Happy Solstice...

This is the night of Solstice, the longest night of the year.
Now Darkness triumphs and yet gives way and changes into Light.
The breath of Nature is suspended.

All waits while within the cauldron the Dark King is transformed into the Infant Light.
We watch for the coming of the dawn when the Great Mother again gives birth
to the child Sun who is the bringer of hope and the promise of summer.

We turn the wheel to bring the Light.
We call the sun from the womb of Night.

-excerpt from Circle Round



I decided a few days ago (yeah, the morning that creativity woke me up at 6) that I wanted to give my mother and Rozzilyn handmade gifts for Winter Solstice this year:

For my mother...a little patchwork linen and cotton scarf with a felted wool applique owl sporting some special vintage abalone buttons from my button collection...

All to match the little owl tank, which I did not make, but thought was terribly cute, and something fun to wear under winter clothes.







For Rozzilyn...a little set of fancy glitter skulls. One is a needle case, and the other is a wrist pin-cushion, both made from felt and embroidered. She asked me quite some time ago to make her a needle case like this, and I had completely forgotten, until I was trying to figure out something special to make for her...it's been so very long since I've sat down and embroidered anything, and I had such a good time doing it...

Something to look forward to in the new year perhaps?

Enjoy your Solstice...Rozzilyn and I will be spending the day together in a mini baking sweatshop in my kitchen to provide the family enough sweets to really enjoy Christmas in the sweet induced comas that we've come to look forward to this time of year...