I'd like to say Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends & family!  I hope you had a wonderful day filled with family, food and freedom!  Here at Serenity Cottage down under.. we pottered around in the garden!  We now have yellow button squash seeds that are sprouting, poking up thru the soil nicely.  The herb seeds we planted the same day (tuesday this past week!) are going mad too... no sign of carrots sprouting though.. not giving up hope.   I know I won't get a LOT but it will be exciting for the boys to pull the tops and have a baby carrot pop out!

The moon is supposedly full out tonight... not that I can see Her thru the clouds and treetops though.  Today as a mini ritual the boys & I gathered twigs from the back yard and we created a lovely pentagram from them using twine to tie the points together.  It's hanging in our dining room at the moment.   http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h108/CariOfOz/twigstar.jpg

We'll spruce it up a bit at some point..  But for now I'm going to charge it by the moon and it will serve to keep our house safe & happy.  The kids loved making it.. they love 'magick stars' =)  There will be lots of those around this month.. we started our solstice decorating this weekend!  Got the tree up, only to discover the lights went tits up last year and got thrown out (forgot all about that OOPS!) so Can't decorate it till wed night when hubby will bring lights home from work =)  The wreath is on the door, with it's multitude of jingling bells chasing away negativity before it can sneak in the door to ruin our holidays with stress!  I hope you & yours are enjoying the silly season so far :)