I know to this point I’ve short of steered clear about talking specifically on my own faith and some of my own choices as a parent. Something has happened has inspired me to write this post.
Warning: for those who follow on G+ some of this will be a repeat but not all so keep reading.
Friday Morning I had a series of tweets back and forth with someone that has gotten me thinking.
The idea was put forth that raising children in the Pagan faith is wrong because it is forcing faith on them. I disagree with this completely.
Welcome to everyone who has come here from the Real Witches of Halloween blog tour. First off I’m Velody. I’m not actually a self identified witch but I run with many of them. I follow a Heathen path, that’s a different post though. What I mostly do here at Treegold & Beegold is about parenting and crafting. I also make and sell items via my Etsy shop that are specifically aimed at Pagan/Heathen children. I just started blogging and selling full tilt in September so I’m still new but I hope you like my Tutorial I have today enough that you’ll continue to follow me.
A month back I found this awesome tutorial for Yo-Yo Pumpkins at Happier then a Pig In Mud. I knew I just had to try it so here you have it.
Yo-Yo Pumpkins
Materials:
Pumpkiny Fabric
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I know many people do Weekly recaps on Sundays but for some reason my brain thinks best on Monday as it being the last day of the week and then I flip over. Normally I would do this sometime early in the morning but you’ll soon find out why. I got the idea recently from one of my G+ friends Volante who writes her own blog The Wandering Gypsie.
Where on Wednesday I’ll share awesome linkyness, on Mondays I’ll use it to share personal updates and projects I’ve been working on that either don’t make it to tutorials or are for the Etsy shop.
Now onto the past week at the Treegold & Beegold household.
Thank you to everyone who came by and entered in the Halloween Hair bow Giveaway. I think it was a pretty good success for being a young blog. It definitely helped with our growth and many new people came by to visit. I may try to do something similar before Yule too. Possibly a toy.
We had a total of 35 entries so I went to Random.org to let it generate our winner.
And the Winner is:
Yep that’s Stacy from Inspired by Life. I’ve sent her an email and hopefully her little girl will love her new bow.
-Velody
This was originally written as a Guest post over at Inspired by Life.
Whether you celebrate Samhain or Winter’s Night (which I know just passed) this time of year about remembering where we came from and those who have passed away. Once my oldest, Lil’ R turned 3 I’ve been trying to do crafts regularly with him and think that crafts are a great way to introduce him to our faith. Since we have zero seasonal altar cloths in this house I thought this would be a great time for us to make an Ancestor Altar Cloth.
Yesterday & Friday the family and I went out to the Greensong Grove Samhain festival.
Samhain is always my favorite time here in Florida to be outside, the weather was great, low 80s with a good breeze and no sign of rain so being outside all day was very pleasant. Greensong Grove is a group I went to for years starting back in 2001. they hold ritual for every sabbat and 2 day festivals for Samhain and Beltaine.
Today is the Pagan Culture All Hallow’s Grim Blog Party and I said I would do a frugal Halloween craft for it. Honestly I’ve been really busy making new items for the Etsy Shop and getting ready for a 2 day festival this weekend so I was racking my brain last minute. I went through a multitude of ideas before I remembered my cute Halloween spiders I made years ago. I’ve decided to add a frugal element to this gal and I hope you like her. I’m a very busy beaver right now. If you’re following me on Google + then I know you’ve seen some of it. I’ve shown off a few new items I’ve designed that have yet to make it into the Etsy shop including Mini Felt Witch Hats! But other than that I had a job interview yesterday. It is with a Marketing company and I’m still a bit iffy about it. In the interview I was told the position was for a customer service rep that would move into management within 6+ months. What worries me is the shear number of people they were interviewing. I saw 6 people at the time slot I went in at. I also received a call back very fast, just 2 hours later to do a full day interview today. Now if I see 6+ people there today I’m going to be wondering what is up. The interviewer said they did not do cold calls and there was no phone farm but I’m still wondering. As long as the job is decent and the pay is okay we really can’t afford to turn it down. I’m hoping though that it really is for a manager position and maybe they are hiring for all levels right now.
I don’t expect I can get into the field I was previously in any time soon, that being environmental engineering. So until then I’m just going to have to take whatever pays the bills. Wish me luck!
Tomorrow is Pagan Culture Blog Party and I want to do a quick craft so I forsee tonight being a long long night! Plus Friday & Saturday I’ll be out at Greensong Grove Samhain vending. If you live in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area you should come out. They always do a great event.
-Velody
Also don’t forget the Halloween Bow Giveaway contest that is going on until the 17th. There is still plenty of time to enter.
Halloween has always been a huge deal in my family. My mother who has always been crafty and sewn would make all of our costumes and we were encouraged to fashion our own out of items we already owned. The most we would ever buy were items like tails and ears.
We never missed Trick ‘or Treating
This Guest Post comes to everyone from Rainy Kayne who has her own blog Rainy of the Dark. I felt this was an important topic since I myself am marketing online and I know many other who do. Please enjoy, visit Rainy’s blog and/or leave a comment.
Marketing advice often includes being yourself: be open, genuine, and share your real life. Of course, you want to be selective with that for professional reasons, but you also need to be careful for safety reasons. Maintaining privacy while creating a network can be difficult. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
We have the outside of our house pretty much complete. I may be making a new item or two before Halloween to add to it but the basis is done. First our decorations are pretty cheap. We only have 1 or 2 decently priced items. Most of our decorations either:
On the 1st started the Get off Your Broom Challenge so I thought I’d let you all know where I’m starting at. I’m extremely embarrassed to tell the world my weight because I’ve gained so much over the years from where I once was. Telling all of you though makes me accountable for what is going on and I hope the embarrassment will be motivation in itself. I’m not doing it alone though. Hubby put on baby weight too and needs to drop quite a few pounds. So this is our attack plan.
So where I’m starting.
Starting Weight – 213lbs (oh boy I’m back to where I was right after Wee Rose was born)
Goal: 193lbs
Progress: 0%
I will update weekly to let you all know how it’s going or not going. Damn I hate dieting.
I wrote yesterday that we were going out to one of our local Pagan Pride Day events. First, we had a good time. We got to catch up with some old friends and the kids had a blast. Lil’ R spent most of the day in the dirt and he got to hear about his favorite rabbit friend, Rupert. To say that the kids were beat when we left is an understatement. They both went to bed early tonight but I am so happy with how well they behaved while we were there, even with missing their afternoon naps.
Unfortunately the vending was a bust.
Today I’m going to be away from the interwebs for most of the day because I will be out at one of our local Pagan Pride Day events in New Port Richey. Besides just participating in the festivities with the kids it will also be vending my items myself for the first time. This was a pretty last minute thing having learned about it only on Monday. The vending is free though so I thought it would be a great place to work on getting my name out there.
I bit of the history of Pagan Pride Days though. The first year being 1998 they now exist across the entire country and many internationally and generally are held around the Fall Equinox in September. This information was found at The Pagan Pride Project on what Pagan Pride Day should be:
