Happy Holiday

Hope everyone is having a Happy Holiday season and I wish everyone a blessed yule! Sorry its been quiet around here will be changing hat soon, just gets busy here around this time of the year

Gonna try and post some recipes for yule here in a week or so, specially since i missed Samhain! (dont hit me), lol I was out of it most that week being sick and dont remember too much of the week except Samhain evening.

Brightest Blessings
   Spiritrunner

Tomato soup Enchillada

Okay, tonight was one of  "in the land of make do" moments. Ive cleaning all day after being down and sick the house, at least in my opinion, was thrashed...hubby's opinion begged the differ...Anyway I completely forgot about dinner. Sooooo....we slapped something together...

2 can condensed tomato soup
almost 1 can water
2 cups grated cheese
spanish rice
onions
tortillas about 7
carne asada cut into thin strips
chili powder, pinch of cayenne, garlic powder, salt, hot sauce

mix all seasoning in with the water and tomato soup.
cook carne asada and salt and pepper to taste
take 2 tablespoons of the sauce in each tortilla
layer about 1/3 cup rice
layer a layer of steak strips, layer some cheese and sour cream
roll up like an enchilada and repeat with remaining tortillas
once they are lined in the pan pour rest of sauce mix over tortilla rolls
top with cheese, onions and olives
bake at 350 for about 25 minutes.

this was super super good, was mexican tasting but with a significant less amount of a heartburn %:P AND to top it off, my kids loved it:)

Winter Blues...revisited..

I feel the winter blues about to bog me down again. I think I might venture out into the cold and find me some nice spring floral smelling oils to burn and take the yule decorations down. I normally love winter. Autumn and Winter were my favorite seasons but since we haven't had a heater most of the winter it's been bitter, cold and miserable, however we are finally getting it fixed this weekend thank the goddess. I don't think I could handler another week let alone a few more months of cold. I love how everyone says "Oh you're in California, its like 70 all the time..."...It's not and in fact this winter we have had more days below freezing than we have had in many many many years. (I forget how many exactly the news said.) we've had 19 days below freezing here and we usually only average about 5. It doesn't snow here but maybe every 10 years but it might as well as cold as it is:P. And even in the summer we get the extremes were it's usually around 110 most days. Anyway, got off topic there a bit but yes must find floral smells and get away from the winter blues that are chasing me.

This was posted in one of my groups and the author is unknown but there is some definite need of releasing of some negativity:P

Winds of Change

This is more of a spell to release anger and stress, but isn't that the first step to becoming more happy?

Your supplies:

A windy day

 A hill

 Basil

 Patchouli

It's not mandatory that you have a hill for this, but you 'do need an open area outside' for happiness spells like this. It 'does' need to be windy.

Take your herbs to your chosen spot, and face away from the wind (so it's blowing on your back). Toss the herbs in the air and visualize your problems being blown away. Repeat the following:

'May the winds take my pain,

Make me happy once again',

Then turn around and face the wind. Say:

May the winds bring joy to me,

So that happy my heart will be',

Stand in the wind for a few more moments, concentrating on the release of your problems and the acceptance of peace

Am I the only one bugged by this?

The fact that it's Officially winter as of 2am Sunday morning in the northern hemi and everything is still green...

   

First Seasonal craft

I've never really crocheted before. Ive done maybe 2 scarfs my entire life but for some reason I got a wild hair and decided I wanted to make a hat for my son.
Pardon the peanut butter face...

It fits right on his forehead but he has issues with hats so he kept trying to pull it off but come winter too bad lil man you're wearing it!

Now Miss T decided she has to have one, was gonna make her one anyway but yeah she got all upset because she thought she wasn't going to get one.

Next on my list is another hat maybe some scarfs and still trying to figure out wth to do with these snake skins I have from a few months ago. If you've been reading you remember that one:P