Tattooed women thinspo 🖊✨
Do you know any good mods for indoor decoration? My girlfriend and I want to make a little town and spruce up the interiors
Biblio, mr.crayfish, decocraft, chisel&bits, & the fairy lights mod are my personal go-to mods for interior decorations!!!
Hasty Peasant Soup
Ingredients:
1/4c. Melted butter
5c. Shredded Cabbage
1LG Onion
6oz. Frozen chopped broccoli
6oz. French Cut Green beans
5oz Corn
1 ½ c. Cooked cubed ham
1/4c. Uncooked rice
3 chicken bouillon cubes or 6c chicken broth
6c. Boiling water
Optional: grated Parmesan
Instructions:
Saute shredded Cabbage and onions to soften. Boil water and chicken bouillon/broth in a large pot and then add the rest of the the ingredients. Cook on medium for 5-10 minutes while stirring to coat with butter. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and cook uncovered for about 25 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste add water for desired thickness. Serve hot.
Optional: added grated Parmesan and serve with crusty bread. Eat in wooden bowl with wooden spoon for maximum goblin!
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large sweet onion, diced
- 1 pint mushrooms, minced
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 3 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/3 tsp sage
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 13.7 oz bag Gardein beefless crumbles
For the pie crust
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1/3 cup cold water
- ½ cup room temperature coconut oil
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp salt
Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Add the room temperature coconut oil. Work the coconut oil into the flour with a pastry cutter or your fingers until it forms a gravelly crumby meal. Slowly add the cold water, use just enough to bind the mealy bits into a dough, be careful not to let it become too wet and sticky. Knead the dough a few times then put it in the fridge while you work on the filling.
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook for around 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring often. I like to add a splash of soy sauce when I add the mushrooms but this is optional.
Grind the spices in a mortar and pestle (or use ground spices) then add to the mushrooms and onions. Stir and cook another two minutes.
Add the meatless crumbles and another tbsp olive oil and mix until the crumbles are heated through. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool slightly while you roll out your dough.
Lightly flour your work surface and roll out your dough to about ¼-1/8 inch thickness.
Use a 4 inch circle cookie cutter (if we’re being honest here I just traced a large mug with a knife) to cut the dough into discs.
Using your hands, pack about a tbsp or so of filling into the middle of the dough disc, fold it over to close and use a fork to crimp the edges sealed. Decorate with little leaves if you’d like.
Arrange on a greased baking sheet 1 inch apart. Melt a little coconut oil and brush over a very thin layer, sprinkle all of the hand pies with a pinch of salt.
Bake at 375F/190C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
Enjoy!
PS– If you have leftover filling pop it in a container and freeze it for next time! If you can keep your partner and their fork out of it. I end up with a ton leftover every time 😂
Things my Granny taught me.
Sometimes I will say or do something and my husband will give me the strangest looks. Over the years I think he’s come to accept my quirks without question, but I wonder if any of y'all have any traditions/superstitions that were passed down through your family. Here are some of mine:
Never sweep after the moon has risen. If your nose is itching, you’ll soon have good company. If a broom falls over on its own, you’ll have unwanted company. Never say thank you for plants given or they will die. If you drop a pair of scissors and they stick into the floor, don’t pick them up until they fall over. (I don’t know what would happen if you did.) Never lend a needle or salt… charge a penny each. Keep an amethyst by your bed to ward off bad dreams. If you tell your dreams before breakfast, they won’t come true. If the stuffing of your pillow forms a ring, a death is near. Put a piece of wedding cake under your pillow and you’ll dream of your future spouse. A mirror laying flat under a full moon will show you what you need to see. Prick the corners of your bread dough to “let the fairies out” so that the bread will rise high. Bad luck comes in threes. Paint your window sills blue to keep bad spirits away. They can’t cross water, so the color tricks them. Alternately, you can keep a bottle tree in your yard to capture them. When the sun rises, they’ll be banished. Copper by your door will keep insects away. Rain on a wedding day is good luck. If it rains while the sun is shining, the devil is beating his wife. Red sunrise means rain is on the way. Cows lying down means bad weather is coming. You can find clean water by looking for crawdads. Carved wooden spoons given to a new bride ensures a happy marriage. Bread, candles, and salt are traditional housewarming gifts. Hang a horseshoe over the door with the open side up to catch good luck. Rainwater caught during a full moon will cure warts. (among other things) Keep rosemary in the garden to ensure a thrifty home.
