Spring Færie Sample Sachets are Here!

Scene from a narration of Master Tribell's "The Spring Fairy": A young woodelf on a romp, spreading magical petals from her bottomless bag. Image by Eratin.

 
There is a tale of a Spring Færie who finds a bottomless sachet with magical petals. The petals made the ground they touched flourish and people happy- and so the spring faerie spread the petals as far as she could.

But the bag was stolen by a thief who thought to make money by spreading happiness, only to discover that the contents of the bag withered in his hands, and that the bottomless bag reverted to a normal one. Disgusted, he tossed it aside.

The spring færie found the ruined sachet, but had found that she didn't need a magical bag to make people happy...

Not wanting to throw the bag away, instead she tucked inside a few of her mystical beauty sundries.

Her bag has found its way to you... perhaps there’s magic left in it after all.

Introducing Spring Færie Sample Sachets

Inside you will find samples of several of the herbal treatments available from NightBlooming! This little bag makes it easy to get several samples at once and is also perfect for a gift or for a travel set!

The organic burlap bag contains:

- 1 Normal Panacea Salve Sample
- 1 Vegan Panacea Salve Sample
- 1 Triple Moon Oil Sample w/ Dropper
- 1 Herbal Hair Rinse Tea Bag (for either light or dark hair, please leave a note to the seller with your choice. If none is chosen I will send the light hair)

Also included is a scroll that gives abbreviated directions for each of the products. For complete ingredients and directions, please see the individual listing for each product!

3,000 Sales and Fall Reading

 

3,000 Sales!

Thank you so much to my cherished customers for helping me reach such a stunning goal!  My shop has surpassed my wildest expectations and I look forward to offering you more items for you to chrish.

Fall Reading

There are few things that embody fall for me so much as sitting outside under changing leaves with a good book and a steaming cup of tea.  I treasure my books, as I know many do, and there are simply some of them that are no longer books, but have become teachers and friends.  These most cherished books I like to give the gift of more special bookmark, something a bit nicer than either a scrap of paper of a cardboard rectangle with a tassel on it. 

All of the bookmarks were made by the talented and creative Chloris’s Conservatory:

 Her work is inspired and her craftsmanship excellent.  These are just my favorites, but she also does custom work, and I've no doubt could make a special marker for a beloved book in your collection.

Snowdrop from Niel Gaiman's Stardust

A fantastical tale of adventure and love told by one of my favorite authors, this  tiny flower held powerful magics.  Delicate and stunning, this bookmark adds a bit of magic to the shelf.

 Dina Angel of Learning Multi-Strand Bookmark

Few things seem to convey the sense of a proper tome as a multi-strand bookmark.  I do research on angels and this bookmark has served me well to mark several important passage before they can be transcribed properly to my notes.

Sevenwaters 

The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier is a stunning retelling and elaboration of the færie tale The Swan Princes.  Sweeping in scope and told in a voice you want to hear forever, this bookmark could have been taken from the magical forests around Sevenwaters.  

Black Rose of Phedre no Delaunay

Phèdre nó Delaunay is the main character in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series and has inspired millions of women, and perhaps as many rose tattoos.  An anguissette, Phedre is destined to always find pleasure in pain and the rose of her marque and a black lash balance this bookmark well. It has a hearbreaking counterpart, the Melisande diamond bookmark.

Lothlorien Leaf Lord of the Rings

A centerpiece of my bookshelves is my, some may call it a shrine, to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.  This delicate and beautiful leaf is a special accent to the books there, seeming almost fitting for a library in Rivendell.

Congratulations to Our Quest Winner and Treasury Feature

Travel Companions by FrozenStarRo


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(¸.•´ (¸Congratulations to our Quest Winner: KritKatten! 

Her name was drawn from a total of 46 entries in the Autumn Errant Knight Quest!  Many thanks to those that participated, we look forward to seeing you again for the Winter Solstice Quest!


Featured!
It's always so flattering to be in a Treasury!  This one was my first that had not one, but two of my items at the same time!

Autumn Quest Closing Tomorrow & What's in NightBlooming's Stash

The autumn lagoon by =FrozenStarRo on deviantART

Our Errant Knight Quest for the Autumn Veil closes tomorrow, the 22nd, at Midnight!   There's still time to enter to win this lovely set so get your entry in soon.  Right now we have just over 40 Errant Knights who have found the correct answer and have their name in the drawing!

One of the things that amuses me is when I occasionally hear, "Wow, I can't imagine all the sticks you have for yourself!"  I can just imagine what they picture, huge troves of hair sticks, forks, barrettes and pins, perhaps one of everything I've ever made. The reality is quite a bit different than that.

I suffer from a terrible habit of letting to all the pretty things I make, forever promising myself that I can always remake one for myself later.  Later, it seems, rarely happens.  But, on occasion, it does.  Below are a few of the handful of the things that I've made for myself.


Feather Wreath Hair Sticks

These sticks were inspired by feather wreaths, tiny gatherings of feathers into a halo-shape inside someone's pillow.  It was thought that after someone died that if they had attained entrance into heaven that the fathers would ring together.  This pair is built on bird's eye maple Ketylo sticks and the lower orbs are white fossil.  The topmost spheres are pressed shells that look like balls of white feathers, and the dangle is silver pewter, shell and daggers of white pressed glass.


Watch Movement Hair Stick

 Ive been doing watch movement hair sticks for a few years now, but this was the first one.  The tiny watch movement has a unique shape and though you can't see it in this picture I was able to right part of the case on the back so it has a nice smooth finish.  One of my favorite things about this movement is that is has "Gotham" stamped on it.


Dragon's Blood Hair Stick

 
 There are some things that just come together in such a stunning way that when I'm done all I can do is sit back and stare.  In these cases I feel much less like a creator, but more as a conduit for assembling that was simply intended to be.  This stick is made of snakewood I notched the top to fit in that heavenly fan of Dragon's Blood stone.   There's also a matching necklace and I'll try to add a picture of that in the future.


There's more where this came from, but since there aren't too many more we'll save some for another rainy day.

Autumn Features

It's always flattering to be featured in an Etsy Treasury!  This past week I was in a few autumn-themed ones, which tickled me as it's my favorite season!  Enjoy!