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06/06/2023

🌿Comfrey infused oil 🌿

I spent some time harvesting Comfrey leaves today to make an infused oil which will help capture all the vitality and medicinal compounds in oil ready to be turned into a salve at a later date. The Comfrey will be heated slowly in oil over several days to create a strong infusion.

Comfrey is an amazing plant to use externally for cuts, grazes, bruising and even fractures! It contains a compound called allantoin which promotes rapid healing of skin cells. It is also soothing and helps with irritation, burns, stings and inflammation. It actually heals the skin so rapidly that it shouldn't be used on deep wounds or it will heal the surface before the wound has healed deeper down!

Be careful not to confuse with foxglove, especially when young 🦊

20/01/2023

🍄Birch polypore dual extract🍄
Step 1: alcohol extract

Dual extract tinctures harness all of the mushrooms medicinal goodness by combining a water extract with a strong alcohol extract. The idea is that the water extract draws out the water soluble compounds, and the alcohol extract draws out the alcohol soluble compounds to create a combined tincture with the full spectrum of active constituents from the mushroom 👌👌

The first step is to cut the polypore into strips and dry either in a well ventilated, warm spot or in a dehydrator.

Next I put 100g of dried polypore in 500ml of 75% alcohol. Leave for 2-4 weeks to extract all the medicinal firepower. Give it a shake and squash down daily to make sure the alc covers the mushrooms.

I ended up using 600ml alc as 500ml didn't quite cover the mushrooms

After its sat for a few weeks I'll do the water extract 😀💦

13/01/2023

🍄🎉Birch polypores!! 🎉🍄
Probably my favourite mushrooms and identifiable by the distinct disk shapes prodruding from dead Birch (they only grow on Birch). The Underneath is white, and covered in a load of tiny pores. The top is white when fresh, but turns brown as it ages.

These bad boys are packed full of medicinal goodness (immune tonic, antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-inflamitory). They are going to be dried out and used to make a dual extracted tincture as well as stored for teas throughout the year 🍄🍄

26/08/2022

🌿H**p agrimony,🌿

Experimenting with h**p agrimony recently to extract the fibres ready to make string. Read the description for the method, I'll do a post on how to ID soon 😁

H**p agrimony has amazing pink flower heads with white hairs erupting out of that the bees love. To make string its the outer fibres on the long stems that are used.

First, cut the stem as close to the ground as possible (the longer the stem, the longer the fibres. ) Remove all the leaves and the flower head.

Then split the stem with a knife or a finger nail and follow the split, opening up the stem until the stem is opened up.

To get the outer fibres, snap the pith (woody inner section) and gently remove the outer fibres.

These can be dried, then hanked up and stored to make string from later.

**pagrimony

01/05/2020

Been playing around making a few wooden pendants from interesting looking wood I have collected on wanders in the woods. This one is a piece of oak with a topaz crystal set into a natural knot in the wood with some pine resin glue that was made by a friend from pine resin and wood ash - it’s amazingly strong! Just needs to be sanded and oiled and have a hole drilled through for the cord 🌳

22/10/2019

Quick shot of the double pyramid amethyst and sunstone recently finished. My first ever pendant where I’ve incorporated more than one stone and I’m pretty happy with it! Got well into my flow on this one and learnt a lot about setting stones and beginning to do some geometric work, gonna make a lot more of this style in the future I think 🌞🌞 this baby needs to be oxidised and polished then I’ll get some proper shots

16/10/2019

Available - Reversible tigers eye pendant in round copper wire. Loving the colours when the sun hits it 🌞 tigers eye is a protective stone, and is said to be very grounding, helping deal with issues of self worth and helping one recognise talents and abilities ⭐️💫
This one is £25 and comes with a leather cord with high quality clasps and connectors. Shoot me a message if it catches your eye 👁.

10/10/2019

Little Andean opal commission finished last night for a special bday gift as Andean opal is the birthstone for Libra’s. got a quick piccy just under the lamp light before I packaged it - such a nice stone to work with and it was nice working on a smaller scale with square copper wire! Andean opal opens the heart, removing feelings of stress and helping to ground these energies, inducing a meditative state 🙏
If anyone would like a unique and handmade pendant for either birthdays or Christmas get in touch and we can plan one together ❤️

01/10/2019

This baby is an interesting looking beach pebble I found on holiday in Spain 🇪🇸 this one is available for £15 - give me a message if it catches your eye :) all pendants come with a leather cord in a size of your choice with high quality clasps and ends 🌎🌎

30/09/2019

Little pic of my stall the other week, had great fun selling Jewellery at such a lovely day/night and met some amazing people too 🙏🙏 big shouts out to all that bought something too ❤️ would love to do more stalls at events or markers in Leeds or the north east so hit me up if you think it would work well at your event 😎

17/09/2019

My ‘Cosmic pyramid’ pendant soaking up some energising rays - fully finished now that she’s been oxidised and polished. Know as the dolphin stone, Larimar is said to dissolve mental boundaries and help guide the soul on its true path in life. I had a few dreams about this stone and knew I needed to make myself a pendant with it, hopefully it will guide a young tree on his voyage 😉🌎🐬

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