Life at my house........

So, I finally got my backache to leave for the most part, thank the Goddess!! 

I'm gonna get this witch's pen cleaned today, after almost a week of a backache the house is in shambles. I hope I can get it all done before the hubby gets up for work. :)

I've finally started working with my oracle cards and I have to say, I love them!! I'm so glad that I am finally getting out of this funk I've been in and actually getting things accomplished. 

A few days ago when we got all that bad weather, it was a rush of tornadoes in Oklahoma and here on the home front we had massive flooding. I honestly thought my driveway had transformed itself into a river, at one point I told my husband,"Honey, lets just get a boat, it would be so much easier then these shovels and rakes we are using." That same day after we got the worst of the water contained we had to go pick up the kids from school, the bus never would have made it up the road below us, the river was in the road 3 feet deep all the way across. Goddess willing and the creek don't rise we are gonna try and work on the driveway some this weekend. 

Softball season is coming to a close, can't say I'm not kinda glad, not that I don't love watching the girls play because I do and they are getting good at it too, but it is so very exhausting. Like this Friday we have a double header. They girls are gonna be wore plumb out by the time they get done, we will be at the field from 5pm till close to 11pm. 

On the day that all the bad weather came my littlest pregnant kitty had her kittens!!! She had 3. A solid white one, a solid black one, and a black and white tabby/calico it has brown on it too. They are absolutely adorable!!! Also my little brother and his wife welcomed their little one to the world too, Little Mattox Timothy!! He is perfect!!! He weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz. 

Even in all the destruction the Goddess and God still blessed us!! 

Just thought I would give you all an update and let you know I hadn't fell off the face of the earth or floated away!! LOL

As always thanks for reading, hope you enjoy!!

Love and Light
Many Blessings,
Shawna
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Trying

Well today as I write, I'm a bit agitated. I have had this seemingly there to stay back pain for days now and it seems as though no matter what I try to do to ease it is is to no avail. It also seems that every time I try to ease the pain it only gets worse. It really is beginning to make me very angry, I suppose that is the way I cope when it comes to pain, instead of just giving in and letting it cripple me so to speak. 

So it comes to me today, a grand Ah ha moment, I was reading a fellow blogger's blog and there it was, I already knew about it but hadn't given it any thought. So I am now in the process of making some Cayenne Salve. Hopefully in a few hours when it is done and ready to use I can get some relief!!! 

I'm excited to report that my amazing husband took a night off from work on Thursday, while home he did some outside chore's that needed to be done and bless his heart he built me a raised bed for my herb garden. I was so excited!! I'm glad to say that my dear herbs look much more happy in their new home and I'm hopeful they will grow big and strong!!! 

So sorry that the first half of today's blog is more or less bitching, but I needed to get it off my chest!! Have a great weekend and many blessings to each and everyone of you!!!

Love and Light
Shawna
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Doin.......

Well my weekend out of town was good but tiresome. I got to spend time with my sister for her birthday and talk about her upcoming wedding, 5 weeks to go!! 

I also spent some time with my mom, which I enjoyed, I used to never think I would miss her when she lived 10 minutes from me but now that we are 2 hours apart I miss her like crazy and wish she lived closer. Our relationship is so much better then it once was when I was a child, we don't fight and argue and she is not abusive anymore. All good things in my book and now I love spending time with her and trying to learn some of her wisdom if it is only a small bit here and there. She loved her mother's day present and i was thrilled!!


Also while out of town, I went to the green house my sister and other mom work at and stocked up on some good herbs for my herb garden and some flowers of course, what woman doesn't like flowers right?? I got some vegetable plants for the big garden, we got those in the ground yesterday, OMG it was a million degrees out it seemed like, what time we were planting!! I thought I would melt, I mentioned to my husband that when I was a kid you almost had to beat me to get me to come in and now all I wanted to do was sit in front of an air conditioner and enjoy the coolness....lol.......

So the herbs I got are: Stevia, a new one for me, I haven't tried growing it before, but I'm hoping it grows well I would like to make some extraction from it for a sweetener. Sage, I grow it every year, just hope it is huge this year and I can make many smudge sticks with it!!  Basil, Dill, Cilantro, Thyme, Echinacea, another new one I'm excited about!! Oh and Lavender, can't wait for it to start flowering, I just love the way it smells.  Oh and just for the local bee's here I got a red honeysuckle!! They are so very pretty and smell amazing and the bees love them which is great, gotta keep the little fellers happy!!


