Category Archives: HOLY DAY

Eastertide

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Eastertime is almost here! I can almost taste the candyfloss melting on my tongue, and those speckled chocolate robin’s eggs. I’m busy getting everything ready for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Garden Party on Sunday, and remembering what a blast we had last year. It was an insane cavalcade of pastel frocks, sugared-up children, [...]

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Winter Wonderland Feast + Fairytale Fête

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

My whelping day once more approaches! A celebration is being prepared! Grackle Grove is being scrubbed and groomed, and much bustling and to-do is occurring to make way for the festivities! This year, the theme was inspired by Paco Peregrin’s milk-white maidens: It is to be a Winter Wonderland Feast, by way of the Balkans [...]

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A Bright Blue Wish

Friday, December 31, 2010

This is an invocation. Breathe in blue, breathe out black. Throw the old wishes in the river, detritus of the old year, burnt to ash, warped and transformed, buried on the land where your ancestors spun in circles in May, plowed through snow-drifts in winter. Here my great-grandmother stood, under this tree that is now [...]

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Day of the Dead in New Orleans

Monday, December 27, 2010

Thinking about New Orleans all the time, and worrying for all my friends there. People are afraid to leave their houses, talking about buying shotguns, and reinforcing their doors and the bars on their windows. It’s hard to think back to a few short months ago when everyone’s guard was down, and we all sprawled [...]

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Hexmas Spirits

Saturday, December 25, 2010

✶ A Very Haeckel Christmas “Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 “Kunstformen der Natur” [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer. The book was originally simply an album of holiday designs.” So cute. Three cheers to John Holbo for coming up [...]

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Winter Solstice – Blood Moon

Monday, December 20, 2010

(This photo, and all others in this post, unless noted, is by the marvelous Sofia Ajram) Dark times, my loves. Dark days before the sun returns to us. Tonight even the moon will hide her face, turn the color of blood, turn away. I’m ready to honor this solstice, this turning, and bring back the [...]

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Sketchy Bunnies!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Sketchy Bunnies, y’all. I’m sorry I have to expose you to these horrors, and I hope seeing them won’t scare you away from our Easter Egg Hunt, but they’re just too good (wrong?) not to share. Many thanks to the minds behind this site, and condolences to the people who are submitting their childhood photos [...]

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Holi Hai!

Monday, March 8, 2010

The past few days have been rather damp and dreary, making me ravenous for rich, saturated color – electric, fluorescent hues that make my brain tingle. I’m getting pretty bored with the staple neutral palette that seems to be the fashion uniform these days, though don’t get me wrong – I love me some black, [...]

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Krew du Poüx!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Hello, hello! Many apologies for the long absence and all the tumbleweeds drifting around these parts! I am returned from my travels, which proved far too fun and chaotically action-packed to do any of the updates I had anticipated. In fact, I barely had time to flick a finger towards my laptop – which was [...]

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New Year’s Redux

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Ahoy! New photos have surfaced from our New Year’s Eve adventures in the Texas Hill Country, from Mr. Chip Warren, esteemed gentleman and fantastic photographer. Following are a handful of my favorites, but the full set can be seen here: Hill Country New Years 2009 I love the shots he captured of our exploits with [...]

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