Severely Mame The Vintage Stitch Witch

Very excited to be reading my advanced copy of @theladyaye.bsky.social ‘s When We Spoke To The Dead! Available this fall! ( about a month)

We bought a house across the country and I finally am getting the candles lit again. I’ve missed my spirits

I was finally able to wear my Rosaleen Norton vest for @occulturephoenix.bsky.social

Today!

I made a new dress and my mom house me a new purse, that lady has bought me so much Wicked Witch Of The West merchandise since I was a kid!

Sunday we’ve got the latest Occulture Phoenix! Let’s all discuss how we ended up on the magical paths that we did!

I’m so sorry, I only do this in Arizona though. Everything is just always melted and I’m impatient

Finally finishing up a project I started a couple months ago!

But for now maybe it’s time to stop trying to get things done and just relax with a book for the day.

I feel so restless today I can’t sit down and get anything done. Yesterday’s hope and disappointment has left me so listless. I think I just got a taste for hope again and then lost it so quickly I don’t really know how to recover.
I’m dramatic and there will be a perfect house that finds us.

A metal dish of dried orange blossoms and a turquoise plate of fresh orange blossoms.

Finding some little joys. Today’s been a rollercoaster of emotions. We put in an offer on a house, kind of out of nowhere, and got our hopes up and someone swooped in and offered $80,000 over asking in the first hour of accepting bids. So now I’m sad. But I am collecting orange blossoms to dry

Thank you! It’s called Our Idle Hands, it’s available on Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts!

I pull out all my favorite reference books and spend time just packing the presentation and my brain with all the knowledge I can share for the day!

I love my presentation creating days. I treat myself to a coffee from my local coffee shop. I come home and let my husband and puppy know I am going into the office and closing the door and that they need to come say hi once an hour! I turn on my oil lamp and incense and get to work!

I tried to grow nettles for this and sadly the desert climate wasn’t having it. Please share results when you do! I host a whole podcast on the topic of the cross section of fiber arts and Witchery!

An actual image of all of us forming community at the next Occulture Phoenix on March 30th from 3-5pm at Curious Nature! We’re going to be discussing Spiritual Cleansing! Come join the conversation!

I sent out two letters today, one to some friends who lost their mother and another to a neighbor who I get a new meditation altar table from out of their free pile! Though we will only be in Phoenix another year I am going to build friendships in my neighborhood because community it’s key right now

Are you having some extra bad luck? Is there a new ‘off’ energy in your house? Have your house plants all started to die for no reason? You may need to do some cleansing work on yourself and your home!
Join us at Curious Nature in Phoenix on March 30th for a discussion on spiritual cleansing!

Direction creating a cross hatch. Then I go back and go over the first area I stitch again. It’s super simple but can save your jeans, or honestly any shredding fabric on clothing.

Yes! This is done on my 1940s white sewing machine that only does a straight stitch. All I do is back the fabric with iron on facing that matches the color enough (sometimes, I didn’t back it on these jeans) and then straight stitch back and forth in one direction, then I do the same in the opposite

It was the Wicked Witch Of The West was one of the most influential women in my life

Before and after! Make Do and Mend! We all need to be buying less and repairing more! I’ve repaired these jeans once before and that repair is still going strong, today it needed some more fixing and now they are ready to be worn again!

Yes! Mutual aid can be magical as well! When you maybe don’t have funds to donate but you have time, do some magic for the person asking for help!

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I found this post very interesting — how “they” discovered power to control imagination in 1517 and how social media has perfected this, preventing deep spiritual imagination from flourishing. Reclaiming your spiritual imagination is a form of resistance

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@severelymame.bsky.social had a great time presenting to the first Occulture Phoenix!

The first @occulturephoenix.bsky.social was a success! I had such a great time presenting my slideshow on Protection Magic!

Sometimes I will mix eras! I’m not always a purist when it comes to vintage fashion!

I have been trying to here in Arizona! One of the most abundant in my yard ended up being in Horne’s The Charmer’s Root which was exciting since it didn’t show up anywhere else

OMG YES! You looked amazing! I hope you enjoyed the show!!!!

Getting this weekends presentation together! We can’t wait to get the discussion going on Protection magic!