.:*FLOWER POWER*:. .:*Spring MOON Fest*:.

so can anybody help with the paint for the kombi? I know I have red and white house paint, and maybe blue (have to check on that one). If I can't get hold of any other paint I guess we can't do it due to my 'too many dam bills' month and not being able to afford any more. I've got plenty of paint brushes though. I hope it will work out, it'd be so much fun!

*wanders off to ask dad if he has any spare paint lying around...ponders how to avoid telling him what it's for...*

Years ago we had the ellemental moonfests... one for each of the ellements (what ever astralogical sign the moon was in for the full moon)

for the fire one we burnt a phoenix sculpture with a papier-mache phoenix egg... I'll try posting pix here... but i have a feeling it might end up looking like a little broken box but here goes





Everyone wrote wishes or things that they wanted to transform in there life on pieces of paper which were put inside the egg and we burnt with the phoenix fire sculpture... the phoenix represents transforamtion and change .... burning away the old to give life to the new

I was thinking.... maybe we could do a similar kind of thing for this spring moonfest????

what I would *love* to somehow do... is .... (I can see becca cringing right now.... what if we built a large wooden badger! ...or mermaid shell.... or or or...) or what i'd *really* LOVE to do for the spring one is to have somehow a cocoon that unfolds into a butterfly... somehow on fire... ummmmm ....anyone got any of these---> ... I'm pretty good for --->s ...hehehehe

so like everyone could put there wishes inside the cocoon and it transforms into a butterfly

well if you can't see the pix, i've uploaded them to my gallery now

Just passing through and saw that you could right click on the broken boxes then choose view image and it appears.

Just a suggestion, so you can ignore this if you like
The butterfly idea is great for spring...but erm...incorporating fire...

Written by: .:* Moon Pixie *:.

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so like everyone could put there wishes inside the cocoon and it transforms into a butterfly

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If you stick everyone's wishes/hopes/dreams into a coccoon and then turn into a butterfly (great) then burn it...

Does that mean all their wishes go up in flames too?...The phoenix worked because they were born from flame...butterflies aren't...

Just a thought...

I see your point...

I used to think it was really sad to see hours of work put into creating beautiful artworks and then burning them in fire events and rituals to be really sad ...but then going through the process of actually creating something for that very reason made me come to the point of feeling that the energy of fire is transformational...

you put your energies into the creation... you write your wishes hopes and dreams... and also things that you want to change or transform in your life... I feel like the flames burn away any yuckies and transforms it into hope.... it takes the energies of those dreams and wishes and send them out into the universe... bringing change, groth and new life...

I see fire as a beautiful thing full or life and rebirth

I'm thinking as the cocoon burns it unfolds into a beautiful flaming butterfly ...it's not so much a beautiful butterfly being burt to smitherines.... as more so a flaming butterfly coming to life out of the cocoon full of the energies of all our hopes and dreams*:.

well that's the way i see it anyways

... and the more i think about it... the more of <---these I'm getting

I think a fire butterfly sculpture cold be made with flexy wings that fold up and is inside the cocoon (made of papier-mache/latern style rice paper ...so as the cocoon burns away it unfolds to present the beautiful flaming butterfly!!!

"maybe we could build a large wooden badger"...

you know me too well sis

I think it sounds beautiful though... I'll supply the wick and smile loads when I see it transform into a gorgeous flaming butterfly...

.... or laugh at me when it dosen't quite work out...?

we'll see how it goes...

Elke I love your idea of the coccoon transforming into a butterfly. As for , here goes... Bear with me...

There is someone in a butterfly costume. It starts off just as a coccoon... maybe they can be unravelled or something, and wings sprout from beneath the coccoon layer. This isn't on fire, but just normal so that people get the symbolism. They do however, have a single flame in the hand for the firey part, which comes next.... For the firey part then, you could have several coccoons with the wishes divided up between them. One person surrounds each coccoon - these creatures are kind of curled up on the ground. They have fire fans or something like wings. The person in the butterly costume runs around to each coccoon in turn and lights them. The people folded next to these coccoons (with their fans/wings over them or on each side of the coccoon), light their fans from the flaming cocoons and proceed to dance around the big main colourful butterfly like little firey butterflies. It gives a kind of "wake my children" feel to it too, so still quite spring goddessy-like

Did that all make sense?

