When i saw the new design for the Monster High reboot I really didn't like most of them, but Draculaura bothered me immediately since at first glance I couldn't even tell that she's supposed to be a vampire. So I made my own little version of what I think she'd look like as a more updated version!! I hope you like it, and if you do, please follow me on other sites as well c: Twitter deviantArt Instagram Tiktok
Lets Celebrate! Its the Holidays!
Happy Holiday Season Everyone! I am having a holiday sale on my website that will run through January 2nd! Everything purchasable will be 30% off, and I have put up my Holiday Pricing Sheet for Commissions. Happy Holidays Everyone!
The Only Witch in the Family
As the only witch in a predominantly christian household, i'm not exactly the favorite child amongst my parents, which is fine i never was anyway, but when my sister, the one i'm closest with, thinks she's higher on whatever pedestal she's put herself on, than i am...it pisses me off. Normally i don't let the Christian vs. Wiccan stuff bother me. Sure its not fair we're still seen as evil people who are doomed to rot in hell for all eternity (even though wicca has no concept of hell, well depending on who you ask.), but when my own flesh and blood tells me that i should have fun in hell because we don't have the same beliefs it kinda makes me mad. I know it shouldn't but, come on! I'm trying to defend my honor here, as a human just trying to live my miserable little life! For a religion that promotes that they love and respect any religion, any kind of person, any life choices one makes, christians sure don't practice what they preach...
Now that Thanksgiving is over we need to talk about the next important holidays, which means this is my first ever Holiday Sale!! This goes for the entire month of December till the second of January! So get your discounted art while you can!
🎃🍁🍂✨AUTUMN WITCHY THINGS TO DO!✨🍂🍁🌰
This is my most favorite season. I am feeling giddy as I type this. There’s so much to enjoy during this time of year!
Collecting
🌰 this is the season for acorns! As you might have noticed the ground around some oak trees are already sprinkled with them. You can collect acorns for runes or make acorn bell charms or make floating tea lights with the caps. I love collecting acorns for spells, especially wealth spells. I hold one and bless it, then visualize my spell as if it is already happening, then kiss or blow a kiss at it to seal it (it’s been on the ground so sometimes it safer to blow a kiss to it lol) then tuck it in the earth.
🍁 Collecting leaves! Fall leaves are great for banishing spells especially since they are something that was shed away. You can write on them what things you want to come to an end and burn or bury them. You can also use them to make leaf lanterns or decorate fairy lights with.
🍎 It’s also Apple season! You can go apple picking and use their deliciousness in cooking or dry them in an oven or fruit dehydrator for snacks or teas! Making apple tea is perfect for autumn and also makes a nice gift. Apples are also highly used in spells often for gratitude, offerings or fertility. You can leave out sliced apples as an offering to spirits if you work with them or bury them for spells. If you celebrate the equinox they can make great tea lights and decorations.
🍂 This is also a great time to start preserving. Start to pickle things for winter when a lot less stuff grows. Make extracts from fresh herbs. Gather a clean jar, hard white liquor like vodka and cheese cloth for straining and top your harvested fruit or herbs with vodka and let it sit for a week or two. Shake it daily if you want. You can even keep the ingredients in there for all of winter if you wish. I know you can buy most extracts of anything but I always find it far more powerful when I craft my own. Also infused liquor with fruits and sugar can make fantastic Christmas gifts!
Cooking
🍳 This is definitely the season for kitchen witches! So much is in season and there are so many gatherings that will happen! Perfect your pie making skills and eat the gifts of the harvest. A lot of spices makes its way into my food in this season to combat colds and also for hotter spices to warm the body up. One spice I associate with warmth as it has actual warming qualities is cinnamon and we know this is cinnamon season. Use it in teas, cooking, baking; you can put the oil in lotions and body creams but be careful to not put it on any sensitive areas or it will BURN. For a more savory version you can cook with black pepper. Black pepper paired with allspice makes a good autumn savory combo. I also love adding maple syrup to some dishes but very discreet amounts. For autumn equinox gatherings I bake BBQ chicken with a BBQ sauce that tastes smokey from a bit of bourbon I sneak in that goes well with its spiciness and the maple syrup goes well with the sweetness of the sauce. Maple syrup in savory-sweet dishes might sound weird at first but if you pair it right with sauces like Japanese eel sauce (and make baked glazed eggplants with that) or BBQ sauce, it will come out great. The trick is to add very little by little and taste as you go.
