Finding the Artist Within

Well, I've been thinking recently about just how much I miss being creative.

I was brought up helping my Mum make bedding and curtains for our home using a sewing machine, watching Dad paint and sketch, and we were always doing something creative of some sort. I always had one of those games or kits at christmas or on my birthday like "Mosiac at home", "tapestry", "Cross stitch" and my favourite was "Ancient Eygptian Archaeology kit" where you had to did in the sand to find the pieces and then glue them together and restore it to a perfect standard by painting it. I loved it. I was always actively encouraged to express my creativity.

Lately my daily routine has become so uninspiring and ... well literally dreadful that I thought about all the things I miss. I miss beginning a cross stitch and seeing the picture develop before my eyes knowing that the picture has been created with tiny 'Kisses', I miss sketching and appreciating my talent...which is minimal I can assure you, I miss sewing and making homemade objects that add extra warmth and personality to the home. But most of all, I miss being able to get up on a morning feeling refreshed, ready to start my day with morning pages, before settling down to write for an hour or two. As a primary school Trainee Teacher, this is just impossible. I simply cannot do it. Which has left me feeling rather inadequate and a 'failure' to be honest. I LOVE writing, absolutely LOVE it, yet I'm finding that I have no time to do it. I know it's easy to say "MAKE TIME", if I could I would but we are all only presented with 24 hours in a day, 2 hours on a monring are spent waking up, smelling the coffee and getting ready for work, then Im at work for 6-7 hours, I come home end up planning for the next day's lessons, having something to eat, an hour to relax before showering and getting to bed. Then the day starts all over again. How sad is that? Like really, heart wrenching sad?

That's without attempting to work happily on my Faerie Whisperer career.... a whole different story.

Well I grabbed a couple of hours last night and wrote in a speedy fashion what I call a character sketch of Ariel (She's in my previous writings) and Im keen to develop her into an amazing young woman. And I actually attempted to sketch a goddess and today I've started to paint her up, but the skin tone is NOT going to plan... suprise suprise hey?

Well, I just wanted to share the sketch come painting with you, I call her Moon Goddess© very original I thought :P


Let me know what you think xxx

Taken from my Sister blog : The Creative Witch Inside

A Busy Witch Without Her Broom!

Merry Meet my lovely witchlings,

I cannot believe it's been so long since I last posted in August. You can definately tell that I am back at work. With me posting again now, you should also be able to tell that im due a holiday soon! I should quickly express my sincere and huge gratitiude and elation that I have Samhain off work this year!!!! I am so happy!!

Right let's get down to business, what have I been upto? Well to say that I am without broom right now is an understatement. I know like I have a hole in the head that when you live your *Earthly* life you are to face strains, struggles, happiness and stress. I also know that you are supposed to, as a Witch, draw upon your belief system, that magick within to keep you stable, happy, comfortable and stress free. So why is it that everytime I have extra responsibilities placed upon me from work regarding my teaching, personal relationships with friends, romantic stirrings, and University activites and assignments, so I still NOT use that knowledge I have????? Hmmmm???? "I'm waiting!..." (By the way, that was me asking myself, not you...)

Seriously no wonder broom got up and left lol. Well, I have a nice witchy feeling going on inside me, I think due to the approaching holiday season of Samhain, and I want my broom back. I've seen a couple of books I want. Whenever I think of books I want and talk to others about them, I imagine myself as that witch in "Hocus Pocus" when she squeals "Booook!" out of the window lol. I even have the sound of her imprinted in my mind.
Well the ones im thinking of are; Silver Ravenwolf's 'Hedgewitch' (it really is quite good!), Silja's 'Green Book of Shadows' (there are lots of delightfully witchy spells in this one and its in full colour and illustrated which to me, provides stimulating insteadof a boring book with just words on white pages... I like a bit of something different now and again.

