Another world, another day. The day my love drifted away; But in her heart, I’d felt it true. Her blessing made me feel anew. I followed through the deepest depts, new life grew in a place I once wept; So be it a distance memory that we part, but a new found love had grew in my heart.
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First cleanse your jewelry especially if it comes from a thrift or antique store, or has been owned by anyone else. The reason you want to cleanse your item is because it may have energies clinging from that last owner or even through shipping and handling.
A common way to cleanse your item is by setting it in a little bowl of salt. This grounds and absorbs the negative energy from your item. I like to leave it over night in the full moon or new moon.
Another method of cleansing is by waving it through smoke of incense or any kind of smoke of cleansing herbs you may have available to you. This is my favorite method.
You can also use cleansing sprays that you may have or hold it in running water, like a creek or river, or running fountain. Just make sure there is no chlorine in the water as that can damage your jewelry.
It’s important to visualize the energy dissipating, or melting off of your item during the cleansing.
Time & Place:
Set your time and place. This could be during a certain phase of moon, a certain day of the week, or holiday, or certain time of the day. It’s important to plan ahead for your spell or ritual.
If you cast circles, then this is your time to do so, as well as calling in any of your spirits, deities or ancestors that you’re working with.
Intention:
Now write down and focus on your intent or say it out-loud. I found writing down your intent helps you focus and solidify your intention as well as saying it out-loud, it makes it more solid (in my opinion).
Now when you cast your spell be sure your intention is in a positive form instead of a negative form, and that it’s in the present tense. For example if you say “I will be protected” say “I am protected”. It’s important to be confident in your working.
Charging:
Now that you have your intention said out-loud or written down, and you know exactly what you’re going to charge this piece for, and you’re in your sacred space and ready to work. You’re going to hold the item in your hand and center and ground yourself and focus on your intention. Visualize your outcome working. For example if your item is to protect you, then you want to visualize that item protecting you.
You’re now going to build up that energy from either the earth or yourself or both. Once you have that energy centered inside your body, you’re then going to visualize that energy coming up to your arm and into your hand and into the item that you’re holding. You want to be kind of like a battery, you want to fill that piece up as much as possible until it can no longer hold anymore energy of your intention.
Now close it off with whatever you feel will seal it. For example I like to say out-loud “So it is done” then I kiss it to seal it off.
Now you’re ready to wear it and go about your day.
@yuno.okumura took so many beautiful photos of this Moon Goddess wall decor I made for her and I can’t wait to show you all of them… This is my new “special offer” project in addition to my pendants. I’ve already made two more which I’ll share to my story feed, but they are still -wip-.✨ I have to admit I’m having so much fun making them and am feeling very inspired.. I’ve also made four Elvish pendants which will be available soon. They are all different but with two recurring elements: Elvish trees and crescent moons. And of course, sparkly Czech glass beads. ✨ #FaeErynethsTreasures #faery #fairy #faeries #sculpting #polymerclay #handmade #homedecor #walldecor #enchanting #magick #elvish #elven #elvesofinstagram #enchantedhome https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ZX8XlnEP8/?igshid=wsjxmjwsy62i
A little late night delight with the forever underrated, hidden treat, and mind altering sound of The Stranglers. If you’ve guy Ritchies snatch, you’ve heard them, that’s where I first heard them and instantly fell for their melodic sound. Inspired by punk, classic rock, classical music and somewhat of a pre new wave sound these four guys gave us some beautiful music. There’s much more of these guys headed to this page in the future. For now I leave you with the song - blue sister.. #TheStranglers #BlueSister #Feline #HughCornwell #JeanJaquesBurnel #DaveGreenfield #JetBlack #Punk #PostPunk #Classic #Psychedelic #NewWave #Music #Melodic #Beautiful #Enchanting #Keyboards
“The design on the gown Belle wears at the end of the film once the spell has been lifted is taken from an original 18th century apron with a woven silk pattern I bought when I was a student. We found an artist in England who took the floral motif from that pattern and turned it into a painted design. “
- Jaqueline Durran
Check out the little featurette on Belle’s lovely celebration dress :
The limelight-loving pair of Madame de Garderobe and Cadenza — she’s a singer, he’s a harpsichordist — needed costumes to match their bold personalities. So Durran looked to classic 18th-century French fashions worn by royal performers and added subtle, enchanting details to their looks which were in keeping with the garb of the other castle denizens. For the outfit Stanley Tucci wears as Cadenza, she says, “we cut up gold lace fabric and appliquéd it on the coat and waistcoat to create the impression of embroidery. It was one of my favorite things in the film’s costumes.”
