#Handmade spells

[thatonebirdwrites]

The Grimorie post I did is now on AO3 with another spell added in for fun! Enjoy!

EXCERPT:

Purification Ceremony (Attempt 2)

Hyssop (for Purification and Protection)

Sloe (for Exorcism and Protection)

Holy Thistle/Blessed Thistle (Purification and Hex-breaking)

Mix and place in satchels. One teaspoon of each herb cut and diced poured into the felt square. Gather all four corners and fold them together to create a sack, then tie together with twine or white string. While performing this action, recite the following:

"Drive out all evil, Break all hexes, purify all spaces, and protect all who enter."

Once satchel is completed, tie to each door and window. Replace after a month. Replace immediately if they get wet.

Note to self: If I don't recite the spell as I make the satchels, then my magic doesn't seem to infuse them and they end up being weird smelling bags. Not useful. Thus, I've learned to recite as I make these satchels as the creation of the charm bags seem to be part of the spell beyond just the words. I also notice that I can use either Irish or Latin for this, though I am unsure how to detect which language is more powerful than the other. Also, if the satchels get wet, they start to smell terrible, so regardless of whether the magic still works, I won't be keeping them up.

Results:Tying the satchels to all entries points to the home seems to do the trick. I feel no weird unknown flickers of power in my space, and it creates a better smelling location. After a month of testing this spell, I have had a lot less issues using magic, and less spells backfired on me. Before I did this spell, I often had explosive or unintended consequences to spells I tested, even ones I know to work, which I suspect was due to me failing to properly purify the area. This ceremony seems to do the trick.

Note from Kara: Lena! It makes your lab and apartment feel cozy. Like a blanket that is warmed by you. Like your magic hugs me when I enter. Voi, it's voi!

Note from Lena: I looked up Voi in your Kryptonian dictionary. Safety, secure. That is a lovely thing to say. However, I don't see how I can show the causation since your experience is subjective.

Note from Kara: Set up an experiment by having the satchels set in the entryways and windows, then bring people into the area and ask them questions. Tally up their answers and see if they correlate? It's a social experiment that way, and it's in a controlled environment.

Note from Lena: Huh. That... might actually work. Thanks. Also, why are you writing in my Grimorie?

Note from Kara: You left it open on the table. And I want to help!

Note to self: Don't leave Grimorie open on the table with Kara in the room.

Read rest here.

[20dollarlolita]

Things to do when making a lolita garment from a non-egl pattern.

I have this blouse pattern:

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And I have four cotton voile curtains and a pink bedsheet.

I know that I want to use this pattern and this fabric to make a lolita blouse. I want it to be a blouse that I can wear with JSKs and skirts. So, where do we go from there?

Let's find out:

Step 1 is to check our materials, and make sure that existing lolita fashion pieces exist that are like this pattern, and in this material.

Thankfully, lolibrary makes that really easy.

It's so very nice to have a dedicated team of nerds dedicated to documenting and tagging every single piece of our fashion's history.

And then we grab any picture that feels like it's the same construction as the blouse pattern we have.

Links: https://lolibrary.org/items/af-kawaii-vintage-chiffon-blouse https://lolibrary.org/items/lg-tulle-yoke-blouse https://lolibrary.org/items/aatp-michael-blouse-2024 https://lolibrary.org/items/ap-holy-doll-blouse https://lolibrary.org/items/ap-star-dancer-blouse

That's 5 examples, but I already had a pretty good idea what I was doing, so I didn't keep researching. Don't forget that, if you don't really have a ton of hands-on lolita experience, it's hard to over-research. Also, if you do a TON of research, and you cannot find an example of the thing you want to make in a fabric similar to the ones you want to make it from, that might be a sign.

Now, I went into my own closet, and grabbed the 4 blouses that I most often wear with skirts. I know that I want to wear this pattern with skirts, because I don't always feel comfortable in JSKs on blouses that have bibs/front yokes like this. I've made a bib front blouse before, and I had trouble coording it with JSKs.

Blouses: https://lolibrary.org/items/bodyline-honey-parish-blouse-l364 https://lolibrary.org/items/bodyline-l059-blouse-with-jabot https://lolibrary.org/items/btssb-princess-rose-lace-full-of-frills-blouse https://www.amazon.com/TanQiang-Womens-Lolita-Sleeve-Embroidered/dp/B07BFSLFYC/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2BE37ENMLLTXG&sprefix=lolita+fashio%2Caps%2C217

George and Ginger have a LOT of pictures of people who have made their blouse. I don't want to post any of them specifically here, but this is an example:

This is a HUGE resource for anyone who wants to make this blouse, because in addition to seeing how it looks in the technical illustration and in the sample, we can see how it actually looks when someone makes it. We can also look at the things that we don't like (for EGL fashion) and what we do like.

For example, in my examples, the front yoke is a place to put as many details as you possibly can. We have multiple layers of lace on the edge, and then detailing such as pintucks on the yoke itself. On these, the yoke is the design feature, so by comparison, it's relatively plain.

I also can see the different ways that people use lining, sheer, and sheer over a lining. I don't see a combination of lining/sheer that I like as much as the Axes Femme blouse in the top-right of my inspo collage. I'm going to make mine like that Axes Femme blouse, instead of how the instructions might recommend.

