Happy Halloween Everyone!

eee! for the first time in several years I carved a pumkin! such fun! I'll probably post pictures of it sometime.

As for costumes this year I've got a couple in the works...hopefully a somewhat recreation of Eowyn's dress in ROTK..though it's gone awry...and a green fairy!

I've been having fun with dying things recently though I was pretty stumped with some polyester untill I got the right dye for it - though it was awfully stinky . Seriously I poured straight bleach over it after the regular dye wasn't working and the colour didn't change a bit!

aaannd I rather liked these blood pictures here and figured there couldn't be a better time to post them, so..enjoy the red, hehe, but really, don't worry about meeting me down some dark alley sometime

has it been a hundred years yet???

aye, I've been snoozin here for far too long....I've got a veritable mountain of photos to sort through...which I've been slowly hacking away at.....just been too overwhelmed and lazy and distracted to figure out what to actually post next.

So for now I'm trying to go through all my messages on here, heh heh....I wonder if there's anyone who's got more piled up than me 3,447 deviations to view, and 1,490 messages to read!!! gah! how did this happen? hehe. If you get a really random reply from me it's cause I've been finally reading messages that are over a year old, heh. Although I think there may be something wrong with the message thingy.....for one thing they haven't been cloming up in any kind of sensible order. I'm getting ones sent last month all mixed in with ones sent last halloween. who knows....and some of them I'd have sworn I remember answering. So maybe some stuff just never got deleted even though I did reply. well whatever.

Anywho, just sending you all a little hello from my dreamland here: never fear, I haven't actually died just waitn' around for the apple chunk to get dislodged so to speak...(that is to say to get over this apparent block I've had with picking pictures and reading comments etc.)

Life is for the most part fine and dandy and peachy and full of all things bright and beautifull

hmmm.....oh yeah! I gots a new computer in July! a beautifull black macbook

welly well wells...I can't think of anything to ramble about for the moment, so tata for now, and the best o' luck an' weather to all of ye who actually read this!

We savor flavors, and smells, and gaze long upon beautifull sights, but it seems to me that people very frequently ‘tune out’ their sense of touch. Obviously we all use it constantly to help us handle things - to do everything - typing, brushing our teeth, opening doors, handing over money, getting dressed, etc. etc. but much of the information our skin senses is processed on automatic pilot, or even subconsciously. How often do you pause and direct all your attention to what you are feeling? There is so much to experience, so much beauty to enjoy through your skin. It is, afterall, the part of you that is in most contact with the world around you. Perhaps that is why it is too easy to take it for granted, because you recieve so much of that sort of information constantly it becomes ‘white noise’. But just try it. Right now, focus all your attention into your skin, stop and let your fingers slide over your keyboard, let them take in the bumps created by the letters, the texture of the plastic. Feel the soft warmpth of your hair against your neck. Feel the fabric of your clothes against you. Don’t neglect your feet, though they are so far away from your mind. Take in the texture of the carpet, or rub them against eachother and feel the smoothness of the skin on the top, the roughness of the callouses. Do you ever think about these things, do you ever stop and savor the things you handle every day?

This is part of why I love to go barefoot. I love to experience all the different textures on the ground. People often ask ‘doesn’t it hurt’ or assume ‘but you’ll hurt your feet, what if you step on glass!’ Indeed I have stepped on glass, indeed sometimes it hurts. But that is only a small part of what they miss by huddling in their shoes. I have walked through dust so soft and smooth and sweet, like velvet, I have slid across refreshing metal, and basked in the sweet sumptuous softness of certain kinds of pavements. Yes, concrete can be soft. Asphalt can rise up to cradle your feet in a warm embrace, the little bumps nestling perfectly into the nooks of your toes. There is one section of newly repaved crosswalk near my home that is like satin, yes! satin, so smooth and soft and inviting, I long to pause in the middle of the road and slide my feet across it, to revel in the sensation; crossing it just once is far too briefe.

I have found that sometimes things will hurt less when you simply relax and accept the sensations. When the ground is too hot, stop hopping, and just feel it soak up your legs and wash over you, let your feet melt into the ground. When the ground is rough, stop twitchlly picking your way, and simply experience the bumps and points and scratching. You can make slight adjustments to where you put the preasure, so that even when stepping on something pointy, it won’t cut. Learn how to walk, taking heed of the ground on which you tread. Then you shall find it easier to avoid the painfull sensations when you know where and how to put preasure. Enjoy the flexibiliy, the freedom your feet have un-emprisoned. I find it is so much easier to move gracefully when they are not bound to a stiff sole. Feel the motion they have, the way you can grip with your toes, the way your feet can bend and twist and spring and flow!

Perhaps at first unaccustomed feet would become sore, but trust me, it’s worth getting used to it. It’s so much more interesting to feel all the bumps and cracks and texture than to be constantly locked away with only one sensation all day. Do not forget your feet, but reach out with them to this world they anchor you upon as it rises up to meet them. Feel the connection between yourself and this earth, let the two skins meet, and brush, and come to know one another. Let your senses sink down roots and feel yourself growing up out of the earth. Let this mother earth feel your kisses as you walk upon her.

squee!! my prints arrived! I finally ordered a couple I'd been wanting on earthday because they were going to give some of the proceeds to earthy things - yay! I'm just so pleased, hehe. The ones I got were:
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Now I just gotta figure where I'm going to put these up in my room!

