Glowing candles and curiosities

It's good candle weather... when you'll take any extra heat you can get!

A Fall Altar...

Inspired by one of Rachel's personal fall altars, we put together this little collection so you can have one too.
  Including a deer jawbone and antler, gray fox skull, and chicken feather, this collection also features a walnut shell, pine cone, and buckeye to symbolize the fruits of autumn. We chose the minerals for their traditional properties: a quartz cluster for focus, hematite for increased intuition, red jasper for protection, bloodstone for strength in magical workings, and galena for successful spiritual journeys.

It's the First EVER Feather & Moss Giveaway!

The first ever!  This is happening!!

We've been getting a lot of love on both the Tumblr and Etsy communities of late, from some really awesome followers and a large number of just outstanding treasuries.  Positive word of mouth is a powerful thing, and we're extremely grateful for all your reblogs and linkbacks and treasuring.  It's been amazing, really.  So we thought a little celebratory giveaway was in order!


What you can win

This here miniature curiosity collection!  Twelve vintage watchmaker vials containing:  squirrel vertebra, baby blue parakeet feathers, coyote toe bone, red fox claw, red Mediterranean coral, crinoid fossils, black snail shell, mouse bones, moss agate chips, mink tooth, rat leg bone, and pyrite chips.  The vials live in a little royal blue case.  It's all very pretty, you will love it.


What you do

There are a few ways you can win this tiny cabinet of curiosities.  If you're on Tumblr, you can simply follow us (if you aren't already) AND reblog the giveaway announcement post -- you can "like" it too, but we only count the reblogs! 

If you have another blog elsewhere, you can create a blog post which must include the following details:  1) the photo above of the giveaway prize, 2) a link back to the giveaway listing so that others can get the relevant details, 3) your favorite Feather & Moss collection, past or present!, 4) and then please send us a link to your blog post at featherandmoss@gmail.com so we can count you!

Have more than one blog?  Then you have more than one chance to win!  Get the message out on, say, both Tumblr and Blogger and you'll get your name in the hat twice!  (You can post as much as you want on any one blog, however, multiple posts on one individual blog will only be counted once, i.e., multiple Tumblr posts only count as one vote.  You increase your odds by posting on different blogs.  Make sense?)


How this is gonna go down

This is a names-in-a-hat thing; we'll draw the winner at 8am (Central Time) on Monday, September 10th and contact you immediately.  We need to hear back from the winner within 24 hours with your mailing info (a re-draw will occur if not).  We will announce the winner here and on Tumblr as soon as we make contact with the winner!

The giveaway is open to all our international friends, too.  All ya'll can play!

Good luck, and thank you everyone for showing us your love!!

Valeria. Our newest Cabinet of Curiosities.

Isn't she totally gorg?? Have a look! Read her story!

Hazel

Rachel has five cats, none of which are allowed in our work room.  This is because they are not... trusted to govern themselves with restraint.  We go in, we shut the door behind us.  It's the only room in the house they are not invited in, and this restriction, plus the fact that they are probably getting tantalizing whiffs of strange smells that need to be investigated, seems to be nigh on agonizing for the three youngest cats.  But particularly for Hazel, who we frequently find curled up in the room right outside our work space, staring up at us and looking a little indignant that she's still not allowed to hang with us in there.

Today though, Hazel got what she wanted when some curiosities were left on the piano after a photoshoot:

If loving you is wrong, then... well, she'll just sleep it off either way.

Apparently the excitement wore her out.  Fortunately, that vintage book was there for a pillow.

August sale!

Hey there gentlefolk!  We've got a couple of curiosity collections -- Clarissa and Talia -- that have been sitting in the shop for longer than most, so we decided to put them on sale at 25% off through August.  If by September they are still hanging around, we'll use their contents to re-imagine new collections.  So, if you're interested in these two, get 'em while they're hot!

What I've been up to while Vanessa is in class. {photo heavy post!}

Well since the last blog update, Vanessa went ahead and totally ditched me for a stupid summer class. (just kidding... sort of) She's been super busy. I have been busy too, but not with school.  The above images are of a spectacular new vial set we have up in the shop.
On to my personal adventures... I went here-

and yeah I "kayaked" in that water. It was about 2 feet deep and I spent a lot of time carrying the kayak. I slept here, in this cabin:

My bed was up there in a little loft. I got to feel like the 'kid' in the group (my sisters in law are all at least 12 years older than I am) since none of them were willing to climb that ladder and sleep on an institutional vinyl mattress. Ahhh... family mini breaks.

   I spent some time finding poisonous plants to harvest:

  
Taping some of said plants to my wall...

Waiting for dead birds to finish decomposing...

Taking my son to the nature center nearby and wondering how I could smuggle this out without being arrested :

Going to the petting farm where one of these pigs had a blue eye and a brown eye :

And driving to Omaha to meet my friend halfway (she lives in Colorado). She picked up my three daughters to take them back with her. The trip there was fine, the overnight stay was fine, but I drove back at such slow speeds I actually aged visibly by the time I arrived back home. No not really, but here:

Yeah I seriously went about 20 for 3 or so hours. I was travelling slow enough to get a decent photo of a turkey vulture perched on a post:

After finally arriving home, I went to the river to look for awesome curiosities and mostly found these:

 It was approximately 98 degrees outside so it smelled terrific! (I mean, um, gross)
I left a little stack of rocks by the stinking dead fish:

AND in case any of you wondered, this is what half of my face looks like:

 There. That's a recap of some stuff I did while completely abandoned by my partner in crime.
I apologize for the photo quality, most of these were taken with my phone. (I'm ashamed)
Until next time...