Other news, work. I have lots of new responsibilities. I am now in charge of distributing "Maths Packs" to 46 children in the school. It's basically a maths themed game that the children get to take home on a weekly basis and play at home. It's really good, the only downside is that every Monday I have to trawl across the school getting 46 children's games and then taking them new ones. :( ho hum.
I'm also being set free on teaching Religious Education every week to year 4 from after the Samhain holiday. And for my first proper Half term of teaching the subject, i'm delighted to be teaching "Angels". We're covering Guardian Angels, proving their existence, and their belief in them. I'm really excited. Also I will be teaching once a week a Literacy Skills lesson where I literally boost their english skills such as understanding non-fiction & fiction, their differences etc, and things like how to write more exciting sentences. Along with those skills I'll be doing Numeracy skills. Along the same lines.
ALSO ( I should have warned you it was going to be a long one!) I am in charge fo teaching Year 6 children (10-11 year olds) Level 6 Mathematics as no-one else in the school can do it. Im in charge of how I do it, as long as I get them to a level 6! No pressure hey?!

Right, more news...... oh yes!!! I have a new man in my life... Alex. He's italian/Portuguese and completely handsome. It's really good. Im really happy and we have lots fo fun together. The past two weekends I've stayed at his home and it's been lovely to just be with each other doing normal stuff. We even changed the bedroom round today. He's older than I am, but it's perfect, he's a grown up and not an immature idiot. I love him and he loves me. That's all i'm saying, as unlike before when I've shouted about my relationships from the rooftops, I'm wanting to keep him all to myself lol. (possessive or what!) lol.

Well, that's it for now, but I plan on updating you next weekend as I'll be on my jolly Samhain holidays!!!

Peace, Love, Happiness and Faerie Blessings,
Blessed Be
Aurora xxx

A Witches Tardis

Merry Meet my gorgeous Witchlings!

Well, I am a huge Doctor Who fan ... Ok Ok you got me, Im a HUGE David Tennant fan (who is no longer the doctor) and it got me thinking about how we as witches chose and cope with coming out of our tardis (Broom Closet)at work, with friends from the past and even family. Let me take you on a spin of my tardis opening!

As I work at a primary school which happens to be a Christian school (nope, not yet a Wiccan/Pagan one, but Im working on it! haha) and am based with a Sikh teacher I asked myself whether I felt that I should wear a Cross with an angel on it (to represent my belief in angels) or whether I had the Strength to wear my Faery Pentacle! Well after much umming and ahhing over the situation I plucked up the courage to wear the latter for all to see. My head saw it, my teacher saw it, the children saw it and alas no one commented! So I was happy with that, whether it be because they accept me for who I am, what I can do, and not what i believe in, or whether they are just not saying anything as they have nothing nice to say, I'm really not fussed. I've since gone on and wore crystals to work and the children quite openily discuss them with me, such as Jade (which seems to be a favourite of the childrens) amethyst, rose quartz and Selenite. When I wear Selenite I tend to feel like I need to know something at work, like they are hiding things from me and throughout the day whilst Im wearing it, all becomes clear to me! The teachers have also started wearing crystals jewellery too now. **Result!!**

Now with regards to friends, Im very open about who I am, and what I believe in...with my current friends. With people whom used to be friends such as old school friends, im not so open about it. There is one friend whom was my bestest friend all the time we were at school who knows about all my psychic abilities and even work with the faeries! She's accepted me as I am and doesn't bat an eye-lid (Please excuse the pun) She comes to me for psychic guidance and trusts me. She sees me as I am, as I always have been. We even discussed the other day after work how when we were kids we would rip out the latest Spell in Mizz! Magazine... and try them out! We even discovered that we kept a so called "Vision Book" all these years ago where we'd write in it what we wanted, (ok Who we wanted) and how we'd use it to focus on things of *importance*.
My other "friends" from school know nothing of this side fo me, not because I am fearful or because I am ashamed, but because I simply know that they would not understand and any witch worth her broomstick wouldn't give an ill-informed person enough rope to hang the poor Witch with!

And as for family, well, All my family know I'm a witch and Im a Psychic as thats what we Brierley's are! Well thats what we "Belewski's" and "Barnett's" and "Webbs" are! 4 generations each different from the previous. (There are many more before us 4 generations but it's easier to count to four ... I suffer from Lazi-Witch-itus at times hehe)

So how have you come out of your Witchy Tardis? Or do you prefer to stay there with certain people?

*Powerful Witchette*

Hello my lovely Witchlets,

It's been a very long time since I blogged due to lots of work commitments, stresses of daily life, and battles with my career and past-time of writing spiritually. It hasn't helped that my laptop smoked it! Yep it actually caught fire and smoked on my! (And I thought I brought my lappy up to not be an Anti-Social Hooligan!)

