So, hey everyone, this is another DIY update article that I’m publishing way too soon after the previous one, and believe me – this would have had been published days ago already, but I didn’t feel well during the weekend (turns out that ‘sleep is for the dead’ is not the best motto to live by, especially after the very final exams of the year) but putting that aside, I’m here to tell you about my newest creation. So obviously I have made a few voodoo dolls in my life, those were very authentic ones – wire skeleton, yarn wrapped around, everything the way it should be. Disclaimer – I have never used such things to harm anyone, it’s just fun and creative thing to do and you can use them to attract good things too. After the last Beltane I ended up with 3 such dolls, don’t even ask why. I initially wasn’t planning to share those as well but then I thought ‘why not?’ after all they look very cute. Also take a look at the gorgeous box I bought for my witchy tools, it’s so pretty… Let’s not switch topic to the details of voodoo magick. To me it was 95% interesting creative expression and maybe a little bit of something else. There is one thing about whole witchy practices thing that I’ve understood – it’s like maybe 5% actual spellcasting, energy work and spirituality, the rest is just creative goofing around, many practitioners have told the same. I would say the whole aesthetic we all love – cauldron, besoms, beautiful crystal collection in an Esbat moonlight and an enchanting ritual in the forest by the fire is just what it is – an aesthetic. Especially for solitary practitioners. Yet we can’t resist to admit that beauty attracts good things, otherwise would I pay so much attention to the color of threads and beads in my Witches Ladders? If I didn’t know what I want to attract? And by creating anything – DIYs, tools, gifts for friends or simply beauty and decorative items, we put a little part of ourselves into everything we make, in a nutshell – our energy. To me as a true DIY and creativity fan – this is the most precious and powerful way of magick and achieving what we all want the most – a beautiful flow of purely positive and attractive energy being shared and exchanged between all living and even non-living beings. Anyway, I’m going away from main topic again, let’s switch back to DIYs. After Beltane, I looked through Pinterest ideas of crocheted dolls that look like voodoo, after a huge load of inspiration striked me again, I decided that I need to try. This was one of my most relaxing and fun projects I have made in like years. A beautiful rest from all the dreamcatcher gifts, redecorating room and the complicated and fine crochet project I’m making since last August and don’t even know when it’ll be finished. I’m simply STUNNED by how adorable this voodoo baby turned out. I wanted something more creepy, but I have to agree with my mum, she always says that I’m simply unable to make something ugly. It’s true, even when I want to make something creepy, ugly, crazy looking on purpose, no matter how hard I try to make it look disgusting, it ALWAYS ends up looking cute and adorable. I just can’t make something I could hang on my door to scare neighbors away. I think I’ll have to just accept this as a fact. I mean – just look at that tiny crocheted creature! The lovely round belly it has, head, adorable tiny arms and legs… I just can’t… It’s sitting in my lap while I’m writing this because it’s just too tiny, cute and helpless to be left alone in a room – yeah, I guess it’s what they call ‘mother’s instinct’. Whatever, enough babbling, just check out the pictures and let me know what you think of these.