Replaced Altar - Update

It's been a bit since I updated about my altar, and my reintegration into my practices. I still feel some of my practices are to be left on the back burner because I STILL have a small toddler to care for, so I can't regularly engage in my practice as often as I like (but that's ok)

I thought I'd update though on the progress I've made so far. When we last saw my altar, it looked like this:

I had a table that I was going to use with some shelves underneath. Here's what it looks like now:

You will notice I'm not using the same table as in the first picture. I've decided to go back to my "box". I'm hooked on the thing lol. But the reasoning being is that I found some cool wire shelves from the dollar store that fit perfectly inside my box allowing for more room to store my items (but, unfortunately not all of it). 

If you look close enough, you can see the wire shelves. Re-stocking my box led to the startling discovery that....I have a lot of crap lol. But it's useful crap lol. I have my bottles that I plan to use when I do bottle spells (both large, small and teeny bottles lol) I have three decks of tarot, two sets of "Witch" Runes, a set of Elder Futhark, my cauldron, spells in progress box, wands, athames, small bottles of herbs for portable workings, etc. There are a few items that I couldn't find places for in my box, that are now in the night stand (which is to the right of the picture, out of frame). My main bottles of herbs are also in my night stand...which I cleaned out for this very purpose (that and I had a lot of junk I didn't need in there). If you're wondering how my box works, the door is on a hinge, so it swings open to the right, and when it closes it has two latches on which I can hook locks (I did at one point) and keep out prying eyes.

But back to the altar itself. I've since added items to it.

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While I still have my abalone shell and a braid of sweetgrass (that were given to me by my mother), I have since added the two turtles she gave me with the shell and sweetgrass. I've also re-adorned "Hecate" with her willow ring, I've added a silver key, a dark feather (that was purchased from a craft store), stones associated with Hecate, my prosperty charm and my representation for Ostara (I haven't done a ritual yet...and probably won't). The Ostara representation has a bottle that is filled with butterflies on wires (so they sit in the bottle like flowers), the High Priestess tarot card, and the Elder Futhark rune Berkana

I'm happier now that my altar is back in my room and my items are too. Makes things a bit easier on me when I want to do workings and I don't have to go trapesing around the house to get what I want done.