I'm currently working on a new BOS, right now just mainly brainstorming on what I want it to look like and what I want to put in it. I have 3 now already that started out as one all in a binder but a lot of it is just information for most anything I would need to know right off the top of my head. So this new one I want to have a personal feel and only have what I want to put in it,  in it if that makes sense. I'm thinking about actually making this one more scrapbook like with sewn in tags and flaps and cute little sayings that have tons of meaning magickally. Any suggestions would be great, I'm just kinda swimming around in the water of possibility right now, and let me tell you that is one big body of water. 

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!!

Love and Light 
BB
Shawna
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On a mission.....

Well as all of you know Mother's day is this Sunday. But so is my sister's birthday!! 
I made her something for her birthday and I can't wait to give it to her, I hope she loves it.I'd tell you what it is but I'm afraid she may just read it here and then that would spoil the surprise. 

So with it being mother's day coming up, I am making some awesome stuff for those closest to my heart. My little brother's wife is pregnant and she is ready to pop. Poor thing I know she is miserable and her feet hurt, so I am making her some Lavender foot scrub and soak. The girls are going to see her while we are out of town this weekend and they can give her a pedicure with it. 

Now for my Moms', yes I mean plural, I'm lucky enough to have 2 great mother's in my life that I love dearly. So for my other mother, I'm making her some foot soak and scrub too which she will love, the girls do her feet every time they go see her and she will be extra excited!!! I'm making her a Lime-Lavender sugar scrub, which sounds phenomenal, and I will let you know how it turns out I'm gonna make it today, just in case I need to tweak it any. And I'm making a Lavender-Mint foot soak for her too, she works in a green house every day and is very hard on her feet. 

Here are the recipe's

Lime-Lavender Sugar Scrub

2 cups granulated white sugar
1/4 - 1/3 cup almond oil (May use coconut oil)
Lavender essential oil
Lime essential oil
Vitamin E Capsule (Optional, helps keep a longer shelf life)

Directions: Put sugar in a bowl. Add oil slowly until it is a nice soft consistency, but not too oily. Add a few drops of each essential oil. Add Vitamin E capsule ( cut and pour in oil). Mix well.  Scoop into a cute jar and make sure lid is tight. Label and Enjoy!!



Soothing Foot Soak

2 cups Epsom salt
1/2 cup sea salt
1/4 cup baking soda 
4 drops Lavender essential oil
3-5 drops Peppermint essential oil (Optional)
Vitamin E Capsule ( Optional for longer shelf life and more luxurious feel)

Directions:  In a bowl mix Epsom salt, sea salt and baking soda. Stir in essential oils and vitamin e capsule, mix until all the salt is coated, let air dry. Pour into a pretty container with a tight sealing lid. Label.

Use 1/8 cup - 1/4 cup in foot bath, add while warm water is running. Enjoy!!  


Now onto my mommy. She is the hardest person to make stuff or buy stuff for.....so I'm still brainstorming on what to do for her. But whatever it is it's guaranteed to be great!! So for those of you who read my blog, any suggestions would be great. And as always thanks for reading!!!!

L&L
Blessings
Shawna
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The randomness of my mind.....

So I've been thinking lately about expanding my herbal knowledge and applying it to my daily life and spell work. So let's start with what I know:

1. Any person can make spells stronger by adding items/elements that speak to them. Be it colors, candles, words, music, herbs, crystals,etc.

2. The most powerful aspect of a spell is the person's intent.

3. When setting out to perform a spell a person needs to have concise intent and make sure to apply it to the spell.

4. Depending on how fast a person wants a spell to manifest, they need to choose which element to use for the spell, ie., Fire=Fast, Earth=Slow, Air=Medium, Water=Medium.

5. Visualization is a major part of manifestation, if you can't visualize what the outcome is I'm not real sure the spell or manifestation will work the way you want it to. 

Now let's go with what I don't know:

1. I have a hard time figuring out what planetary hours mean.

2. Have no idea how planetary rulers work.

3. Need to work on visualization skills, meditation and spell craft in general.

4. Need to figure out what exactly the witch's pyramid means to me and apply it. 

5. Need closer spirituality with The God and The Goddess.

6. Need to talk more with the deities and figure out which ones speak to me and why.

7. I really think I need a mentor more then I want to acknowledge. 

8. I have got to figure out how I got into this "funk" I am currently in, and in learning that learn how to keep it from happening again. 

