Thursday, May 9, 2013

How to make a Rainbow Fan


I found this picture in an old album and thought this would make a great Project 
I have no idea who the picture originally belongs to as its on too many websites  to find the original source
plus none of them explain how to do this so I made a tutorial how to do this
this is a cute idea and easy

You need

a Fan
Screwdriver
Paint  I recommend Krylon  or Rustoleum  spray paint any color you wish
Both Krylon and Rustoleum both make many colors including glow in dark spray paints






Directions
unscrew the fan guards 
Simply paint the face of the blades of your fan (avoid painting the very edges) in the primary colors this summer and you'll have a beautiful rainbow effect while the fan is running  then put the Guards back on

For Safety Reasons follow the instructions on the can of spray paint and always spray paint outside never inside.. and follow all safety measures 



Neat idea for a kids room!!

 For those looking for a bigger challenge or are more visually creative, you could paint patterns and combine colors within each blade. or try glow in dark paint too!!! Once the rainbow fan is turned on, it not only cools the room, but creates a fascinating pinwheel effect. Just make sure the paint is dry before you turn the rainbow fan on, lest you wish to clean paint drops off your face and walls.





Try the same idea for Ceiling Fans 

















Tuesday, May 7, 2013

How to make Fairy Bottles and Fairy Dust Recipes





Fairies are magickal beings that are multidimensional. They can move in and through the physical realm. We live in the 3rd dimension, the physical realm. But in reality, everything we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell are only illusions. These perceptions are how we communicate the information we receive in the physical realm to our true spiritual selves.




Everything is energy and nothing is truly solid. The fairies know this, and are able to merge with the things that appear to be solid in the physical realm. Their energies are lighter and their knowledge of quantum physics allows them to move in and out of different dimensions, which all co-exist at the same time in the same space. You do not have to know or understand quantum physics to know that Fairies do exist, and that we rarely ever see them with our physical eyes. We sense them, feel their presence, and very often can communicate with them psychically through telepathy or visions.



Today we are going to learn how to make Fairy Dust, To draw out the bliss inherent in our nature, 
create your own "fairy dust." This  may be used to anoint magical tools, Altars, amulets and candles for spelling happiness, Luck and Love It also makes a wonderful gift.


Before you Begin  Read the Recipe Fully and understand the Recipe have all the ingredients



Add your Rituals into when making these Recipes
have fun 







Phoenix Fire 














Ingredients:

1 Cup Epsom Salt
1 Cup Pink Himalayan  Salt, Fine
1/2 Teaspoon Silver Sparkle Mica 
1 Table spoon Red Chilli Powder
2 Table spoons Dragon Blood Resin
2 Drops Bergamot Essential Oil
2 Drops Geranium Essential Oil
2 Drops of Cinnamon Essential oil
1 Drop Rose Absolute or 2 Drops Rose Essential Oil

to make   Light 2 Red Candles      Mix  Ingredients together    Place a Rose Quartz Crystal  into the mixture and  Invoke   ( your Deity  name )   I am leaving this blank for you to Put in your own  Ritual 

Remove Crystal    put Fairy Dust mixture into empty bottles













Ocean Waves 

















1 Cup Epsom Salt
1 Cup Dead Sea Salt, Fine
1/2 cup dried blue Petunia
1 Pinch Cobalt Mica
1 Teaspoon of Dried Blue Borage   
1 Tablespoon Dried  Blue Lotus Flower 
1/2 cup Ground Sea shell powder  
1 Tablespoon Fine Copper Sulfate Crystal
1/2 Teaspoon Silver Sparkle Mica
5 - 6 Drops Lavender Essential Oil 


To make  Light 2 Blue Candles  have a Bowl of  Salt water between the Candles   
Mix Ingredients together 
Place a  Blue Apatite Crystal or  Blue Phantom  Fluorite Crystal or Aquamarine  into the  Mixture 

 Invoke (  your Deity of Choice )   I am leaving this Blank for you to perform your own ritual as Everyone does it Differant  


Remove Crystal   then place   Fairy Dust into Empty bottles  








Whisper of the Forest

































1 Cup Epsom Salt
1 Cup Dead Sea Salt, Fine
1/2 Teaspoon Silver Sparkle Mica
1 - 3 Pinches Avocado Mica
2 Drops Evergreen Essential Oil
2 Drops Mandarin Essential Oil
2 Drops Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
2 Drops Mint Essential oil
2 Drops Sandal Wood Essential Oil


Light 2 Green Candles   have a Live Plant between the Candles  
Mix Together the Ingredients   
place an Amazonite Green Crystal or Jade  in the mix

