmanypets said...

sounds wonderful! I've been feeling off too, i assume because of the moon, but i feel alright now. I do hope your etsy venture works out. I've been considering doing something with etsy but i'm unsure what to do, hopefully you do well. Do you do an open university course or are you at a 'real life' uni? i'm sorry to be nosy its just that i'm finding it hard to make heads or tails of the open uni website.

Elizabeth Rhiannon said...

I love the things you have made! Especially the necklace. Funny, I did the exact thing with Etsy. Time to start crafting, good luck! ~ER~

mel said...

put me down for one of those jazzy iPod holders...I had my beady little eye on yours in one of the very first posts that I read!!

AND...I was just thinking about it again this morning....!!!! Sychronicity, or what?!?!?!?

SO glad you're going to pursue this..I, too, have an empty etsy *shop*...great ideas, y'know..great ideas

xo

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Johney Gaul~1915

Johney Gaul~1915
1890-17 september 1918~France