god/goddess ask

freya: have you ever been in love?

For those of you that do follow my blog, you know the answer to this question. But for those of you that are viewing my page for the first time, yes, I have been and am in love with my sweet, sweet Joshua. Next February it'll be three years that we have been happily conjoined at the hip. Not literally of course, but boy is he great.

god/goddess ask

rhiannon: how you ever been betrayed?

Oh boy, is this a fun one. Yeah, of course I have been betrayed. Plenty of times and mostly by my family and friends. The worst time I have ever been betrayed probably would seem pretty silly to most, but it broke me. When I was still in high school and I was dating Josh, he cheated on me with another girl. I am over it now, obviously. Kids do dumb things... But I guess we are still kids to most people, however, I like to think that we (and our relationship) have come a very long way.

update on paleo diet/maca root/hemp seed oil

it feels like i just did a post on this...

Probably because I did! So, today I am doing an update on how my paleo diet is going, along with how taking maca root and hemp seed oil is affecting my body.

Let us begin.

First of all, changing to the paleo diet is probably one of the hardest things that I have ever done. Prior to this, I had no idea how much wheat that I (along with pretty much all of America) had been consuming. Literately, wheat based food product was taken at every single meal. Since I have been attempting the paleo diet, there are been a few hiccups... Mostly just going out to eat. But even then, I opt out for the healthiest choices rather than the burger with fries. I am also starting to notice a slight change in my skin as well as my emotions! My inflamed, acne prone skin is starting to calm down and I am slowly starting to feel more leveled out. However, I did begin to experience detox symptoms sometime last week that included mood swings, frequent urination and nausea. All of those symptoms have since passed. Also, I miss bread and pasta. :(

Next, the hemp seed oil. I have to say... I am in love. While hemp seed oil usually boasts rapid absorption, my skin is probably so confused that it is having a hard time thoroughly absorbing the nutty, green oil. Although, I have noticed that instead of loading up my sad, inflamed skin with hydrogen peroxide/salicylic acid and switching over to the hemp seed oil, my skin is healing much faster, the bumps are smoothing out and the green color of the oil helps to cancel out redness! Bonus!

Lastly, my Maca Root. Maca root is known for its' various naturopathic capabilities such as hormonal balancing in women and as an awesome libido booster... I also heard that it can make your butt and breasts larger, but I'll see how I feel about that in the long run. Really, it's been to short to report on how the Maca is affecting me quite yet since it has only been a week or two at this point. Although, I have a positive outlook and cannot wait to see the results!

god/goddess ask

olwen: what is your favorite flower?

My favorite flower, huh? Well... It's probably between magnolias, flowering cacti and various wildflowers. All of which we have here in Florida. Magnolias are especially sentimental to me, because of how prominent they are in my area. The sweet, subtle scent of the magnolia tree is one to be sought after.

(these images do not belong to me.)

god/goddess ask

danu: how is your relationship with your mother?

My mom is not only my best friend, but she has really made me who I am throughout the years. Of course, just like with my Dad, we have had our big disagreements... However, as far as I am concerned, family comes first no matter how troubling, or frustrating a fight with family can be...

online store

i had mentioned that i was considering this a while back

Like I mentioned a few posts back, my Mama finally came home from Iowa. And along with Mama, came all of Mama's jewelry making tools. All of which she bestowed upon myself. Therefore, for the past few weeks or so, I have began to prepare merch to sell online!

Yes, I will be selling handmade jewelry with different themes such as mori girl, crystals and pastel goth pieces on an online shop. If I do well with my pieces online I may also do a few free giveaways for those of you that show the best interest. I haven't decided yet how I am going to incorporate a giveaway into my posts yet, but I will keep updating on my blog as I go.

Here are a few sneak peaks!

look#35

more navajo-inspira for you all

I wanted to do a look for this week that was soft and feminine, but also with a slight Native vibe.

I love to drag out my legitimate raccoon tail for these types of looks...

Oh yeah, I straightened my hair. Every time I do straighten my hair, I am always disappointed with the results.

I am not sure what type of crystal that necklace is made out of, but it is really pretty and iridescent. The beaded bracelets were made by me. I think that the banded bracelet  is an orange obsidian stone, but I may be wrong.

The plugs are "9/16's and they are made from real moonstone.

god/goddess ask

cernunnos: what is your favorite animal?

This is a really hard one to answer... I love all animals, even the predatory ones... I guess if I were speaking in general I would say that Ichthys is my favorite animal, but that is just because he is my baby. Other than that I have no favorite animal because all animals are my favorite.

look#34

this week's look is dark, but with navajo-inspira

So I have been using fashionfinder.asos to combine different pieces of my wardrobe together to make Navajo inspired looks. Here is this week's:

I love my striped crop top and my ripped black shorts... Who would have through that I could use them in a look like this. 

Me. I did.

As you can see here, I used a combination of different war patterned jewelry to accent this look. I am also rocking my black moccasins yet again. I also styled my hair into a double-ponytail to give it some more length and volume. I failed a little bit and you can see my bathroom doorknob through my hair. Whoops. The necklace and the two smaller bracelets were handmade by myself.

