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Welcome to the Saturday Craft-tacutlar!


As part of our Samhain celebration we have asked some of our more crafty Sirens to put together some step by step instructions to lure your creative side out of the waters.  Our third dive into treacherous waters is a visit with Siren Sandi.

You can find Sandi on Facebook and Etsy.

Witches Power Ointment by Sandi Crawford


Witches Power Ointment can be used in many situations to boost your magickal power, and that of your magick. Place a small dot on your third eye and at the base of your skull at the top of your neck during meditation or spell work to boost your power. You can also place a dab on mojo bags, poppets, candles, petition papers, etc. to boost the powers of your spell work as well.
You will need beeswax, carrier oil (coconut, jojoba, olive, almond, etc.), a measuring spoon and cup, essential oils, herbs, and a container. Begin by mixing equal parts melted beeswax, and carrier oil. To melt the beeswax place a measuring cup with the desired amount of wax in a pot of boiling water. Once melted add your carrier oil and stir well. Let cool a little (not so much that a film starts to form). Add essential oils to the strength of scent you want. For the Witch’s Power ointment I added a mix of Amber, Sandalwood, and Myrrh essential oils. Mix well.




For the container you can use a lip balm tin or a locket if you want to keep it with you! I used a round locket for mine (after I craft it up of course) and tins for those I sell in the shop.




Once you have your mixture scented to your liking carefully pour it into your container. If any spills over it is easily cleaned off once it hardens. If you try to wipe it up after it hardens you risk making a bigger mess. As it cools you can add crystal chips or herbs as you’d like .



Since the lip balm tins are just a plain old tin and I am a crafter I decided to dress them up a bit. Glueing a charm to the top is decorative yet simple. Perfect for these powerful ointments.


You make your blend with any type of oil, herb, or crystal to attract any type of energy from love, abundance, prosperity, etc. And if you still don’t want to try and make your own I do carry these in the shop and custom blends are available as well!
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Tune in on Monday for blogs, songs, recipes, stones/crystals, and more giveaways!
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Welcome to the Saturday Craft-tacutlar!


As part of our Samhain celebration we have asked some of our more crafty Sirens to put together some step by step instructions to lure your creative side out of the waters.  Our first adventure is is setting sail with the sensational Siren Saga.   Saga has a few giveaways this month so be sure to be on the look out for those.  

You can find Saga on Facebook and on Etsy.


Moonphase Necklace Craft by Saga










Hello everyone! I’ve created a wonderfully easy craft to make this year! It a moon phases necklace made of polymer clay. It is also a very quick craft and it only takes a couple hours of your time.

List of items:
1.       Necklace chain of your choice. I went with a bronze chain without a clasp. So I could measure it the length that I wanted.
2.       Lobster claw fasteners.
3.       Jump rings
4.       Pack of head and eye pins
5.       A pair of jewelry pliers
6.       Acrylic paint in black, gray, and white.


Before rolling out your clay preheat the oven to 275 degrees, so that it will be ready when you finish with the moons.











I used just the standard sculpey white clay. The first thing to do is work a ball of clay the size of golf ball and roll it to a ¼ inch thickness.


Next you will want to choose the size of your moons. I used a lid from an essential herb bottle, so my moons ended up being the diameter of a nickel. You will need to cut out 4 of these. I just mashed with the lid to cut them out.

The first circle is going to remain full. So you are going to take something and push craters into the clay. I used the lid of a marker. I lightly pushed round and half craters into the surface of the clay.


Next make the crescent moons by taking the original item you used to cut out your circles and mashing down on the halfway point. You will have to shape and smooth them a bit after doing this. Then when you have them looking right, then you can make the craters on the surface of these as well.


For the quarter moon phases, just cut the remaining circle in half and smooth the edge and then add your craters.  Now make sure that all of your pieces look great together.



Now you will need to work with your jewelry pieces. First before you bake the moon pieces they will need the eye pin inserted into them so that when they are baked you will have a way to attach to the jump rings. The eye pins are a bit long so you are going to cut them down around a ½ inch. This is one that I have cut down to size.


Insert each cut down eye pin down through the top of the moon. Make sure that it doesn’t come out on either side of the moon. You also want to make sure that when your moon is lying flat on the surface that the eye is “facing” you and lying “flat” as well, like I have them in this picture. That way when you are attaching by the jump ring onto the chain, they won’t flip and show the wrong side.



Now they are ready to bake. While they bake you can prepare your chain. Bake for around 17-20 minutes.

