Decembers New Moon

Decembers New Moon has brought about more change
but somehow I feel so stuck.
Attempting to get my self packed
and leave this most wonderful place
I have been dwelling for
the past four years. I am not ready
for this at all and I only
have another 10 days to pull this off.

On a lighter note, Publishers Clearing House called today to verify my entry in the sweepstakes and so maybe I am getting closer to winning the dream of my life, LOL. Stampington & Company also contacted me with an interest in publishing some of my art pieces in Prims Magazine. I'm thrilled to be published in my favorite magazine amongst some of the best Primitive Artists that I so admire.  I guess all in all you just have to count the blessings and leave the negative aspects behind like dust in the wind. I am most grateful for the opportunities ahead of me now.

The December Full Moon is the day of the move and I hope that I will leave all the negativity of this year behind me now. I lovingly look forward to the New Year, 2014 with much openness to the changes ahead of me.

Many blessing to all through this Holiday Season, I regret that I will miss yet another crafting season of making & selling but everything happens for a reason right? And in that I shall not dwell. I'll be strong and move forward with new eyes to see what the future should hold for me.

Till next time. . .

November Full Moon in Taurus

Novembers full moon brings things to and end. With the winds of change blowing about it is sad but time for me to move on.
I was so blessed 4 years ago when I was driving 26 miles in each direction to and from work. Living in Burlington and paying parking tickets every single day as I worked nights and could not ever get a parking spot where I was allowed to park. While  I drove to work one day, I told the universe that I "just want to live in a cabin in the woods". While looking at rental ads I came across an ad that said one bedroom house with loft and full basement, 1 car garage located by Hwy 50 and I94. Reluctantly I called the ad. The next week end I met with the lady who responded to my call and much to my surprise I landed the most beautiful A frame cabin in the woods that I had ever seen. Now 4 years later the property she and her husband have lived at for the last 35 years has been sold. She called last week to tell me that I had to vacate the premises by Jan 1, 2013.
I have much to do to get ready to move on but looking over the last blessed 4 years I have had the most peaceful and wonderful life that I could have ever imagined. Every day I dreamed of winning the PCH drawing so I would buy this place and stay here forever. I'm not ready to leave this most wonderful place but will embrace the changes in my life and expect that the universe has a much better plan in store for me.
This has been a very challenging year for me and my craft business as the consistent turmoil of the blowing winds have kept me from my craft. Hopefully that too will change and I will regain my creativity once more when I get settled in where ever it is I am going.
Check out my ETSY site for whatever it is I do have time to create and many blessings to you all this most wonderful time of year.

October 18, 2013 next Full Moon in Aries

Our Full Moon falls on October 18th this year so it will not be a well lite Halloween night since we will be at the waning crescent at that time. All in all I am certain the festivities will still be wonderful for a the young at heart.  So make sure you buy extra glow sticks and light up your children really well.
As for me I will be working on Thanksgiving dress' to sell on ETSY and EBAY. The winter crafts for Christmas, Yule and the winter solstice are starting here at Cranesnest Primitive Hallow since I missed Halloween but I miss Halloween all year long so it will just have to be another 10 months before I get there again.
No time for crying over spilt milk if you get the pun but I am moving forward with a very positive attitude toward the changes in my life that are facing me now. Forward bound into the abyss of creativity, hopefully to never return to reality ever again.
The soap is CPOP (cold process oven process) and is Candula/Ylang Ylang with charcoal. It will be ready to use by Halloween, I can't wait to bathe in it. So I've been busy getting ready to bring in possibly the best year of my life since I can not remember when
Thanks for all your support through this time I certainly appreciate all your thoughts, prayers and healing energies that you've sent my way.
until next time
many blessings and Happy Hallows Eve

October, my favorite time of year

Oh October. . .
such a magnificent time of year. My favorite month by far. It's all about the Halloween crafts for me and the wonderful things that life brings as we begin to transcend into the solstice of the year.
This has been a really tough year for me as I am a very strong and independent single entity who's health has always been very good in spite of some seasonal allergies. My allergies got so bad I had to stop eating meat and any processed foods. By time I got that all under control I had a routine breast scan to appease my health insurance carrier and was told" You need to have a biopsy right away, there is a mass on your breast and it could very well be cancer!" Well, I ran like my ass was on fire and put myself on an all fruit & veggie cancer diet. I thought, NO way, I  am NOT  going down like this. So after four months of holistic cancer diet, vitamin and supplements to build my immune system, all the tests came back and I did not have cancer but fibroid cysts. I had surgery last week and now will be a smaller chested women than I am used to being but  at 58, it's ok. Any tissue not well is gone and I will be fine in a few weeks. Of course I'm going to need a new wardrobe as I also shaded about 38 pounds during this whole process. All I can say is that "I'm glad it's almost over.

