I found two cute memes this week

 The first is a perfect quote for any writers mind and how it works.

The last reminds us that in everyone's life sometimes you simply have to tough it out.

pulse points

how spells work

So in order to have a spell work you must have certain things in play.
1. and intended outsome
2. enough energy in your reserve or tap-able energy to see it through
3. all the outwardly influences being favorable
4. belief that it is what will happen

If any one of them are out of sinx it will not happen.

Always ask if it is a favorable time before beginning a spell. Know the correct day, moon placement, and time of year to do such a spell. Don't rush through a spell. And above all do not harm another or mess with another's will.

Flower pot Rim

Use an old rim from a tire and some pieces of tiling, glue, and caulking and you have a one of a kind flower pot.

http://www.goodshomedesign.com/flower-pot-rim/

Chocolate Covered Cherry Frappe

We love a good Frappé here and this is our newest favorite. It is made with a 1/2 pot of leftover CHERRY coffee

 Prep time: 5 Min  Serves: 3-4 glasses

Ingredients

1/2 of a 12 pot coffee pot of leftover cherry coffee

2 individual cocoa packets

2 Tbsp Hersey's baking chocolate

1 tsp vanilla

1/3 - 1/2 c sugar

1/2 cup boiling water

1 1/2 cup ice cold milk

 

In the boiling water dissolve the sugar, cocoa, and baking chocolate.
Then put in a pitcher along with the coffee and milk. Chill well, shake, and serve.

Maple Seed Pods

While I was growing up in Drayton Plains, Michigan, my parents would take us up north every week end to a small town called Luzerne. There, they owned a cabin on Big Creek. Each year around fall, when the air was crisp and clean, my little sister and I would walk the woods in search of treasures. These were always among those glorious things we brought home.

Even back then, I felt a need to save and protect these beauties. Later in life I found out why.  Did you know that:

If you collect the ripe full centered seed pods as they fall from the trees, take them from their shells and dry them you can cook them as you would any dried bean. They are quite nutritious, taste a little like a nut, and go well with any meat or vegetable. They also make a good hearty bread,  a wonderful flour if pulverized, and a unique addition to a morrel mushroom soup or BBQ beans.

So next time you go walking in the woods, on a crisp autumn day, collect yourself some of the fat centered seed pods and try your hand at a real wild dish.

Ostara - Spring Equinox Seed Ritual

Seed Blessing Ritual for the Spring Equinox

The Spring Equinox is a traditional time for many Witches to perform blessings over the seeds which they gathered in the fall of the previous year, though store-bought packets of seeds may be blessed as well. Perform the blessing at sunset in the center of a clockwise-cast circle. Place the seeds to be blessed in a basket or cauldron. If the seeds are contained within a packet, place the entire packet of seeds in the basket or cauldron. Using an athame or wand, thrice draw a pentagram in the air over the seeds, and say:

"As winter’s reign comes to an end and spring brings warmth and light, the spirit of these seeds I do call forth on Ostara’s sacred night. From your rest awaken now with birth! You shall, in time, grow green and strong in the soil of Mother Earth. So mote it be!"

Found on FB by Cath Green