365: #011 Little Deities

In December of 2006 we held a dedication service for Ro in the back yard of her godfather's house. I didn't want to do a church baptism for her because we aren't religious, yet something was tugging at me to do some kind of something. I decided after much deliberation to dedicate her to the Goddess Eostre, who no one is really sure if she ever existed as a legitimate deity within Germanic cultures or not, but even if she didn't the idea of her is nice. She represents springtime, and morning, and soft weather, and flowers, and all things bright and pretty and gentle. I've had this little printed out picture of Thalia Took's drawing of Eostre for some time now. I never knew what I was going to do with it until I wound up with this lid from a Danskin box of ballet gear...

I'm not satisfied with the way it came out- the intention for it to be a little something of a light catcher, a little something of a shrine, a little something of a wreath, but now, a day after I've made it, I'm realizing what it really wants for is lots of flowers- those little satin rosettes won't do. It wants to be bursting with springtime goodness. This is a project which will have to be revisited.