It’s not every morning that we wake up to the first day of the first month of the first year of a brand new decade.
There is something auspicious and wonderful about such a day. It’s too rare, precious and magickally charged not to be utilized and celebrated.
It is also the perfect time to officially begin an exciting new project. In my case, that would be the very blog that you’re reading.
Why I’m launching this blog
On the evening of October 13, 2016, my husband and I lost our home, virtually all of our belongings, my home-based online business (an Etsy vintage shop), and infinitely most heartbreaking, our precious cat, Stella, in arson fire that destroyed the fourplex condo building we were living in at the time.
Losing quite literally everything but the clothes on your back changes a person. A lot.
It also changes your life, your priorities, your mindsets, your hopes, and dreams.
Certain things remain, however. Ingrained, vital elements of who you are and what you love.
Two of the most important elements of my life before the fire were my spiritual path as a solitary Pagan witch and being a paper crafter.
While I let go of certain areas of my life post-fire and redistributed the degree of priority/importance that I gave to others, these two remained highly meaningful to me.
They are both key parts of my world every day, and now, I hope, they’ll become a part of yours as well.
Who I am and what I’ll be creating
I’m Autumn Zenith (please note: this is my Pagan, and vastly preferred, name) an empathic, old souled witch who resides in the woody wilds of British Columbia, Canada.
Here on Witchcrafted Life, I’ll be sharing my passion for paper crafting, including card making, scrapbooking, tag making, mini albums, home décor, and seasonal/holiday-related projects, as well as periodically delving various other crafting related topics.
I plan to bring you plenty of crafting related how-tos, project shares, journaling ideas, product features, giveaways, and much more.
Some of my paper crafting related posts will pertain to Paganism/witchcraft, others will be more secular.
One absolutely does not need to be a fellow witch or Pagan to enjoy and avail of the paper crafting posts that I’ll be sharing.
On the Paganism front, I plan to cover a wide breadth of subjects. This will likely include, but certainly not be limited to, the following areas:
- Real-world magick
- Handy tips and how-tos pertaining to witchcraft and Paganism
- Original spells
- The Wheel of the Year
- Working with the lunar cycles
- Magickal correspondences
- Kitchen and cottage magick (including Pagan recipes)
- Green witchcraft
- The Elements
- Working with spirit allies and animal spirit guides
- Book of Shadows/grimoire ideas
- Art magick
- DIY ideas for witchy crafts, home decor, sabbat items, etc
- Candle magick
- Budget-friendly witchery
- Tarot and oracle cards
- Divination
- Magickal tools
- Paganism/witchcraft and chronic illness (as well as mental health)
- Self-care
- Ancestor work
- Witchery and Paganism book and product reviews
- Personal empowerment through your spiritual path
- Being an empath
Some of my key goals in creating this blog
- To share my knowledge and passion for both witchcraft + Paganism and paper crafting with others
- To be continually motivated to create and craft, sharing many of my ideas, projects and ideas publicly
- To create an inclusive, welcoming space that is open to paper crafters from all faiths, spiritual paths, walks of life, and genders, as well as those of all crafting styles and abilities
- To help me become a published Pagan book author
- To bring you fresh, original, informative content on a regular basis (multiple new posts will appear here each month)
- To further deepen my spiritual journey and to help + inspire, encourage and empower you on your own unique path
Witchcrafted Life is a fresh start with old roots
This blog is the new online home for a lifetime of experiences, spiritual happenings, handmade crafts, knowledge to be shared, and memories just waiting to happen.
It will be exciting, it will be magickal, it will be creative.
If you haven’t done so already, be sure to signup on the top of the right-hand sidebar for my newsletter, and connect with me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.
You can also contact me directly anytime. I love hearing from, and connecting with, my readers.
Go you! I look forward to reading and learning!
It warms my heart through and through to have your support behind this exciting new chapter of my life, just as it does that you were the very first person to common on Witchcrafted Life. That means so much to me, my dear witchy friend. Thank you!
🖤 Autumn
Looking forward to following you on the path of your new endeavour, sweet Autumn xxx
My very sweet friend, thank you from the bottom of my heart. To revive an expression that was all the rage several years ago now, seeing a blog comment from you again on a post that I penned “gave me all the feels”.
Seriously, I’m deeply touched that you visited my brand new website and that we’ve remained in touch online over the years. May that long continue!
Many hugs,
🖤 Autumn
This is fantastic, Autumn! I look forward to reading more!
Love from, Aspen
Thank you so much, Aspen! I can’t begin to tell you how much your motivating support straight out of the gate means to me.
Blessings to you for a radiantly wonderful 2020!
🖤 Autumn
Sounds exciting! I’m looking forward to your posts.
Thank you immensely, dear soul. It brought the biggest smile to my face and heart alike to receive your supportive comment. I’ve really missed engaging with you in the blogging sphere and joyfully look forward to doing so again.
Giant hugs & abundant blessings to you for 2020,
🖤 Autumn
Yeah! This is like getting an unexpected gift! Love this new blog from your hands, and look forward to lots of inspiration. I’ve started journalling in my notebook, as you know, and for Christmas I got a Kodak Mini Printer, which turns your smartphone into an instant camera, awesome. I test printed a lot and glued those photos into my BuJo, and I think I will continue adding a small photo every now and then. Congrats of your new blog, which I think is good for you, since it keeps you on the creative track – and good for us, since you inspire us. Have a lovely day, dear. 🙂
Receiving your awesomely supportive comment is a sincere gift for me, my dear friend. Thank you, really and truly, for being a part of Witchcrafted Life from its absolutely earliest days. Having the support of you, one of my oldest and dearest friends, is invaluable (and hugely motivating).