🍭 Also as Halloween is coming up its the time for candy! There’s so many cool ways to make your own treats from Halloween bark, to fudge (2), to caramel, pretzels, gummies and it will be even more magical if you make it for your friends! (Better to make these for private parties cause it can get suspicious handing it out to trick or treaters). It’s also the season for candy coated apples. For the fall equinox each year I make caramel coated apples. I feel like candy coated is better suited for Halloween cause it’s glazed and more dramatic appearing. Making a chocolate covered apple can be a great substitute for candy since many people complain that candy covering is hard to bite through. Also chocolate is easy to color and flavor. I love to decorate with colorful fall sprinkles and crushed nuts (if no one is allergic of course) like peanuts and almonds if it’s a caramel apple.
🍺 Along with preserving, this is also brewing season!! Making cider might be a challenge for some but it’s incredibly rewarding if you go through with it. Look at your local breweries for equipment and advice. If you’re uninterested in doing all the work, supporting their fall brews is just as good! Plus breweries produce some DELICIOUS stuff during the fall. My friends and I have a favorite craft beer store we especially harass during fall. You can also make liquors and liqueurs from harvested fruits. You can either put chopped up fruits and berries with a stick of cinnamon or spices in a jar and top with dark rum, whiskey or vodka depending on how you want to influence the flavor and make an infusion. If you want something sweeter (and quicker to make), get a pan to make simple syrup (1/2cup water to 1cup sugar) and instead of water replace with something like apple cider and as it simmers add cinnamon. You can add the apple spiced syrup to a clean bottle and top with dark rum. The next morning shake it and you will have an apple spice liqueur! I like to make simple syrup with things in season this time of year such as juiced apples or crushed harvested berries and make a berry liqueur with it. It’s delicious and can make wonderful hot toddy drinks that taste like pie!!
☕️ Its also spiced tea season! Brewing spiced teas to help cold, plus I was told my spiced teas taste like seasonal candles lol. I love making an orange spice tea and an apple tea with dried apple slices. The orange spice is simple. In a pot of simmering water combine orange slices or peeks, cinnamon sticks and star anise and let simmer for a while. You can add brown sugar to the pot of sweeten it in your cup after. For the apple tea I like to put roobois in a pot and let steep or simmer with apple slices and cinnamon. Another popular tea I drink especially the closer to winter we get is ginger spice. In a simmering pot add slices of ginger, cloves and honey. My dad spikes this with Haitian rum if we feel under the weather. It helps sweat out the cold.
🍂 Crockpot recipes!! Get familiar with the modern cauldron lol!! There’s this wonderful post for crockpot recipes for the colder seasons. Stew season is upon us and there’s nothing better than coming home on a cold autumn evening to a rich stew of squash and pumpkins and oxtail.
Spirit Activity
👻 if you want you could contact spirits easily since spirit activity will heighten. Maybe talk to ancestors since they could be less scary if you want a place to start. If you do NOT want or like spirit activity this would be a great time to set up wards!
🍁 Fall is also a time of gratitude and reflection. As you go harvesting make sure to leave offerings or give thanks to the trees and plants you harvest from! Even a moment of sending a boost of positive thoughts their way can work. Apparently plants can read and communicate through vibrations and are very sensitive so you saying thanks or sending love and gratefulness can make some plants happy lol.
Enchanting
🍂 While you change your wardrobe from warm weather to cold weather bless your sweaters and socks to keep you warm. If you have more time and need a boost put your stored away sweaters in the dryer for a few minutes with a very sealed cloth sack of herbs like cinnamon sticks (not powder) or anything you associate with warmth and comfort before exchanging them with your summer clothes in the drawers.
💄 Also the witchiest season is upon us and if you are into make up and glamours you know this means darker richer lipsticks and richer colors. Enchant your dark lipsticks and make up to make you feel witchier and more powerful! It’s the one time of the year you can wear dark burgundy, chocolate Browns and blacks and no one will ask you about it. (Unless if you’re an all year round goth 👍🏽)
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! A wonderful charm for your home is this pumpkin incense lantern. It’s beautifully festive and will make your space smell like pie!
🎃 Also for pumpkin carving you can use magic to make them into wards. Jack-o-lanterns were created to ward away bad spirits. You can take the ancient tradition and make your Jack-o-lanterns ward away negativity, unwanted visitors and unwanted spirits. Some people like black candles for protection so filling them with black tea lights might look extra halloweeny and help with your ward!
