Elder

I've recently had the enormous pleasure of welcoming a wonderful addition to the Hedgewitch herb garden .. a beautiful young elder tree, which had obligingly seeded it itself into a tub behind our house.

It is small enough that I think it has a good few years before it becomes too large for the roof garden, and it is covered with little flowerbuds. Many of the local elder trees are already in bloom, so I'm looking forward to seeing the first blossom on the Hedgewitch tree sometime soon.

This tree is steeped in folk-lore and is a fount of mystery and medicine. I have been collecting elderflowers for years, and am so delighted to be able to have my very own elder growing amongst the herbs in my garden. Further information on the Elder can be found on the Earth and Tree blog where I have posted an information sheet and directions for making elderflower tea.

Needless to say, I wasted no time in trying a leaf to take impressions and was pleased to see that it works very well - a more subtle impression than some of the herbs with more ribbed leaf construction, but perhaps the more beautiful for this?

taking Etsy on the road...

before i left for a cross-country road trip i had a spurt of Etsy sales. I decided to try and take Etsy on the road with me, then, putting together a small studio and some designs i could easily do using only an AC inverter in my car cigarette lighter, an extension cord, a dremel, and a few simple tools.

To be quite honest, i was thankful the sales came to a stop for a bit - my work has kept me so busy i hadn't had time for jewelry until today, but today i'm making my first "on the road" order.

crazy to think that necklace is only going an hour and a half away to San Francisco - what timing! I'm borrowing my sweet man's place for the afternoon to get away from work and have some personal time to sink back into my creativity and create another personalized braille pendant.

These have been doing quite well, and i've sold a few offline as well. And they're STILL a pleasure to make despite the fact that they're pretty much ALL i make right now. Order yours today and it will arrive within two weeks from wherever i happen to be at the time (today's necklace is being created on beautiful Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, california).

look who made the front page on Etsy (however briefly)?

i missed it entirely, but fellow EAST'er Indigo Luna was kind enough to alert me that i'd finally, after almost a year, made it there.

Sadly, it was gone again before I had the chance to view it but one of my fellow front-pagers, Pincushion Queen, had taken screenshots and happily sent them to me.

Thank you! and YAY!

Summersea Herbs

One of my favorite Etsy sellers, as well as the woman responsible for getting this team started - meet Summersea Herbs and her latest products:
Recently i made my first purchase from Summersea Herbs (i'd wanted to buy something from her for ages and finally couldn't resist indulging myself in one of her "magickal journey" pouches, given that i'm leaving in three days for a cross-country drive). It was shipped immediately, in my mailbox three days later and PACKED with lovely goodies - beautiful scents, incense, and a wonderful note, too - i'm sure everything in that box was created and put in there with wonderful intent.

Greenfingers

good morning, all!

check out new items from EAST member Greenfingers, who creates goddess-centered art in several different mediums. Beautiful work!

what i've been working on lately.

here's a little sampler of what i've currently got going on in my shop.




During the waxing moon i was highly productive, coming up with new creative and marketing ideas - you could hardly tear me away from my bench. My lover was practically demanding that I put down the dremel and come to bed, lol.

Now, it's definitely a waning moon. I am eying a custom resizing job made of nearly-microscopic silver beads that i just... really don't want to do, lol. The necklace was a 21" inch, six-strand necklace comprised of these beads. Its owner wanted the necklace resized to 18", with earrings constructed from the leftover beads.

It's taking me forever to do this, and it's been ages since i've constructed anything jewelry-wise that's required tiny beads, thread and a needle. I'll be very proud of this when I'm finished, I'm sure, but in the meantime, I'm going cross-eyed.

By the way, you will notice links on this blog here and there that take you to Amazon listings. We'll link the books we're reading as well as some others that follow our theme. Any Amazon purchase you make through us will help us raise money to place advertising, donate to charities and show our amazing creativity to the outside world!