If Today Is Crap For You.....

'God long ago drew a circle in the sand

exactly around the spot

where you are standing right now'

I have loved this quote from the moment I first read it.

On days when life is just shocking or sad, it helps to remind me that this day is part of a bigger plan and all I need to do today is find something to smile about

as I move from stone to stone, onto serenity and greatness.

Change is the only constant.

This too shall pass.

This post is dedicated to a wonderful friend who has made a big decision

she is wise and brave

and we love her

xxx

Off to bake Cookies with a little chef

xxx

Sheree

Feeling The Up Coming Raven Moon

One more week till we click over into Raven Moon and Im trying not to get too excited.  Really I think I should be able to feel like this any time of the year right??  but truth is I dont.

When it's a Raven Moon my creativity and plans soar to new heights, its the time of year when all I have concentrated on suddenly bursts forward into the next level of reality.

Last year it was health, this year its my work that Im focusing on.  And with my daughter starting day care in a few weeks I am going to have 3 days to make my dreams real where at the moment I get one day.

And I love that one day, yesterday I updated my Etsy shop, had a photoshoot with myself and my remote control shutter ( I adore that thing, best $8 I ever spent! ) gardened, cleaned, painted, read, ate an amazing lunch, hung washing, fed chickens, talked uninterupted on the phone to friends and talked to my plants.  But I always get a little bit excited when Im going out the drive to pick up my daughter, to hear of what amazing things she got up to too in Grandma land.

Days off are great for BOTH of us!



Here is something I have been working on for nearly a month!  It just takes so long to get anything done at the moment, my farm seems to have become my full time job.

*Pendulum Charts*

I have had a pendulum for many years and use it regularly but was so frustrated with the charts that were out there, they all had far too much of an occult feeling which was heavy and dark and made me feel I should be hiding away doing Pendulum work under the moon with candles etc.  Thats just not how I feel about my pendulum and I wanted something that was about light and sunshine and happiness... like rainbows!

So I painted 6 charts which I felt would cover all the bases of the questions I have.  They are such a joy to use that I decided to copy and laminate them and send them out to the world., for others to use too.

SO here is a run down on the 6 charts...

But first a little something for those of you who dont use a Pendulum yet.

About Pendulums

Anything that has a weight and hangs from a string can be used as a Pendulum, but a properly made balanced Pendulum will give the best results. There are many theories on how the Pendulum works and what it can be used for, some say it reacts to knowledge which is not yet in the conscious mind and seeing as we are here with a full knowledge of our lives and are day by day remembering, that makes this tool work. You will find a Pendulum more useful as a 'Where To Focus Your Energies' tool, rather than for 'Reading The Future'. Change is constant and every decision we make is altering our paths like the branches of a tree.


Use this tool for personal use of for others with their permission. The Pendulum will not answer questions about others without their permission.

How To Use A Pendulum

Hold the Pendulum between thumb and index finger, and have your elbow on a table to keep you steady. These charts are created with a center point (bottom of chart) which is where your Pendulum should hang when still. Speak your questions out loud and keep your Pendulum informed of what you are thinking, this saves confusion. After asking the question you may still ask it regularly while the Pendulum swings to keep you both on track. Be thankful for every answer you get. The more familiar you are with your Pendulum, the better it will respond, so spend some time together like old friends.


If the Pendulum seems to be completely off track ask it if your should stop for today, respect it's times for answering and for not. Most of all..Have Fun
 

Alphabet SoupFor the discovery of names, places etc. Ask for spelling and go letter by letter, saying first letter please etc, run thru previous letters each time you ask for a new letter. When letter is correctly identified pendulum swings back to the center and is still. When complete check if correct on 'Yes No Maybe So' chart

 

Positive Energy

This chart is used for all decisions in life, a 'Mean Positive Energy' chart helps you see if the decision your about to make, question your about to ask, proposal, idea or journey has a positive energy attached to it. The segments are in % of 10 – 100, so 10 not so good, 50 win or lose its fine, 100 go for it. Its like the little guardian angel helping weave our path to happiness.

Yes No Maybe So

A Million and One uses. This chart can be used alone and is the main chart for many Pendulum's. 'Ask Again' suggests the question is confusing or unable to be answered with yes/no. Re-phrasing is needed. 'Not Now' suggests it's a question that you do not need the answer to at this time.
 

What to Do With Myself

This chart is for those days when you are wandering in circles around the house. You don't mind what you do, you just wish there was some motivation to do something. Ask your pendulum what activity will help you get the most joy out of your day, or inspiration, or relaxation, or results.