The rational part of me knows that most of these are just superstitions. Still, that doesn’t stop me from grabbing an umbrella when the cows are laying down, and making sure my floors are clean before dark. I know I’m not alone, either, because my aunt gives me clippings from her garden all the time and always says “you know what not to say” and I always assure her that I do! :)
I recommend checking the notes on this for more great stuff.
I have a plant problem…
Little watercolour terrariums! I want all of these and more in my house <3<3
☄️ alternative grimoire prompts ☄️
🌙 do you knit? write knitting patterns in your grimoire and use knot magick to imbue them with intention
🌙 you could do something similar to the above with bracelet weaving patterns
🌙 paperclip sewing patterns for poppets or spell bags into your grimoire. or, put them in a pocket!
🌙 create a ‘local grimoire’ with a map of your area, labeled with any areas of high energy, local folklore, common plants etc
🌙 learn to make simple pop-up pages and create pop up travel altars for any deities etc that you worship
🌙 create a sigil grid and laminate it. use a dry wipe marker on it and create sigils without wasting paper
🌙 create an ancestral family tree page. use pressed leaves and flowers to create the tree effect
🌙 create a window in the front of your book. put sigils for different intentions, current moon phases in it etc to help your grimoire aid you in whatever you need it to at the time
🌙 compare two tarot cards from different decks. what makes them similar, or different?
🌙 write in your playlists for boosting certain moods. the magic of music is very real!
Yule Goat Ornaments Updated December 2018
I was asked to make a tutorial on how I make my felted Yule goat ornaments!
Yule goats are a part of the season in part their durability. Many times during the harsh winters of yore, the cows wouldn’t produce milk during the winter’s while goats would. Not only that, but the nature of the goat eating pretty much anything to survive meant that even if hay had run out, a family could still feed the goat from their stores and from their compost heap, even scraps from the table and cooking and would still produce milk. The Yule goat has become a symbol of strength, perseverance and one of blessing, staving off the harsh realities that winter can impose.
Step 1: Make you guide out of cardboard or sturdy paper. If you would like to print off the template, I made a quick google doc. Step 2: Lay on piece of doubled felt and cut along outline. Step 3: Tie a knot on end of embroidery floss and pull through one side right at the neck. Step 4: This isn’t really step, but make sure that the side where the knot is will be the inside of the Yule goat to hide the knot. Step 5: Bring both side together and use a whip stitch to loop along the edges from the neck forward and all along there whole thing until just past the tail. They don’t have to be super close together, but try and keep the distance uniform and tight. Step 6: Leave enough room to put stuffing in the goat using a chopstick, wooden skewer etc. You can also add in herbs, spices, crystals, sigils, or written petitions inside. Step 7: Once it is full of stuffing, finish sewing up the back to your first knot and tie off a knot to keep it from unraveling. Step 8: (optional) if you have enough excess, wrap the remaining floss around the neck until you have a just enough to tie a little bow. I usually tie the bow facing whichever side I designate at the front. Step 9: Using black thread, or even a small seed bead, you can sew on an eye. If you want to decorate the goat more, use thin ribbon or trim and decorate to your style, trying to sew it in place with minimal stitches to avoid making bulges in the stuffed goat. Step 10: Sew a small loop from the horn, pinch it in place to see what part is balanced, and sew the loop there.
These ornaments are pretty cheap to make and once you get the hang of it, you can make a bunch. Supplies include: Felt, needle and embroidery floss, stuffing, and optional decoration and supplies listed in step 6.
Merry Yuletide!
🦇Cheers, Barberwitch
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This post is not meant for terfs, or nazi’s. I see an uptick every winter of them reblogging this.
Witch Tip Wednesday 12.5.18
Yule Goat Ornaments
Yule goats are a part of the season in part their durability. Many times during the harsh winters of yore, the cows wouldn’t produce milk during the winter’s while goats would. Not only that, but the nature of the goat eating pretty much anything to survive meant that even if hay had run out, a family could still feed the goat from their stores and from their compost heap, even scraps from the table and cooking and would still produce milk. The Yule goat has become a symbol of strength, perseverance and one of blessing, staving off the harsh realities that winter can impose.