Measure out your chain to the length that you would like for it to hang, cut it and attach the lobster claw and large jump ring for the claw. Now fold the necklace in half and find your center point. This is where the full moon will hang. You can put a small jump ring here for the full moon to keep the center point marked.


When the moons have come out of the oven and cooled, you can now paint them. I used black, gray, and white acrylic paint. In the craters paint black.  They look kind of like yummy chocolate chip cookies at this point.


Now, just go over the moon with gray blending with the black. Outline around each crater with a bit of white. And they are ready to go! 
Your painting doesn’t have to be precise, it’s a rocky moon, so it will have highlights and darkness.

When you have painted each moon you can begin attaching them. Begin by putting the full moon on the jump ring that you marked the center point with. Count 7 rings and attach the quarter moon on each side of the full moon. Count 7 more rings above each  quarter moon and attach the crescent moons. 

Your necklace is now finished and you can wear it!


I hope you enjoyed this craft!

Brightest blessing and happy Samhain season!

Saga



Tune in on Monday for our next day of celebration! 9am Eastern time!
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Welcome to the Samhain Siren's Saturday Craft-Tacular.  Each week we'll bring you a fantastic craft that will help bring in the haunting Halloween spirit.  Our crafts will range in age and complexity and we would really love to get your feedback on them.


Today's craft is going to be a bit more complex.  The tools required include a hot glue gun.  I have burned myself several times using these and recommend caution.  The end result on these are fantastic.  I loved how they turned out.

Please enjoy this amazing craft from Sandi Crawford.






Decorative Potion Bottles!
Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


Items Needed
Vampire Potion Bottle:
·         Glass Bottle from Michael’s
·         Hemp Rope
·         Black Spray Paint
·         Hot Glue Gun
·         Charm
·         Acrylic Paint

Ghost Skin Potion Bottle:
·         Glass Bottle from Michael’s
·         Label (provided)
·         Tissue Paper
·         Clear oil (Sweet Almond)
·         White Glitter
·         Glue

Swamp Fog Potion Bottle:
·         Glass Bottle from Michael’s
·         Elmer’s Glue
·         Cotton Filling

Life Elixir Potion Bottle:
·         Glass Bottle from Michael’s
·         Silver Spray Paint
·         Label

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
  

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
Potion bottles are among the easiest and most versatile Halloween props you can make! It is fun to make them look old, and depending on what you fill them with they can also be creepy or cool! Your imagination is the limit. Today I am going to show you how to make four of my favorite bottles. Before making potion bottles it is a good idea to think about what you want in them first. This is going to help you make a design that will make sense!

Vampire Ashes Potion Bottle
Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


First up the Vampire Ashes Potion Bottle.  This one is the most involved out of the four we are going to make today.  As this bottle is holding Vampire Ashes I thought it should look expensive and old. I wanted to add something special to the detail though. So I thought how can a pile of ash be magickal? Even if it was from a vampire before it was ash. So I thought what of it was because of the way they turn to ash, more specifically, by the heat of the sunlight. Capturing the heat in the ash! However, since we are human and can’t touch something that hot it HAD to be collected in a magickal bottle that would be cool to the touch. To depict this idea I used a hot glue gun to create the gold decorations on the bottle, BUT instead of nice crisp solid lengths of gold I made them look as if they were melting. I started by cleaning off the bottle with glass cleaner, and then I scratched it up a bit with sandpaper. This should help the hot glue you are about to use hold to the glass bottle.  I applied the glue unevenly and pulled at it as it dried to make it look “melty”.


Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

While I was at Micheal’s the other day they had a sale on these red and black charms. So of course I grabbed a hundred of them! I didn't know what I was going to use them for but one of them reminded me a lot of the amulet that Dracula wears in almost every vampire movie pre-1990! So I shoved it into the glue before it dried!

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
I covered the charm with foil so it wouldn't get sprayed. The charm was a good “vampire” decoration idea but I wanted something s little more “gross”. Vampires live off of human blood. It is what keeps their dead heart beating and them looking young! If you wanted the vampire ashes to stay useful as vampires should be then they could thrive from a blood source, right? So I used the hot glue gun to add veins on the bottom kinda like a human heart!

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
Now it is time to paint!! We start by spray painting the entire bottle with a matte black spray paint. I stuck a piece of paper towel inside the neck of the bottle to give me a way to move it around without touching it, and to keep paint from getting inside the bottle.

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
Once it dried I wrapped it with hemp rope around the neck, and then painted the melting gold decorations.

