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.
Over the years my husband has been doing woodwork and is self-taught. I didn't think about recording ourselves or progress of our projects over the last 5 years until I started looking into Pateron recently. I realized I already started on my own content on Instagram within the past year but I wasn't getting many views unless I shared it from Instagram onto our Facebook page. This prompted me to start a youtube channel since Instagram only allowed very short video posts until IGTV rolled out. I bearly had a YouTube presence about 8-10 years ago and didn't have much content at that time.
Just this week I just learned how to make animated gifs in Gimp 2 and learned I can upload them onto the Giphy website and convert it to a mp4 file type to use in our videos. I started using them in my Beadwork 2017-2018 video. I plan on making a few gifs for Drekiwolf's facebook page and record more videos of his woodwork and bone carving for IGTV on both of our Instagram accounts and our YouTube channel.
This is his first video of carving dragon scales on a wand handle. This particular wand is called Dragon Guardian, carved by my husband with his foot pedal dremel. When this wand is finished, it will be available in our Mercari shop. Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell to let you know new videos have been uploaded onto Youtube. He has more woodwork, and bone carving projects planned. One future video may be a mammoth tusk he found at a gem and fossil show a few years ago. Soon, he will be getting into chainsaw carvings. He will be getting a Stihl chainsaw with a carving bar for his 31st birthday at the end of September.
We will also be going to a Gem and fossil show at this time and I hope I can find some cabochons to use in my future beadwork projects. I'll try to remember to get some photos and video of that trip. I have a rose quartz heart, a red starfish and a few other bead embroidery projects planned.
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.
Just this week I just learned how to make animated gifs in Gimp 2 and learned I can upload them onto the Giphy website and convert it to a mp4 file type to use in our videos. I started using them in my Beadwork 2017-2018 video. I plan on making a few gifs for Drekiwolf's facebook page and record more videos of his woodwork and bone carving for IGTV on both of our Instagram accounts and our YouTube channel.
We will also be going to a Gem and fossil show at this time and I hope I can find some cabochons to use in my future beadwork projects. I'll try to remember to get some photos and video of that trip. I have a rose quartz heart, a red starfish and a few other bead embroidery projects planned. 
