I am now back and half unpacked from T.H.E. Beltane.  Babylon's Temple #3 had a fine 3rd voyage.  As always, I have brought home much to ruminate over for the next few months.

It's *crazy* I tell you ( ;

Till next time,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Goat,

Baphometis

I am *so* outta here... eventually. Be back next Monday!

Whee! 

Yesterday  a hireling and I excavated boxes of electronic goods and old kitchenware from the basement of  the house. We went through all of the electronic goo in order to separate and bundle all the items so I can take them to a recycling center.  The kitchenware was even more ecclectic than the electrical stuff.  Shot glasses, margarita bowls, ( Read more... )

I am feeling myself teetering on the brink of cautious optimism ( Read more... )

It's the time of year that I put together my schedule for "Gathering Season". I recently received an e-mail from a gathering that was cutting down the number of non-main ritual activites, and unfortunately Babylon's Temple is destined for the axe. The general reason for the culling that I was given seems rational enough. The planners are taking ( Read more... )

"Stuffy" can refer to some of the following things/conditions/states etc:

(from wordnetweb, Princeton U. )

• airless: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
• stodgy: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so ( Read more... )

    I finished another comissioned piece today. Every once in awhile I get requests for "leetle weetch" figures. (little witches) I made three for a customer last year. This one is a freestanding model. I use a polymer clay (Super-Sculpey in this case) over aluminum foil. I'm getting better about "stretching" the molding material further by using ( Read more... )

 This past weekend I vended at the Fetish Fair & Fleamarket for the first time in at least 4 or 5 years. My table consisted mostly of my own work, which included of drinking horns, belt bags and even a couple of collars. Sales of my work were fairly strong. Interest seemed high too. I think it's high time I started to put the emphasis on my hand ( Read more... )

The following comments are from www.leatherworker.net . I posted the question which asked what people thought of the performance of ceramic bladed swivel knives vs. metal ones, and here is my original post & a few of the responses ( Read more... )

This post has nothing to do with actual plumage. Metaphorically speaking, I feel like "my feathers are being ruffled", but curiously, I am uncertain whether I am irritated by that emotional state, or intrigued ( Read more... )