Planner, Day of the Dead Skulls of Ancestor Remembrance, the Super Moon- flyby craft post.

 

Planners. I like google calendar but sometimes it doesn't sync between my phone and my computer, which can be frustrating. I really like having a "hard copy" book version anyway and have since discovered planner stickers on pinterest. Typically I spend several hours once a year searching online or in bookstores looking for the perfect planner for the upcoming year. This year as I began that search, I said fuck it. Why waste all that time when you can get a cheap one from Wal-mart and make it pretty yourself. Plus that gives you craft time, which in my book, for me, is self care time.  I made mine a little witchy and with a Halloween flare using spiderweb washi tape, stickers, and some other embellishments. I have no idea how it is all going to hold up being battered around in my purse, but I suppose that is the beauty of it, if it gets messed up, I can always redo it. 

I know I am a bit late in sharing these, but better late than never. A friend of ours bought us foam squares to craft with and I'm pretty sure Amanda was the one who came up the idea for using them in this way. I decided to write out names of ancestors or family members that I wanted to honor in a more direct way on pretty paper and tape them to the skull once decorated. This one is for my father's family.

All the animals in my life that I've lost got their own skull complete with kitty cat ears. Yes, there are some doggies on their too.

This blue skull was for my Mom's family. 

The next three were just for decoration. 

This one was water inspired.

Fire inspired 

I'm not sure what this one was supposed to be but I was having fun. Amanda has two but I will let her take photos and share them on her blog. 

Tonight we were hoping to get a good glimpse of the super moon since it was raining last night. Well, I got to see it... sort of. I got better photos on the good camera but here is one from my phone.

Hope everyone has had a good supermoon or has been hanging in there!

Spacing out, back and forth, nothing done...

I realized today that I haven't really been on the computer in the last week. We've been going back and forth from our friend's house in Spokane and Amanda's parents house in Post Falls, living a couple of days here or there. It's kind of taking a toll on me. I don't know where a lot of our stuff is, what we have and don't have, and its kind of a mess. I will say that staying with our friends in Spokane has been so nice. They gave us a room and we have our own bathroom, sort of, the washer and dryer is in it so periodically someone comes down to do laundry, but I really don't mind. It's quiet here and for most of the day, I am alone and can do what I want. I've mostly watched movies on Netflix. So nothing truly productive. 

We have gone shopping and had some IEPG stuff. I've had some rather terrible side effects from a depression medication my doctor wanted me to try. I'm no longer on that medication and have been put back on one that works pretty well, but is expensive. I have to get it from a pharmacy in CDA because they are the only ones with a medication assistance program. Lovely. I suppose I am going through an adjustment period. Mostly, I just don't have the drive or energy to do anything. Sitting and zoning out seems to happen more often than naught. I feel like half the time I'm not following people. Then there is the fact that I really am having some trouble with my eyes lately. I can't see as far and I don't know if that was a progression thing or if the bad depression medication I was on made it worse. Either way, it sucks. Am I even making sense? I think I need a nap... Not going to take one though. 

I have been spending some time online looking at pretty stuff. I have decided that I am going to do vintage mermaid in my bathroom, with soft blues and teals. Probably some sea-foam green towels, if I can find what I want.

I am not sure what the kitchen will be like yet but it will have blues and greens. I'm really feeling blue and green lately. 

The living room with be a mix of Gothic, Pagan, and Fantasy, probably with some Asian influences mixed in. I have a lot of Asian decor that I don't want to get rid of but I am not sure where to put. Anyway, I am going neutral and gray in this room because I can throw in some color accents when the seasons change and flip pictures or posters around in the frames as well to suit my mood. 

Amanda has the spare bedroom and she's doing something neat with it. 

As for the bedroom, I still very much like Gothic as a theme but that's probably where I will have my Asian decor. In which case, I will probably integrate Gothic and Asian to suit. I just don't know what I am going to do with all of my Indian decor- not that I have that much... Maybe I can integrate it into the bedroom as well. 

Anyway, I've pretty much wasted time doing nothing useful, but without a place of my own and constantly being in limbo... yeah, not much I can do to help that. Its really messing with me and I'm hoping that I at least hear about a move in date soon.