The Blue River Cottage

“Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps”

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Summer Vacation! See You in September!

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PRAY

I pray... Pray for peace, pray for healing, pray for advances in science, pray for the strength to eradicate poverty and disease, pray for the courage to overcome injustice, pray for resolve, pray for others, pray for myself.  Heal my body and soul. May my pain cease, May my strength increase, May my fears be released, May blessings, love, and joy surround me...

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"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read"

Thomas B. Macaulay 

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Visit The Witch's Cottage

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"Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps"

Chinese Proverb

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For more information about our lovely home...please click here

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You can follow me on Pinterest, WeHeartIt, Houzz ...

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Nice magical things we've bought for our cottage! We've bought them here...

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Personalized Nest

Nice idea!  I've got it from Etsy (a wonderful place to buy and sell all sorts of items and a wide variety of quality handmade things).  I realized a personalized bird nest (with our name initials) for future custom name eggs (our future babies). This is a pretty thing for any occasion, including: your love and lovely home and your future newborns... Two pictures that inspired me:

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Aromatherapic Way Of Cooking/Living

I love my garden/land fresh or dried flowers, seeds, plants, leaves, barks, spices, herbs, and seasonings... 

Nature, however, has provided us with everything we need.  I love cooking in an aromatherapic way to stimulating the senses, medicate and soothe mind and heart. 

My kitchen is always a laboratory, where magic rituals occur!♥

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Making My Own Soaps & Candles

I love making things all by myself, such as handmade soaps and candles, free of all the nasty chemicals found in stores.

My own soaps and candles contain fresh, clean, healthy and natural ingredients (organic vegetable oils as well as organic herbs)  from my garden and my land... Remember: "We absorb up to 60% of what we apply to our skin"

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You know, I live in a cozy, rustic retreat (my lovely cottage) where anything is possible... My home is always a work in progress, so I'm always looking for decor that combines a bit of nature, magic and fantasy... Wanna help me?! Send me some good ideas!

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Welcome Passersby!

The door is always open to her kitchen warm and bright,

She'll listen to your troubles be it day, or be it night.

Her cat sleeps by her fireside, contented warm and fed

As she casts a spell of plenty while she bakes her daily bread.

Fairies dance around her while she weaves her magick cloak,

To sit around her shoulders as she gathers moss of oak.

Her cauldron's always bubbling on her hearth of rough hewn stone,

A witch in name and nature from childhood through to crone.

~ Jan McDonald

(Cottage Witchcraft)