Savage Daughter

My Mother was quite the music lover. She loved so many types and genres of music she was always able to make recommendations to people. This is the last recommendation my Mother made to me.

Savage Daughter

I am my mother’s savage daughter
The one who runs barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
I am my mother’s savage daughter
I will not cut my hair
I will not lower my voice

My mother’s child is a savage
She looks for her omens in the colors of stones
In the faces of cats, in the falling of feathers
In the dancing of fire
In the curve of old bones

I am my mother’s savage daughter
The one who runs barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
I am my mother’s savage daughter
I will not cut my hair
I will not lower my voice

My mother’s child dances in darkness
She sings heathen songs
By the light of the moon
And watches the stars and renames the planets
And dreams she can reach them
With a song and a broom

I am my mother’s savage daughter
The one who runs barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
I am my mother’s savage daughter
I will not cut my hair
I will not lower my voice

We are all brought forth out of darkness
Into this world, through blood and through pain
And deep in our bones, the old songs are waking
So sing them with voices if thunder and rain

We are our mother’s savage daughters
The ones who run barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
We are our mother’s savage daughters
We will not cut our hair
We will not lower our voice

We are our mother’s savage daughters
The ones who run barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
We are our mother’s savage daughters
We will not cut our hair
We will not lower our voice

We are our mother’s savage daughters
The ones who run barefoot
Cursing sharp stones
We are our mother’s savage daughters
We will not cut our hair
We will not lower our voice

Long Overdue

Hello world!

I have decided to make it my goal that I post at least once a week and try to get some life back into my blog. Unfortunately at this point I don’t have my  computer set up so I’m posting on mobile. Therefore you will have to forgive me for any over looked spelling or punctuation errors.

So, what’s new with me? Not terribly much. I’m still working full time as a FYI manager but I have also picked up two shifts a week bartending. That helps give me some fun money.

My birthday is in less than two weeks. It’s hard to believe that I will be 31. Being old is overrated. 

Beyond that Mr and I are getting ready for winter. Enjoying the warm days while we have them and opening the house as much as possible but also preparing our indoor spaces. I haven’t been upstairs painting since last spring. I’m hunting for a cheap but functional desk for my art room as well. We will see how that turns out..

M and I went to a dinner party last night and had a great time with two other couples. A veritable feast of smoked ribs, coleslaw, rolls, cauliflower, baby red potatoes and delicious cider. 

2Towns cider actually. I had the outsider and it was fantastic. It doesn’t hurt that it’s from Corvallis either. 

Mike gave me a birthday present early. A new tablet! Hooray! My life hasn’t been the same since my last tablet bricked last spring. It’s crazy to believe it’s been that long. 

Beyond that I haven’t much to share! I guess we will see what turns up next week. 

Happy October!

Well, to finish up what I started on my last post. I did not get a new car. I was sad.

So instead I got a Honda Ruckus!



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It’s pretty dang awesome.

I also went to a wedding.



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And it was super fun and radical.

I don’t know what else to really say. My life is not exciting these days! I work and work and don’t take pictures of anything (whoops!)

I did just today though buy a new chair and table for my computer in my Craft room. So it’s entirely possible I will be online much more often than I have before. I really want to get back into blogging. It makes me happy!

Until next time!

xoxo

Work work work!

And not even paid work!

We’ve had a few sunny days here in the Willamette valley and my sister and I used one of them to tear off the paneling on one end of the Nomad. We needed to be able to see all of the water damage that the support beams had. It wasn’t as bad as my imagination lead me to believe but it was considerably worse than what you could see with the paneling up. I mean, it’s so bad that because we removed SOME of the paneling and the dinette it’s caused the trailer to sag. The door will not close completely.

M and I put tarps over both ends to keep water off the leaking windows so that’s helping any further damage from happening but we have to wait until it’s dry to actually start tearing out beams and replacing them with dry beams. It’s not something we want to have to stop in the middle.

I’ve also been playing with my feathers! If you follow my Instagram account you may have seen a couple pictures!

 

So far I’m pretty happy with my Beta testing of designs. I have a picture of my sister wearing the blue and black one but you will have to search through Instagram for it! So the pheasant feathers I imported from California.. as in my super amazing awesome Aunt sent them to me. She breeds exotic poultry. After receiving them I washed and dried them. The dyed feathers I purchased on Etsy (but I’m not going to tell you where because to be honest I was NOT pleased with my purchase and they’re dicks) and I’m fairly certain these dyed feathers came from a craft company.

They were tricky to make and I’ve never worked with wire before. Either way though for being the first time I’ve done it I’m pretty pleased with myself. I can only get better from here!

I still don’t have a job. Which is actually pretty OK. I am receiving unemployment which is helping pay for gas and other things while I search.

I’ve started dieting again. Except this time it’s not ketogenic. It’s just you know moderation. Go figure. We’ll see how it goes! My weigh in yesterday was 156lbs. Now I just need to hold myself accountable. It’s actually a lot easier with my sister holding me accountable. Hahaha.

Until next time! ❤