Your mini printer sounds fantastic! I can definitely see the appeal and practical applications of such printers in the paper crafting world. I might just have to add one to my wishlist. 🙂
Thank you again SO MUCH!
Here’s to a fun and creativity filled year (and decade!) ahead – may it be a fabulous one on both our ends.
🖤 Autumn
Your new blog sounds Devine. I look forward to reading all about your craft! Blessed Be!
Thank you tremendously, dear Mary. You have always been the epitome of kind + supportive towards me in my online adventures. I am sincerely grateful for that and for the gift of your beautiful friendship.
Blessed be to you as well. May 2020 be a radiantly wonderful, serenity and happiness-filled year for you every step of the way.
🖤 Autumn
So so so proud of you!!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. That is truly the loveliest and most encouraging thing to hear. You are such a wonderful soul, my darling sis.
Endless hugs,
🖤 Autumn
So wonderful to see you getting back to writing, Autumn! I always enjoyed the posts on your old blog … here’s to new beginnings! 🖤
Thank you immensely, sweet Lynne. Your support and friendship across the years, following the fire, and point-blank is not something I take lightly or for granted in the slightest.
It’s wonderful to connect with you again in the blogging sphere. I second your cheer and hope that 2020 unfolds into a brilliant, low stress, high joy-filled year on both of our ends.
🖤 Autumn
I am so excited for you on this new venture. Welcome back…..this makes my soul so happy for you my dear friend!
Thank you with all of my heart, sweet Julie. Your support is encouraging/motivating beyond measure.
I’m really happy to have lept back into the blogging sphere again as well. Many things have certainly changed since I last ran a blog (to say nothing of when I began running my own websites point blank, which was all the way back in 2004), but thankfully some are still the same and I am excited to embrace both those and the newer/different aspects of blogging in what is now technically the third decade of this century.
Here’s to all that this year (and decade) holds in store, both on Withcrafted Life and in every area of our lives.
🖤 Autumn
I am so thrilled you have started a new blog! And this reminds me I need to respond to your email of months ago! *sigh*
xoxo
-Janey
Thank you SO much, Janey. Things were really touch and go as to if this blog would be able to come to fruition of not (for a multitude of reasons), so I kept completely tight-lipped about it until it was live.
I am elated to be blogging again. Doing so at this stage in my life feels right and is proving to be something that I didn’t even realize just how substantially I needed in my world once more.
Early days (to put it mildly!) for sure, but every journey has to start somewhere and I’m having a stellar time with beginning this one. I’m really excited to see where it will lead, who will join me on this path, and how my posts will hopefully help + inspire others along the way.
Thank you again, my beautiful friend.
♥ Autumn
PS: Please do not worry or feel rushed. You can always get back to me at any pace your heart desires. I’m as chill as a polar carving an ice sculpture about reply times. 🙂
Hello sweetest Autumn. I’ve been away and a bit preoccupied with events here in Australia and completely missed this beautiful beginning. I’m so happy to see you blogging again and will sent your link to one of my sisters. She will love this. Much love to you xx
Sweet Deb, I am profoundly sorry for what you and your country have endured in recent weeks. To call it a living nightmare would be the understatement of the decade. I have weep tears drawn straight from the well of my soul for Australia and its inhabitants – animal and human alike – and could never adequately begin to put into words how much I grief in sympathy for the loss, destruction, pain, stress and trauma so many have endured.
How are you personally doing (on every level)? Please know that I am always just an email (info@witchcraftedlife.com) or IG DM away if you’d like to talk more privately.
Thank you wholeheartedly not only for your beautifully supportive words and for joinging me here on this exciting new blogging adventure, but for sending the link to Witchcrafted Life your sister’s away. I’m touched!
My thoughts, heart, and hope for an infinitely less challenging remainder of 2020 are with you and all of Australia around the clock.
♥ Autumn
Autumn, I remember following you years ago before. I wanted to send my love and happiness to you for being strong and proud to embrace who you are and and share it with us. I am loving your new blog. Thank you for the strength and inspiration you give. Love and happiness – Rose
Sweet Rose, what a heart-touching joy to connect with you online again. Thank you very much for coming to visit me here on Witchcrafted Life and for your immensely lovely support of this new blog. It means a tremendous amount to me. 🙏
How have you been since we last conversed? I hope that you’re doing positively and the past few years have been kind to you and you’ve always been to me.
May you be well, safe, healthy, and know serenity during these profoundly challenging times that the world is enduring.
♥ Autumn
First off I love your pagan name. has such wonderful energy to it. Secondly, I’m sorry for the arson incident that led to such losses. I’m happy you alchemized the energy of the fire it seems and transmuted it into wonderful things in your life. Looking forward to reading more of your words, and following your writing/blogging journey. As a witch, journal girl, and paper crafter myself. The topics you cover really resonate with me. Wishing you well.
Hello lovely Egypt, thank you deeply for your meaningful comment. It is a pleasure to connect with you here. We witchy paper crafters are fairly few and far between, so it means all the more that our paths were able to cross.
In returning to this site’s first entry again, I am struck by the fact that Witchcrafted Life is nearly two years old now. What a profoundly different place both the world at large and, in some respects, my own life is these days vs when this site was just getting off the ground.
Thank you again wholeheartedly for sharing your time with my blog. I look forward to visiting your own and hopefully continuing to connect with and learn more about you, sweet soul.
Warm fall time hugs & blessings from my heart to yours,
🖤 Autumn