Today the book and candles that I won for the give-away of Kim's blog "The Wiccan Life" arrive. It was absolutely perfect timing since I was having a kind of horribly long and tiring day after a very long and stressful week. It really made my day and gave me the energy to do a lot of things I've been meaning to do for quite a while. None of it was actually work for college but I'll get around to that tomorrow. I think I deserved focusing on other things after this busy, busy week and especially this long day!
Firstly I started grinding up oak bark into powder. For the year and a day that I'm doing from Timothy Roderick's book that I've mention quite a few times in previous posts, one item that is needed in the first month is powdered oak bark. I went out one day and searched for some bark on the ground. My boyfriend was actually the one to finally find a tree at the very end of the walk, that is super old and had some dead bark sticking off it. We broke some off carefully after making sure that the bark was not still being used by the tree and I gave my thanks. Unfortunately I did not have anything to give but my love and blessings in return, which I sent out to the tree. I will definitely go back and give it an offering stone because I feel it is the right thing to do.
After I finished that (it took a surprisingly long time) I started making my offering stones. I had made the dough about half an hour earlier based on the recipe from krazyboytx's video that I posted about a week ago. This is what it looked like just before I started making the offering stones:
To make them I brought out all my herbs, my favorite tea, some fingerpaints that are absolutely edible (says on the packaging and my dog sneaked a nibble when I wasn't watching and had to do work for school. Yes, I do get to use fingerpaints for some of the projects I make in college :-)), and some glitter.
It was really so much fun to make these offering stones and to me it feels like this might be better than just giving part of my dinner or other foods as offerings. The dinner I make because of what I want to eat but these stones I spend time making especially to give thanks. I think this gives them a different energy. But I will see how it feels when I finally get to give them. First I had to put them on the oven to let them dry and harden up. Now I have to wait at least two days before they are hard and I can go out and use them.
And finally, a picture of the very first offering stone I ever made (it's also in the picture above, the slightly greenish one). I dedicated it especially to the tree that gave its bark.
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