Making Prayers

Like most witches out there, I have a crafty streak. Not crafty as in cunning (though I can be when I want to), but crafty as in I like making stuff. My boyfriend thinks I'm nuts because I could easily drop a couple of hundred dollars at a craft store and spend an entire week just making things. I guess I don't need to mention he is not into making things....but I am.

If I could, I would even trying making clothes, but alas, my sewing technique is horrible.

Over the years I've made soaps, pottery, paintings, knitted items such as hats, scarves, mittens, baby blankets, and even some modelling clay altar items. So I like to make things. It's more a point of liking to work with my hands than a money issue. And I'm sure those of you that do the same amount of crafting know that you end up spending more making your own things than buying them. At least for me it works out that way.

Anyways, there came a time when I felt the need to pray in a Pagan way. I already had my mantras and Buddhist prayers, but I needed something more Pagan as a medium for my prayers. In came the wonderful YouTuber named the Moon Mother, and she really opened me up to using the rosary as a form of prayer.
I had never used a rosary before, but being a Catholic school girl I had seen them and knew what they were.
So I wanted to make my own. And I wanted it wire wrapped because I knew the technique already and had all the tools.

Off to Michael's I went, bought the appropriate supplies, and got started. My first rosary took ages, and it was very, very long, over 30 inches from top to bottom. I didn't really like it, and still had leftover beads, so I made another one. And another. And another.
I made 4 rosaries in one week, and I really liked doing it. So I bought more supplies to make more of them.

I know have made over 20 rosaries, and have yet to sell them. I would love to sell them on Etsy, and Ebay is also an option. I have no idea if a Catholic would buy a rosary from a Pagan, so I'll be keeping hush on that front.

Making those rosaries was the most wonderful experience. Doing each bead, one by one, designing which beads for the 'our father' and the 'hail Mary' beads, took me to a very calm state of mind. It was an active meditation and thoroughly enjoyable.
So yeah, I love making rosaries. My family thinks I'm crazy for making rosaries because I'm originally half Protestant and half Jewish, but I don't care. Rosary-making is fun.