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Post by Wicca Chick on Jul 28, 2004 22:51:56 GMT -5
Hi again TS,
For $5 I dont think you can get an athame, but you can definitely get an altar cloth! Just go into a fabric store - pick whatever pattern/decoration you like - ask them to cut you a piece (so tip: get the measurements of your table first!) the size you want it.
For altar decorations - look to nature. If there's fresh wildflowers outside, you can pick them and put them on yoru altar (but DONT FORGET to thank them for their sacrifice!) or pinecones if there are any outside. What's outside in nature will tell you what to put on your altar (as it is seasonal...or at least mine is!) And you can go to the dollar store and pick up some new candles and fake flowers or other decorations. The dollar stores are sometimes seen as a 'cheap' place taht you dont want to be seen in, but they sell reasonable stuff - in fact what they sell is really worth it for a dollar! I get alotta my candles and fake flowers from there. (cuz if you go to an arts and craft store and get them there - they'll ususally be 5 times the price, if not more!)
The reason im so into the 'altar decoration' stuff is because Im sorta lucky. My mom works at this retail store where they sell all this cute, seasonal, decoration stuff - really nice! But theyre expensive - but lucky for me, she works there - so she can get most of the stuff 50% off! (Thats where I got the Goddess on my altar too - from where she works. It was cheap (theyre usually wayyy more expensive) - for like around $30 or $40 i think. So my mom knows that Im into this sorta stuff - the decorating according to seasons, etc and she buys me that stuff. Sometimes I come home and she has put them on my altar...so its real cute lol. OH MY im soo sorry lol ive jsut been rambling on and on...guess you can see im kinda bored. I have a headache too lol.
Well Blessings!
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Post by Faery on Jul 29, 2004 3:10:37 GMT -5
Geez Wicca chick do you know how lucky your are? Dont worry Twylight I'm in the same boat as you. I yet to get an athame and am hoping to get one in a couple of weeks finger cross for me!!!!!!! and i'm hoping to get a few more decorations for my altar. ;D where im hoping to go i got told its wiccan central its these markets and my bro and sis said u can get alot of things cheap there. Their also into wicca, but they havent been studying as much as me as there low on money and cant afford the internet at the moment their've been longer in to wicca then me and I know more! I fel very proud Thanks wicca chick for tips!
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Post by TribalSpirit on Jul 29, 2004 12:57:27 GMT -5
yea well my athame cost a whomping 70 bucks!!! Now that's very expensive lol. I actually found mine at a keyask (sp?) at the mall that's there for all the x-mas shoppers in those three months. But yea the dollar store is the best!! I get practically all my candles there even some incense! and I got an incense holder there and just painted it a lil to add a lil somehting! as for altar decor look aroind craft stores and the dolllar store and nature!! I got a flat circular slate from a crafts store painted a pentacle on it and that's my board!! Just added a couple of my dad's arrow heads and some sea shells and walah!! But just walk around those stores and woods\meadow exc. with a creative open mind and you will find what you need!! Although I wouldn't expect you to find an athame hanging from a tree!!! But don't worry have patience with that... the whole "athame hunt" will make it all the more appreciable. W.C. - hehe yes i know what you're talking about!!! I got mine off a website though and it only cost me twelve..huh strnage... but they are different colors? lol.
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Post by Wicca Chick on Jul 29, 2004 13:51:43 GMT -5
Faery - lol yes i do feel really lucky - the fact that my mom works there and can get me stuff and is open minded enough to get me stuff for wicca! About the wiccan central markets - are they actually for 'wiccans' only or can you just find alotta good wiccan stuff at a market? Cuz I heard that its good to look at flea markets cause they often have amazing stuff that you could use for your wiccan pracitices for good prices. (ohh and do bargain lol! sometimes they mark the prices up cause they EXPECT people to bargain. Well doesnt harm to try - but use your judgement!) Oh and try garage sales too...like if you wanna get a new table for your altar, (& ur on a tight budget) those are good places to look at. Lunar - Wow! You only got that athame for $12?!?!?!? Well...lucky you! Well its cause I live in Canada and I bought mine from the US so they charged me A LOT for shipping and handling!!! Oh and mine is silver. Why? What color was yours? Wasnt it silver? Yes, I coudl totally understand why your athame is$70 - i mean you dont find glass athames everyday! It must be georgeous...still would love to see it! Waiting for that pic! What you did with the pentacle is creative lunar! Thats what I did for my first altar pentacle too - well i made it. Didnt go and run in and buy a silver shiny pentacle just yet! I made mine with branches and twigs the first time and tied it with some fake twine i got at the arts and crafts store. Works the same! (and I also carved it on wood before) (and i also tried painting on wood before - my dad tends to have pieces of wood lying around in the basement....it sounds surprising, but isnt, considering he made the entire basement!) Well talk to you guys later. Blessings
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Post by TribalSpirit on Jul 29, 2004 19:27:30 GMT -5
Wow W.C. you're pentacle board with twigs is VERY creative!!! lol. and yes my dad's going to let me use his camera to take a pic of me my altar and my athame for this site! and if I can get to amy's she can use it to take a pic of her stuff too! But it'll still probably take two weeks but better late than never! I just hope my athame doesn't show up as a shining glare!! (lol amy!)