Invoke ( insert Deity of your choice )   I am leaving this blank for you to perform the ritual of your choice

Remove Crystal   put Fairy Dust into  empty bottle 







Frosted Snow


















1 Cup Epsom Salt
1 Cup Dead Sea Salt, Fine
1/2 Teaspoon Silver Sparkle Mica
3 Drops Yuzu Essential Oil
3 Drops Vanilla Absolute


Mix together  in a Bowl with a white and Black Crystal
Invoke Deity of your choice
 I am leaving this part blank for you to  perform your own ritual

Remove Crystal and  put mix into a bottle 







Triple Moon Dust




Mix Equal amounts of:
Ground Rose petal
Ground Lavender Flower
Ground Violet
(the above need to be dried plant materials.)
For every 1/4 cup of combined dried flowers mix in 1 heaping tablespoon of Epson Salt
1/2 teaspoon of Gold and Silver Mica
4 grams (a marble sized nugget) of amber resin, NOT the stone! The soft, sweet smelling resin that is often imported from India, available at health food stores, and of course herb and occult shops.
2 ounces (about 56 grams) of the finest sandalwood powder you can find


Within the three days prior to the actual full moon, gather the ingredients required, along with a mortar and pestle to blend them in

Please Note: This recipe is intended for outdoor rituals. If you will be using the Moon Incense inside, use 1/2 ounce Sandalwood powder instead of 1 ounce and increase the amber from 5 grams to 10 grams.

Preferably outside, under the actual full moon, or indoors near a window where the moon is visible:  

Fill the mortar or cauldron with the sandalwood powder, and crush the amber into it with the pestle or tool of your choice. Use deosil (clockwise) blending motions. Focus on the energy of the full moon, or if you are making the incense for a specific spell, focus on the goal of that spell alone. You can incorporate your favorite words of power or chant while doing this.

When the powder is smooth and consistent, add the vanilla, one drop at a time while saying your chosen words of power (which is best), or the following (which will suffice in most cases):

Drop of moon, grant my boon.

Blend in the drops in the same way you blended in the amber resin. Place the mixture in a clear glass jar with an airtight lid. Keep it away from heat, sunlight, and moisture. Charge it under the light of the full moon on the three days prior to it becoming actually full. The full moon light penetration is the reason for not storing this in an opaque jar. It is ready for use immediately, but can be charged more if desired.










Cross Roads 













you need 1  Cup Graveyard Dirt*  Note  not from a Grave but from  the  Crossroads in a grave yard 
1 Cup Epsom Salt
1/2 Dead Sea Salt
1/2 Cup Ground Coffee Beans
1/2 Cup Ground Chili or Cayenne  powder 
1/2 cup Ground  Egg Shells 
1/2 Cup Ground Chicken bone Powder
1/2 cup Red Pepper Flakes
10 drops Cinnamon 
2 Tablespoons Rum
2 Tablespoons Sandalwood
The Ash of one Cigar  

Light 2 Purple  Legba/Ellegua    Candles  1 Red  1  Black Candle  

Invoke (  Deity of your Choice for me It is Baron Samedi or  Hecate )

this is the Ritual  I use for this

Mix ingredients together  Place an Amethyst Crystal into mix


 take a small sip of rum (not the hot pepper rum unless you can handle it!) and spray it in the air in the 4 cardinal directions and your hands and then invoke Legba.


Asson is rattled vigorously or bell is rang for few seconds to attract the attention of Legba.



Papa Legba open the gate for me!
Atibon Legba open the gate for me!
Open the gate for me, Papa, so that I can pass,
When I return, I will thank the lwa.



(In Haitian Kreyol)

Papa Legba ouvre baye pou mwen, Ago eh!
Papa Legba Ouvre baye pou mwen,
Ouvre baye pou mwen, Papa
Pou mwen passe, Le'm tounnen map remesi Lwa yo!


Listen spirits of the ancestors! 
Welcome to the spirits of my ancestors! 
Be welcome and content in this place!

I light this flame that you may see me and be with me.

I greet and honor you!
Light ancestor candle or flame.


(Ancestor call and flame is optional)

Face each cardinal direction and call:
West – Met Agwe of the vast Ocean hear me! 

East – Loko Ati Sou of the Winds hear me!

South – Ogou of the Flame and Forge hear me! 

North – Damballa of the Earth hear me!


Asson is rattled or clank two machetes or a metal bar.
Florida or Kananga water is sprinkled at the 4 quarters and altar.

Bell is rang three times to end sequence.