Usually Yule Goats were made from bent straw, wrapped in red ribbon or string, this falls along the lines of straw art done near harvest like the Corn Dolly tradition for fall that I posted about a while back. This is a modern adaptation that is a lot easier than soaking straw and braiding it, so I hope you enjoy it!
If you do make these, please send me pictures! I loved seeing them last year 💚
Tasseography: A Very Basic Guide
So much has been said about the reading of tea leaves, or coffee grounds, that is almost seems futile to write even more about it. But because this blog is meant to be used as a complete grimoire and guide, I feel I should mention one of the most well-known methods of divination.
Tasseography’s history is not well-understood. Many Wiccan authors ascribe the practise to the Romani people, but its origin is not well-known. Many European and Middle Eastern people used divinatory methods based on the shapes of spilt or scattered substances, and once tea was introduced to Europe from China, it seemed only natural tea leaves would join the long list of things-that-can-sometimes-look-like-shapes. In the Middle East and Eastern Europe, coffee is more often used in tasseography.
A spoonful of tea leaves, loose, is placed in a white teacup. The querent must then stir the leaves with their finger, focussing on the questions they wish to ask. Boiling water may then be poured into the cup to allow the tea to steep. The querent then allows the leaves to settle and drinks the tea until only the dregs and a spoonful or so of liquid is left at the bottom. Then, the cup is taken up in the left hand and swirled three times clockwise before being quickly turned over onto a white napkin resting atop a saucer. The querent counts to seven and turns the cup aright, whereafter the leaves may be read.
The position of the symbolic shapes left behind in the cup matters. Anyone who reads tea leaves has their own system for interpretation. When I do this, I read the cup outward from the handle on both sides, with the handle pointing toward the querent. Symbols on the right side of the cup may be interpreted as positive, while those on the left may have negative qualities. Stronger messages emanate from symbols closer to the brim of the cup than the base.
Following are a short list of symbols and their meanings, both positive and negative.
- Acorn: strength and resilience, or stubbornness
- Arrow: surprise news, or a rumour
- Bird: good luck, or a friend lost
- Boat: a visit, or a debt owed
- Butterfly: pleasure, or a short-lived joy
- Cat: strengthened friendship and loyalty, or treachery
- Circle: a gift given, or a payment demanded
- Cloud: financial success, or a period of trouble
- Clover: happiness and prosperity, or assumptions made
- Coffin: freedom from a persistent trouble, or death
- Cross: prosperity, or annoyance
- Crown: honour and success, or great responsibility
- Curved line: a journey ahead, or an unexpected setback
- Dagger: friends who will come to your aid, or impending danger
- Deer: freedom, or a quarrel
- Dog: faithful friends, or secret enemies
- Fish: a visitor from abroad, or a surprise journey
- Flag: loyalty, or people may unite against you
- Flower: happiness in relationships, or the death of an acquaintance
- Hammer: triumph over adversity, or hard work ahead
- Hat: success in the workplace, or a warning that you are ignoring an important truth
- Heart: pleasure and happiness, or trouble in relationships
- Horseshoe: good luck, or an unexpected visitor who will waste your time
- Human figure: visit from a parent, or a fight
- Key: success in business, or the return of an ex-lover
- Letters: denote the initial of someone close to the querent
- Moon: good fortune, or obliviousness
- Mountain: powerful friends, or powerful enemies
- Mushroom: an epiphany, or a toxic influence
- Numbers: should be significant to the querent
- Oak leaf: long life in good health, or long life in poor health
- Rabbit: multiplication of blessings, or multiplications of curses
- Ring: marriage, or divorce
- Snake: a speedy recovery, or a treacherous friend
- Square: comfort, or hardship
- Spider: gaining money, or losing money
- Triangle: good luck, or a bad reputation
- Wheel: an inheritance, or a sudden upset
- Windmill: a business success, or a false omen
The symbols retain their positive meaning when found on the right side of the cup, but have a negative interpretation on the left.
quick and easy tarot trick:
1. find the fool in your deck 2. the card under it is how you fucked up 3. the card over it is how you fix your fuck-up 4. you’re welcome