Chakra Healing

Feeling an issue has risen with no topic to fix it by? Check your chakra's and see if they are blocked. Ask 'are there any chakra's which need attention'
Find a good chakra and crystal book and use their techniques to clear the blockage and let things go.
 

Time and Space

A chart for all those timing questions but also for discovering how to really work with yourself for better result, work smarted not harder.
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring we all prosper in different seasons, find when its best for you to start new project, make changes, let go and rest.
Months of the year for questions about changes, prosperity, career, love, family...when will it happen...when??
Hours in the day for finding your most focused achievable time bracket, use the 'Yes No Maybe So' chart to confirm if the time is am or pm.
Weekdays to get on top of your week, discover how the week best works for you, working hard at the start and relaxing at the end??

Bright Light and Fun is definitely the word here.  I love being in the presence of these charts.

Today Im working on making pendulums too, for sale, I was looking at crystal or brass ones but you can get those anywhere so I am making some special Raven Moon Magic ones.

Mine is Brass

The more you use the Pendulum the more efficiently you work together, so practice practice practice and find your own way of how things work, my ways work for me but I have read many books where techniques differ, as long as its consistent your way will work too.

6 Charts and Instructions

$17US / $20NZ  in my Etsy shop

Another thing I have for sale now is Smudging Sage.  After doing the Goddess Haven course I was amazed at the number of women who didnt know where to find some or couldnt find some Sage to burn to release their homes/spaces negativity.

Seeing as I grow a ton of this plant I have packaged it up for a weeny $4US / $5NZ to send it out to you.  So this is also in my ETSY store.

I am working on more book banners again but this time they are in colour too, eveything is getting very colourful around here, after a whole exhibition in the black, maybe Im finally free of all of that, I certainly feel it.  Nothing like diving into the darkness and doing the work, hard as it is ladies it is worth it in the end.  And to think that just over a year ago I was thinking it would just be best to kill myself!! eek yes its true, I just couldnt see that my life could come out of the blackness I was in.

How wrong was I !!



Peace Love and Mung Beans To All

xxx

Sheree

Turning Of The Sage

I am obsessed with a new tool I have found on Picasa and its the Tinting Tool.

No picture is safe from being transformed into a 70s golden time warp picture.

I love it and have a new story in mind with this magic tool as the star.

How fun will this one be!!

Here is Indi with her cousin Lauren, one child photo shoot, easy peasy, 2..not so, 3 impossible! but we got there in the end.  My mum will take these pictures to Scrapbook camp and put fairy wings on them, made from OHP plastic and glitter paint.

It has been rather a beautiful winter and will probably go down as my favorite so far, this is 7.30am, already warm enough to play outside.  I like to suggest its always warmer at our house because we are on a high hill, closer to the sun!  People look at me like Im crazy, but Im convinced its true!

And this is my most favorite part of the gardening year.

Its not harvesting or watching seeds hatch or even my babies thriving.

its the

'TURNING OF THE SAGE'

Every year over the end of Summer, Autumn and Winter Sage becomes small scraggy and dry looking, although its still very much alive it looks very much dead.

For me the changing of seasons is hinted at by my beloved Sage, a plant I fell in love with growing when I worked in Italy.  Its also close to my heart because when I was pregnant they say donot eat it.  I found out why, after all I have the most sensitive body ever, and I ended up in hospital at 32 weeks with contractions, my body trying to spit my baby out, but she mananged to crawl up under my ribs to get away from all the drama, very strange for the doctors, a first for them!  Another story there!  All was well, she stayed put!

Anywhooo...

This is what is happening in my garden right now, the green on the Sage is appearing before your eyes, It looks so lush excited to be here.  It has woken from its winter slumber and rubbed its eyes, ready to expand to widths and take over the garden...

fresh green on dry green, in real life its a comforting sight

Spring Is Coming

Then Heady Hot Summer

This is the part I love most, this is my signal to get going get planting get ready for feasts to come.

Strawberries a plenty, we have planted 32 more plants!



and the Chamomile Divas are everywhere, you only ever have to plant once and you will have these friends forever...

This is our new addition to the family

Crazy Daisy

Goats are great, to watch their antics, for the kids and for keeping random bits of grass down, everytime she sees someone she bleets, its nice to be acknowledged that often!

She is healing a hole in my heart  (no pressure Daisy) left by our previous goat Heidi, who died after we went a partied with friends for the weekend while she got tangled in the sun and dehydrated and died. I have never been able to forgive myself, she was so special.

We got her as an orphan from the mountain you see in the first goat photo, her mummy had abandoned her because she was born with 3 legs!  her missing one is a little hook.  We got her as a 2 weeks old and she was the size of a cat, a screaming hungry little cat!