Invocation of the Lwa


Priest or priestess takes lwa offering bowl from altar and performs the following action. Offerings in to the lwa in general non-specific are usually grain or dried corn.

It may sound goofy, odd or peculiar, but Cornnuts which are dried corn you can get at a convenience store are ideal for this and highly recommended although any grain offering will suffice. 

Place offering in bowl.

Place hands over bowl, raise energy and project.

Say: This is for the future.



Now carefully put bowl behind back, hold with both hands and extend arms out as far as possible. 

Say: This is for the past.



Offer bowl to right extending arms.
Say: This is for the astral world.



Offer bowl to left extending arms.
Say: This is for the material world.



Light lwa candle and repeat:


May the earth bear witness that in this place,
I salute the powers of all of the lwa.


With these gestures I forge a link in the present time with the ancestors from the past so that the lwa, who knows everything about my past, may chart my future and my path.



Baron Samedi Sevis -
Speak to Baron Samedi. Pour out a little pepper rum three times on the ground. Light a white candle. Light some incense.

Say: Baron La Croix! Master of the Cemetery! Maman Brigitte, Queen of the Dead, beautiful woman, healer of the sick! Brav Gede, first among Ancestors, Papa!
Come here and accept these offerings!

You can put a small white candle in each food offering, and present it individually if desired. Breathe on the food, touch it and put it on the altar. Light the candle in the food offering.

Say:
Baron Samedi
Brav Gede
My own ancestors! I offer you food and rum.
I offer incense.
Hear me! Make any requests you have at this point.

Dedicate any candles, herbs or mojo hands or do any other magical work you have in the name of Baron Samedi.

Note: If you are making a mojo hand at this point, you will need to have already burned the candle, and gotten all of the roots, herbs, lodestones and items ready for it beforehand. This is the point you feed it with magnetic sand and lodestones bundle it all up, dedicate it to Baron Samedi. It is the putting of the roots such as High John the Conquerer, mandrake or ginger and lodestones that make it a "mojo hand" specifically. The magnetic objects and roots make it a "hand" meant to draw something to you or attract something such as protection or money.
This is different than a mojo bag or wanga/ouanga packet. Mojo bags are usually carried on you or put in your car or whatnot, whereas a mojo hand is kept on or near the altar or is hidden.



Divination
Now sit down and spend some time in front of your altar. Do some divination if you feel like it. You can read cards or throw coconut or use cowries or whatever you usually do.


Ritual Ending


Bell is rang 3 times to announce the closing of the ritual.

Asson is shaken alternately.

Water is drank from the cup on the altar to take the gifts of the lwa but to also begin to “cool” and refresh yourself. Wash your face off with mineral or spring water,

When this is finished water is flicked at each cardinal point.


Say the following:


I now return. I thank you Baron Samedi and all of the lwa and other spirits that have helped and aided me in this ritual. May you hear my requests and accept the offerings we have given. We shall now go our separate ways in peace, until I shall have need and will call upon you again.


Au revoir Baron La Croix! 

Ago-e!


Baron candle is extinguished or you can leave it burning until it goes out if it can be done safely. You can leave the candle burning until it goes out, and use the wax from it for a particularly potent mojo hand ingredient, BTW.



Baron Carrefour - Lord of the Crossroads, Papa Legba - Keeper of the Gates we now thank you for opening the gates to the lwa and spirits and now request that you close the gates, and accept the offerings I have given and be propitious and heed our requests and speak on my behalf with the lwa.

May you protect and watch over me Papa Legba at all times.


Now may we go our ways until such time as I shall have need and shall call upon you again to assist us in the sacred rites and rituals.

Au revoir Baron Carrefour! 

Papa Legba, Ago-e!

Hail and farewell.

Legba candle is extinguished. 
Ritual ends.
Return to mundane.

Ground, and eat.

Offerings and candle wax (unless using) and other leftovers are left in a specific spot post ritual. I have a large flat rock in my backyard that suffices.


