Thank you very much for your lovely words, my sweet friend. Good stars, do I hear you regarding longing for more hours in the day. The fact that time only seems to speed up all the more with each passing year does not help matters one iota!

I am sincerely sorry that you are a fellow “walking buffet” for mosquitos. It really is fascinating how they’re drawn considerably more to some people than others.

I have read before that those, such as pregnant women, who emit more carbon dioxide tend to attract higher volumes of ‘skitters to them. However, given that, for a lot of us, this tendency to attract mosquitos starts in early childhood, surely there have to be other factors at play as well.

Hopefully, these near omnipresent summertime creatures will not be too brutally abundant on either of our ends this year. Despite the somewhat cooler than usual May temps that we have experienced this month, I have already seen – and been bit by – some mosquitoes. It really is amazing how they often come out of the woodwork mere days after winter wraps up.

Many thanks again. May you have a relaxing, absolutely wonderful remainder of the spring.

🖤 Autumn

Hi Bracken, thank you very much or your wonderfully kind words and for paying my blog a visit as well. The past few weeks have been full to the bursting point on this end, so I haven’t been online too much. I am gradually catching up on some of the blogs I like to visit and plan on stopping by yours again quite soon.

How lovely that those projects caught your eye in particular. Lavender is grown (commercially) in a small number of spots around our region of British Columbia. Much as on your end, it rarely appears here before summertime proper and I tend to think of mid-July to late August as being the primary lavender growing weeks around these parts.

I hope that any of these craft ideas that you try your hand at turn out splendidly for you.

Sunny hugs,
🖤 Autumn

It is my heartfelt joy, dearest Debi. Thank you abundantly for your lovely words and for sharing what projects here leapt out at you in particular. I can all but smell the sublime aroma of your homemade rose-scented bath salts all the way up here in Canada. 🙂

This series is truly one of my favourites that I have created to date on this site and I have every intention of creating one (or more) similar entries for each of the year’s eight Neopagan sabbats. To that end, I have already started saving links to additional projects that would suit Beltane to a tee, should a second edition come along at some point.

I hope that you had/have a marvellous time creating those projects and that they help to brighten your spring all the more, my sweet friend.

🖤 Autumn

Thank you so very much, dear Carol. Your kindness and support sincerely bolster my mood and inspire me all the more as I set out to pen future posts.

It is terrific that the wand idea resonated with you – and that it would not only be lovely to look at, but serve a practical purpose on your end, too. I am sorry indeed that a woodpecker is trying to give your house the look of Swiss cheese. That must be very, very irksome indeed!

We have plenty of woodpeckers around these parts, too, but (to date at least) none of them have eyed up our house yet. The group of generously sized (and incredibly beautiful) ravens that call the evergreens in our backyard home for much of the year do, admittedly, likely help to keep smaller birds like that at bay.

Thank you again sweetly. I hope that your month is going great and that it will soon blossom into a splendid June.

🖤 Autumn

Thank you deeply, dear Meg. What a heartwarming, absolutely lovely (and encouraging) thing to hear. I am delighted to know that the projects housed in this post helped to spark some fun new ideas for you.

In due time, I have every intention of creating at least one (and possibly multiple) entries like this for each of the year’s eight Neopagan sabbats and have already started saving links for additional craft projects that are well suited to Beltane, should a second edition of this post come into being one day.

Many heartfelt thanks again,
🖤 Autumn

What an awesomely kind and supportive comment, my dear friend. It warmed my heart every bit as the brightest of late springtime sunshine.

SO TRUE regarding the rather sizable lack of hours in the day to get to even a mere fraction of the things (be they crafting-related or otherwise) that one would ideally like. Let me assure you that I feel the very same way quite frequently as well.

I have been in the biggest cross stitching mood in recent days (literally, days) and am thinking that I may dig through the annual Halloween cross stitch magazines I like to purchase (if I can get to them before they sell out in person around these parts) and start a new project (or five! ;D) in the coming summer months.

It truly means a lot to me that you enjoy and learn from my posts. There are few things I could hope to have ring truer than that for any of my readers.

Next up, in less than a month, we will reach the Summer Solstice which corresponds to the sabbat of Litha (aka, Midsummer). I haven’t quite decided what I will post about for this year’s Litha, but with June very nearly here, that is something I will need to nail down pretty soon.

Though Samhain will forever be my most cherished sabbat, I adore each of them and have a particular affinity for Litha as it is the Pagan holiday that falls closest to my birthday in July (though, to be fair, my b-day is almost dead center between Litha in June and Lammas at the start of August).

Thank you again abundantly, sweet lady. I hope that this month has been sweeter than the season’s first strawberries to you and that you have a fantastic June.

🖤 Autumn

I just put aside a mason jar that came full of sauce. Thanks for sharing several ideas for it!