 My creativity level has been in the toilet for the last 6 months so this whole extravaganzas cost me more than I care to talk about and I will STAY AWAY FROM DOCTORS!!!"
Going forward, it's too late to make up for the loss of Halloween craft season, I will be moving on  to the Yule Season and hopefully can gain some speed to get me through the winter.
LESSON LEARNED,THANK YOU!!!
Anyway my Halloween dolls and such are being listed on ebay so you can check them out there and pick them up on auction, which is much less money.
Have a good month, many blessings

Oh September, the Romance begins

Every September the romance begins. . .
It's when my heart starts to sing in it's orchestrated fashion as the nights become cool and leaves begin to turn color. Here in the Midwest it is a welcome change from the heat of summer. It's when the Renaissance faire has ended and that in itself is a sweet sorrow. The parting of old friends as they travel to other places or back home for the winter months. The farms around me are getting ready for the harvest and as the fall equinox comes around it starts the festivities of our farming community.
Oh to dwell in such a wonderful place, I am filled with gratitude everyday for the wonder of this life and all the beauty around me.
This is also when I am working hardest at creating my primitive art for the fall and All Hallows Eve celebrations. I love Halloween Art. It makes me so happy to contribute to the vast supply of  pumpkin keep sakes and dolls as collectible treasure's for years to come.
I added a Paypal, Buy it Now button to my blog today and posted pictures of my two newest creations.

This is Valerina, she is 13" tall and her walking stick is 16", she sits on a rusty bed spring. She is quite the little Harvest Thyme princess
Priscilla is 18" tall to the tip of her witch hat and stands on an old vintage bee hive bobbin, a little Steam Punkish of sorts in her grungy overcoat and a key lapel pin, they sell for $33.99 and can be purchased right here from my blog. The drop down list allows you to pick either Primitive Halloween doll.

And talk about abundance,
I own such a huge collection of Halloween Deco that I am setting my living room up as a retail store and will host a Halloween Estate Sale this year in an attempt to lessen the load that I carry and store year after year. This is a time of clearing for me. To be able to move forward with less to move around and fill the garage with totes. I was truly amazed at the fact that none of the 26 totes that are filled with Halloween stuff where desecrated by mice or spiders. Talk about being blessed and watched over. Since I dwell in the woods at the tip of a farmers field. As I was sitting in my craft room, sewing tiny mice for the witch shoes last night, I could hear the little buggers running and playing in the ceiling above me as the farmers just cleared the last of the wheat from the fields this last week. Which creates yet another task, set before me for the season.

All in all it's a wonderful time of year and one that fills me with peace and contentment as I work and craft the hours away. . .
Enjoy the season  to it's fullest and take the time to enjoy your life. . .
 

Full Moon in Capricorn

So, here we are half way through the summer of 2013 and Mercury finally went direct yesterday. I could feel the pulling of the forward motion and started sewing and drawing and sorting the things I will need to start creating wares for my most favorite time of year. The Fall Equinox, and All Hallows Eve. As the little fae & witches dance through my psyche I become enthralled in joy & laughter as the ritual of craft becomes me. Oh how I love to create. . . The Witches Wardrobe has been part of me since I started in primitive artistry, the Halloween Enchanted pumpkins, little fae of Witch Upon a Star whom dance upon their rusty bed springs, the Halloween can-dles, witch moons on textile bobbins.. I'll be doing some beeswax works this year as well. Then their are a version of my French bed dolls all dressed up in witchery dragg and named the Witchman family. For craft fairs I do Witchy Froggettes, Mice all dressed up in witches clothing and this year I am going to try to get to Witchy Bunne' Haunted Spell books are a real love of mine and I have some new glass eyes to use on them.
So if you are a Halloween lover stay tuned for the array of things I create and sell on both ebay and my etsy shop. I am featuring Flight Soap this year so watch for this magnificent concoction to release the issues of Halloween Night Flight, pain relieving soaps. Oh what fun. . . ♥
I can't wait to post my final work for everyone to enjoy. I will also put it on Pinterest as well. . . so watch out for the gouls of plenty, Oh what fun ♥ ♥ ♥

many blessings to each and everyone. . . remember to stay in the moment and think only good thoughts for this is the year of living in joy. . .