I wanted to do my eye makeup in a way that would also bring out the Native American in myself... Even if I probably have zero blood line. I used a paint brush that I trimmed down to be extra thin so that I could get a very smooth line for my lower eyeliner. I also accented my eyes with some red lipstick. Yep. Lipstick.

Here you can get a good look at my handmade earrings. I hope that this week's theme doesn't offend anyone. If it does, please message me. I just really admire Native American heritage and I wanted to emulate their fantastic creativity, although my creativity surely pails in comparison to the real deal.

look#33

remember last week when i was playing with the idea of native american inspiration?

The inspiration continues this week as well. And probably for a few more weeks. Since it is summer here in the sunshine state, wearing black constantly can get very uncomfortable. So I figured that for a while at least that I would play around with Native American inspired fashion looks... While still of course keeping my edginess.

Alright, so this isn't actually a "look" persay. But I did go all through my wardrobe and compiled all of my favorite Navajo-esque pieces just for your viewing pleasure. Here I have purses, pouches, bracelets, necklaces, belts, plugs, earrings, feathers and headbands as well. Throughout the next few weeks you will be seeing many outfits combined with these little pieces that all in all may help to inspire you as well to go native.

Mori?

I feel as if I'm onto something here...

     Along with the other fashion trend that I have been interested in pastel goth, Mori, Mori Kei or Mori Girl is a trend that has me pretty captivated. So basically this style is based on what you would expect a kind of faerie girl living in the forest to look like. Not so much a woman of hiking sport, but a cute, girly, lacy, kinda frumpy, grandma type. With fur and bows.

     I started looking at this stuff just a few weeks ago and I think I am getting closer to my style niche.

I found this picture on a blog that was featuring this gentle style. However, these girls seem to be styled a bit more sweet than I usually like. Some of the internet styles that I really liked had more neutral colors and many more layers, if you can believe that.

For extra Mori goodness I will add some links. This Deviantartist makes a lot of some really nice Mori pixel art.

http://heirstoria.tumblr.com/post/17733187549/difference-between-mori-girl-natural-kei

Morning Glories

The Morning Glories are both thriving and diving lately.

     Literally, how can it be that half if these plants seem to be doing fine and the other half are just totally failing. I originally planted two different varieties of Morning Glories, blue and white. Could be be that the blue Morning Glories are just heartier than the white variety?

     My blue Morning Glories are making blooms every day! So why are they so much tougher than the white variety? I have no idea. They are literally overtaking my white MG's.

     These are the white Morning Glories... You can see how little and piddly they are compared to the blue Morning Glories. It seems that they just got a really angry case of mites or something. I sprayed some homemade bug spray on them and they seem to be making a come back a little bit. They are now making some new buds plus new leaf sprouts!

Look at all of the new growth on my cactus! It's growing so fast! I hope that it doesn't frost over to violently and that it doesn't kill off all of my vines... The potted plants I can save, but I can't really do anything for the plants in the ground.

'Wildflowers'

My hometown is bursting with fall wildflowers...

     Normally it would be starting to get to that time of year when it snows anywhere else... But not here. No, the town literally has hundreds of flowers speckled throughout. So what better way to show my appreciation for nature than to bring it inside.

     During a bike ride I dawned a small cardboard box on the back of my bike and peddled off to find some of these delicate beauties.  

     And boy did I find some! I love flowers... I might have found my next drawing inspiration, thank goodness! I manged to collect some Black Eyed Susans, some Goldenrod and some other species of flowers that I can't identify. I believe the red ones are a breed of rose, the purple ones are just wildflowers. Probably weeds. I don't know what the pretty pink ones are, but I figured that I'd share and maybe those of you reading this would know that they are.

I am a Mother...

...the mother of a brand new flower!

     Early, early one morning while I was taking a gander at my plants I noticed something amazing... My Morning Glories made their first bloom! 

     I am so overjoyed that I have some flowers! I didn't think that they would even bloom this season... I assumed that I had planted them to late in the year for them to bloom, but nature happily proved me wrong.

(Sorry these are so dark, it was very overcast that day.)

     Upon closer inspection I noticed that there were not just the few small blooms, there were many small buds getting ready to burst open for me.

     I also have some more news as far as my plants go. Last week, during a bike ride with Shelly I was keeping my eyes peeled for a certain plant species... A Mimosa tree! Mimosa trees are usually pretty fickle when caring for them, but in my hometown they grow rampantly throughout. I have always loved these plants for their bright green fern leaves and for their fragrant, fluffy spring flower blooms.

Mimosa trees are also great for practicing the art of Bonsai, which is great because Joshua has been telling me for ages that he wishes so much that we could own a bonsai tree. 

     So, whilst our bike ride I found a Mimosa tree that was dropping seed pods, I gathered a few of the thoroughly dried pods, plopped them in my basket and whisked them away to my home. I potted the seeds... They haven't sprouted yet, but Mimosa trees are naturally very fast growing plants, so I know that before too long, I'll have a beautiful plantling.