🌑 Also charcoal is good for absorbing negative energy. If these holiday family seasons make you uncomfortable you can make sigils of protection inside of your Jack o lantern or carved incense pumpkin to help with negative tension in the household once family is over or use charcoal and sea salt to make black salt and hide it somewhere in the living room where people congregate or make it into a pretty centerpiece like a candle votive. You can add black glitter or stick in fake plants to make it look like some interesting modern art furniture piece when really it’s black salt to help your uncles, aunts and extended cousins to simmer the fuck down.
Reflection
🍂 Along with gratitude fall is a time of reflection. Reflect on past issues you faced in the year and how to improve them. Reflect on your craft and how you can improve it and what’s not working. Whatever is not good not working in your life right now it’s a good time for banishing magic. Once again you can use fall leaves because those leaves are something that’s been shed and you can imagine yourself shedding away those things too. Remember to be grateful of those things that are working. You can show gratitude to yourself by blessing acorns and planting them in the earth to grow as a gift back to the earth but also symbolic of those good things to grow.
Longer post than usual but this is my favorite season and I do a lot during it! Of course feel free to add if you have any other ideas or recipes!
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Envy and jealousy can sneak up on people and it can cause some serious damage emotionally and even physically! Stop comparing yourself to others, because no life is exactly the same - we each have our own obstacles and challenges to accomplish. So when you start to think the grass is greener on the other side, think about your own goals, nurture and take care of your side of the yard, because the more blessings you count in your life, the more beautiful flowers will flourish!!
mbt1991
This is probably the most inspiring thing I’ve seen in a while. :)
LITERALLY the BEST advice for any artist, ever! Heck, anyone, ever, but especially creatives, because in the world of subjectivity, art reigns supreme. But what someone likes and considers successful, someone else might not! They might think YOU are successful instead, and want to further your art growth! Artists compare each others’ work a lot, and I mean golly I’m a victim of compare/contrast every day, but what’s important is to find others who inspire you, and when you are inspired, you will be surprised at who you inspire in return! Surround yourself with people who wish to work with you, to make your work better (and of course, people you are comfortable with returning the favor)! Having that extra positivity can work wonders!
So don’t compare! Everyone is different, unique, and learns at a different pace! Work together and share knowledge, and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you grow and others grow around you.
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support witches who became a witch because of the media support witches who grew up in a family of witches support “secret witches” whose family doesn’t know of their craft support religious witches support non religious witches support witches who worship satan support male witches support trans witches support witches that don’t identify with the gender binary support mentally ill witches support witches who work their craft in “non traditional” ways support witches who stick to everything by the book support unskilled witches support witches who became a witch because they just thought it was cool support witches who have to be told witches are ugly women who put curses on people support witches that are “ugly” women that put curses on people
just like support witches
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bitemekyuu
Will never not reblog this xD
first rule of disney fandom : always reblog peter and tink going to starbucks
Easter is coming up! And it’s a terrible time for pet store bunnies!
Rabbits are marketed as “easy”, short-lived, starter pets, especially during the Easter holidays, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth! A healthy, well cared for bunny can live just as long as the average cat or dog- 10-12 years!
What’s more, they have more complex needs than a cat or a dog. Rabbits are prey animals and do not behave or show affection in the same way as predators like cats and dogs; they don’t deal well with being outside-only animals; they can get sad if they’re on their own and don’t receive enough attention; and if they’re bought as a male and female couple, they can start reproducing from as early as 5-6 months of age, and they can carry multiple litters at the same time!
They have a specialised diet (NOT carrots!), need a specialised living area (unless you want all your things to get chewed up!), and they need specialised vets! Caring for them costs as much as caring for a dog!
They’re a big responsibility!
BUNNY SAFETY SIGNAL BOOST BECAUSE BUNNIES ARE IMPORTANT
Anonymous asked:
You're a witchcraft blog. Stop talking about Christianity. It's annoying.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to justify this with an answer, but I suppose it’d be a good learning point for why I reference Christianity, however infrequently.