But the main thing that I'm noticing is that this blouse is LONG. That's just the style it is, but it would mean that I can tuck it into skirts but can't wear it over them. Since one of my favorite things to do is to make skirts with elastic tops for low-energy fun EGL, I don't want a blouse that I have to tuck into the waist. So, I look at this, and I know what I want to do:

Things that I can do without modifying the pattern:

Choose what parts of the garment will be lined/flat lined, and what will stay sheer

Add more detailing to the yoke with applied trim

Swap all of the ruffles for lace, to add more detail

Add a ruffle to the bottom.

And things that I will modify the pattern for:

Making the pattern shorter to match my existing blouses

Re-patterning the yoke to add tucks

In addition, I might add a ruffle or some ruffled trim along the button placket. The reason I say might is that I haven't checked if the shirt has a separate placket to apply to the garment, or if it's a self-made placket. If it's separate, it's a very easy adjustment, and if it's made of self, it's a very difficult adjustment. I sew to have fun, and that doesn't sound like fun to me.

Because I wasted a lot of my life trying to get a degree in something useless am a confident sewer, I can look at those pattern modifications and know that they won't be too difficult for me. If this was my first fitted garment made from a commercial pattern, I might elect to skip the patterning adjustments.

So, how do we make the blouse shorter? If you have a blouse you like it's pretty easy:

Step 1) print your pattern, and cut it out if you have to. Step 2) take your favorite blouse.

We're using this Amazon one because it's the longest:

The first piece that I grabbed said "center back", so we line it up with the center back and make a mark where the bottom ends.

For the side front and side back pieces, we measure the side seam with the armpit of the blouse.

For the front, we have to stack the bib onto the front piece, overlapping by the seam allowance, and measure along the center front.

To save fabric, I'm just chopping the bottom of the pattern off a few inches below the marks. This won't make an even bottom hem, but I can straighten the hem after we're done.

If your fabric is absolutely precious and you cannot waste any, there is a more proper way to do this, but if your fabric is absolutely precious and you can't waste any, you should really be making a mockup first anyway, so you can do what we do here, make the mockup, and then transfer your mockup adjustments back onto the pattern.

This is long so to add tucks you google a tutorial for how to add tucks and then do what that says. I took pictures of how I did it and it's so unholy that I can't dare to post it.

Anyway, stick around for me to actually finish this project for once and give my end results about the lolita-ability of this pattern.

[avalon-princesss]

midsummers eve spell candle🌻 its time to frolick summer faeries!💛💛

via // avalon princess

[mauricetheblurst]

"love potions" ? "entrancement spells" ? "succubi girlfriends" ? shut up, creep, and gaze upon the true Art of seduction

had lots of fun drawing this one, even though in the end his wand doesn't look as much like a bum as I wanted

[alienscty]

Forever obsessed with tiny things...♡ 

[mojavewastes]

Made a ring inspired by that one post I saw here. I can't find it anymore unfortunately.

[frankenruth]

Me an d who

[thedarkmaidenn]

Make a power pendant with me on this years first Full Moon (in Leo) ☺️

[morimox]

Scroll and dagger 📜🗡️✨

[seahag-swampwitch]

*pins, sews, and/or otherwise attaches like 15 different random littel knick-knacks to my outfit*

[poisonappleprintshop]

Love thangs from past years. ❤️‍🔥 I think it’s obvious at this point that I love Valentine’s Day. Particular creation highlights from past years were the Puzzle Purse Valentines and the Twin Peaks Valentines. If you have either of those, know that you have a piece of my artistic heart! ❤️‍🔥

[avalon-princesss]

🖤 fall candles are being slowly added to my etsy shop, please favorite my shop for updates 🖤

[catinthedicebag]

Casting spells, improving magic and dealing with a patreon who is threatening to take all this away from you when you are not doing exactly what they demand... just the normal daily life of a warlock. Maybe take these "Warlock" dice to sweeten up your day when your patreon has one of their exhausting phases.

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[somnambulant-seraphim]

I was in the mood to crochet something a little different lately, to take a small break from adding to my blanket. So I made these little witchy pouch necklaces. 

They’re meant to be able to hold a small item or two, depending on how small it is. So far I’ve used them for crystals, but they can hold coins, shells, herbs and other stuff like that, as long as it doesn’t snag the stitches. 

I also stitched some simple designs onto them with a yarn needle. On the black one, there’s a crescent moon and an eye, on the dark grey one, there’s a pentacle and an Algiz rune (for protection). 

<|:^) ⋆·₊˚✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ:*‧͙⁺˚*⋆·₊˚ ☾˚₊·

[deadforaspell]

Is calling this one Snow Queen too on the nose when I already have a raven queen set? Oh well.

Snow Queen

[awitchdidit-etsy]

I opened BRAND NEW Etsy store! I’m selling spell jars, ritual bath satchets, and essential oil roll ons and more to come! Come check it out, if you like it maybe give it a follow? I would love any support you guys can give me! :)

I haven’t made a sale yet so if you can reblog this I would be forever grateful! <3