This Wednesday, March 20th, is the Vernal Equinox and it is time to renew our altars for spring. Clear away any symbols of winter and really go big with symbols of spring: eggs, snakes, flowers, lambs, hares and rabbits, butterflies, lady bugs, pastel colors, live plants, pastel gems and minerals, symbols of balance (the vernal […]
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Searching through the forest for mushrooms and Baba Yaga.
Many depictions in art of the Russian folk witch Baba Yaga show her with mushrooms, especially the Fly Agaric (the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom also associated in children’s illustrations with fairies and gnomes). As Baba Yaga is Russia’s most famous witch, hunting mushrooms is Russia’s favorite pastime, and both Baba Yaga and mushrooms are found in […]
Read More...A mushroom by any other name…
Mushrooms have some of the best names, like Witches’ Butter and Octopus Stinkhorn. Many common names for mushrooms refers to parts of the body, like: Snaketongue Truffleclub Bearded Fieldcap Club Foot Hair Sedge Smut Drab Tooth Hump Back Golden Navel Devil’s Fingers Tiger’s Eye Elbow Patch Crust Hairy Nuts Disco Bald Knight Hot Lips Hairy […]
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My library isn’t very extensive but every book in it is a friend.” – Anne of Green Gables You may have seen folded book art online or in real life. It looks amazing and almost magical. How do they do that?? I knew I wanted to do a book craft for this issue and, since […]
Read More...Kindred Spirits
“It has always seemed to me, ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the […]
Read More...Paper Quilled Heart
Quilling is the art of paper filigree: rolling, folding, and glueing strips of paper into beautiful designs. There are many different fancy tools that can be used in quilling. But for this project you just need: Colored paper (I used origami paper) Card stock for the base/card and to create the exterior heart shape Scissors Toothpick […]
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