Marcasite has been featured in jewelry for a very very long time. More notably for us though, especially during the Victorian era on. With it making a comeback in style in the Art Deco period.
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THE OCTOBER COUNTRY …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain…”
- Ray Bradbury, The October Country
Goldenrod marks the last hurrah of Summer at the verge of Autumn. The bees are feasting, it’s their last flourish of flowers before colder days. The feast of nectar and pollen is a welcome sight to our bumbly friends.
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I have learned three main things in soapmaking today.
Lye is really scary
Okay, lye isn’t TOO scary
I want to make more soap
I made my first soap! It's a cold-process ylang ylang scented soap with flowers sprinkled on top. All the flowers and herbs in the sprinkle mix are organic, most grown by my mother herself.
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The Elder-things are believed to have the properties of death, rebirth, and transformation. Tying into that, they are compared to the Crone in the life sequence of Maiden, Mother, Crone. Right on the edge of death and other worlds, about to be transformed past death and into rebirth again, the cycle of life.
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