{"id":3805,"date":"2010-07-01T01:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2010-06-26T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T21:54:53","slug":"a-witchs-view-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/07\/01\/a-witchs-view-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A Witch’s View"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is craft part of the Craft?<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019m usually very hard pressed to find \u2018me time\u2019\u00a0during the week I try to spend an hour or two at the weekend doing something crafty. <\/span><\/p>\n

When I was a child I loved spending time with a needle and thread or with a paint brush in my hand.\u00a0 I even had, at one point, dreams of being a fashion designer.\u00a0 Then teenage years hit, followed by the turbulent twenties and it\u2019s only now I\u2019m in my 30s that I\u2019ve rediscovered my love of crafting.\u00a0 And this coincided with my Pagan path.<\/span><\/p>\n

I adore taking my camera places then I\u2019ll edit the photos, tweaking here and there (or hitting delete – you have to know when you\u2019re beat sometimes!).\u00a0 And given the opportunity I\u2019m in the shed mixing resin to make orgonite creations or I\u2019m messing around with bits of wire and crystals.\u00a0 All these things bring me a great deal of joy and peace.\u00a0 I get to think about things which normally I\u2019m too busy to ponder – it\u2019s a meditation through creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know craft projects are not exclusively Pagan but a lot of followers I know also enjoy getting crafty.\u00a0 Is it the need to make something unique in a cookie cutter world of consumerism which drives us crafters?\u00a0 Or perhaps the desire to use our hands and minds in a way that\u2019s missing through \u2018everyday\u2019 life?<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to know your thoughts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is craft part of the Craft? Even though I\u2019m usually very hard pressed to find \u2018me time\u2019\u00a0during the week I try to spend an hour or two at the weekend doing something crafty. When I was a child I loved spending time with a needle and thread or with a paint brush in my hand.\u00a0 I even had, at one point, dreams of being a fashion designer.\u00a0 Then teenage years hit, followed by the turbulent twenties and it\u2019s only now I\u2019m in my 30s that I\u2019ve rediscovered my love of crafting.\u00a0 And this coincided with my Pagan path. I adore taking my camera places then I\u2019ll edit the photos, tweaking here and there (or hitting delete – you have to know when you\u2019re beat sometimes!).\u00a0 And given the opportunity I\u2019m in the shed mixing resin to make orgonite creations or I\u2019m messing around with bits of wire and crystals.\u00a0 All these things bring me a great deal of joy and peace.\u00a0 I get to think about things which normally I\u2019m too busy to ponder – it\u2019s a meditation through creativity. I know craft projects are not exclusively Pagan but a lot of followers I know also enjoy getting crafty.\u00a0 Is it the need to make something unique in a cookie cutter world of consumerism which drives us crafters?\u00a0 Or perhaps the desire to use our hands and minds in a way that\u2019s missing through \u2018everyday\u2019 life? I\u2019d love to know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}