Audra McDonald’s dress wasn’t as delicate as Stanley Tucci’s outfit. As Madame de Garderobe, the actress wore a gown that reflected the interior’s grandeur and evoked the stately wardrobe she becomes once the witch’s spell is cast. “l really wasn’t prepared for how they would have me mirror [the wardrobe] in human form,” McDonald says. “She’s humongously glorious, and the costume was so big I couldn’t sit down in between takes.”
When it came to reimagining Belle’s blue dress, “l wanted to show more to it, more than simply the blue outline of the animation,” Durran says. So for that frock (and all of Belle’s simple village-wear, including the red number in the next slide), she took the basic idea of animated Belle’s clothing and infused it with 18th-century French period details, like delicate lacing on the bodice.
“We decided to take inspiration from there and enrich the world using historical details,” she says. “For instance how that works for Belle (played by Emma Watson) is Belle has the pockets hanging on the outside of her [blue] costume. The pockets are historical, people tied pockets around their waist, obviously we changed it a bit and put them on the outside and they became part of the kind of reinterpretation of Belle as an active heroine who does things and gets things done. The pockets act as a sort of toolbelt where she keeps all the things useful to her in her day to day life, those are the two elements we really looked for.” The pant-like bloomers Durran and her team added underneath the classic blue outfit were Watson’s favorite addition.“They’re nice, as you can tell,” says Durran. “But also again they were part of her being able to be more active, so that you don’t feel restricted by wearing a skirt because you can just pull it up and then just do whatever you were going to do.”
Now onto the Belle’s red costume:
Belle’s red costume, which she wears outdoors for her snowball fight with Beast (Dan Stevens), turned out to be Durran and her team’s most unique challenge in that it was eco-friendly.
“Because Emma is so interested in sustainability and fair trade, eco fabrics and eco fashion, we applied those criteria to making a costume from head to toe,” she says. “That [red] costume was made entirely from sustainable fabrics. We dyed it in vegetable dyes in our workroom, we had shoes made with eco leather and we did the whole thing from top to bottom to be as thorough as we could. People learned different skills in the work rooms to be able to do it, so they dyers learned to dye with strange vegetable dye. Sometimes it took two weeks to dye something because you’d have to leave it in there for that long to get a rich color, it really was a learning curve for all of us, I’d certainly never done that before.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good crystal necklace but you don’t get much say in what intentions it manifests and the energy it releases. Enchanting a pendant can open a whole new realm of possibilities using herbs, stones and candles to bring in all the energies that you wish to carry with you in a single necklace.
For this beautiful cicada pendant I wanted it to bring me protection, luck and power.
What you’ll need
A black candle - I used two
Protection herbs and incense: I used a bay leaf, black salt, dragons blood and lavender
For power I used snake skin and for good luck I used cinnamon - these intentions were secondary so I only used a single herb for each
Protective crystals: I used black tourmaline and clear quartz
Steps:
Cleanse your space in your preferred method
Get in the right headspace: you can do this by meditating on your intentions
Set up your alter with the surrounding the pendant with crystals and your black candle. Light them up
Call on any spirit guides to aid you, and begin focusing on your intention
Touch the pendant, ask it for aid and begin envisioning your energy seep into it as you focus
Sprinkle each herb onto your pendant - setting your intention with each one. Tell your pendant what the herb will do
Do the same thing with your crystals, touch them and then your pendant. Infusing those vibes
Talk to your pendant - reiterate what you want, thank it, etc
Let it sit on your alter. Allow the herbs and crystals to stay with it until your candle finishes burning
Protection is so important! And having a pendant that you personally enchant is so powerful! Why not give your favourite necklace a little magic?
Bonus extra step:
Every morning before I put any necklace on I always give the pendant a little kiss and ask it for aid in my day. It just feels right haha
When I die, my heaven will be that of endless shelves of different books, old and new,written by angels, demons and humans alike. It will be that of libraries with soft cushions and a rocking chair by the fireplace. With a long table by the tall window, staring at the view ahead of the hill.
When I die, my heaven will be that of sighing softly while seasons change. While camellias bloom and small animals start to come out of their shelter, hot days that give no choice but to swim in the lake close to the castle, leaves start falling and the shades of brown and hazel start to settle in, and when sitting by the fireplace with a hot cup of tea in hand as a mattress of white covers all grounds.
When I die, my heaven will be that of walking barefoot inside the walls of the castle and on the soft grass. It will be that of finding solace from books, nature and its enchanting being.
Decided to go about a certain color pallette challenge. I know this doesn’t look the best since it was rushed, but hopefully you can see where I was trying to go with this!
