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Gallery of some of my Witchy Inspired crafts.

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W itch Crafting! I thought it would be nice to share some of my Witchy inspired crafts here on my blog. I have been crafting almost as long as I have lived on this planet 😆 I think I probably crafted before I could even talk or walk! I have crafted for fun, as a professional maker running my own business. I have done tutorials for magazines, talks to groups and now tinker with the odd online video short. I have crafted with many mediums including miniature making, mask making, jewellery, sewing, Millinery, paper crafts, painting, card making monoprinting, mixed media crafts, needle felting, collage, paper mache sculpture, Artist Trading card art. I have been a chocolatier even done cake decorating, creating character cakes way before it became the norm to do unusual designs! Whatever crafting I do I do seem to be attracted to themes such as Folklore, fairies, Witches, toadstools and mushrooms, Gothic horror and Botanicals. I hope you enjoy my Gallery I hope to post more of my work her...
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Witchy Wednesday Folklore stories.

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This weeks Witchy Wednesday are a collection of stories taken from FOLK-LORE A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY And Incorporating THE ARCHEOLOGICAL REVIEW and THE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL VOL. XXV.-1914 FOLKLORE OF LONDON DRESSMAKERS. London dressmakers consider it to be most unlucky to use a black pin in fitting a gown. At a recent visit to my dressmaker I was told that a black pin had inadvertently been used not long since in fitting a wedding dress. "That wedding gown was never worn, because the gentleman the young lady was to marry was killed!" Green is an unlucky colour. "It is not always unlucky, but I made a beautiful green dress not long ago, and it was never worn by its owner, because she went into deep mourning just as it was finished." After a dress is finished and is being worn there seems to be no objection to the use of black pins. E. M. L. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 THE NIGHT...
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Imbolc blessing to you all

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  Imbolc, celebrated on February 1st–2nd, is a Celtic cross-quarter festival marking the beginning of spring, the return of light, and the "quickening" of the year. Positioned halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox, it signifies emerging fertility, lambing, and the awakening of nature from winter.
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A memorable piece of Witchcraft, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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W elcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week is a copy of Relation of A Memorable Piece of Witchcraft which was published in 1867.  This was a pamphlet detailing a 1658 case of suspected witchcraft in Welton, Northamptonshire. It describes a girl vomiting stones and coals, and experiencing poltergeist activity, as reported by an eyewitness. It highlights 17th-century beliefs in demonic, harmful magic and physical manifestations of curses.  Thank you for visiting my blog, please pop by next week for another Witchy Wednesday.  Kat 😊
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Mushrooms and Elves!

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  They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans The wood elf 1887 E very year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture  Full article on BBC website.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
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Who killed Cock Robin!

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  Who Killed Cock Robin?  It sounds like a simple nursery rhyme. But what if this strange children’s song hides something far darker—ancient rituals, political intrigue, royal assassinations, and deathly symbolism buried for centuries? Vlog by      / @theresurrectionists   Little notice.  As a enthusiast studier of Folklore I love to share any articles, information and videos I find on my cyberland travels with you my blog readers.  I try to vet all links and videos to make sure they are legitimate and historically interesting but because of some of the subject matters I always advise caution before showing to younger viewers. Please if you do visit my external link show support to the writers and vloggers for their hard work by liking, sharing and leaving positive comments. Thank you. Kat ☺️
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The Lampton Worm, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES Collected and Edited by JOSEPH JACOBS Editor of "Folk-Lore" 1894 Illustrated by JOHN D. BATTEN   T he Lambton Worm This week's Witchy Wednesday is the story of The Lambton Worm taken from Joseph Jacobs 1884 book of English fairy tales.  A wild young fellow was the heir of Lambton, the fine estate and hall by the side of the swift-flowing Wear. Not a Mass would he hear in Brugeford Chapel of a Sunday, but a-fishing he would go. And if he did not haul in anything, his curses could be heard by the folk as they went by to Brugeford. Well, one Sunday morning he was fishing as usual, and not a salmon had risen to him, his basket was bare of roach or dace. And the worse his luck, the worse grew his language, till the passers-by were horrified at his words as they went to listen to the Mass-priest. At last young Lambton felt a mighty tug at his line. "At last," quoth he, "a bite worth having!" and he pulled and he pulled, till what sho...
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