Funny when Kelly went to pick her up we thought we would need a trailor, when he came home I thought he hadent got her, and there she was curled up in the front seat of the truck. sooooo cute.  Everyone had a soft spot for rascally Heidi  sniff sniff : (

Back to tinting......just cant stop!!

and more tinting, this is India's face after painting a masterpiece, she gets her wild thrashing painbrush methods from watching me lately, letting it all out!

Well dishes to do, washing to fold,  200 or more magazines to go thru and rip out pages I love before they go off to the market, sick cow to tend to, house to tidy, floor to sweep, crackers to make and child to play with.

Ohhh and a bit of Tinting!!

I cant stop singing this song HERE

and I even found it on you tube for you with a 'Return To The Blue Lagoon' home made video, which is a movie I luuurvv.  I always wanted to be stranded on an Island.

I listen to this music and other old stuff when I have a day off because it reminds me of days gone by, of absolute freedom which seems to transport my body back in time and I can truely relax!

Hope you find time to relax today, and I hope those of you in the Southern Hemisphere are running outside to check your

Sage

Sheree

xxx



Crafting A Little Goddess

The sun was shining on this wintery day and I decided to sit on my bed in the warmth, peacefulness and absolute quiet and just MAKE something...

not for a challenge, not to sell, not a gift or treasure for my daughter to destroy and not because it was planned in advance

just sit and create something for ME.

I drew a Goddess....

she held the world inside her and had the mind of absolute wisdom and remembered knowledge.

I gathered some bits, a bead, a stick, a bracelet, crystals, indian stamps, dimantes and a special paper clay my wonderful friend Cameron had sent me from USA.

aAs I sat she came to life over an hour of meditative bliss, I got lost in the moulding and relaxed more than I do in my relaxation work!

She is perfect to me

for some reason when I sculpt womens faces they are always Aztec looking, when I do men they are 100% American Indians...does anyone else find this repeated style??  It feels I have no idea how to do anything else no matter how much I try to squish out those facial features.

Now I just let it be.

She has an Amythest in her crown, to channel all her wisdom, a Turquoise coloured third eye...

and holds a terminated Quartz in her Solar Plexus to radiate all that energy to the world.  I sculpted her in a bracelet so she had a level defined base...and of course its Beautiful India made.

the thing with sculpting in white is how purely she emerged, so pristine..

I find making anything with a face is an overwhelming crafting experience, you have created a person where before you held only resources and potential....but now someone is here and they have manifested thru you...If I had sculpted a leaf or shape it would never have held a space like this human form has...I have created life...

Very Frankenstein maybee?? "Its Alive!!" 

I took my Goddess to my Ladies Art Night and spent the whole night painting her in water colours, at first it was hard to destroy the pure whiteness I was used to seeing her as, but as I moved to the next stage it became very satisfying to see the new colourful Goddess emerging. I also used gold leafing which makes everything it touches come alive : )

For the patterns I used my tiny Indian Metal Bindi Stamps

and down her back she has chakras

When do I use her??

She sits on our Collection Table or Alter some might say, its the place where all the daily treasures we find are placed and all the bits we love are displayed.

Today I took her outside to help me with some garden healing.

Because I am doing the 'Goddess Haven Course' over at 'Goddess Guidebook' I have been cleansing and healing all the spaces in our life and one I really wanted to work on is our garden.  We only eat our own veges and a friends down the road so this space sustains and nurtures us probably more than any other.  I give back as much as I can, with  manure mmmm and plenty of seaweed and fish sprays and natural ground powders.  We adore our garden and send it heaps of love.  So when Goddess Leonie taught us about Crystal Gridding as part of the course I knew this was perfect to raise the energy of my healing garden space.

I blessed my crystals with my goddess's presence and then planted them in the dirt in a grid to raise energy.  Turquoise is perfect for garden energy and is great for healing and energising plants, the Quartz is used as the energiser centre and reflects the energy everywhere.

I set the intention to not only raise the energy of the food we will eat but to create a space that soothes your body as well when you are in the garden, clam the mind, be happy etc.

Since then I have let the garden rest and have not worked in it all week, so we will see what this weekend brings!!

I will be involving my Goddess in many more things Im sure.

I know she will now watch over all the crafts I make to keep my intentions true and enlightened,

more about crafting for others pleasure

rather than money$$$

I sure do need an ETSY makeover with some new stock!

Happy September to All

Im waiting till the 23rd to Celebrate the Spring Equinox with the moon so I still have 20 more days of this amazing Winter to dance in, it has been the best Winter I can ever remember, so sunny and dry!

Love to All.

Especially those in the North getting your bits ready for Halloween!

One day I will visit you and join in!

xxx

Sheree