#graveyard dish

[the-corset-witch]

This is the finished Cemetery Dish, complete with a smokey quartz cluster behind the graves but in front of the fence.  I’m working on getting little bits of grass to put before the graves like little flowers.  The path looks amazing in the sunlight, the Golden Sheen Obsidian shines and refracts so beautifully.  

During the creation process I made a mixture of Essential Oils and poured them into the dirt before I put the topsoil on (so the more mud-packed soil, like of the path, is what I poured it onto).  Now I occasionally water the dish so the soil doesn’t dry out and begin cracking (like my skin after all this handwashing), and also so it releases the scent I put in the dish.

[the-corset-witch]

I finally made it back to my favorite grave at my favorite cemetery, with my favorite cemetery tree.  It was two days after a huge rainstorm, everything was green and rather water logged, as far as soil goes.  I left acorns at the grave of Sadie, my favorite grave- it’s hard to describe my relationship to Sadie.  I collected soil (graveyard dirt) at the base of my favorite tree so it would have the energy of the shade, the living things, and the ‘dead’ things-- originally I intended to collect from Sadie’s grave but when I saw several rollie polie bugs (aka pill bugs) I didn’t want to disturb them, so I found a new spot that called to me.  

The tree also gave me plenty of wee sticks and twigs to use in my cemetery dish, I’m planning on making a fence, if I can.  

I collect and leave acorns as offerings because they symbolize rebirth to me, and its something the living creatures in the cemetery can benefit from, and also something a caretaker doesn’t have to clean up.  

[the-corset-witch]

And here’s my mostly finished cemetery dish!  wee graves, wee fence, wee little stone path.  The stones I used were amethyst, lapis lazuli, clear quartz, and golden sheen obsidian.  I’m planning on adding bigger crystals and a few other decorations as they come about, but I don’t have those yet and they’ll come, I know they will.  The last step is to find this little dear a home on my patio for outside times and meditations.  

[the-corset-witch]

I assembled the graves, the graveyard dirt, and have begun assembling fences with some trial and error.  It’s a bitch and a half though, it takes so much time.  Sooooo much time that I’m getting a little impatient.  I’m soooo ready to see this finished.  

[the-corset-witch]

I’ve mentioned this lil project in other posts, its a cemetery dish, a wee little graveyard since I identify myself as a graveyard witch.  I can’t get out with the pandemic- or rather, I could but I choose not to as my state is dumb and doesn’t take shit seriously.  Thus, I am bringing a little of my outside world to my patio with this!  

During the painting of the dish I used the paints to hide magical symbols and sigils that ended up blended in once it dried.  You can kind of make out the pentacle in the dish, still though.  

[the-corset-witch]

I got the goods

as in graveyard dirt, from my favorite spot, and assembly of the dish shall happen forthright! uh, after work, that is! and pictures can be expected then and perhaps tomorrow as I wrap up the small project.  I’m eager to wrap this up, I’m eager to see how it comes to a completion!