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Post by Twhylight Shadow on Jul 29, 2004 19:39:38 GMT -5
wow, i got a lot to reply to! i haven't been able to get on the computer for a little bit. i dont know if i'll get down to the store tomorrow to get some cloth, i'll see what kinda shirts i can cut up like an orange or something kinda harvesty looking lol. I've been making a lot of shirts, sachets mostly.
I got up early today and went out to walk around and see what i can find. (well made a stop in my moms garden first). She had some black eyed susans growing, and purple coneflowers, so i got 2 black eyed susans,. 3 coneflowers, some babys breath she has growing, and i saw a nice full, purpley flower on ythe edge of someones yard (its vacant now i think, if not no one was up lol) so i grabbed that. I know where to get a bunch of pinecones from, got those, um... oh yea, some pine from a big huge pine tree someone had to cut down (also on edge of the yard, some hanging in alley). i didn't know when it was going to be gone so i grabbed it for Mabon lol. i saw some nice stones that i know i'd use for something so i grabbed a few of them too. oh yea, there looked like there was wild lavender just growing in the middle of this patch of grass towards the alley between these 2 garages so i grabbed a little of that (turned out it isn't lavender, but its some kind of flowery purple thing very very similar to it, ill still use it). and i also found these cute little tiny white flowers w/ five petals and are spcaled w/ like a brown that my mom had planted (plant looked like it started dying in one spot so i took a little bit), they were so cute, ill use them for Blue Moon. my mom grew some real lavender lol so i got a bunch of that. she also grows dragons blood (not the resin, but the flowery kind on the ground that are again, kinda small and red or pink (strangly i found a little batch of yellow too) and also have5 petals iin a star on them. that was it. the susans and coneflowers i arranged so the 2 susans are next to each other in the back, then the 3 cone flowers in front (there was one w/ a really big center so i put that in the middle) and babys breath in the back w/ the other purple flower i found in that yard right in the middle. wow, i better start a new post for the rest of my reply lol.
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Post by Twhylight Shadow on Jul 29, 2004 20:11:14 GMT -5
sorry for that long post you guys. yea when i get more money ill stop in the dollar store, cuz i need new stuff. its really convenient (sp) cuz there is a craft store right there too. you are luck WC, i wish i could get nice stuff that cheap/ For an athame i thought theyd all be really expensive like lunars lol, now it makes it seem easier to get one, i dont have to work as much. yea like i said before, when i get the money (after getting new stuff really soon) ill go look around on ebay for one, give then money to my friend (18) and he'll do the rest. or Ill go down to this metaphysical shop somewhere by my house (that ive not been able to get to yet ) and see what they have there. if you have to be 18 for that too then again, this guy will go get it for me. A glass athame lunar, i wanna see! oohhh im jealous! lol jk. i didn't know they sold incense at the dollar store! ill have to check the one i got to out, i haven't seen it there yet, but i also haven't been loking for it, im only there a few seconds. Faery, i wanna go with you to those markets! lol jk. I would get so much stuff. if i had $100 i would spend it all lol. my parents wanna go there, maybe if they go on a vacation after Im 18 and there's nothing they can do about my religion (they dont do much now anymore), maybe if i ask really nice and give em a little extra for it maybe they can stop and get something! ah prolly not, im getting to ahead of myself here lol. I need to make a pentacle for my altar too, ive been using the one (about 1 1/2 or 2") from my necklace for awhile. hmm...i'm gonna do that soon. WC, where did you get order you athame from? good tips! again, sorry for the long post lol
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Post by Wicca Chick on Jul 29, 2004 21:01:07 GMT -5
Lunar - lol the pentacle with twigs and a carved out pentacle were two differnet things. I guess sometimes I get bored and feel artsy lol. I cant wait to see your pics! Why is it gonna take 2 wks? Is it film or a digital camera? For my altar I used a film camera too, but now my bro got a digital camera so I can use it almost whenever I want....so its gonna be easier putting up pics now! I cant wait to see that glass athame of yours! I really do hope it doesnt turn up to be a shining glare! lol i hope you didnt put it too close and turned the flash on - cuz there prob would be a glare than! T.Shadow - definitely try checking out ebay - thats where i get most of my tools and books, theyre way to expensive to get a wicca store or something! That's where I got my athame too - from ebay. And its even better for you - cuz you live in US, so shipping is cheaper. SHipping is VERY expensive to get it shipped to Canada! lol yeah i use to use (and sometimes still do) use my pentacle necklace as my altar pentacle. I usually just hang it somewhere and it looks pretty nifty. (lol wow strange words - i mean who uses 'nifty'?!) Well talk to you guys later.
