Dear Friends,

Things have been rather hectic here. Good, but hectic. I will be handing in my resignation at my part time job tomorrow. This will give me two more work days to devote to painting, drawing and writing.

I’m going to need it. My third book “Watchers” is in the final stages of production, the story has been edited a half dozen times; gone over with a fine tooth comb to make it just right. The cover has been painted. The interior images are busy telling me how they want to look, and starting Thursday, I will be deep in the throws of artistic nirvana creating the wonderful watercolors you have come to expect in my books.

This book is something different. Not particularly Pagan, but a fun little rhyming bedtime story with the contribution of a short poem from one of my mailing list members.

I have to get all the paintings done by the beginning of March, so there will be no February coloring page. I just can’t seem to work on more than one project at a time. The January coloring page is up now for download. This month I changed to a jpg as some folks were having trouble with the pdf. This month the lessor known Goddess is Enodia. She was a minor Goddess who was later merged with Hecate. Endoia is the guardian of gates and crossroads. Join the mailing list to download the full sized image. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/magicalchildnews

The first two books are still available from me at http://shop.handcraftedpagan.com Let me know who you’d like them autographed to when you check out. If you buy both books, shipping is on me. You can check out the reviews there as well. Or post your own!

I love to hear from you. Write with questions, comments or suggestions. Hearing from you makes my day.

Bright Blessings,
Lyon

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When we bought this house we inherited a pair of bedraggled old maple trees. That was nearly 8 years ago. They have been a royal you know what since we moved in. Somewhere along the line they had been topped improperly and the tree never heals after that, so there were a lot of dead limbs. In the last several years, every time a breeze blew, dozens of branches of assorted sizes would plummet to the yard. Luckily, no one was hurt and the falling branches were small enough not to cause any more damage than a tuft of grass being dislodge. The other annoyance was the constant dropping of leaves. Into the gutter along the back side of the house. This has caused some roof damage since my husband is not fond of high places and refuses to endanger life and limb to clean out gutters more than once a year. Frankly, as I am afraid of heights, this causes no complaint from me.

Somewhere back in October I got bitten by the home improvement bug. I blame the Dish TV my husband had installed. So when I saw a flyer advertising tree removal at “off-season” rates I called and got an estimate. The price was too good not to follow through on, and today a horde of burly men climbed up and down those trees and chainsawed ‘em down. Bye-bye poor, sickly maples.

Hello two large heaps of sweet smelling wood chips.

In order to remove these trees, the services to the house had to be disconnected so the wires running between the trees to the house wouldn’t be in the way. So I was without electric, cable and phone service all day. At about 5 PM the electric company finally showed up to reconnect the lines to the power grid. I though oh good, I’ll get to watch the evening news. Only somewhere along the way from last night to tonight the TV stopped working. I was on the phone with the tech guy, who’s final word on the matter was — well, it appears you need a new TV.

Luckily, the elder daughter has a spare set just collecting dust which she was more than happy to give us.

Maybe it’s a good thing I can’t get my daily fix of HGTV. Who knows what other project will catch my interest?

On the up side of all this, I had no excuse or distraction from working on my January children’s coloring page. This month’s page is “E” of lessor know Goddesses. “Enodia — Guardian of gates and crossroads.” I started this one back around Christmas, but all my previous drawings are now lining the trash can, as I am ever the perfectionist and they just didn’t “do” it for me. Today’s rendition is finally one I am happy with and will be available for free download for members of my mailing list. To join go to Magical Child News a yahoo announcement only list. I plan to have the download ready by the end of the week.

Visit Magical Child Books to see inside my children’s picture books, see the book trailer for Aidan’s First Full Moon Circle or read articles about Pagan life. And of course, make purchases of both An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child or Aidan’s First Full Moon Circle.

Blessings,
Lyon

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