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April Component of the Month! Headpins...

 (If you are looking for the "Inspired by Reading" post and creative reveal - please click here. )

Goddess of Winter, Goddess of Spring...

 It may have been a year ago that I started this necklace. And as another turn of the wheel goes by, I am finally finished this necklace. I want to thank my friend, and our hostess - Sally Russick, for the incentive and inspiration to finish this!

History Hop... My Medieval muse, my Celtic roots.

Hop to it! (Just a wee pun for our hostess, Leah of Beady Eyed Bunny...)

The brief - select a period of History - which in and of itself was a HUGE challenge for me. I liked and was inspired by so many... and create a piece inspired by that time, those people, their materials, their style...The choices: 

Button Swap Blog Hop

Good Morning! Welcome to the Button Swap Blog Hop! Thanks Cindy for hosting!  I have quite a journey to share, with interesting results - so refill your beverage and let me tell you the tale...

B is for Brigid - Happy Imbolc

Brigid

Imbolc - the Feast Day of Brigid - goddess and saint. Marking the halfway point from mid-winter to the coming of spring, days are a bit longer, early blooms are soon to bud. Brigid, the goddess of fire, of inspiration, healing, poetry, smithcraft. St Brigid - keeper of the flame, Abbess of Kildare. 

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Standing over a cauldron, tossing in snippets of this, portions of that - brewing up a potion, a recipe in a cauldron. You imagine them, sisters three, over a large smoky steaming cauldron, aged, gnarled and bent - Shakespeare's Three Witches. Or perhaps you imagine a younger more contemporary potion maker - young Hermione sitting, small cauldron inher lap, brewing Polyjuice Potion in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. (I DID just get back from vacation to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando...)

The goddess and the lunar hare

Faux Bone - just what the name implies, a relatively new material, related to PVA plastic, yet non toxic and high quality. It was launched on the market by Robert Dancik, and I have had it on the workbench for months! Wanting to try shaping, sanding, carving, impressing, staining... this versatile material. So here is the first attempt: 

Faux bone goddess

Catching up... and creative undertakings

Where did last week go? I lost a few days in a pollen induced haze of headaches and general lethargy. It is amazing how fantastic "Normal" feels after running  on depleted energy stores. SO last week-  no posts. Oops. 

This week - there is a lot going on. Meeting today with the amazing M. Carol Mauer to finalize our plans for a ceramic finger labyrinth class. Should be wonderful. More on that ASAP. (It will be soon, in Wilmington, DE)

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