Lena Rocks

We have been taking some drives out in the country here in North Carolina recently since it’s such a mild winter and there are so many places to go and so much to see (not to mention gift…)  The amounts of waterfalls is astounding and there are some places that are just an honor to visit – natural beauty at its’ best.

Here are some pictures of this one beautiful place called Nantahala where we gifted both the river and the lake.  It’s old Cherokee Indian country and the energies are very interesting – one side of the mountain feels very different from the other.  There were places where we got those amazing giddy feelings where the local spirits were happy to see us and we felt compelled to gift tobacco as well as orgonite…

Then we came upon this sign by the lake, it says “PRAY” – what a wonderful location to do just that

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We have had this massive martini glass for years now that we never got around to casting so yesterday I dug it out and gave it a wash.  I intended to make a special piece for someone’s healing space and decided to go with lots of rose quartz and amethyst.  It has an inch big rose quartz sphere in the middle where I managed to somehow cause a crack around but it does not affect the piece.  The sphere sits on a bed of crushed amethyst which has plenty of orgonite below it.

Here it is with a 12 oz. HHG next to it for size reference.

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Today I got to do something really fun and precious… went to pick up some crystals from the warehouse and they had a new shipment from Madagascar that just arrived… Knowing my excitement with these beautiful crystals they let me unwrap one box to have first choice  One thing that struck me was that they were wrapped in newspapers with crosswords puzzles that were all done – that made me chuckle and they said that they always laugh about that in the warehouse cause we could not understand the words… but someone obviously had a lot of time on their hands…

I came across this one crystal that was unlike any I’d seen before so I snapped it up – it has a nice point on one end and lots of little terminations on the other with a perfect little chlorite point in the middle.

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We made a nano pendant for our dog and it was the cutest thing when I put it on her – she actually howled with joy and then jumped up and gave me a hug.  She has now turned into what we call “huggy dog” and will come up whenever hubby and I hug and stand between us or turn it into a group hug.  She will also just come up and give us random hugs and kisses throughout the day – it’s the cutest thing.  Our cats are kinda wild and would never accept wearing collars but the pup now wears hers with pride.  These are some of the latest mini’s we made and I think they are so cute with different metals.  I used nano, iron oxide, brass, copper and aluminum and all the pieces have a little sparkly double terminated Tibetan herk, some Madagascar mini’s along with my secret pet blend.

Then we did some bones too

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Have been spending quite a bit of time mold shopping lately and cast them as they come in – it is so much fun with new shapes.  Got this to make a charging plate for the pets and it came out cute:

Cat had to check it out – this one comes running every time the camera comes out…  As you can see the plate is a pretty good size and the brass pads look just perfect.  The black layer is iron oxide and then there is another layer with clear resin and aluminum, brass and copper with a crystal configuration.

I also made one in reverse:

With the right coating these would make lovely garden stepping stones  I will have to make a few more and make tracks in the garden…

Then I got this flower mold – it’s huge, probably about eleven inches across:

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Found this mold yesterday and woke up this morning rearing to cast it…  It’s a big mold and both pieces have several different metals and crystals in them, copper, brass aluminum and steel.  Quite a few crystals as well…

Charging sparkly DT Tibetans

Letting some pieces spend time together outside, a Rose Quartz Merkaba, a Lapis Lazuli Sphere and a Chrysocolla Wand:

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We have been spending some time on the beaches in South Carolina and I had gotten myself a nice little collection of sea shells that I decided to cast.  They each contain a very nice DT Herkimer, blue kyanite, selenite and lots of peridot.

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Living in the mountains the way we do it seems like we attract animals quite a bit…  This is the third dog that has showed up here within the past year that we made sure had a happy story.  He showed up one night and as you can see on the pictures he is much thinner than he should be… along with various cuts and sores.  He was absolutely starving… so of course I had to feed him and he stayed on our porch for a couple of days before he got picked up to move into his forever home – he is a treeing walker and they need to hunt…  It was funny when this hunter picked him up cause the dog immediately slipped into his comfort zone and jumped into the dog box on the back of the guys truck – knowing what to do and excited about where they were going

Poor sore feet…

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Our dog loves taking vacations as much as we do and this time we went to Folly Beach in South Carolina to do some work along with getting some sunshine.  Obviously she enjoyed herself…

This sign found at a Shell gas station made me laugh…