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| Next Millennium/Magicalomaha.com 12/10/09
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Greetings!
Well, the holidays are fast upon us! Hopefully, by now you have uncovered your car, and can get out and about! Eleven inches of snow in 24 hours...I could have done without that! At least it looks like we'll have a white Christmas...and then some! Come to the store to relax, de-stress, and of course, find unique gifts for your loved ones! We have new items arriving daily to help you find the perfect gifts! See some of the new goodies below. We also have a gift idea section too!
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Holiday Recipe- Holiday Incense
These easy-to-make yet evocative holiday incenses will rekindle
vivid memories and sensations of the season, and inspire new ones for
the future. Rich with the aromas of nutmeg, fir, juniper, and more,
these scents will bring the holiday to life.
Angel's Smoke Incense
50 g benzoin resin
30 g white sandalwood
8 g cloves
2 or 3 pieces of orris root
2 nutmegs
A small amount of fresh lemon rind
A splash of rose water
Grind the nutmegs, cloves, orris root, and sandalwood. Crush the
benzoin and storax resins with a mortar and pestle. Thoroughly mix
these ingredients together. Grate fresh lemon rind over the mixture,
splash with rose water, and knead to blend. Place the incense on the
smoking coal in small portions.
Yule Smoke Incense
Equal parts of:
Pine resin
Juniper
Cedar
This incense can be used for any winter rite. You can also smudge
the house with it, but traditionally only during the period from
November 1 to March 21st.
Holy Nights Incense
Equal parts of:
Ground fir resin
Whole juniper berries
Chopped mugwort herb or stripped flowers
Chopped sweetgrass
Mix all ingredients together. Place incense by teaspoonfuls on the glowing coal.
Get Herbs to make these Incenses HereSource-care2.com :
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Best Seller!
Great Value!
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Dragonfly Dreams
Dragonfly Jewelry with Intention!
Dragonfly Pendants:
Each pendant carries one of six special messages
cleverly disguised in the pattern of the wings. (This one reads, "Dreams do come true").
Size: 1½" high. (18" chain included)
Only $19.99 each!
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Beautiful Fairies
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Fabulous Fairies by Artists Nene Thomas, Amy Brown, Jacqueline Connolly-Tarrolly, Selina Fenech, Jessica Galbreth and more!
We have a huge selection of fairies by all of your favorite artists!
Sure to enchant even the most discerning fairy collectors!
Buy them online Here
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Druid Oak Handbag
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Druid Oak Handbag
Beautiful, Leather Handtooled Handbag
Don't give her a purse from the mall, give her something really special!
This fabulous handbag will thrill her!
See it in the store or online
Here
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Norse Statuary
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Beautiful Norse statuary in bronze. Images include:
Odin
Thor
Loki
Freya
Valkyrie
Tyr Battling Fenrir
See Them Online Here
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Nemesis Now
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Nemesis Now, from England, makes amazing items. It is sure to please the Wiccans on your gift list!
See Nemesis Now Here
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Windstone Dragons
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Windstone Dragons by M. Pena are in short supply this year, but we do have some. Call or email us for availability, but hurry before we run out of these gorgeous dragons!
We just got some Bad Cats back in stock!
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Totem Animal
The Fox
The Fox
Foxes are highly adaptable creatures who will move into urban surroundings
when their habitat is encroached on by humans. They maintain a territory,
but it greatly decreases, when they live in urban areas as opposed to
hill country. Each territory is kept by one family group, which consists
of a dog fox, vixen, and their cubs. If there is a good food supply,
then the family group can expand to include a few other adults. Nevertheless,
only one vixen will produce cubs in the group.
As for food, foxes are
not too picky, eating anything from earthworms, crabs, and fruit to small
mammals. They bury the excess prey to eat when the food supply is short.
The fox's clever nature makes it a master of camouflage. When hunted by
hounds, Fox will psych them out by doubling back on its own trail,
and run around in circles to break the scent. It has the amazing ability
to meld into the background, allowing it to quietly observe the situation.
Fox comes to us when we need to slip out of a situation so we can be silent witness
to what is really taking place behind the scenes. We need to use our cleverness to our
advantage, but we must remember to be discreet. Fox asks us to look carefully at where
we are coming from, so we can remember to approach things with a clear conscience.
Buy Totem Animal Jewelry Online Here
Source:http://www.animaltotem.com/fox.html
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I was buying pepper from Watkins and saw this yummy looking recipe.
By the way...Watkins has the best pepper ever!
(http://www.watkinsonline.com/shellysmith/)
Raspberry & Cinnamon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Cake
2 ½ cups/600 mL flour
3/4 cups/180 mL sugar
1 tsp/5 mL Ground Cinnamon
1 cup/250 mL (2 sticks) butter, cold
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Baking Powder
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL baking soda
1/4 tsp/1.2 mL salt
3/4 cup/180 mL sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp/5 mL Vanilla
Filling
1 pkg (8 oz/227 g) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup/60 mL sugar
½ tsp Vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup/125 mL raspberry preserves
Glaze (optional) - probably don't need this much for the glaze
1 ½ cup/375 mL powdered sugar
½ tsp Vanilla
2 tbsp water
Cooking Directions
In
a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until
mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Remove 1/2 cups/125 mL of crumbs for
topping. To remaining crumb mixture add baking powder, baking soda,
salt, sour cream, egg and vanilla extract; blend well. Spread batter
over bottom of 8 x 8-inch/20 x 20-cm baking pan.
