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Most of my items are found or from charity shops, charity shops are fantastic, its like buying food in these places, you pick up the onion , test its firmness, get a overall feel for it while its in your hand and keep going til you get the right one, What i like about charity shops is that everything has a prior story, it comes with no packaging, you can pick up objects and get a feel for there story.
I like the notion that a small pot i bought covered in shells was bought by somebody at a seaside resort, as a present, unwanted it was given to charity, yet its representation of a day at the sea that somebody enjoyed is on my altar to the sea, along with things i have found while beach combing. some objects carry more than the simple story above, alot more. Some authors suggest you use brand new items so you can imprint yourself on to them, i guess that could be useful, but i prefer more experienced well travelled items, they have character of there own, spirit if you will that adds to the story that an altar may become.
I can see the value in using virgin parchment for a spell, but compare that to the value of using old moth eaten parchment thats been kicking around in a old womens loft, in a cabinet, from round about the 19th century, of course its what gives value to you. Old pictures are fantastic, usually lined with newspaper or paper from the day they were first framed, not only does the picture speak about its owner, but the newspaper speaks about the time it was framed in, what was being peddled as being of import at the time.
Value is a very hard thing to measure it can mean brand names and money to one person, a walk in the woods to hunt an object and a story to another. I think value is the import, meaning, love and devotion we imbue something with. |
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