Craftie Stuffs

Things you can make yourself...

Soaps and shampoos - make your own using pure essential oils
Dreamcatchers - so easy to make and as inexpensive as you want it to be
Winemaking - make your own wine for rituals or for what it's usually made for - to drink
Witch Bag/Medicine Pouch - to carry all your stuffs in
Box of Treasures   -   keep all your precious stuffs safe
Pendulum
Pentacle Plaque   - using either salt dough or oven-fired clay
Healing Stones Jewellery   -   wear your favourite crystals
Brigid's Cross
Salt Dough - basic recipe for salt dough, which can be made into beads and stuff
Pagan Bead Curtain   -   with salt dough or polmer clay
Hand Dipped Candle - make candles full of your own magick
Pagan/Celtic Design Rugs    -   make your own in front of the warm winter fire
Stain Glass Window Panes - the easy way (without the soldering iron)

Making Soaps and Shampoos

Making soap is fun, easy to do and you know what's going into it. Most of the stuff you can buy at the chemist.

The basic ingredients are:

Lye
Essential Oils

Making a Dream Catcher

Dream catchers are lovely to have, but can be so expensive to buy, so why not make your own.

What you need:

Wire hoop
Coloured cord for the web and for hanging
Jewellery thread or something similar for hanging the feathers etc
Beads (various shapes and sizes)
Feathers - buy them or find them
Crystals (optional)
Fossils - might be a nice idea to honour your ancestors
Anything else you wish to add to make it personal to you

Making Wine

Start making you own wine for rituals, it only takes a few basic peices of equipment and a little patience. So start now by saving your old wine bottles, you'll be surprised at how soon you'll start to fill them.

What you'll need.

Demijohn - you only need 1 to start, cost about £3 for you local brew shop
Yeast
Yeast nutrient
Cork bung with a hole already bored in it

Witch Bag/Medicine Pouch Fabric, leather or suede (whatever you like really)

Cord (colour to match fabric)
Punch and metal eyelets (to stop fabric fraying)

Cut a circle in a piece of material or leather/suede. Punch holes in the fabric at even intervals, insert eyelets. Thread cord through the eyelets and tie knots at the ends. Make belt loop or make holes for strap. Easy isn't it. Never mind paying too much money at the shops. Box of Treasures Pendulum Pentacle Plaque Healing Stones Jewellery Brigid's Cross Salt Dough Pagan Bead Curtain

Piece of dowling, just a bit bigger than the width of the window or door.
Cord or string (allow extra length for knots to hold the beads in position)
Polymer clay or salt dough (see recipe for the dough)
Acrylic paints (if using salt dough)

Tie the cord at equal spaces on the wooden dowel. Make it as close or far apart as you wish.
Make the shapes from the dough or clay. All kinds of shapes can be made, crescent moons, stars, pentagrams, etc. Remember to make a big enough hole in the shape to allow the cord to be passed through, try using skewers. Put in the oven for the recommened time. If using dough, when cooled you can paint them all sorts of colours, and then paint with some clear varnish. Polmer clay is already coloured, so you won't have to do a thing, though you may wish to varnish it, see product instructions. The beads are ready to be strung. Remember to tie a knot beneath each bead to hold it in place. Put a couple of hooks up where you want the curtain to go and then put it up.
Making Hand Dipped Candles You will need:

2-4lbs wax chips (or melt down some old candles), you can use beeswax if you want
Candle wick (available at craft shops)
Essential oils and herbs (for scent and magickal goals)
Candle dye or wax crayons (for colour)
An old bowl, tin can or pan that can be fitted inside another (like for melting chocolate)
An old wooden spoon, nothing metal

Grate or cut up the wax into the bowl or tin and place this into a large pan of water once it has started to boil. Just like you would do for melting chocolate. Keep the water hot enough to keep the wax melted but not so hot that the wax catches fire.

When the wax has completely melted, cut the wax dye or crayons up and put into the wax. Keep stirring until the crayons have melted and the colour is even and smooth. Remember that the candle will be a shade or two lighter when dry. The more dye - the deeper the colour.

Now, add the herbs to the wax. Empower with your energy and magickal intention while mixing them into the wax. Stir until it is thoroughly mixed. Next add 10-20 drops of pure essential oil, until you get the strength of fragrance you want, do not use synthetic oil, it ruins the magickal effect and doesn't smell so nice. Now your wax is ready.

Start with a long piece of wick, the candle length plus 3 inches. Dip the wick into the wax and then lift back out. The wick will want to float on top of the wax, you can if you are having problems tie something like a coin to the end and them cut it off after a few dips. Allow it to get completely cold between dippings when you first start.

After your candle has started to take shape you can speed things up a little, by keeping a bowl of cold water close by and dipping the candle in the water after each dipping in the wax.

Keep repeating this process until the candle is the size you require and then hang them up to dry. Trim off any excess wax to make a flat base with a sharp knife. Cut the wick and hang your candle up to let it set fully..

Pagan/Celtic Design Rugs Stain Glass Window Panes

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