The little owl has been floating about for a while and I was surprised he’s not featured in a previous blog entry, he’s made out of ecospun felt, with recycled polyester stuffing, and old buttons.  I think he’s a rather cute wee fellow, especially with the little ‘o’ embroidered on the front.  With luck Jolene will see fit to make some freinds for the fellow, but as things stand he’s a one of a kind!

Available in the shop.

I’ve also been trying to get some decent pictures of the ‘plant pokes’ for the shop, but hell have they been acting up!  I don’t know whether it’s been the poor lighting or just their irregular shapes but it’s been a complete ‘mare trying to get in focus shots!

Available in the shop.
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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.

I spent ages referring to these as “things that you stick in your plant pot, you know, as decoration” so thanks to Jolene for finally setting me straight and appointing the title “plant poke”, at least when we’re trying to sell them at the craft fayre we’ll be able to put a name to them now!

None of these are more than 8 inches in height with a pokey bit on the bottom so that they stand up in the plant pots, so unless you’re trying to stick them in a pot with a seedling or a tiny plant they should be nestled amongst the foliage … although I suppose it depends on your plants, I know a few people who could do with one of these to distract from the fact that their plants were laid to rest some time ago!

With my larger carvings I tend to restrict myself to traditional hand tools (knives, gouges and the like), however, for these I wanted something that would allow me to work at a greater pace and I ended resorting to my generic dremel type power tool that I’ve been looking at askance for the past few months trying to figure out how I might employ it best.  Well, aside from using it to create clouds of sawdust which gets everywhere, it seems that I can produce these chaps, and with a little pyrography for embellishment I think they look pretty good … my favourite is the one in the middle.

I think I may apply a few of the lessons I’ve learned from these to the larger carvings I do.

Now available from the shop.

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