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  This is part of Mama's herb collection.  It continues over to the right.  There are just under 200 different kinds. 

This is the cool fixture in my family room that was the selling point of the house.  It's a butcher block table until you lift the lid and then voila!      it's a sand pit that goes allll the way down (at least as deep as my sword can reach!  Perfect altar stuff!  No candle wax drips, incense powder just falls down and smells good and everything stays put!

    These are the two plaques I got for next to nothing on E-bay.  Love E-bay!!  They are about dinner plate size.

This is my Green Man, also an E-bay find.

This is a cool little plaque that was in my mother's things after she died.  It says, "Each Spring, the song of the Universe begins again."  I knew it was for me.

  The skull is a cool stash box Joe bought for Eric two Christmases ago.

This is fang, one of my incense burners, on the left and one of those cow cream pitchers on the right that I use for burning incense as well.  The smoke can waft out of her mouth.  (hee hee)

    These are two shots of my beloved mini cauldron, that was lost for 2 years after we moved here.  Damn, I was glad to see that again!  It's gotten lots of use.

This is the shelf that faces my front door.  Bottom left is our circle of friends that we use to smudge with white sage and to the right is our main cauldron. 

   This is the top of that shelf, frog alley.  The frog is made of soapstone or something and is heavy as a brick.  He's a prosperity frog and has a slit in his mouth for bills or coins to welcome prosperity.  He's holding a Kennedy half dollar I got in Reno a couple of years ago.  On each side is a dragonfly tealight holder.  I figure if I keep him happy, he'll keep me happy.  ;)

This awesomely badass pig was a gift from a dear friend of mine.  The theme of "when pigs fly" makes this little gem my reminder that all things are possible.  All.

This is a really freaky mirror pyramid that I have something like $1.99 for a the thrift store.  Also on the "anything is possible" theme, I put tacky glued a little monkey to the top of it.

Fuzzy close up of the monkey

This is my shelf of pigs in my office.

These are two of my favorite pigs.  The first I got years ago and she's jus so lovely and pretentious.  The second, at her feet, is a beautiful little jade piggy that my friend Karen gave me.  I wub it.  ;)

This is a painting of my friends, Cathey and Robert, who I adore, even though I've lost track of both of them.  The painting was done by another friend from the past, Myke.  It's one of my most prized possessions.

This is my kitchen wall.  Eric likes the "things on the wall" approach, so much of my house looks like a Goodwill store blew up in a house with sticky walls. 

  This is a cool thing that I love.  This little honey bear haunted me a thrift store for at least two months.  Finally, it dropped in price enough that I could buy it.

    What is so awesome about this honey bear is that his head comes off and the tongue becomes the honey dipper.  As with every other cool thing I own, I filled it with play sand and turned it into an incense burner so that the smoke comes out of his gaping mouth and lolling tongue.

  These are built in shelves by my couch (the one that smells like feet and ass).  To the left is my precious crescent moon oil burner, to the right is an awesome little doll that my aforementioned friend, Robert, bought for me.  To the right of that is a wonderful little gargoyle a friend from my past, Joan, gave me.  In front is a little lay bunny, less than a dollar from the thrift shop.

  This is the inside spring altar that represents the return of life and new life.

  This is the main altar in the living room. 

  This is my little "Kwan Yin under a grape tree."  Yeah, grapes don't grow on trees. Whatever.

  Outside now.  This is my outside Spring altar, featuring the Soulless Bunny of Certain Madness, no to be confused with the Woodpecker of Chaos, behind him on the flowers.

  This is the chair by the front door where Eric sits and smokes his pipe.

  This is the olive tree in front of my house.  It used to be nicely polished down with a pretty, grated base in a brick circle, but I was really diggin the new growth and left it.  It makes a wonderful noise buffer and makes the porch a little more concealed.

  This is a yellow glass ball and to the left is my little Buddah guy in the herb garden.

  More of the herb garden.  I had a nice scrying/gazing ball, but all of the reflective crap dripped off the inside so that it was a nasty opaque, so Eric painted it glossy black for me and it looks wonderful.  That's a 5 million pound lava rock to the left of the gazing ball.

  This is the fountain by the front door, a gift from Eric when we moved into our 2nd house in 1998.

  These are the famous miracle lilies that came back from the dead and heralded in the miracles I experienced.  As you can see, they just keep on coming, both the miracles and the lilies. I stopped counting both a long time ago.  I'm just grateful for them all.  A big batch came when I was able to to back to Kentucky for my mom's funeral and they just keep on blooming.  Every time I go out there, it seems like there are more buds. 

So that's all the pictures for now.  Hope you enjoyed peeking into my life, literally, this time.  :)

See you tomorrow,