Mother Moon Giveaway!

One of my favorite blogs is having a giveaway for her one year anniversary! Mother Moon has been on my blog roll for quite some time and for good reason. She has an awesome blog! Oh and she is awesome as well! She is so full of magical wisdom, recipes, personal stories and so much more in between. If you have not introduced yourself to her blog, I urge you to find your way over here and become one of her many followers!

Thank you Mother Moon for having this great giveaway and congratulations on one magical year!

Happy Summer Solstice and a Gift from a Lovely Friend :)

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! I am finding it hard to believe it's summer though. As of yesterday we still had rain and cool weather. I am trying so hard to respect what Mother Nature is bringing us here in the Northwest but I am pleading for more sun from Her! Today we had a glimpse of brighter weather and Quincy and Emma decided to sun bathe with what little sun we had. :)

Uh oh, he discovered the fresh catnip.

Also, I received a beautiful gift from Jen over at Rue and Hyssop. Jen sent me this book when she discovered my new found interest, crystals! It was so thoughtful of her to send this book to me and I am getting so much out of it. Thank you, Jen!! I am going to be making some bath salts to put in a jar and infuse with oils and a crystal to empower it. I will post about it once I'm finished!

She included this beautiful card!

Inside was a wealth of information on crystals and uses and it was simple to read and lots of colorful pictures. My kind of book, lol!

Thank you again, Jen!! I will cherish this book and it will stay put in my magickal library. :)

Let the Drying Begin!

Okay so I lied....

According to my last post I was back from my hiatus. Nope! I lied! Ugh....so sorry everyone for being out of the loop for so long. Life has thrown me some curves lately and, to be honest, I lost all interest in spirituality for quite sometime. Some of you have even visited me on my other blog...you know who you are, Judith...Jen..and others! Thank you all for loyally following me on my other blog while I took a break from this one. Things are slowly but surely turning around for me. The rain really got me down, yet again. It kept teasing us with sun then going back to the horrid, drabby, gray and rainy weather. This weekend is supposed to be in the 80's and sunny for at least the foreseeable future. Yay!

I hope you all have been well!! A quick peek at my deck. At least my plants are in full swing with herbs, veggies and flowers. I am awaiting another wonderful rose bush called Tahitian Sunset and I can't wait to show you all a picture of it once it blooms.

So, hopefully I will be back for awhile now. I just can't let life get to me the way it has. I've missed you all so much!!

Lot and lots of blessings.....and triple more for making up the time I've lost with you all! xoxo

Finally Back From My Long Hiatus!

Hi guys! I am so sorry I have been away for so long. The last few months I have really struggled with S.A.D. It's really strange, I have been in Oregon for 14 years and it's just now hitting me. I'm sure there were other factors involved but having one gray day after another just made me so blue. All I could do is get up for work and then come home and crawl in bed and escape in a Netflix movie. Sometimes two a night. I was even contemplating moving back to sunny California! I am feeling much better these days though! Go figure, it's getting sunnier here. :) Hope you all have been well and wonderful. I have recently had my sister and niece visit and that helped snap me out of it. My mom is coming in a week for a visit. I think they all knew what I was going through and came to the rescue. I am so thankful and blessed to have a wonderful close family. :)

So, I am back from my break. My "meditation" room is up and running and I will be back to regular blogging. Also, having company sort of forced me to put the room together (a good thing) and now I feel like my space is back and is giving me renewed energy to get back into my spiritual self again.


Thank you all for your kind patience. :)

Warm blessings to you all and hope you are celebrating the coming of Spring with open arms as I am.

xoxo

I'm still alive!

So sorry for not posting for so long. I have been battling with a bout of depression lately. It comes and goes and I'm not sure if it's the weather or a mid-life crisis. Ha! I haven't felt very creative lately or very connected to spirit and I am finding not being connected really does have it's consequences. Ugh.

In any event, I did want to tell you all about a masquerade ball I will be attending next Saturday! It's held every year here in Portland at a beautiful three story ballroom. It's called The Vampire's Masquerade Ball. Take a look at last year's ball. :)



I will be wearing the most beautiful top I haven't been able to wear until now. I'll have to post a picture later.

Hope you're all doing, well, better than me! :)

Beautiful blessings to you all!

A secret desire...

Yes, I do have one as I'm sure we all do. This is mine..and I am thinking one day very soon I will be taking lessons! Have any of you tried belly dancing? Such expression in dancing!

And this is one of my favorite videos depicting the elusive belly dancer...

What is your secret desire?