For filling:
In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and eggs; blend well. Pour
over batter in pan. Carefully spoon preserves evenly over filling.
Sprinkle 1 cup of reserved crumbs over preserves. Bake before adding
glaze.
Glaze: combine powdered sugar, water and vanilla, drizzle on top of coffee cake.
Bake at 350°F/180°C for 45 to 50 minutes. Serve warm or cold.
Serves 8.
Source-www.watkinsonline.com
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Article:
Medieval Christmas Traditions
Christmas Customs of the Middle Ages
By Melissa Snell
Among the Pagan traditions that have become part of Christmas is
burning the yule log. This custom springs from many different
cultures, but in all of them its significance seems to lie in the
iul or "wheel" of the year. The Druids would bless a log and
keep it burning for 12 days during the winter solstice; part of the
log was kept for the following year, when it would be used to light
the new yule log. For the Vikings, the yule log was an integral part
of their celebration of the solstice, the julfest; on the log they
would carve runes representing unwanted traits (such as ill fortune
or poor honor) that they wanted the gods to take from them.
Wassail comes from the Old English words waes hael, which
means "be well," "be hale," or "good health." A strong, hot drink
(usually a mixture of ale, honey, and spices) would be put in a large
bowl, and the host would lift it and greet his companions with "waes
hael," to which they would reply "drinc hael," which meant "drink and
be well." Over the centuries some non-alcoholic versions of wassail
evolved.
Other customs developed as part of Christian belief. For example,
Mince Pies (so called because they contained shredded or minced meat)
were baked in oblong casings to represent Jesus' crib, and it was
important to add three spices (cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg) for the
three gifts given to the Christ child by the Magi. The pies were not
very large, and it was thought lucky to eat one mince pie on each of
the twelve days of Christmas (ending with Epiphany, the 6th of
January).
Food
The ever-present threat of hunger was triumphantly overcome with a
feast, and in addition to the significant fare mentioned above, all
manner of food would be served at Christmas. The most popular main
course was goose, but many other meats were also served. Turkey was
first brought to Europe from the Americas around 1520 (its earliest
known consumption in England is 1541), and because it was inexpensive
and quick to fatten, it rose in popularity as a Christmas feast
food.
Humble (or 'umble) pie was made from the "humbles" of a deer --
the heart, liver, brains and so forth. While the lords and ladies ate
the choice cuts, the servants baked the humbles into a pie (which of
course made them go further as a source of food). This appears to be
the origin of the phrase, "to eat humble pie." By the seventeenth
century Humble Pie had become a trademark Christmas food, as
evidenced when it was outlawed along with other Christmas traditions
by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan government.
The Christmas pudding of Victorian and modern times evolved from
the medieval dish of frumenty
-- a spicy, wheat-based dessert. Many other desserts were made as
welcome treats for children and adults alike.
Christmas Trees and Plants
The tree was an important symbol to every Pagan culture. The oak
in particular was venerated by the Druids. Evergreens, which in
ancient Rome were thought to have special powers and were used for
decoration, symbolized the promised return of life in the spring and
came to symbolize eternal life for Christians. The Vikings hung fir
and ash trees with war trophies for good luck.
In the middle ages, the Church would decorate trees with apples on
Christmas Eve, which they called "Adam and Eve Day." However, the
trees remained outdoors. In sixteenth-century Germany, it was the
custom for a fir tree decorated with paper flowers to be carried
though the streets on Christmas Eve to the town square, where, after
a great feast and celebration that included dancing around the tree,
it would be ceremonially burned.
Holly, ivy, and mistletoe were all important plants to the Druids.
It was believed that good spirits lived in the branches of holly.
Christians believed that the berries had been white before they were
turned red by Christ's blood when he was made to wear the crown of
thorns. Ivy was associated with the Roman god Bacchus and was not
allowed by the Church as decoration until later in the middle ages,
when a superstition that it could help recognize witches and protect
against plague arose.
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If you are looking for a "Secret Santa" gift or stocking stuffers, here is one of our favorite things!
   
Soaprock Pics, left to right.
Star sapphire, olivine, smoky quartz and star ruby.
Beautiful Soap Rocks by T.S. Pink
They look just like real gemstones. They
make amazing gifts for anyone, guys love them!
Size: 5.5" x 4" x 2.5" ,
lightly scented
Each SoapRock weighs 6 - 8 ounces and has a
clean fragrance that is enjoyed in the shower or bath,
but does not adhere to your skin.
These high
quality bio-degradable soaps are made with
extracts of earth: Aloe, calendula, chamomile,
comfrey, lavender, vitamin E, vegetable
glycerin, chlorophyll, almond oil, jojoba oil,
olive oil, essential oils, mineral earth, kaolin
clay, and glycerin dew.
$10.99 each
See the many styles in the store or online
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We look forward to seeing you soon! Just for the record...there is a LOT more snow in front of the store tonight!
Blessings,
Charlie
Next Millennium/ MagicalOmaha.com
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