9. Need to learn the properties be it magickal or healing for the herbs I presently have and build a bigger base from there. 

Current list of herbs I have:

Yarrow                                             Bay Leaves

Catnip                                               Mandrake

Chamomile                                       Mugwort

Lavender Flowers                           Plantain

Dill                                                     Dandelion

Thyme                                              Moss

Eucalyptus                                       Rosemary

Nut Meg                                           Bee Balm

Alfalfa Leaves                                  Oregano

Adder's Tongue                               Marjoram

Parsley                                              Basil

Black Mint                                        Lavender Leaves

I also need to work on my knowledge of crystals, but that is another blog all together.

I know that this sounds like I'm a little out of it, but really these are things that need learning/fixing. They mean so much to me and to my spiritual expansion. So if any of you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks for reading!!

Blessings!! 

Shawna

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What's been going on lately...........

So I know it has been a while since I posted anything........for those of you who read my blog I'm sorry. So much has been going on and I haven't had the time really and then I kinda forgot about it for a while too. 

So for an update: The kids started softball, and then the littlest one came to me and told me that it wasn't in her heart to play this year(LOL) and I let her quit. Not something good to do I know but she really really didn't want to play this season. 

Also, I've been on a new venture I've been making all-natural bath and body stuff. Like bath salts and body butter and soap. Hopefully I can get them lined out and start selling them on a regular basis. It took me what seemed like forever to find a name for my business/store on Etsy that I will be opening soon. Creations of a Country Witch!! It came to me one day on the way home from a softball game. I thought it seemed very fitting!!  LOL  


I had a wonderful Beltane and am thinking of keeping the Beltane spirit going all season. It is a time of learning for me and normally this time of year is really hard on me being as though May 2nd is the anniversary of my father's death. I'm normally too depressed to even want to poke my head out the door for a few days. But this year, Thank the Goddess, I was better, somewhat, I still miss my dad and wish he was here to share everyday life with, but I don't feel like I'm losing my grip on reality anymore on the day of his death. 


So while drinking my morning cup of Joe, I'm in a contemplating mood. Where from here do I go, What is my main calling as far as spiritually speaking and how will I obtain the seemingly unobtainable??  Haven't yet figured it all out but I'm growing and learning and trying to navigate my way through. 

I've started really working on me, physically and spiritually speaking. I recently ordered some good herbs from my friend Dee, at The Green Eyed Owl. I've been taking a more natural approach to taking care of myself, I ordered some tea from her to boost my immune system, because I catch everything coming and going. I ordered some other loose herbs to make another tea with, to help me cope with having Urinary Tract issues all the time for the last almost 2 years now. So I have been trying to take care of my physical self that way along with diet some. In ordering the herbs I ordered some really good incense to open my third eye which I feel I need now. Lately I've been feeling like I got disconnected somehow from my path and where I need to be in the spiritual aspect. 

I had a really good conversation with a friend of mine the other day about meditation. I have the hardest time trying to quiet my mind, in order to successfully meditate, but she told me if my mind wouldn't hush to listen to it while meditating and maybe I needed to listen to what my mind had to say. So I will have to give that a try and see if it works better for me. Hopefully so!!

I've been missing my coven sister's lately too, but I have to remember that we all have a mundane life and things that we have to do and can't always be with each other as bad as we may want to be. I guess sometimes I just wish we all lived closer and could be together always, but that's an unrealistic wish and I know it. Just seems like we don't see enough of each other any more. 
Maybe when we are old and retired and the kids are grown and moving on with their lives then we can all live in a cottage somewhere cozy back in the woods near nature and the faeries. If I'm gonna dream may as well dream big huh!!


I ordered a deck of oracle cards not too long back and really haven't done a thing with them, I need to, they called to me for a reason and I need to learn to listen more than I do. I'd say my mind won't hush because I don't ever listen and perhaps if I did I might would learn a few things about my self that I didn't already know. Who knows?? 

So any of you that have any suggestions on anything I touched on today don't hesitate to comment, but please let's keep it positive and bounce our idea's back and forth. 

As always thanks for reading some of my crazed thoughts and many blessings to you and yours!! )O(