Witch Krafting with Kat

  I found this fab article about the Cumbrian Dregpike: the legend of the mythical beast Please visit this link for more details.  https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/25025051.cumbrian-dregpike-legend-mythical-beast/

  Photos taken from my back garden this morning.  I literally held my phone camera up and without looking took a photo and got the partial eclipse captured in the lense flare! Result! 😆  I hope you all manage to see (safely) and feel the atmosphere of todays partial eclipse of the sun which happend this morning.  But don't worry if you missed it here is a link to a fab film via Royal Observatory in Greenwich.  https://www.youtube.com/live/Sun partial eclipse

I found this lovely advert of Mother Shipton soap in an old newspaper on the BNA website. Mother Shipton's Soap was made at the Ivy Soap Works in Salford, Manchester, was a soap product featuring the image of the famous English prophetess and herbalist, Ursula Sontheil, also known as Mother Shipton, and the words "No Boiling". 

As I type I am enjoying a little springtime holiday. I am mostly spending my time in my little garden sorting out all those little jobs I haven't been able to do over the winter months. But even though it's not exactly a holiday in the sense of going away to some pretty cottage by the sea it is nice to get out in the fresh air again and see some life returning to my happy space! 😊 As I am technically having a little break I thought for this Witchy Wednesday it would be nice to do another of my Kat's Witches Gallery.  Here is a collection of fabulous Witchy themed pictures I have found on my Pinterest travels. Pinterest is such a fun place to find ideas, learn new crafts and find information for historical research. All of these images were sourced via Pinterest. Please note some of these may have copyright restrictions so its best just to use them for inspiration and personal enjoyment.  To see clearer bigger images click on the image itself.  Please join me next week fo...

  Royal Mail launches mythical creatures stamp collection Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore. Designed by London-based artist Adam Simpson, the illustrations include the Loch Ness Monster, Cornish piskies, and Beowulf and Grendel. The set of eight stamps and the stories each represents from different regions across the UK "demonstrate our rich mythological heritage", Simpson said. They are available to pre-order from Thursday and go on sale on 27 March. Please visit BBC link for full article.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/Folklorestamps Royal Mail shop link.  https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/myths-and-legends

My New Pinterest Board I have been doing ATC (artist trading card) size arts and crafts for quite a few years now. Mainly because I love that they are cheaper to make than larger projects and also easier to store. I only live in a small house so I don't have room for large canvases and big mixed media makes. I am not really into selling my work, that's too much like hard work 😆 been there done that worn the t-shirt! So I find ATC's a great way to make small pieces of art and crafts, whether they are paintings, drawings or more craft related mixed media projects. It's a great medium to try out new ideas and to tinker with various products and techniques. I use both bought ATC cards, you can buy them in packs of pre cut stiff card or individually made from MDF, and also hand made ones. I often die cut my own from recycled paper, cardboard and even plastic. You don't even have to make them from paper products I have even made a few ATC's by needle felting them fro...

 🌸Welcome to the Spring Equinox🌿 Here is a really great article explaining about the Spring Equinox on the BBC Newsround website. This is suitable for children.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c0eg2zg4er8o

  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week is part two part of 'on the popular Customs and Superstitions of Lancashire' by T T Wilkinson. Downloaded pages from T T Wilkinson book of 1861. Original source from both bought reprint and original domain free copy from Internet Archive. Thank you for visiting my blog please return next week for another Witchy Wednesday.  Kat 😊

To follow on from yesterdays video I found about Kensington Market here is a fab video of Strawberry Switchblade 🍓 also at Kensington Market. Please visit this link for a lovely collection of Strawberry Switchblade images.  https://strawberryswitchblade.net/gallery/ Witchy Wednesday tomorrow.......please pop by.

I found this fab video on YouTube. Those of you, like myself, who used to love visiting Kensington Market way back in the day will love this slightly fuzzy revisit! Sorry the video is not great quality but it is a long time ago! Those of you who are too young or never really visited London in the 70's and 80's Kensington market was a fab place stuffed of amazing clothes, jewellery, records and all sorts of amazing finds and rubbish items! 😆 It was always buzzing with cool alternative people including many people from Bands. It was a really sad day when I visited London to find it was all gone! 😭 But I am glad to find a little memory of it on the magic that is YouTube!  If I find anything else interesting I will post it here so please pop by my blog not only on Witchy Wednesdays but other times in the week. I like to share interesting things and hope you by sharing on here you will enjoy some of them too.  Kat 😊

Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday this week a two part article with download pages from 'on the popular Customs and Superstitions of Lancashire' by T T Wilkinson.1861 To be continued next week.......... Thank you for visiting my blog page please visit again soon. Kat 😊