Up In Smoke

Already I have opened a Christmas Gift this morning!  My niece wanted to share this whole thing with me so I opened the gift for her while she was still a-bed.
It's a censer - for burning sage incense. I will bless the ground where the Temple is to be constructed for the first time on Christmas Morning.  It will be blessed many more times before I recommence to Temple constructing in the Spring.  I will do this for two reasons:  1) so that the energy for the Temple stays strong in my heart and b) so that the energy of the Temple area stays sacred and strong.
Anyway here is a picture of it - it's brass and it's heavy and my niece said she had a wonderful conversation about the Temple with the little old man from the West Indies or thereabouts.
I am very excited about using it for the first time tomorrow.  It will also be perfect for sanctifying and blessing any homes that I bless in Spring.  (Can't do it in my own house though on account of I'm sure my parrot would not find anything sacred about it sage incense smoke).

And you can bet that I'm going to add all kinds of yarns and bells and beads to it eventually and I'm going to let it form a wonderful patina of soot and wax and smoke (might take a few years).  But yeah....it'll get all grunged up yet.