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About Cynthia

I am a textile artist, embroiderer, wood burner, costumer, painter, and weaver who sees magic and change in the chain stitch and a well done Palestrina knot. I wish I had more control over the ways of the human world but alas, all I can control are my actions and my attitude in life and the consistency of my stitches. And sometimes even that doesn’t pan out as hoped and I must rip rip rip.

Ramping up

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Things are starting to get very busy for me right now. I had intended to make a bunch of stuff to sell in late summer/early fall. A couple days ago I got an email telling me that a local event was accepting vendors who could set up for free. It’s two weeks away. I don’t have a rainsafe booth yet but another vendor offered to share his space with me.

I went over the bags I’ve been working on and realize that I’ve been making astonishing headway. That I could actually have a dozen bags to sell and also some wire jewelry. Crazy busy and working fulltime and Saturday metalsmith class too…

Ride ’em cowboy!

It’s tough to know when to stop. I want to provide a wide variety of price ranges, from $35 to $100. Obviously the more time I spend on them the more embellished and expensive they become. I think the most difficult thing I’m facing is how to price them. I want them to be affordable but I also want to value my time and skill. Decisions decisions.

The other question on my mind is what symbols would folks like to see that I’m not offering. And I must make some business cards before then too because I really want to take commissions, especially for banners and robes.

I would also like to have one new robe and a hood made. Just to show the variety of wares I am capable of.

Here are some pics of some of the pouches that are well on their way to being at least done enough, just need to put the beads on and construct the pouch itself.

Wiccan Fundies

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A couple of questions that are nagging at me…
When your priestess, or you, channel your God/dess after drawing down the moon/sun and s/he speaks, what “collaborative data independent of the channeler” do you receive that makes you believe it is the God/dess? You do realize that drawing down the moon and the sun are not only channeling but possession. Yes?

Do you think SHE is a demon or a trickster sent to mess you up? How is it you can tell She isn’t?

Shouldn’t I be assumed to hold the same ability to discern?

Why is it when I say the channeling I go to is true I get a warning? That the channeling I attend is New Age and not a part of Wicca. What is it that makes it not Wicca?

Channeling and possession are totally part of Wicca so why does it matter who is doing the channeling? How do you know that the person who channels Jeshua isn’t a priestess? How do you know that we don’t ground and center and create a circle? Is it only because of WHO she is channeling that it becomes suspect and not Wicca or a mish mosh of Christian and New Age gullibility?

When you call on Odin or Brighid or Hekate or Tammuz, when does it stop being Wicca? Why isn’t calling on the deity Jesus just as okay as calling on Herne? They are both Lord of the Dance and rebirth aren’t they? They aren’t from the same places in the world but there is far less evidence for Herne as deity than for Jesus.

To me, Jesus is the Middle Eastern Quan Yin, in a very yang kind of way. Cuz there is no doubt that he is a very healthy and robust male.

I’m over here trying like crazy to keep laughing.

Whack it?

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Normally you’re inclined to massage problems until they relax, not bash problems until they break. Your preference is to paint fuzzy, impressionistic pictures rather than creating crisp snapshots. Nevertheless, the astrological omens indicate that in the next two weeks, you should take an approach recommended by Winston Churchill: “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time — a tremendous whack.”

Hmmmm. Am I supposed to hit something hard or just create a crisp snapshot?

Last night I dreamed that my partner (whoever he is) proposed and gave me a ring. In a tent. And all I wanted to do was make sure I got the air mattress blown up. He kept saying but wait! And I’m all, that is gorgeous, thank you so much, do I plug the air thingie into the cigarette lighter in the VW bus?

And he was CUTE too. And the same face that was popping up into my mind a couple months ago. So does this mean I’m going to meet him and I need to hit him with a whacker? Or that I need to get my visualization very crisp. RIGHT NOW. Or that *I* need to get hit with a whacker? Cuz I was crazy to be all concerned about that air mattress with that gorgeous man wanting me like that. Unless of course I wanted him to wait until it was usable so I could thank him properly. Now there’s a thought.

*laugh* I’m sure more will be revealed.