1. I was raised Catholic.2. I chose to go to Sunday school until I was 10.3. I did not leave Christianity as an act of rebellion but because, no matter how interesting it was, it didn’t fit my personal beliefs.4. I studied world religions in college as a minor and it focused on Abrahamic religions.5. My husband is Catholic and actively involved in my Craft.6. While I am not a Christian witch, Christian witches do exist and have a valid belief system.7. Most people know the basics of Christianity, and it makes referencing it relatable.8. If you don’t like how I talk about witchcraft on my blog, there’s something called an unfollow button. You’re welcome to utilize it at any time.
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How to Charge Sigils
I’ve gotten a TON of asks about this lately, so I’ll go ahead and do this post tonight. This is NOT an inclusive list of ways to charge sigils, it’s what I know of/can think of at the moment.
Firstly, there’s two different schools. Destroying the sigil to charge and release it, and keeping the sigil intact. I’m going to note which school each method falls into.
- Destruction: Fire Writing a sigil on anything that’s safe to burn, and throwing it into fire to charge it, as it’s destroyed. This charges the sigil with the energy from the flame, and is a good method for adding passionate, strong, intense energy. (or any other things you associate with fire)
- Preservation: Fire Writing a sigil, carving, or engraving it somewhere, and placing it close to a flame where it can absorb the heat and energy from the fire without burning up. Has the same benefits as the above method.
- Destruction: Water Writing a sigil in something soluble, and then soaking it in a body of water. This charges the sigil, and more specifically the body of water that the sigil is charged and released into. It’s a good way to incorporate traits from the element of water, such as creativity, strengthened psychic abilities, and the like.
- Preservation: Water Writing or carving a sigil in/on something that doesn’t dissolve in water, such as carving a sigil into a chunk of wood. The sigil absorbs energy from the water while it is soaking. Again, has the same added properties as mentioned for the destructive method with water.
- Destruction: Earth Writing your sigil on something natural and biodegradable, then burying it. Such as writing a sigil on an acorn or leaf. It then absorbs energy from the earth as it slowly decomposes. A sigil charged this way may take on the additional energy and properties associated with the earth, such as strength, patience, and nurturing.
- Preservation: Earth Charge a sigil with a crystal grid, or similar set up, and keep the sigil intact afterwards. It has the same added properties as the above mentioned method for earth.
- Preservation: Light Charge your sigil in light, be it daylight or moonlight. The sigil is charged by the light.
- Destruction: Light I refer to this as destruction and light, because it deals with visibility and invisibility. Basically, write your sigil in something that will become invisible afterwards. Such as the fog on a bathroom mirror, lemon juice on paper, ect… This is my favorite way for creating/charging sigils dealing with spirits, communication, or “unseen” traits. In this method the sigil charges every time the surface it was written on is exposed to light.
- Preservation: Energy Work/Meditation You focus on your sigil, and charge it with energy. You are relying on your own energy for this, not energy from another source to charge the sigil.
- Destruction: Energy Work/Meditation Same charging method as mentioned above, but you destroy the sigil in your preferred manner when you’re done, in order to release the spell to work.
More “touchy” methods below the break. TW for a lot of different reasons. Each of these methods can be preservative or destructive, just depending on if you keep the sigil in tact afterwards.
I don’t really want to add on but I’ve gotta: So the IDEA of the sigil is charged when you destroy it..? Because I’m a little confused.
pomegranateandivy
Not really. At least, that’s not how I understand it. There’s a school of thought with sigils that the sigil is charged and becomes active when it’s destroyed. Obviously not everyone follows this though, and some people use the paradigm that a sigil can be charged and activated while keeping the physical representation of the sigil intact.
When you destroy the sigil to charge it, that’s basically what turns the sigil “on” and releases the energy from the sigil to go to work. The sigil is charged with the energy necessary to destroy it. So in this case, the sigil is less the physical thing, and more the spell that is represented by the physical thing. Think of destroying the sigil as changing potential energy to kinetic energy. It’s pushing the first domino over and watching all the others fall. The destruction of the sigil is that initial burst of potential energy (in the form of your finger resting on the domino) being changed to kinetic and thus charging and activating the sigil (via you pushing the metaphorical domino over).The sigil as spell is the entire set up of dominos. The sigil as a symbol is the first domino. And the pushing over a domino is the charging and releasing of energy for the sigil as a symbol to activate the sigil as a spell.
