more runic pendents

I’ve been busy extending the range of runic pendents available to include more ‘bind runes’, that is runes designed to have a particular influence on the wearers life.  Whether or not you believe such things the sentiment is rather nice and I think it’s nice to have a little hope that things might be better than they are … unless everything’s perfect for you, in which case, great!

The bind runes shown (back row, left to right ) are for  Health, Love, Wealth, ‘A’, (front row, left to right) Peace and Happiness, ‘little dancer’, Luck and, Success.

The bind runes meaning in detail:

Health: Maintaining a healthy mind and body requires a constant flow of energy. Sowulo represents the Sun and when combined with Kano and Inguz can provide the inner strength to repel negative energies and illness.

Love: Preserve a loving relationship by combining the powerful energies of Gebo and Wunjo to create a partnership giving success and pleasure.

Wealth: Wealth can take form in emotional, spiritual or monetary ways and Fehu is a rune of fulfilment. True wealth is achieved through generosity which leads to emotional, spiritual and financial fulfilment. Combining Fehu and Gebo gives the balance required to achieve this elusive goal.

‘A’: This is the gothis rune for ‘A’ and is the first of a range of runic intials I’m looking at doing, of course some runes are more interesting in appearance than other, if your interested drop me an e-mail via the contacts page.

Peace and Happiness: Total harmony with life is promoted by Wunjo which is combined with Berkana and Kano to dispel negative energies and bring happiness into the home

‘Little Dancer’:  Is my own design, has no meaning, is not runic and is included here because I like it :)

Luck: Combines Jera, benefical outcomes, the Wunjo and Sowulo to bring about joyousness and the energy to succeed in your endeavours. Patience may be required.

Success: Combines the fruit bearing, joyful rune Wunjo with Berkana which promotes personal growth and prospering ventures.

‘little dancer’ and ‘runic’ wooden pendants

In prearation for our forthcoming craft fayre Jo and I have stepped our crafting from something just short of a slow simmer to a frantic and frightening boil which essentially sees us crafting every night, obviously when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘Jo’ … personally I’m still pretty horizontal when it comes to crafting activity!

Despite my relative inactivity I have been able to turn out a good number of pendants over the last couple of weeks including my own ‘little dancer’ design, that can be seen below, and also some runic symbols imbued with all the power that their form allows them.

All the pendants were made from scratch from the felling of the wood, to the seasoning, to the design, wood burning (pyrography) and varnishing.  I managed to get a job lot of bails and have woven together some hemp cord to make the ‘chain’.

From left to right the runes are: Love Bind Rune; Universe Rune; Acceptance of Cosmic Law Bind Rune; Karma Rune; Protection Bind Rune, and, (just above the Protection Rune) a Success Bind Rune.

I’ve not uploaded these to the shop yet, although if you’re interested then just e-mail me through the contact page above and I’ll give you a price incl. postage.  These are now in the store and are priced $7.50 incl. postage, you can find them all here.

Coming Soon … plant pot decor, felt art, and lots lots more

Tip toe through the tulips – papier mache sculpture

Finally!  This seems to have been one of those projects that just went on and on and on and was beset with problems every time I looked at it … it should have been so easy, yet inevitably theory and practice were not to be comfortable bed fellows!

I actually started this back in March and although it’s only taken around 5 1/2 hours of hands on time to complete it’s been a little bit here, a little bit there and an awful lot of waiting around for glue to dry, paint to dry, varnish to dry and plenty of general head-scratching!

This was originally conceived of as a ballerina or dancer type figure and the pose is certainly reminiscent of that yet the need to add a base gave me an opportunity to do something a little bit different and the notion of incorporating the style of flower I used in the spring bowl seemed like a good idea.

To be honest I’m rather disappointed with this and the fact that I struggled to get a decent photo thanks to cloudy, windy and generally miserable weather didn’t help!  I’ve already alluded to the fact that I had some difficulties making this piece, largely due to it’s fine nature, even as I was trying to take the picture the wind caught it and it fell over and fractured it’s arm … the only reason it’s not in pieces is thanks to it’s wire armature, c’est la vie!

I’ll maybe try something similar again in the future, although in the meantime I have another three papier mache sculptures in progress and needing attention and anther wood carving coming soo too.