2010 Altar, by Ms. Graveyard Dirt I first started with the kitchen’s stark fucking naked altar. Traditionally evergreen is brought indoors during Holy Supper to decorate the table (I use a mix of ivy, yew and cedar - all from bushes growing on our property), but because we were buried under an insane amount of snow around the Winter Solstice I couldn’t get out to our shrubs to take cuttings. (<- That’s why the window’s Sviata Vechera altar looked so fucking bare on the 21st.) On the 30th of December the snow had receded enough to let me take clippings from outside, so on New Year’s fucking Eve I finally got to tangle a variety of evergreen up and around my Khokhloma pieces, candleholders, skulls and candy. (Better late than never?) With the layer of greenery set, I embellished the curtain of foliage with homegrown wheat, the first set of deer bones we ever found (I, uh, still need to write this particular story AND upload the pictures), two homegrown chili peppers, the conjoined bolete triplets we found in October, my jar of “uniquely special” toadstool (fly agaric) oil created on Halloween and one of the miniature kolaches baked for Sviata Vechera. READ MORE @ GRAVEYARD DIRT »

2010 Altar, by Ms. Graveyard Dirt

I first started with the kitchen’s stark fucking naked altar. Traditionally evergreen is brought indoors during Holy Supper to decorate the table (I use a mix of ivy, yew and cedar - all from bushes growing on our property), but because we were buried under an insane amount of snow around the Winter Solstice I couldn’t get out to our shrubs to take cuttings. (<- That’s why the window’s Sviata Vechera altar looked so fucking bare on the 21st.)

On the 30th of December the snow had receded enough to let me take clippings from outside, so on New Year’s fucking Eve I finally got to tangle a variety of evergreen up and around my Khokhloma pieces, candleholders, skulls and candy. (Better late than never?) With the layer of greenery set, I embellished the curtain of foliage with homegrown wheat, the first set of deer bones we ever found (I, uh, still need to write this particular story AND upload the pictures), two homegrown chili peppers, the conjoined bolete triplets we found in October, my jar of “uniquely special” toadstool (fly agaric) oil created on Halloween and one of the miniature kolaches baked for Sviata Vechera.

READ MORE @ GRAVEYARD DIRT »

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