*echemm* **taps mic**


hello!!! maybe...... we could all write our specials wishys on some nice paper and throw them into the fire.. all symbolic-y like......???

Love your ideas!

I think we could combine the ideas together

coz I think i will be able to make a sort of cocoon opening out into a fire butterfly sculpture thing... to quote myself....

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... and the more i think about it... the more of <---these I'm getting

I think a fire butterfly sculpture cold be made with flexy wings that fold up and is inside the cocoon (made of papier-mache/latern style rice paper and bamboo/cane ...so as the cocoon burns away it unfolds to present the beautiful flaming butterfly!!!

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But... that PLUS all the lovely butterfly children fire fan dancers flittering about when the cocoon opens up would be bEaUtiFuL!!!*:.

I'm also going to bring along my little pixie fire totum poles (they haven't been to moonfest yet ) so maybe incorperating them in somewhere....

I also have giant puppets from previous moonfests... which might be fun to incorperate them into a big group show thingy

member the spring goddess giant puppet??? takes about three people to opperate.... she needs a little reconstruction... but nothing to sirious (i hope ) and then there's the rainbow serpent head... which requires a body of colourful people....

So... not sure exactly how a rainbow serpent... spring goddess... and flamming butterfly cocoon thing... and pixie totum poles all work in together.... but....

Hey gorgeous *:.Keira.:*

We are putting the paper with our wishes written on, inside the cocoon that holds all that yummy dreamy wish energy, and as the cocoon burns and transforms into a beautiful flaming butterly so do our dreams as they flitter up into the sky and become hope for the future... bringing our hopes into fruition... transforming any yuckies in our life into hope and dreams coming true. *:.

Yayyyy that sounds all very wonderfull and symbolic and JUST what the doctor ordered. Thankyou spring!!!

Will we write our wishys when we get there?? What time is everyone going down, in the afternoon sometime?

Whenever I decide to go early nobody is ever around until dark! but it's okay I might have a picnic with the family if nobody is around anyway - I'm bringing my mum and dad this time. My mum loves bringing the hippie out in her This will be a really fun one!

well... you can bring your own special paper with wishes on from home if you want, or there will be paper and pens for writing them on at moonfest too

There will be lots of afternoon shannannigans happening for SUNfest this time... sand sculpting.... adorning the candle circle with flowers (bring along some flowers for the circle) ...possibly some mural painting (???) ....Kombi painting??? ummm... scramble jam performance thingy??? ....and general play and mischief!

sorry guys but there won't be any kombi painting unless I can get hold of more paint. Bugger!

hmmm, not having a good day today. I now have to work on Sunday so I won't be there for sunfest and the kombi painting. I'll still be comming down to meet everyone and Adrian my hubby will be comming down to say hello too, well at least I don't have to drive now!!!!!!

See you all soon!

Can they start as a caterpillar then go into a coccoon. Maybe do painting in the catipillar stage as they worm wriggles around. Then the kids can pretend with them. Maybe have foam stamps of love made and stamp the caterpillar with stars, flowers and (boobie) glitter and hearts and wings and stuff. The stamps can be made big and cheap using like the camping foam mats.
Glow in the dark paint maybe...so later when the coccoon is left it glows.
Would be nice to show life cycle changes for spring. ...

Oo..can she hatch out of an egg, the wriggle then pupate into the beautifl butterfly..
I want to go to MOONfest!!!

& maybe you could ask chicken rooooollly nicely to borrow those magnificent big giant wings for the butterfly??

yay for sunfest!! oh wait...this means no premoonfest sugarfest then doesn't it?? hmm...or maybe we can bring sugarfest to sunfest!! *kidding* that was a lot of sugar...

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no more sugar please! .........

well those gorgeous butterfly wings of kwisty's are beaUtiful... but i'm thinking of making flexy wings that fold up and fit inside the cocoon... so when the cocoon burns away it unfolds into the butterfly shape ....

dunno yet though so maybe.... *:.