Lavender Luna's Cauldron is a husband and wife team of artists that creates pagan ritual tools and unique jewelry with a variety of mediums: woodwork, bone carving, and beadwork.
Showing posts with label bead embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bead embroidery. Show all posts
I've been very busy these last few months. I have been working on 3 beadwork projects: Sea Star Necklace, Celtic Knot Hatband and Ko-fi Pin. Last week I started a Ko-fi donation page for anyone wanting to donate to support my artwork at the price of a coffee. PayPal is supported on Ko-Fi. I plan on making a witchy brooch exclusively for Ko-Fi donaters. I realized I can't dedicate enough time to do Patron right now. Also recently I started a beadwork portfolio on Bēhance. The 3 projects I'm working on are updated there as well. I also plan on making some Celtic Knot bracelets for Pagan Pride Day.
The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury. To avoid this look, people wore talisman beads or evil eyes. Any gaze was essentially reflected back to the person for their bad luck to resume. The most common is blue evil eye for good fortune.
Pink: the color of universal love. Emotional love of self and others , friendship, affection, harmony and inner peace.
The WV Pagan Pride Day has been chaged back to a 1 day instead of 2 days. So it's July 27, 2019. Pagan Pride Day will soon be changing hands and we may or may not continue to attending WV Pagan Pride Day the following years. We wish to not be associated with the new Pagan Pride organizer because of a falling out in 2016. The falling out was due to coven members being abused and manipulated by a trained priestess from a previous coven. It has been known this egotistical behavior has been repeated at least 3 groups now.
We will be attending Pagan Pride Day in 2019 but will continue to search for other events in our area. As of now, our only option is to sell our artwork on the USA Mercari app and the upcoming Pagan Pride Day event. Etsy and eBay are out of the question.
A 3 minute video showcasing all of my beadwork from the past year. A few of them are available in my Mercari shop, Lavender Luna. Ships within the USA only since the app is in Japan, USA and UK separately. We hope there will be a international version.
You can now buy directly on the website version with PayPal or message me including zip code and email for me to send you invoice. Since there is $2 invoice fee on PayPal, I feel it is best for security reasons, save money and time to buy on the Mercari app. That's why I love using Mercari, it's so easy to shop on there and to set up your own shop to declutter your household. I've been on the Mercari app since August 2016 (2 years). You can use your balance to pay except in the state of California. Most of my 30 'Great' ratings so far came from California, New York and Texas.
I only deactivate my listing when I go to a event as a vender and I always let my followers know a 2 week-a month advance. Next year we are set to be venders at the West Virginia Pagan Pride again on July 27, 2019. A blog post about this year's event coming soon with videos and pictures. Until then, happy shopping.
I started a NSFW Instagram account, @nsfw_lavender_lunas_cauldron, showcasing my past and new NSFW artwork. I also started a group on Facebook, just for artists to share their NSFW artwork. Over 70 members in a week before we set it to private. It is closed to new members for now, but in the future we may open it again for new members. This will give the current (🌱founding) members time to create and share their projects.
As some of you may know in the past year, I've been focusing on beadwork; bead embroidery, weaving, and looming. I wanted to make something fun with seed beads and my husband drew this Little Guy for me. Since it is approximately 3", it will be a brooch. I found these pink/purple color seed beads at my local Dollar Tree and I was thrilled that these colors would be perfect for this particular project. I know some people are not fans of Dollar Tree but for the price, who cares, especially when I have to be careful on our budget. In the future, we'd like to do a female counterpart.We have several NSFW projects planned and once our Patreon launches, members will get first dibs on seeing new projects.
Not Safe For Work
NSFW Project #1, Mr. Spanky aka Little Guy
I recorded video of the outline process while testing out my two cameras. In the future, I'd like to record more progress videos of our projects. From what I've learned making videos this past week: using my Fujifilm Finepix Z; import the video files onto the computer; import video files onto my tablet to edit and create 3 versions of one video on the VivaVideo app; import new video files onto the computer and upload them onto VivaVideo, Youtube, IGTV, and Vimeo. This is the best I can do until we can afford better equipment. Another reason why I was testing my cameras for the best quality we can possibly do for our Patreon introduction video.
Part 1: A 20 minute video speed up of my first not safe for work bead embroidery project. I was also testing one of my old cameras on the tripod, a Samsung SC-DC173U DVD Camcorder with 34x Optical Zoom. Video quality is not so great.
Part2: A 18 minute video speed up of my first not safe for work bead embroidery project. I was also testing one of my old cameras on the tripod , a Fujifilm 10-megapixel, 3x zoom FinePix Z20fd. Video quality is better.
The backstitch technique I use on my bead embroidery projects. It's a very easy technique, pick up 2 beads, down and then back up behind 3 beads and pull through. This is my logo I'm working on. I'm hoping I'll get it finished this week.
I'm in the process of uploading all of our videos onto our YouTube channel. Hit that bell to let you know when new video are uploaded. I should have done this months ago before I posted them on Instagram and some videos will be only accessible from Patreon when we launch. We hope this will help us continue creating unique ritual tools and jewelry.
Last week I looked into Patreon after watching one of The Try Guys videos on Facebook. So, I'm working on our Lavender Luna's Cauldron Patreon page and when we launch, I'm hoping this will help us continue creating unique ritual tools and jewelry.
We also created a Facebook "NSFW artwork" group for our other projects and future NSFW artwork since some people might get offended in a public setting. Just in a few days we've reached over 60 members. Which was unexpected and people just love naughty things. 😉 We've since then added another tier to our Patreon just for our biggest fans.
We haven't launched yet since we want to do a intro video before we do. Since the last post, I've worked more on our text and photo intro part.
We're in the process of creating a Patreon page. We are starting with 3 tiers. At the $3 tier, patrons can get early access to Patron-only polls. At the $5 tier, patrons can get early access to progress photos. At the $10 tier, patrons can get early access to progress videos. I'm still working on our intro and this is what we have so far. I've since then have updated it with pictures and more information.
"Welcome to Lavender Luna’s Cauldron. I created this journey over 5 years ago to share free content within the Pagan community and then it evolved into exploring my creative side along with my husband. My husband and I do metaphysical artwork together. I have a passion for making ritual tools and jewelry. For the wands & athames, I carefully correspond matching the wood, the crystal & the runes for each piece of artwork.
I'm currently focusing on bead embroidery, weaving and looming. My husband does bone and wood carvings. He would like to explore chainsaw carvings and continue to exploring metal fabrication from his time serving as a metal worker in the military.
With your support, we can continue to create unique items and improve our artistic abilities.
Sorry, it took me so long to update. The wifi here has not been very good the last few months. I've been learning bead weaving and bead embroidery in the last few months after going to a Living History Encampment, Pre-Colonial-Civil War Era demonstration. My husband wants to do that again, next year and I'm wanting to be a vendor at Pagan Pride Day, next year. A busy year of learning new skills.
Here is a example of one my practice pieces of bead embroidery.
Four new items listed in the Mercari shop. There is a Halloween 10% off coupon event going on now. Listings from 8-10 days ago have the 10% off coupon until 10/25. US only.
Lavender Luna's Cauldron
Metaphysical artwork, supplies and more.
New Mercari listings available to purchase. Links to each one are in the titles.