Well I have 3 more work days then im a free witchette for 6 weeks, Yep it's that time of year where us Teachers get to send the darling witchlets back home! YIPEE!!!!! (Very sorry for sounding so happy if any parents are reading this and dreading the hols).

I've been thinking more about how I can start putting my dreams, desires and plans into action and it really does just involve you standing in your own power, embracing the God/Goddess within without letting your ego get in the way. This is something I struggle with, im naturally a doormat in my life.... ( And no, people don't even wipe their feet...rude people! ) But thats going to change now.

I'm thinking of areas to write about as I really want my writing to take off and inspire people. So if there is anything you'd like to see me write about, let me know! Im very much feeling more and more drawn towards wiccan/pagan topics, along with my speciality subject ... FAERIES!!! I've taken some time off to spend writing, and I liek what I've come up with, it's part of a very big project that I just can't talk about right now. I don't want to jinx it.

And for those of you who are interested in my Shape Up Challenge ~ I've lost a total of 1 Stone 2lbs, thats a whole 16 pounds in 2 months. Im a dress size smaller, and more toned. My arms are starting to feel more toned, my waist is shrinking and my thighs have lost a whole 2 Inches on each one! Since January, Ive lost 2 stone (28 Pounds) So well done me!!!

This weight loss has started something off that hasnt happened in a long time, but I used to get all the time... MEN LOOKING AT ME>>>SMILING!!!!
it feels wierd now though, and at times it feels like im on page 3 of the national paper or in an issue of Playboy! I know with time, ill stop noticing this though and will feel more comfortable!

Well thats my update for now, and I hope I chat again soon! I've missed blogging and Ive missed you!

If you know of anyone who might enjoy my blog, could you please ask them to pop over and click "Follow" ? Thank you. xxxx

Blessed Be
Aurora MoonMaiden )0(

* Love, Life & Everything In Between *

Merry Meet my darling witchlets,

Well,...... after lots of debating, tears, anxious moments etc..... I'm still waiting for THE ONE!! My decision! It needs to be this way! I have spoken with the Lord & Lady and asked them to guide him to me and make sure that there is no questioning our perfect match! So it is in their hands.

Life ~ Well Im currently trying to write up my last university essay until October!!! So im looking forward to being free of all the Uni work!

I'm also trying to step up my confidence with my psychic work. I need to believe in myself more, I've let things drag me down and i've come to believe that Im a rubbish psychic, crappy writer etc etc.... I need to stop it. I was good! I AM GOOD!!! I just need to believe in myself for others to believe in me. The thing is I get scared that people will think that I'm being arrogant....when I'm so far from that.. Well I hope that I am anyway!!
I want to really do some youtube videos showing people what I do, how I work and also some workshops really! I also definately need to write more and get my face in more magazines both material ones and e-zines!!!

Shape-Up Challenge ~ Ive lost 9lbs to date!!!! Well done me!!!! My thighs feel more toned, my stomach feels flatter..... so woohoo! Hopefully it will continue!

I've also had new goodies delivered ! Here's a pic of them!! And look at my Butterfly new bedding! Mummy suprised me!!! Thank you Mummy!!!

Well thats all for now! What have you all been upto??

Blessings from the Fae & Angels,
Aurora xxx

September Suprise

Merry Meet everyone,

It's been such a long time since I spoke to you. 29th August.... that was soooo long ago.

I haven't been intentially neglecting you, it's just that I'm back at work now with the .... darling little children needless to say that they are not like the darlings I had last year and have literally in 2 weeks given me more stress, headaches, and sore throats than I can handle. They have really made me ask myself "What the hell I am I doing???" SEPTEMBER SUPRISE NUMBER 1

Any other suprises???? Not as yet, and believe me, I don't want any more unless they are nice. As an update on COSMIC ORDERING... well...i'm still waiting. So I think I am either going to give up, or try again. Lets take a vote: Give up vs. Give it another go.

HAPPY NEWS
Very pleased and over the September moon that my lovely sister Pixie's husband is now home with her.... Lee if you ever ever read this.... Don't you dare scare her like that again...because it scared me too!! :-D Oh and please be nice to her...she's been through the mill over the past few weeks. Oh...and last thing, give her plenty of hugs and tell her you love her. :-D There rant and celebration over!

What have you all been upto? Oh at work, I have done a science board which has made me think of SAMHAIN..... Get your brooms ready!!