I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.
Yeah! With food I’ll often offer the first bite, eat the first bite and savor it, set aside a small plate or burn it (I have a wood burning stove so I can do this safely). Also, I wrote this on my Hestia sideblog and think it will be helpful!
For winter/ice witches! I tried to keep this fairly location neutral – so hopefully you find some helpful things even if you live someplace that doesn’t get snow/cold!
Create strands of pine cones to hang from your ceiling.
Collect a jar of snow so you can always have snow water nearby.
Drink things like seasonal tea, hot cocoa and apple cider.
Burn pine/spruce/wintery scented candles.
Get/make a small wreath and keep it indoors!
Use ice cubes to connect to the cold.
Keep clear quartz and snowflake obsidian around.
Make paper snowflakes! Or find an app/website where you can do a digital one.
Use your heat to draw sigils on frosted windows.
Put a bird feeder outside your window so you get winter visitors!
Use sigils that connect you to snow.
Get empty glass ornaments and fill them with herbs/pine needles/things that remind you of winter and hang them around.
Wear shimmery blue or white nail polish.
Check out the winter decor section of thrift stores when you make it out of bed! (Or have someone send you pictures).
Check out seasonal themed/winter aesthetic blogs.
White fairy lights!
Keep your curtains open during a full moon.
Wind chimes remind me of everything. Including! Winter.
Get some cute little snow globes.
Decorate with winter colors! White, blue, silver, grey, dark green, etc.
Use essential oils like mint and cinnamon.
Listen to music that reminds you of winter/snow falling. Try instrumentals.
Open the window for a minute to feel the cold air (do this early in the morning if you live somewhere warm).
i wrote and illustrated my own kitchen witchcraft book! potioncraft is an original written + hand-illustrated collection of recipes and rituals for beverages of all kinds. it features recipes for spiced hot cocoa, mulled cider, harvest sangria, and basil lemonade; it also features information on the magick of smoothies, teas, coffee and more. throughout the booklet are beautiful stippled illustrations that create a rustic witch-of-the-woods aesthetic.
the book is $8 and makes an great gift for yourself or another. buy it here. support witches!
Alright, so. Coffee. I don’t drink coffee. I have no desire to drink coffee. I find people who enthusiastically go on about the flavor differences of lattes, espressos, and french press brews, both amusing and mildly baffling. All the coffee ads. Coffee jokes. Bustling coffee shops. To me, all coffee is similarly bitter and unpleasant. I have been through so many “Try this, it’s sweet! You can’t even taste the coffee!” Alas, I always can. And I’m sensitive to caffeine anyway. So, I don’t really think about drinking it when I wake up or am tired.
Yet I love the smell of coffee. I love the idea of coffee. The feeling of a warm cup taking the chill from my fingers, the cozy ritual of having a drink and chat.
I might try someone’s coffee. If they ask, if I want to please them and share in something they enjoy.
I am also perfectly capable of learning the preferences of those I care about and creating a cup for their pleasure.
But I don’t want coffee, generally speaking. I will probably make a face after trying their coffee and wash the taste out with something else. They may rush to reassure me that it is an acquired taste. And I’ll have to reply that it’s a taste I don’t particularly care about acquiring in the way they did. ‘Drink it till you like it’ will never work for me.
But that doesn’t mean I am against coffee or think people shouldn’t drink it. Doesn’t mean I’ve taken a vow to never drink any. And sure, maybe if you get one of those sugar and whipped cream disasters, more of a warm milkshake than a cup of coffee, I’ll probably be happier sipping it with you. But honestly? I’d rather smell someone else’s coffee and not be expected to drink it. I’d really rather have the heat and sweetness of my hot cocoa.
I finally sucked it up and rated all of them, although I haven’t seen a couple of these more than once so this may change! (I haven’t been able to watch The Red Turtle yet)
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