Pagan Crafts! (Ostara)

With Ostara well behind us and Beltane creeping up (well, SPRINTING more than creeping, but whatever...), it's hard to believe the year is passing by so quickly. I guess as you get older, your frame of reference for the passage of time continues to increase, which (inversely) causes your actual experience of the days going by to decrease. EXPONENTIALLY.

I've had several wonderful opportunities to get more involved with the Fellowship up here in Northern New Jersey. I got to be the 'Kitchen Witch' for Ostara, and helped organize the Craft Night for the ritual. I wasn't able to attend because of an illness, (which has yet to go away, but that's another story), but I was able to organize and get everything together. A sweet woman from the Fellowship actually opened her home and ran the event, which was the hard part (she gets the glory for this one!).

Since it was our first foray into Pagan Craft Night, we made it pretty simple - just Ostara Eggs decorated with various spring-y symbols. The woman I mentioned earlier actually got the PAAS egg decorating kit that comes with gold leaf to rub onto your eggs (they were gorgeous!).

Check out the finished product:

I made up a 'craft instruction sheet' for the eggs, but we were unfortunately unable to use them as we had intended - they were left unrefridgerated and could not be eaten! You can check out the Ostara Eggs Instruction Sheet in PDF below, though.