Making a Travel Shrine to Mut

 On the last day of the old year I decided to open my Etsy shop called The Polytheist Market. It's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time, but didn't think it would ever be possible. One of the huge obstacle was Section Eight. You can't have a business running out of your house. Well, now that I'm no longer on Section Eight, and haven't been for over three years, then I decided to open my shop.

Out of the dozens of items that I've made the one thing that I'm most impressed with is my travel shrine to the goddess Mut. I ordered a set of twelve boxes and decided to paint the first one, just for the image to put on my shop, and I decided that this travel shrine to Mut would be mine. Next week I'm ordered a shipment of four boxes, twelve boxes in each box, for future travel shrines. The one to Mut belongs to me.

It's not anything fancy. No fancy woodworking, just painted blue with a image of Mut in the center. I have a changing color LED candle, something that I intend to add to each shrine order, and I'm finding that the shrine is perfect just the way it is. I will be taking her with me when I go down to Virginia. I found, despite the wood dust that got into my eye (despite the so-called safety glasses) that it was one of those devotional works that has brought me peace. I just love it, though next time I won't paint the edges where the top and bottom meet.

It got a bit stuck.