Do Not Lament Me O Mother icon: $23.95
Bag of 100 tea lights: $6.99
Martha Stewart votive candles & holder: $7.99
Little flicker lighter dealie: $3.99
Matrona's first icon corner: priceless.
Just thought I'd update you all on my corner's progress: I was blessed to find, when I got this room, that one of the light switches controls power to one of the electrical outlets--meaning, if you plug a lamp into it and leave it turned on, you can control it with the light switch. This outlet just *happens* to be in the perfect place for my icon corner--eastern wall, etc. I have a little electric lamp that is just the right size. So now, just as soon as I walk in the room, my icon corner is illumined by the lamp. It looks neat.
The desk here is supposed to have a shelf attached to the top of it. With the shelf, my computer can't fit on it, so I had to remove it. It just *happened* to be loose--I didn't have any tools to remove it (which I would have had to use to remove the shelf on any other desk in any other room in this building). And it also just *happened* to fit... right in my icon corner. It'll be perfect for my candles and my censer. See, the corner I am using is very small--I had been planning on buying a little table, but if I had, I wouldn't have had any room to sit in the corner myself. This shelf just *happens* to be small enough that I can sit in my corner just fine.
And of course, I've been blessed with wonderful friends who are helping me get the rest of what I need--Nicodemus, icons; Photini, incense and a censer, and another online friend from another forum is helping me get beeswax votives from a monastery--I wouldn't be able to afford them otherwise. I have a certain amount of money set aside for getting supplies for my icon corner (so that I can work out other expenses) and my "icon corner fund" is going a lot further than it would have without this help from my friends. Thank you so much.
I think it's safe to say that God wants me to have this icon corner.
I have a prayer book, the Orthodox Study Bible, several containers of holy water, a dried-out flower from the last Elevation of the Holy Cross, along with a few other little things. The icons I have so far are 3 diptychs (Christ/Theotokos), 2 icons of the Theotokos, and one each of St. Matrona of Chios and the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner. I'm keeping one of the Theotokos by my computer instead of in the corner--that way I can burn a candle in front of an icon and keep an eye on it, since my back is turned to the corner when I'm at the computer, I don't want to leave a candle burning there.
If I can dig up my webcam, I will definitely post a picture.
Bag of 100 tea lights: $6.99
Martha Stewart votive candles & holder: $7.99
Little flicker lighter dealie: $3.99
Matrona's first icon corner: priceless.
Just thought I'd update you all on my corner's progress: I was blessed to find, when I got this room, that one of the light switches controls power to one of the electrical outlets--meaning, if you plug a lamp into it and leave it turned on, you can control it with the light switch. This outlet just *happens* to be in the perfect place for my icon corner--eastern wall, etc. I have a little electric lamp that is just the right size. So now, just as soon as I walk in the room, my icon corner is illumined by the lamp. It looks neat.
The desk here is supposed to have a shelf attached to the top of it. With the shelf, my computer can't fit on it, so I had to remove it. It just *happened* to be loose--I didn't have any tools to remove it (which I would have had to use to remove the shelf on any other desk in any other room in this building). And it also just *happened* to fit... right in my icon corner. It'll be perfect for my candles and my censer. See, the corner I am using is very small--I had been planning on buying a little table, but if I had, I wouldn't have had any room to sit in the corner myself. This shelf just *happens* to be small enough that I can sit in my corner just fine.
And of course, I've been blessed with wonderful friends who are helping me get the rest of what I need--Nicodemus, icons; Photini, incense and a censer, and another online friend from another forum is helping me get beeswax votives from a monastery--I wouldn't be able to afford them otherwise. I have a certain amount of money set aside for getting supplies for my icon corner (so that I can work out other expenses) and my "icon corner fund" is going a lot further than it would have without this help from my friends. Thank you so much.
I think it's safe to say that God wants me to have this icon corner.
I have a prayer book, the Orthodox Study Bible, several containers of holy water, a dried-out flower from the last Elevation of the Holy Cross, along with a few other little things. The icons I have so far are 3 diptychs (Christ/Theotokos), 2 icons of the Theotokos, and one each of St. Matrona of Chios and the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner. I'm keeping one of the Theotokos by my computer instead of in the corner--that way I can burn a candle in front of an icon and keep an eye on it, since my back is turned to the corner when I'm at the computer, I don't want to leave a candle burning there.
If I can dig up my webcam, I will definitely post a picture.
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