Cut out

Cut out, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Hello 2009!
Best wishes to my dear blog readers.

Wish you all the power to play, the confidence to feel and just be happy on the path you walk on.

My way feels somewhat hidden and lonely but if I start to play again who knows what wonders are there around the next corner or tree.
I am happy cutting images and thinking about great installations I can make with them ;)

Love and hope, Elisa

Happy X-mas

Happy X-mas, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Wish you a great x-mas time!

I don't give a shit about x-mas. It's all to much for me, the decorations everywere from September; the horrible songs, the constant stream of cars in my street going to the parking. The bad tempered people shopping like hell is out.
I do love to give presents, and to be together with friends and family.
And midwinter is a good time to give.
In our home we keep the holiday simple, today my two sweeties made these cookies. That's a true joy!

Love and peace to you

Bling

Bling, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Happy Yule to you all
May the light return

and may I remember;

Angels can fly
because
they take themselves
lightly

G.K. Chesterton

Winter-time

Tree child, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

There is this place in my soul, a dry, dark litlle cave I love to spend my time. Surrounded with roots and the soothing sounds of the earth.

No thoughts of what I should let grow above the surface. Spring is to come in another life.

First be with Winter
Just me
Feel comfortable and warm
alone and save

Goddess mobile

Goddess mobile, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

It's more crafts that I make these days. But I love to make my own designs, so the artist in me stays somewhat happy. In the mobile, the colors of the five pointed stars and the little goddesses represent the chakra's to me.

In my spiritual practice, I love to imagine myself surrounded with these colors.
Imagine myself floating in the air on a red cloud, in a red sphere. Feeling the energy of the hot red, on my skin, in my feelings, to become red. See what I can learn today from this color, what quality it can give me for my daily life. Feel in my body the place of the chakra, notice how my energy feels there.But mostly to be with the red color and enjoy.
Then I imagine the sphere to change into orange and so on.

May your colors never fade,
and have a lovely weekend.
Elisa

Spiral Dance

Tomorrow I join the Dutch Reclaiming Samhain celebration, I'm looking forward to have a ritual with a bigger group of witches, pagans and friends. Dance the spiral dance, feel the connection with life and dead. The organisers asked me to invoke fire in the circle, this may just be what I need to invoke in my life. More activity and passion.

I want to share a beautiful made compilation of the spiral dance in San Francisco, and wish lots of fun for my friends in the USA. And may our New Year bring optimism back in the world.

Wish you magical dreams in the night,
and the best shadow play on your walls,
Love Elisa.

Samhain

Samhain, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Time for introspection.

Listening to the voices from the past, searching for the things in me that lurk in the dark. Face my ghosts, and have a good laugh with them.
I'm not making as much things that I would like, and throw my ideas away before I let them come to life. I feel sometimes lost in my bubbles, but just love to see them flow.
On Samhain I want to battle my inner critic and heat up the fire in me.

These days I'm just a happy homemaker :)
Playing dollhouse on a real life scale,
Just whatever makes the clock tick.

Love is all.