Fibert Art and Spells

Fun fact about Tobi: I have a blistering personal hatred for Alex Jones. Mostly because he was my mentally ill, brain damaged mother's (I'm not being cruel she literally has a hole in her brain from cancer) introduction to the world of conspiracy theories and alt right bullshit.

So for years, every now and then, I put a curse on him. Curses are fun because they let you feel like you're hurting someone without ever actually doing anything illegal that could conceivably harm them. My curse was in the form of a drawing- Anubis, the Egyptian god of death and judgment, as a jackal, eating the heart out of Jones' chest.

Today I wake up to the news that Jones' stupid fucking Infowars channel was bought by the Onion, who intends to gut it out and use its corpse as a puppet to mock the ignorance the channel once espoused as truth.

I'm not saying there is or is not a god. But I have a sneaking suspicion there might be an Anubis.

Drew another one to celebrate why not. Suffer and die you stupid motherfucker.

This is so cute

• Lily of the Valley Necklace.

Maker: Maison Gripoix for Christian Dior

Place of origin: Paris, France

Date: 1950

Medium: Gilt metal, green and white handmade glass paste.

Door at Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.

Love this so much

the practical magic musical looks great

I love how sashiko patterns grow.

Before, I’ve patched on the inside, but with jeans I’ve found that they can become a little too tight after multiple patches. Besides, I really like how the fraying edge of the patch adds to the effect.

I’m curious, who is 30+ and a witch and/or pagan?? And would you like to be friends?

Here is my cat bc I know the best way to summon a millennial is with a cat!

Hello 👋 30+ witch here. You have a very dashing cat. They look like they have a masterful plan to take over the world.

30+ witch here! A cat for a cat, equivalent exchange!

the eise eisinga planetarium in franeker, the netherlands, the oldest working planetarium in the world. located inside the former home of eise eisinga

honestly yeah, fiber arts is magic. you cast spell of warm gloves, spell of nice hat, spell of stuffed animal.

material component: yarn

wand: single hooked wand or double pointed wands, depending on caster's preference

mechanical component: specific motions repeated in a particular pattern

time component: a while

look seriously the first step in a knitting recipe is "cast on", and then it's a bunch of letters and numbers incomprehensible to anyone not versed in the arcane art. that's a spellbook. yes it's a book of knitting patterns but also. it's a spell book.

What I was actually coming here to blog about…

I was reading my witch book on break at work, and it told me to keep black obsidian with me to absorb negativity.

And I laughed because I literally have a small potato in my pocket right now for exactly that.

idk why I think of potatoes as 'absorbent', but I do. And at work, every day there is at least one small potato that breaches containment from its cardboard box home and lands on the floor. Instead of throwing it out immediately, one day I just tucked it into my pocket and then threw it out at the end of the day. 10/10, do recommend.

ok but potatoes are ABSOLUTELY magically absorbent and that is an excellent use for a spare potato.

In cooking if your soup is too salty you can put potato in it, simmer it, and discard the salty potato. So, that makes since.

Potat: It ABSORBS!

Tbh I trust the potato more than obsidian. What has obsidian ever done for me personally?? Now a potato on the other hand . . . that's an honest creature. I trust it.

THIS IS A MAGICALLY SOUND PRINCIPAL

Sympathy, the second law of magic. Like attracts like. What absorbs the flavor of the mundane world must absorb the flavor of the metaphysical world.

Also according to tumblr lore, dogs might bring you potatoes to absorb your sadness.

me and my husband, ham to my cheese, are hosting a halloween party in a few days and we found this recipe for a gigantic snake calzone and im LOVING the results of everyone on the recipe page:

Jacket

ARTIST: Artist unrecorded

DATE: 20th century

PLACE MADE: Vugrovec town, Zagreb region, Croatia, Europe

MEDIUM: Wool

A conversation at a wedding, beside the gifts table. There is a large box wrapped in violently purple paper sitting beside the table.

Guest: That's a big box. Wonder what's in it.

Me: A custom handmade quilt on an oak quilt rack.

Guest: Really?

Me: Yup. Wanna see?

Guest: Sure.

Me: *shows pics on my phone*

Guest: Wow. You made that?

Me: Yep. Finished it last night.

Guest: That's amazing. Very purple.

Me: Yeah, (bride) asked for that.

Guest: Oh, she knows about it?

Me: I worked with her on the design. But she hasn't seen the finished quilt yet. It's a surprise.

Guest: So you take commissions? Could you make one in, say, two weeks?

Me: That depends. Do you have ten thousand dollars?

Guest: What.

Me: Materials, labor, overtime to make that deadline--yeah, it would start at 10K. Might be higher if you wanted expensive materials or some really fancy technique.

Guest: That's a lot of money!

Me: It is.

Guest: Did you charge (bride) that much?

Me: No. Hers is a gift.

Guest: A ten thousand dollar gift?

Me: Well, to the extent that I am part of a quilting tradition at all, the tradition I'm part of is that quilts can ONLY be given as gifts. Anyone who could casually afford to pay for the amount of work involved in a quilt is probably not someone to be trusted with art.

Guest: Art?

Me: ART.

Guest: ...

Me: I also made her a nice satin dressing gown, which she wore for hair and makeup earlier.

Guest: Is that art, too?

Me: I mean, it's got pockets.

It's not a whole lot but I have more beads than I know what to do with, so I made some little melon charm thingies if anyone would like one They're pay what u want, min of $5, all of it will be donated to esims either by myself or through crips for esims