Junes Super Full Moon follows the Summer Solstice 2013

Welcome again to my blog. . .
As the months fly by June is in full swing and the Summer Solstice is just around the bend. As the weather starts to heat up the activities become  a little more than difficult for me as heat is not my best friend these days. We have had a easy spring as far as weather goes but now the thunder storms and rains have brought much discomfort to the northern mid west states.  Thunder storms leave high humidity in the forests and it becomes a steam bath of sorts. We have had a most pleasant northern breeze which brings a moist coolness to the shade so it's not at it's hottest temperatures as of yet. One thing it does bring is the Summer Solstice on June 21st and the Super Full Moon there after on June 22-23rd.

The Full moon falls on June 23, 2013 at 11:32 UTC (6:32 a.m. CDT in the U.S.). Thus, for many, the moon appears about as full in the June 22 evening sky as it does on the evening of June 23. This full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013. The moon will not be so close again until August, 2014

Astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Two years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used a term we’d never heard before: supermoon. Last year, we heard this term again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. Last month’s full moon – May 24-25, 2013 – was also a supermoon. But the June full moon is even more super! In other words, the time of full moon falls even closer to the time of perigee, the moon’s closest point to Earth. The crest of the moon’s full phase in June 2013, and perigee, fall within an hour of each other.

This is a time of year to set your intentions of the things you want to pass and bring in the newness of your desires. I have started on a old/new as well. I have been joining Jennifer Hoffman in Raising our Vibes with 21 days of Vibrational Transformation and I also started a new program with Burt Goldman in Quantum Jumping II. I'm am getting huge results from both programs and well on my way for setting new goals in my life. This is my year to move forward and become the best that I can be in all areas of my life. Now if I could figure out what I want to be when I grow up, it would all be great. I know I'll get there. . . and I'll keep you informed as well. . .
In the mean time my work as a restaurant manager and primitive artist keep me busy making, inventing, using my creativity to share wonderful things with you so I hope you
have a most wonderful day and enjoy the solstice and supermoon,
till next time

Energies of April

Wow, the April Energy is full speed ahead since Mercury has started it's forward motion and out from under the shadow. Time moves so vary fast these days and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down again for some time to come. This forward shift coupled with the New Moon is placing us right in the middle of the manifestations we created in the not so far past. I've been moving ahead with a chakra clearing class which deals with soul contracts and soul wounds. This type of clearing releases karma from all directions time and sets everyone concerned, free to move ahead. It's soulfully pleasing. I've heard from a few people from the past in the last two weeks. It's interesting that they should pop up now while I am clearing those old contracts. It has truly been a wonderful experience thus far and I look forward to the last class Tuesday night, which should complete the issues of the past allowing me to move forward on a fresh and clean pallett'. I will start painting a new picture for myself and those closest to me.
In the mean time I am sewing a crib quilt for my new grand baby, Zoey, she will arrive in mid May and I'm also working on some soap, beeswax ornies, making of silicone molds, wood dough bowl racks, cupboard cakes and sugar molds. schewww, no wonder time is moving so fast. My imagination runs wild this time of year and creativity flows constantly. Besides the daily grind of work there is much to complete and accomplish before the Renaissance Faire begins in July.
Have you seen the Fae running about? Oh my, they are everywhere, scurrying around, so remember to feed them some milk and honey. It's their favorite and they will watch over your dwelling while you are away if you are good to them. LOL
Have a most pleasant spring. . . until next time

Political Mess

It's sure going to interesting come March 1st, when all the budget cuts go into effect. How will our nations tax payers handle the cuts? The trickle effect is going to be massive.
I have my own personal ideas how this is going to effect us but one thing is for certain, it will definitely be a test of our faith in our government and the corporate conglomerates we work for.
I for one am not looking forward the mayhem and I'm sure anyone reading this blog feels the same.
One things for sure for me, I am not going to allow fear to take over my life and I will joyfully continue to work and enjoy the countryside in which I am situated. Taking in the fresh air and natural energy of this wonderful planet, we will will get through it as long as we don't feed into it. Stay possitive and focused on self, knowing that we are all here in the right place at the right time as we all share to convert all this negitive energy and to close these negitive vortexes in time and space.
With that I bid you, Good Day! in the happiness of your most wonderful life. . .
many blessings