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
I finished up the bottle with red gems on the ends of the melted gold, and painted the veins a deep red with blue accents. Finally, I added the label on with Elmer's glue brushed on the back. Seal with acrylic sealer and enjoy! I filled mine with black salt I made, but then I decided that Hot Foot Powder might be more fitting!
Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford



Ghost Skin Potion Bottle
Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
Next we have the Ghost Skin Bottle. When I decide I wanted to make more than one bottle for this tutorial I knew I wanted something that sounded almost impossible to get. Ghost Skin!! Even the label says “difficult to collect”! The bottle was easy to make as all you need to do is add the label with a little Elmer's glue brushed onto the back of it. The longer more involved part is the contents for this one. Now if you wanted to you could scratch up the glass to give it an old look, or add rope or ribbon to the neck. I chose to leave the glass clear so you could see the skin pieces better. I think I saw a potion bottle once labeled ghost skin, but I couldn't find any labels or tutorials on the web so I made my own label. You are welcome to save the label and use it for your potion bottles too!


Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


For the skin on the inside I took tissue paper that I normally use to package gifts and tore it into strips. Then I rubbed the strips with clear oil to make them transparent. Last I sprinkled them with glitter to give them an ethereal kind of feel. Gently place the strips into the jar so that they are not over packed and can be seen nicely.

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


Swamp Fog Potion Bottle

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
The Swamp Fog bottle was fairly simple to put together. I stuffed it with old teddy bear stuffing (the swamp fog) and then “painted” the jar with white Elmer’s glue. The glue holds the label on AND created a cloudy glass appearance that one would expect to see on a bottle containing swamp fog.

Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford
 I found the label on Pinterest! There are a ton of free printable labels there you can use in your projects.
Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford

Life Renewal Potion
This one was by far the easiest of them all. For this one I just spray painted the glass bottle silver, and then glued the label onto the front when it dried! I want to find something that shines very brightly to place inside. I thought if it were a life renewal potion that it may have been created from divine light and should shine brightly! I may try a small LED light or something for it. I wonder how many glow sticks I’d have to empty to get glowing liquid?!?!
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Photo Credit - Sandi Crawford


Have fun!!
Sandi


Thanks so much to Sandi for that wonderful craft.  Be sure to check tune into the Sunday Stew over at Imramma tomorrow and back here for more festivities and the giveaway results!
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Welcome to the Samhain Siren's Saturday Craft-Tacular.  Each week we'll bring you a fantastic craft that will help bring in the haunting Halloween spirit.  Our crafts will range in age and complexity and we would really love to get your feedback on them.

Today's craft is something that is a great joint creation for the family.  I recommend using care when letting kids work with the scissors and the sewing needles of course, but I think this is easily a craft that can be done with the whole family.





Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson



Making Poppets
Poppets are a great way to use up those leftover bits and pieces of fabric as well as spend some time with the kids.  Many times, especially around Halloween ghost stories abound.  This makes the little ones start to worry about what goes bump in the night.  Making poppets is a great way to give your youngster something to focus their energy on and then place in a special place in their room to watch over them while they sleep.

Supplies
·         Felt Fabric squares
·         Polyfill or stuffing
·         Stick Pins
·         Sewing needle and thread
·         Embroidery Floss (red and black suggested)
·         Scissors
·         Yarn for hair
·         Little things to decorate – bits of trim, buttons, feathers so on
·         A special stone or herbs to put inside (optional)

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson

1.       Start by selecting the shape of your poppet. This can be a gingerbread style shape from the web or just free hand it.

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson

2.       Next cut the shape out.
3.       Using the embroidery floss, create the face on the right side of the poppet and attach any detailed decorations to the front and back of the poppet.
4.       Wrong sides together, over hand stitch the poppet together, leaving an opening large enough to put in the stuffing.

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson


5.       Stuff the poppet with the polyfill, add the herbs and any little protection stones or amulets if desired.

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson

6.       Cut yarn for hair in length desired.
7.       Put the ends of the hair into the opening at the top where the polyfill was added and sew the top closed.  (add yarn hair if desired)

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson


Poppet is complete and ready to enjoy!

Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson

I'd love to see what you come up with.  Feel free to add your poppet photos here or over on the Samhain's Sirens Facebook Page.  You can find more of my handmade items over at Sosanna's Closet Facebook Page.

Blessings!
Sosanna

 Be sure to check tune into the Sunday Stew over at Imramma tomorrow and back here for more festivities and the giveaway results!
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