P.S. they are both really good photographers! please go check out their work if you haven't already, I know you'll enjoy!

Back! Come back to me my beloved Autumn, my darling Winter, do not abandon me so soon to the torturous Sun!

Spring is in the air. In the mornings when I step outside the air smells green and pink and yellow, of cut grass and flowers and sunbeams. ....Not altogether a bad smell (though the phrase ‘sickly sweet’ usually comes to mind)....but I can’t say I’m pleased with this turn of events. I want winter back! I wasn’t done enjoying it yet! Already my hearing is muffled from conjestion, and I’m shedding my jacket two blocks from home on my walk every morning and wishing I could shed more by the time I reach work.
For all that I have a bright warm fuzzy outlook on the world I really hate sunshine. It’s so bright and hot, it makes my eyes hurt, and my head ache, and my stomach reel, and all the energy melt out of my limbs, and yet the sleep flees from my bleary mind, Ug! You’d think a flower-lover like me would eagerly anticipate the season of blooming and new life, but I’m wishing ever so fervently that I could rewind the seasons and keep the lovely frosty mornings, the envigorating chill in the wind, the cold nights that are perfect for snuggling under the covers, the beautifull glorious rain, the comforting cover of clouds, sigh.......one thing is for sure, for all that I’ve grown up here, I am not a california girl.

It rained today! yay! but it waited till after i was at work so I didn't have to arrive sopping. But! I got to walk home in it! I meandered happlily along feeling it dropping on my head - such a lovely sensation - and took pictures. And as I was snapping some more pretty little clovers I found a 5-leaf one!! so cool! Check it out here in my scraps:
(I wanted to put it in the regular gallery, but it was going to mess up the flow, so I'll post it in scraps for now)

Then! this evening as I was pulling out the fabric I'd bought loooong ago to make a renaissance dress and never gotten around to and was anxiously hoping I could manage it before the Renfair - which I'm going to in about 2 weeks, so....not much time!- especially considering that I wasn't even certain of how I wanted the design yet, I came across an old skirt I'd made that I don't relaly wear because it's so heavy and stiff, not because I don't like it. It was orriginally going to be part of another rennaissance outfit which I'd started even longer ago and never got very far. So there was a perfect plan B - just finnish the one I already had started (granted the part I'd done was the easiest, but still) so I started searching for the rest of the fabric and when I dug it out I discovered that I actually already had almost the whole bodice done! leaving just the sleeves to do!! I can't wait to get this all together now! Dunno why I put it off so long. Here's a pic of how it looks currently: bodice I did a little sewing on it tonight, and then I'll need to get something to lace the back with and finnish the bottom edge, so, yay! happiness abounds

yay green! yay Ireland ah! I miss it!
I love this day! I'm so glad that there's a holiday with green as it's theme So in honor of it, and mostly just because I love clovers and green, I have once again paused the program of dew and shall be madly uploading a profusion of clovers! huzzah! green green green, teeheehee! Yes! green things shall be taking over my gallery for the entire month of march!

I had fun wearing my green courderoy outfit today (which I will also try to post pictures of in the near future), and stopped in the park and made clover chains, and took more pictures of green things, and twirled on the grassy hill, and had tea from my lovely shamrock tea-cup sigh.....life is very good!

http://aelthwyn.deviantart.com/journal/17157110/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:29:50 PST

As promised the program of refreshing green has resumed!
A few weeks ago we were having some lovely off and on rain, and there were several mornings when the sun was out but nothing had dryed up yet from the night's rains and the world was all arrayed in sparkling spleandor. So naturally, I had to stop and take pictures I've got quite a lot of them....so prepare thyself for an onslaught of dewy greens!

Happy Valentines!

Since today just happened to fall in the midst of my plans for uploading much greeness I offer you this short interlude of red roses, I hope you enjoy!

I'd like to thank all my lovely watchers , your comments and favs always warm my heart! I wish I could send you all some Sees chocolates

so Violetrosepetals said I should try customizing my journal, and I must say I had fun browsing through all the different ones people have posted on here....so we'll see how this goes. There was one I saw on someone's journal somewhere that I really liked once a couple weeks ago, but I couldn't find it again, sigh....

Yes, I know it's been a while since I updated things here.....I've got TONS of pictures, but downloading them from my camera and actually sorting through them has been a long and tedious task that I'm still not done with, so, It'll probably be a while before I figure out what I actually want to post next. In the mean time I've been enjoying the beautifull weather here - pouring rain mixed with windy cloudy days-, and of course people's comments and just browsing through lots of other people's deviations I love deviantart!


oh! I finally uploaded a couple variations of my copperleaves pictures to my scraps if anyone cares to take a peek