February, Love or Reality

February is the month of Love in the US.
Schools, business' and our lives have been decorated with cupids, cards, flowers and chocolates as long as I can remember. Placing the emphasis on Love. So what happens if we don't have someone to love or do not receive all these things on the day Love is celebrated?   
   Does it mean you are less entitiled or less deserving of love?  Funny how celebrations can set some people apart from others, making them feel unhappy or unloved, depressed and unworthy. As human beings we are so good at "going with flow" even when the flow does not include us. But, if you would choose to be alone does that make you any of those things? I think in this case we need to look at ourselves and understand that we need to love ourselves before someone else can truely love us the way we want to be loved. Archangel Uriel says "we will never find someone to love us as much as we love ourselves". That's such a powerful statement and I do understand that completely. Therefore, it is a cause for celebration after all. Love thineself first is a very important message.
   How much of your life have you spent taking care of others, looking after them, raising children, teaching and caring. It's time we all be taken care of in that way and if you are the only person that will do that for you, then be happy in knowing that source and the angels love you more than ever could be imagined. Love your self and do the things that make you happy cause you are the only person that you have to make happy in this life. You deserve everything wonderful on this journey and happiness and joy are the prize, because you are the prize 
   While I'm working on that aspect I will continue to do what makes me most happy, to create wonderful things that bring a smile to someone's face. To see that glow of happiness is truely the most magnificant thing in the world to me.

    Hope your Valentine's Day was everything you expected it to be and if not, than it's not to late to make it so.

Starting out the New Year - selling

So here we are . .  2013 and I seriously think it is time to part with some of my picture taking props and stuff that don't really use. Things I just enjoy having around the old homestead. Then there are other vintage items that I use to create with such as textile bobbins and rusty bed springs. And oh my, I have quite a collection of rusty bed springs. So I'm sure I will sell some of those off so others can use them to create as well.
You know when you have this head full of ideas and you start to gather and become a receiver of the things you need to create your make-do's and such. Well I have done such a good job at being a receiver that every time I had a few extra dollars I would buy supplies and stuff away those kinds of things, so that when spirit guided me to create, I didn't have to first go looking for the tools of the trade. So, I'm willing to share my stock, so go to my etsy site and purchase some of them for your own creative needs.  Have most wonderful and blessed day. . .

2013 Happy New Year Everyone

Happy New Year, 2013
and looking back on my life, there is so much to be grateful for.

The holidays are over and all the winter creations have sold. So 2013 will begin a whole new year of creatures to annouce their arrival as the holidays start to unfold.again. As for me, I have come to realize that all the things I thought I missed growing up in an unwealthy family were just a figment of my imagination. Like coming home to some cheep fried rice that now a days, I make when I get home from a long day at work and enjoy so much for it's wonderful aroma and wholesome flavor. And I am always so gratefull that my parents were chef's and awesome cooks, and that I learned to make something really tasty out of what would apperar to be nothing, to most people. It may be a talent but I am forever grateful for my many talents. Being mulitalented has served me well through my life. It has made me most resourceful as well. Being on an adventure everyday of my life has been a true gift. Don't get me wrong, it didn't always feel this way either but this new year has brought with it a sence of appreciation for many things I would normally not take the time to appreciate. I, like so many people who grew up in the states, have taken so much for granted. Forgetting that we really do need to stop and look at ourselves in the mirror from time to time because we are truely outstanding creatures. Our virsatile ways has brought us to where we are today. We started out as children like all the others and grew into magical creatures. Artists, managers, lightworkers, healers and creative entities that never stop looking for the next avenue to bring us joy and make a little cash along the way,  I have been so blessed throughout my life it seems that I have to stop and wonder why it took me so long to realize just how truely wonderful this life is. I did it, I reached not only my potential but also my goals. Not all of them yet but I have learned much about manifestation and I am moving along quite nicely, I must say. Being in this wonderful gifted place on our planet I have learned to trust again. Not in a human sence but to spiritually trust in the universe that holds me so close to it's breast, like a great mother, that feeds and nurtures me and leads me to always see the best in all things. Everyday as I set an intention to experiance life through my highest self, the very highest aspect of energy that I can embody and go with the flow, allowing it to bring me through my day and back home again where I love to be. Back to the place that I rest and create and have learned that no matter what, I am me and so grateful to be who I am. I hope all your dreams manifest for you in this wonderous year ahead. . . until next time, many blessings to you