I bought a mystery puzzle for my DDs bday. It came with a short story and a puzzle. You have to read the story and finish the puzzle to solve the mystery. Sounds fun right? Well it is and it is hard at the same time. There is no picture of the puzzle! So you have try and put it together without any clue as to what you are doing! We worked on it for like 4 hours yesterday and got the edge and a some of the other pieces together. When we get it all done we are gluing it. My DD wants to hang it on her wall. I can't wait to solve the mystery!

Last night on our way to a friends house I saw my first owl. I have never in my life seen a owl in the wild. I just got a glimpse of it as it swoop through the head lights. At first I thought it was an bat. I don't really have good night vision. But my DH said "No, that was an owl not a bat. We don't have bats that big here." My 2 DDs have seen an owl in the same place twice. I'm not totally sure why we are having all these owl sightings, but I think it is cool. Maybe it is a sign that Hekate is responding to my new alter. The alter isn't finished yet. 

It is a wonderful day! The weather here is freeeeeezzzing. It is a whole 20 degrees! Our pumpkins are carved and on the porch. I just have to bake the seeds. The kids will be wearing their costumes under their winter coats as always. Luckily we have some in door trick or treating to do! 

Today I will be putting together a new alter. I haven't had one in over a year and it is way past time.  I will have to start from scratch and get all new things. Every thing that I had before was ruined (along with 95% of our belongings) in storage. Now that we have a house and we have been slowly getting things put together I have decided it is time for an alter inside. We have a stump and faery houses outside that we leave offerings on.  I have no idea what I'm going to use, where I'm going to place it , or what I will place on it. I'm just going go around the house a grab anything that I think will work. Not having a alter may sound odd to some of you but only just in the last week did I really get the urge to have one. I'm not sure at this point who is urging me, but I'm trying to listen. 

I have been studying to be a Creativity Coach. During this time I'm also working on getting my own creative process up and running. In one of the books I have been reading, it talks about your artistic discipline. As in your a painter, writer, actor, ect.... Well, I don't know what my discipline is. lol. I know how to make lots of things. My main thing right now and for the past several years has been jewelry. But I'm finding that to be very unfulfilling. I have always wanted to paint, write, take photographs, I don't really do any of those. I'm wondering should one of them be my main discipline. Certainly a person could do all three, but could you do them all well? I'm also starting to wonder if I did decide to make one of them my main gig, would I not want to do it anymore. Would there be no passion in it? I know since I'm the one doing the coaching I should have myself straightened out, but I'm work in progress. I think we all are. lol.

That being said, I'm still looking for people to talk with that may need help in their creative lives. My lessons won't be much good if I can't get some experience from real live people. So if you are interested let me know. It is free. I have a group Life Creative, Creativity Coaching, you can join.

 

As Samhain draws near, so do other things. I have notice a increase in seeing things out of the corner of my eye or in the mirrors while driving. It is very distracting. I normally have this problem, but now there is just more of it. lol. Today the kids get there pumpkins. They will have fun carving them and making a big mess. We live way out in the woods so we don't get any trick or treaters, but we leave out goodies for the dead, the fey, and such. We have a costume party to go to on Saturday that should be really fun.

I had taken a very long break from making jewelry. I have been very discouraged by my poor sales. But over the weekend I bought some spools of copper wire. I normally use sterling silver or gold filled wire, but I can't afford that right now. That is ok cuz, I really like the look of copper. So I dug through the small amount of supplies I have, took a moment to calm, center, and ask the stones what kind of home they wanted, and set to work. This is what I came up with. I call it or I should say it calls itself, Healing Garden. The piece is an amethyst cabochon with flower made from moonstone beads and amethyst chip beads. I have placed it up for sale at my etsy shop.

 

As part of my trying to get my jewelry seen by more people, I have also joined myspace. If any of you have myspace look for me there too. www.myspace.com/jewelryinwire