Chant to Repair a Broken Relationship by autumnsnaketongue
Letters Unsent - A Spell for Second Chances by witchcraftandworship
Moon Mermaid “Beauty Lies Within” Spell by themoonmysteries
Spell to Find Friends by simplespellsforsimplewitches
Sweet Disposition Jar by squishywitchy
Removing Toxic Friends by thepunkgreenwitch
Slaughtering a Friendship by khal-winchester
Spell to Banish a Person by cunningcelt
Un-Binding Spell by rainy-day-witchcraft
An Earth Survival Spell to Restore Self-Esteem After Unfair Treatment by Cassandra Easson
Easy Healing Spell by spirit-magick-nature
Emotional Healing - Bottle Magic by liberumbrarum
Facial Mask– Healing the Heart Spell by pomegranateandivy
Going Into the Earth Spell for Emotional Healing by witchsmoke
Healing Candle Spell by whitekitchenwitch
Healing Spells by thepathofthewise
Storm Sorceress’ Healing From Deception by stormsorceress
To Remove Burdens of the Heart by castingshells
A Spell to Enhance Love by reverience
A Spell to Strengthen Love by diviningdusk
Chant to Repair a Broken Relationship by autumnsnaketongue
Energy Love Spell by idontusemycauldron
How to Make a Love Sachet by cyrnarosorcery
Jar for Attracting Romance by recreationalwitchcraft
Love Drawing Bath Soak by recreationalwitchcraft
Love Scrub by honeycoyote
Love Spell by adviceforwitches
Powder to Repell An Unwanted Lover by recreationalwitchcraft:
Red Wine Hot Chocolate - A Love Spell by intrepidcrow
Spell for Emotional Healing and Moving Forwar from witchesofthecraft.com
Spell for a Healthy Relationship by Deborah Blake
Infertile Heart: Love Repression Spell by recreationalwitchcraft
Love Repression by mountainmanhealing
The Art of Detachment: Taking a Magical Route by brynja-storm
Citrine Quartz Meditation by thehoodwitch
Inner Peace Spell by pisceswitch
Introspective Knot Spell from llewellyn.com
Meditation for Body Acceptance by witchhallow
Self-Love Spray by witchcraftings
Often times the roles of female actresses are muted and stereotypical, especially for women of color. And as a teen actress, I want to play teens who are layered and intricate and complicated. I don’t want to play roles that make us look dumb and annoying because I know teens and 20,000 of us are intelligent and are here to change the world. The point is, we can choose the language we use, we can question the media that surround us, we can take advantage of the fact that we have a voice and let it be heard loud and clear, we can create a world where you are safe to be yourself. Feminism is a belief that does just that. I am a feminist because I believe there should not currently be 82 million girls out of school. Because I believe boys should not have to suppress their emotions because of fear of being polarized by the public and their peers… Because I believe that gender and race should not be boxes that should keep us from having the same equal opportunities. - Fourteen years old Rowan Blanchard talking about feminism.
Bisexual Sigil
Fifth in trans-warlock‘s series of sexuality sigils from Trans Magic Workshop
Add to spells, charms, etc to bond yourself to your magic and reaffirm your identify
Thank you to everyone who shared their feelings about their sexuality to help create this!
Gender sigils: Agender Sigil, Gendervoid Sigil,Genderfluid Sigil, Bigender Sigil , Nonbinary Sigil,Demiboy Sigil, Demigirl Sigil , Genderqueer Sigil,Trans Male Sigil, Trans Female Sigil, Androgyne Sigil,Pangender Sigil, Genderflux Sigil, Dmab Genderqueer Sigil, Neutrois Sigil, Aporagender Sigil,Trigender Sigil,Greygender Sigil,Agenderflux,Gendervague, and Demiagender As well as the Predator/Prey Reversal Safety Sigil for Trans/Nonbinary/Intersex, the Dysphoria and Transphobia Trap Sigil, and the Dead-naming and Misgendering Protection Ward, and our Steady Breathing Binding Sigil, Masculinity Increasing Binding Sigil, and Gender Euphoria Lock Sigil, and coming out to datemate sigil
Also our Pansexuality Sigil and Asexual Sigil and Asexual Spectrum Sigil, and Demisexuality Sigil
Romantic Orientation sigils: Aromantic double sigil We also have an Intersex Sigil
~Reminder that all of our sigils have an blank background/easy to see version in our Reader Friendly tag~ We’re also starting to accumulate easier to draw versions of our more complicated designs in ourSimplified Sigils tag And be sure to check out our Request List!
australianwitchery
This is one amazing list.