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I’m pretty excited about this, so I had to post it to my blog here.  Also to let anyone know about it who happens to read my blog.  In July I’m going to be student teaching a wicca class here in Las Vegas!

Several years ago I went through this class and initiated into Ecclasia (look for their new website soon), a wonderful Wiccan group that I love so much.  My student teacher also lives out here in Vegas and she contacted me recently to see if I wanted to student teach in her class.  Well of course I said YES!!

It’s been a while since I’ve done any rituals or spell work, mostly because the physical world has totally overwhelmed my spiritual world.  I’m really wanting to get back involved in the craft and I’m about to start doing my 2nd degree work in Ecclasia as well.  So this is great for me!

When I have more details I will be posting them for those who are interested in learning more about the class.  I will also be relating some of the things that we’re doing and blogging about some of the fun things going on.  I’m very excited about this!  So stay tuned!

On July 25 the Las Vegas Pride Day committee put on an Ice Cream Social and Sock Hop.  The event was a fundraiser for Las Vegas Pagan Pride Day -   which will be held on November 7 2009.  Along with raising funds for the LV Pagan Pride Day event, the social also gathered food donations for the local charity, Three Square -  an organization established to end hunger in the valley.

This event was a resounding success!  Not only did they raise a good amount of funds for the Pagan Pride Day, but they collected almost 150 pounds of food for Three Square.  Along with purchasing tickets for a scoop of ice cream, you could also buy raffle tickets for great door prizes, dontated by local Pagan & Metaphysical stores, and raffle tickets for a generous prize donated by The Pointed Hat Society.  The Pointed Hat Society donated a gorgeous amethyst pendant necklace made by a local pagan artist.
At the social I enjoyed listening to the 50’s & 60’s style music while dancing with my youngest son on the dance floor.  I took both of my teen aged sons with me to meet other pagans in the area, enjoy the wonderful ice cream (much needed in the extreme heat of the Las Vegas summer season) and say hello to a few friends.  We also were able to purchase a beautiful tote and T-shirt with the LV Pagan Pride day logo on it, Pagan Pride reminder bands, and the cook book created from the Las Vegas Pagan Pride Day Chili Cook-off Event.  It was a great way to socialize with other local Pagans and get away from the heat, all while supporting a great cause.

So, as you may have noticed (and I do hope someone has, because I’d hate to think I”m the only one coming to my blog.  LOL) the site has been going through some changes.  My wonderful boyfriend bought me Artisteer for my birthday and I’ve been playing with it ever since.  I’ve created several different Wordpress Blog Themes for pagans with it, and will be giving them away for free soon.  In the meantime I’m testing them out here on my blog to see how they look and work and I’ll probably pick one to be “My theme”, which will be the one that won’t be given out to other people.  That’s why I don’t have the themes up for grabs just yet.  If you have a theme idea you’d like to see, leave me a comment and I’ll try to work it out! Read the rest of this entry »

While I was on my “quick trip” to Southern California for Samhain, I picked up my new athame.  I went to The Enchanted Crystal, which is up in Running Springs, CA. and was looking around, mostly for an athame, but well… it’s a New Age store, I”m a pagan, do I really  need to explain why I was in the store?  LOL!  Anyway, I saw this really great “hidden” athame, which looked like a tree but the top branch came out and was an athame.  I looked at the price and it was well within my budget.  AFter about 5 minutes of me staring at the athame, Zenah, the owner of the store, came up and started talking to me about the athame.  She asked me about what other things I had on my altar, and then suggested I look at other athames in the store for comparison.  That’s when she showed me this one!

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