Dream Journal: Violet Diamond Water

Hello Damselflies! I can tell the moon is growing, because my dreams are becoming more and more bewitching and vibrant--lavish creamy colors and details I remember days after...

"A few nights later, I was a mermaid--Serpentine and glistening. Long tendrils of hair suspended in the shallow water. The sand below was studded with jewels--I touched each one with my fingers, occasionally scooping them up by the sparkling handful. I was quick and free--my purple scales flashing. I could make out the wobbling orb of the moon from beneath the waves. I had never been happier."

Where have you been wandering?

DIY Dream Flags

Hello Rosehips! This is the story of a bag of rags that met a fairy-godcrafter and became a string of dream flags:

A big bag of shimmery scraps--a gift from my Mum.

Snip snip here, snip snip there--

A few soft crescent moons in acrylic...

Stitch it up with silvery thread--

I hung the beauteous shimmery flags above my bed.
Perhaps I'll cover the whole ceiling?
I enjoy the way they flutter when you walk through the room.

I just love happy endings. :}

What kind of magic have you been making?

Strawberry Moon: Indigo Flow

It’s the Strawberry Moon, my Pretties!
It’s an early June evening ripe for dreaming! It came up so quickly, I almost forgot to wish, so I tossed together a fishy board to celebrate. This full moon, my energies are being poured into finding a new flow, a good flow—my flow. This cycle will be spent refilling my cup, reviving my juices and making friends with my fluidity--Breathe like an Ocean and roll with the motion!
Get back to deep sea dreaming, studying tarot and meditating on Indigo--Surround myself with some sweetness, water droplets--make time to meet Lake Michigan’s waves and let my skins sip until they are Full—I need a drink!


Let the swell and dream fishes take any bits of stuckness, sourness and soreness and sweep it out to sea…

I’m wishing on the pearly full Moon and

saucy Goddesses of Salt and Surf

to get back to,

s l i d e into

and enjoy the Groove.

Can I get an amen from my Mer Sisters?

So mote it be!

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Merry Full Moon, dearies! Make Magick!
Until next time—
Much Joy and Merry Making~*
Molly

Wishcasting: What Treat Do You Wish For?

Hello Dumplings! *
It’s Wishcasting Wednesday and this week our Wishtress Jamie tempts us with the question:

What frivolous treat do you wish for?

Delightful.
Indulgent.

I love it.

However, upon further examination my wish is more a fulfillment of fantasy than frivolous whim—a quenching if you will. I wish for an opportunity, just one chance, one amazing night for my jazz combo, The Famous Graves to step out and show the city what kind of guts and rhinestones we’re made of! One night with all the trimmings; the blue light, the crimson carpet, the chrome microphone, the satin gown that makes Julie London jealous and an audience that understands—craves—what’s being shown to them.

Anna, Patrick, Alex and Myself. Photo by Rick Penaloza. Click for more photos.

--A night that makes the crowd pine for a more glamorous moment in time where Torch song was Queen, clean shaven men spoke in cigar smoke and the red lipped ladies smoothed out their gloves while snorting diamonds.

A night dripping with decadence.

I wish for The Famous Graves to get the Chance we need.

I’ve got my fingers busy working on arranging such an evening for Milwaukee’s Fall Gallery Night with the help of other local artists, music lovers, fashion designers, movers and resident shakers! I'm going to be pouring all the energy, magic, resources and juices I've got into this one--Wish me luck, my pretties!

Now, what sort of delicacy do you wish for yourself?
Wish Lavishly, darlings! May all of your musings manifest!

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P.S. My latest fiber and dye works posted here if you want to peek!

Full Moon Dream Board: Healing

*Merry Full Moon, dearies!

It is a beautiful May day for making moon magick! Normally, I put together a photoshop collage for my dream board, but this month I was craving something a little more sensually satisfying. So I went to a sketch book for a tiny 10 minute holiday--being done with school, lighting the FAT black pillar candle, and finally getting rubber cement and sequins stuck to my fingers while flopping around in puddles of watercolor. What a r e l e i f . . .

Won't you join me in a rejuvenating exhale?

A a a a a a h h h h h h....

Much better.

This month's dream board is dedicated to Healing--

Fixing bodies, tending to spirits, and plenty of rest

for myself and all the souls around me.

To Balance--

Finding footing, listening to Body and managing Time.

Getting a grasp on the Cosmic See-Saw.

It's fun to ride once you learn how.

To Grounding--

Experiencing sand-in-my-shoes, the warm-wet smell of dirt, bird sounds

and living in the Here and Now.

Here's to the Present, friends.

May all your dreams sprout wings and find you!

Until Next Time--

Many Blissings and Merry Making!

Mermaid Dream: The Magic of Prostetics

Just popping in for a tid-bit of a post! I had to share this magickal story with you if you haven't already seen it! I thought my mermaid sisters in the blogosphere would want to celebrate this!

Read the Story:

Effects Shop Fufills Amputee Mermaids Dream!

Click on the Pic for the video!

So Stunning!

Wishing you all Sweet Sea Dreams!~*

Weaving: A Wooly Dream

Amid the slurping sound of melting snow being sucked down sewer drains there has been MUCH tinkering! This gobbildeegook of cord and yarn are the beginnings of what will *hopefully* be a fabulous fibers project! We're using a coiling technique (a type of basket weaving) to create three dimensional forms. My professor keeps assuring us that everyone can weave, since after all it is a survival skill our ancient ancestors developed for building containers, clothing and shelter. I am certainly glad to live in this millennium--I can hardly handle this with paper cording and yarn. I can't imagine trying to do detail work with pointy reeds while mosquitoes the size of birds are trying to take a drink off of you...Yikes.


I decided to use the initial coiling shape to inform my project. I'm gleaning the idea of "The Dream Time" from my aboriginal art history course. While doing the initial doodling for this piece, the phrase "I had the most wonderful dream" floated into my psyche. Oooh, I don't know where that came from, but it's too good to ignore!

I'd like the piece to be about movement, the primal and universal symbol of the spiral as beginning and end, the act of Dreaming something into being, capture a sort of swiRling energy. There will be other elements added to the fiber coiling like photographs, beads and starched cheesecloth. I'll be sure to keep you posted on the slow but steady progress of my Wooly Universe. (It's adorable, my professor can't pronounce the word "wool" with her thick Korean accent. Instead she refers to it as "fur of sheep"--I almost shot milk out of my nose. Love it.) For now, I'm off to work on some ideation for my printmaking class and read chapter six of Secrets of Highly Creative Women!

How are your creative projects coming along, my pretties?

Merry Making, Friends!~*