The Girlfriend and I have gotten a little crafty lately in honor of the gods, and I thought I’d post some pictures of the results of my labors.

First up, we have a little “necklace” that I made for my statue. A while back, I had gotten the idea that shrink plastic (you remember Shrinky-Dinks from the 80′s? Same idea but without the pre-printed designs.)  would be great for making shrine items and jewelry. Earlier this week, I grabbed a pack and some colored pencils at a craft store. My first piece here is a tracing of the design on the front of Fritz Graf’s Apollo, with my own color scheme instead of black and white. It shrunk to about the size of a quarter and is strung with some beads that I love but  if I use them for jewelry, the color wears right off.  I figured that strung around a statue where it’s not going to come into contact with water, skin oils et cetera would be a good use.

The other thigns that I (and Gavin- it was her idea, actually) have done is to fimd some embroidery floss in appropriate colors for our gods and do a hair wrap (you know, like the ones that every girl who ever went to the beah in the late 90′s did) and add some little charms for them. I found some embroidery floss in a variegated gold/tan color and made a little charm from some stone beads. There are seven stones which I associate with Apollo:  rutilated quartz, blue tourmaline, larvikite, citrine, iolite, sunstone and garnet (which is, incidentally, the same order in which the beads appear below, from left to right with aquamarine standing in for the tourmaline. Blue tourmaline is ridiculously expensive, and I only have a couple of miniscule chip beads right now. Apollo has water associations, aquamarine works- and it was immediately on hand.

The last picture is just yours truly, looking like an evil teenager.