Ancestral Altar is up!

Actually it’s been up for awhile, I just now got around to talking about it. So true to what I had said previously, I did the entire thing surrounding my father’s family. I really need to get frames for the pictures. I simply printed them from our office printer, which turned out really super nice [...]

Ancestry Continued

I didn’t think I would be finding out more information on my paternal family, but I did! So for some cool facts. My great grandfather, Emil Kunschmann,  came over in 1925 at the tender age of 19. Three years later he met my great grandmother, Helen Feduik, and after three days of courting, they got [...]

Honoring The Ancestors

I haven’t gotten my ancestral altar ready as of yet. Just a wee bit behind my schedule. However, my uncle and aunt went to Germany where my father’s family is from and they brought back some awesome pics that I plan on using for the altar as soon as I get them printed up this [...]

Samhain, It’s Just Around The Corner

Remember yesterday how I said that I felt Lammas was “prepping for the end of the year”, well here it is August and we are planning our Samhain celebration! Now to fully understand, we take the entire month to decorate and enjoy in festivities. I have a Halloween party each year the weekend before Halloween, [...]

Not So Great Lammas

So yesterday was Lammas. For those readers that don’t know what Lammas is it is the first of the Harvesting Holy Days. Lots of people begin harvesting and canning right around this time. It signifies, for me anyway, the beginning of the end of our year. Mabon is the 2nd Harvesting Holy Day, and Samhain [...]