Candles to Light the Way

All Hallows' Eve  -  candles to light the journey into Winter.



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More Objects in Waiting

For the next week I'll be collecting objects for my Samhain/Hallo'een/Day of the Dead altar.

Because this is an intuitive process some things will find their way onto the altar,others will not.

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Rose Hips,Bark and Tangled Threads

Materials,Tools,Objects ........

Time to clear up this work surface !

Stones, crystals, feathers, seeds .

Sycamore and honesty seed pods, wood pigeon, blackbird and woodpecker feathers .

The green raven stone was hand painted in North America .

Amethyst from Brazil .

Gold,Bronze,Green,Pink

Autumn leaves, composed by the wind

Echoes of a Distant Planet

Close up, the markings on this weathered, orange coloured stone look like the surface Mars

Craters and dried up river beds

A Rein for the Fairy Queen's Horse

I began by collecting coloured fabrics and objects pertaining to the Fairy Queen's attire when she first met Thomas of Ercildoune in the woods near his castle .

Read more about   THOMAS AND THE FAIRY QUEEN

A Scottish Fairy Tale.

Her dress was of bright green silk and her saddle cloth of scarlet satin .
Tiny bells hanging from her horse's harness of braided silk jingled as she rode through the woods .

My version of silk braiding

One end of the finished rein, decorated with bells,gold threads and wood pigeon feathers