Remove Crystal  and put  Dust into empty bottle





Okay once you are done making the above fairy Dust  Recipes or any Recipe that you have
to make them into fairy Bottles is easy

you need  Potion bottles 


you can find these at craft stores Ac Moore, Micheals, Blick etc  Online stores  Occult and Pagan Wiccan Shops
There are many types of  Potion bottles Pick the one that best suits you
make sure  it has a Cork Top  
you can also use small  Liquor bottles  cleaned out

and Eyelet for option for hanging as a necklace

The Labels for the bottle you make yourself   Templates for the Labels are found  in Craft stores  and  Shops 
These are Examples of Fairy Bottles 


You can find them at Craft Stores and online and  Pagan and Wiccan shops






how to Create a Sea Shell Fairy house




 

House and roof templates 
Sturdy cardboard 
Scissors 
Shells of varying sizes 
Craft glue 

 

Step 1 
Collect shells of many colors and sizes at the seashore 

Step 2 Make a Fairy house out of Cardboard use a Template to create the Fairy house 

Step 3 
With a tacky, quick-drying craft glue, glue house closed, using shaded tab from the template. Glue small shells to house; glue shells (such as coquinas) to roof in overlapping shingles. Then glue roof to house 













How to make Fairy Houses from Recycled Materials


People think making a Fairy house is Expensive, Actually its Free if you're really Clever and imaginative

What you need  
Milk/ Juice/ Soda Bottles or any plastic Bottle


Don't Throw out that Milk /Juice Container Recycle it into Fairy/ Brownie/ Elf / Gnome houses cover with moss, pebbles, Paint ,Shells  acorns, Stones, Sea Glass etc
Below are many ideas and links to tutorials how to make one yourself 

                            here are examples    















Paper Mache 


Popsicle Sticks  Glued on a Water Bottle
and rainbow straws 






                 Plastic Bottle stuffed with dried moss and painted




              a Coffee Cup and  Plate painted  
I would glue Rocks and stones on the inside of the cup to weigh it down 





     A Mini Birdhouse Fairy Village a Tutorial click here 






    How to Make this Fairy House click here







            To make this Fairy house Click here  





This is a Tree log  bark a fairy door Glued on and Decorated with moss and flowers 


a Recycled soda bottle painted  


            
           For information and step by step instructions to make this fairy house click here  






                        The Fairy house is a coffee Can Fairy house 
made of stones glued on   and acorn shell  roof 



                 Coffee Can Bird House click here


                                              Recycled coffee tin


Recycled Tea Pot  Fairy house  
this can inspire you to take an old teapot
and make your own.  





Take any Tea Pot and Decorate it  



                      Gourds Fairy house click here  










   Simple bird house  with shells and flowers and colored stones  instant Fairy garden  






 To make this Fairy Garden for instructions click here 



To make this Fairy Garden Click here for instructions  













           for this  Fairy house Gardens click here 





A Handmade Miniature Mouse Tree House















Recycled  Cookie tin or Coffee tin    
 Steampunk Fairy house   
for steampunk versions add steampunk Elements
Clocks, Cogs, Wheels,  Watch/ Clock parts.







Steampunk Fairy house wood fairy house that has steampunk parts  and  brass exhaust chimney parts and patina rust paint









Wooden boxes  you can find these at super markets 



















How to Grow moss on a Statue like this one



you can do this on Rocks and Stones and small statues anything you want to Create your own Magical Fairy Garden to make it feel Ancient and mysterious 

Things You'll Need

2 cups water
2 cups buttermilk
2 cups moss
Measuring cup
Blender
Wooden spoon
Paint brush, 4 inch
Sphagnum Moss or Moss found on Rocks / Logs etc 


Instructions
1. Buy Sphagnum moss at Gardening centers or Gather moss from your property by gently peeling the moss free of old logs or stones. Look for moss growing in similar amounts of shade as your location. Shake gently to remove excess soil and debris. Some soil is actually desired, so remove only that which comes free easily.

2.Crumble or tear the moss into 1 to 2 inch sections with your hands. Measure 2 cups of moss and set it aside.

3.Add 2 cups of water to your blender. If your tap water is treated with chlorine or other additives, allow it to sit overnight to remove the chemicals, or purchase distilled water.

4.Drop the moss into the water in the blender. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon to distribute the moss.

5.Pour in 2 cups of buttermilk and stir again. Place the lid securely on the blender.

6.Blend on medium for approximately one minute or until the mixture is smooth and the moss is blended with the other ingredients.

7.Paint the mixture on your statue with a large paint brush. For best effects, leave some areas bare so that when the moss grows in will appear natural.

8.Keep the moss mixture moist by misting with plain water once or twice a day, or more often if it dries out. Within a few weeks, the moss will begin to grow and will become more pronounced as it matures.
you can also put the Moss on anything From Rocks , Wood ,Antlers, Water fountains,  logs,  mini gardens,  Jars, Mailboxes  anything you want your only limit is your imagination. 













I hope these pictures and Tutorials will help you bring magic to your fairy Garden this spring and summer and magic in your lives  that you can turn Anything into a Fairy house

Keep being a Crafty Witch.