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Post by SilverDragonLily on Jul 29, 2004 22:28:06 GMT -5
lol most of my candles come from the dollar stores-a dollar or two-2 if you want a larger candle- and they have them in many different colors!! my altar is actually my cd case...so i was concerned that burning candles would melt my cds so my mom found me a place mat that has trees on...and it had a Christian quote on it..so i found a nice Wiccan quote -She changes everything she touches and everything she touches changes-and wrote that over it with a marker:D and my chalice has never really been used..for some unknown reason..i have it..it was a dollar at the dollar tree-everything there is a dollar:P and i have a vase of fake flowers, an angel i found in the dollar store-Goddess figurine, pine cones i found in the forest-for the God side and a small dish of sea shells-dollar store...oh yea..and not only do i get my candles from the dollar store, but i get them from a Christian Gift Shop-hehe- they have a sale each friday starting at 5pm...thus everything is half off-except for things marked..i can get candles for 10 cents, 25 cents, 50cents ect.
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Post by TribalSpirit on Jul 29, 2004 22:57:19 GMT -5
lol that's awesome.. candles for 50 cents and less!!! whew gotta try that myself! lol. Geez T.S. you sure do like to write alot! lol. Yea... well it'll take two weeks cuz i gotta wait a while to see my dad to get the comera.. then another week to see him again to give him it bak so he can upload themlol
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Post by Twhylight Shadow on Jul 30, 2004 10:05:47 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] lol, im sorry chrissy! and everyone else who reads my book of posts lol. .50c for a candle, thats a deal! lol, id start stockin up lol. [/glow]
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Post by Wicca Chick on Jul 30, 2004 14:01:37 GMT -5
lol. Geez T.S. you sure do like to write alot! lol.
lol haha i agree! whew it took me forever to read everything. But than again...i type a lot too lol! Dont worry TS, we like your long posts!
Yea... well it'll take two weeks cuz i gotta wait a while to see my dad to get the comera.. then another week to see him again to give him it bak so he can upload themlol
lol lunar you lazy bum! ;D LOL do it yourself!!! jsut stick the plug in your computer and thats it lol! haha im just kidding...its ok, we'll wait....real patiently!
And wow! 50 cent candles are pretty cheap!!! guess you just gotta look for the sales!
Whoa...i think i might actually be starting to get the hang of these little html taggy things with the [ and the ] its sooo complicated lol. [/size]
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Post by Twhylight Shadow on Jul 30, 2004 17:38:18 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] lol, i made a page w/ html, it never made it the internet tho lol, my teacher didn't have enough time to get it up there.
you guys (directed more to toward Lunar, Full Moon and WC, but everyone else too!), my altar is all ready for my Lammas ritual tonight (for those who dont know, im doing mine a little early). its small and i started to run out of room lol, got so much stuff on it lol. WC, you want me to take a pic and put it up on the pic thread? [/glow]
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Post by SilverDragonLily on Jul 30, 2004 20:53:42 GMT -5
I can't remember where I read this...but someone made their penticle by taking a paper plate-the circle- and drawing the penticle inside of the circle...and then, to make it flat they cut the edge of...and I'm sure you can find different sizes of paper plates if you have a smaller altar...although...paper plates, candles and fire? does that go together? then again...there are other flamable items on our altar already:P lol
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Post by Wicca Chick on Jul 30, 2004 20:55:28 GMT -5
Hi TS,
thats awesome! of course - take a picture of your altar when you can ;D!!! Id love to see your Lammas altar!
So - take a pic, start a new thread in the Photo Gallery and put up your altar photo!
Awesome - i cant wait! lol i LOVE photos!!
Hey, if anyone else has photos feel free to put it up too!!! Common everyone - share!!! (any photos - wicca related or not!!! common lets fill up our photo gallery, its soo empty. And messed up too lol all the photos there dont work....but in getting my old comp back so i *should* be able to load everything up again!)
I'll see if I can put mine up too...gotta take a pic of it first.
Blessings! TEXT
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