Visiting the Guislain museum + nearby graveyard

At the end of February I visited the Dr Guislain museum in Ghent (Belgium). It was the last weekend of their Mirror Mirror exhibition about fashion and the psyche and because I was doing lots of stitchcraft projects in February I didn’t want to miss that. I also visited the permanent exhibition Unhinged / Op Losse Schroeven and the temporary exhibition Connective Material in the same museum, and had a walk through the nearby graveyard Westerbegraafplaats. Let me show you some of the things I saw:

Art for a Spell’s daily prompts – things I made in January + February

During the entire year Meghann and the Moon shares daily videos with easy and fast art prompts called “Art for a Spell”. Isn’t that impressive? And you can follow and participate for free! Find the 356 art prompts YouTube playlist here. Register here to receive the emails.

In this blogpost I’d like to show you everything I’ve made in January thanks to the Art for a Spell emails and videos:

Februstitchery – the magick of stitchcraft

Today is the last day of Februstitchery, my self-imposed creative challenge! 😮 But I’ve still got many stitchcraft projects I want to start or finish so I’ll probably continue for at least a few more weeks* while I participate in Mini Zine March at the same time… Oh my, it’s gonna be a busy month with International Women’s Day and an upcoming anarchist zine workshop as well!

*There probably already exist a few suitable craft challenges in March too – #MeMadeMarch? #HandMadeMarch? 🙂

Anyway, in this blogpost I’d like to talk about the witchy possibilities of crafts and share some podcasts and publications that have inspired me…

Februstitchery – mending, upcycling, and repurposing

I didn’t just want to create things from scratch for my “Februstitchery” challenge but also mend, upcycle, and repurpose. So I gathered some old socks with holes in them and my sewing needle…

Februstitchery – what to use yarn for apart from stitchcraft

When I’m in a craft shop I find it hard to resist the beautiful yarns that are available. But even though I love yarn, I don’t often knit or crochet to be honest. Fortunately there are lots of other things to use yarn for!

Some of my favourite witchy YouTube videos – part 9

Because I’m focussing on crafts this month, I thought I’d share some awesome videos about creativity as related to witchery. These videos show the process of making recycled cardboard cartomancy boxes, landscape divination collages, and button charms, as well as how to create art magick and use your intention while knitting.

Februstitchery – craft zines

Hi, how are you? I caught a nasty virus (not the c-virus thankfully) so I haven’t been able to do much crafting for my Februstitchery challenge. Instead of showing you my nearly non-existent craft projects progress, I thought I’d share some craft zines from my collection today, while I go back to napping… 🙂

Februstitchery – stitchcraft books

I love books on crafts and have a bunch from which I draw regular inspiration. For this month’s Februstitchery challenge I gathered the books from my shelf that contain sewing, crochet, embroidery, and other crafts to look for tips, ideas, and possible projects…

Februstitchery – moonmilk recipe, full moon crafts, and meet Ollie Bookworm

Hi, how’s it going? I’m a few days into my own creative challenge Februstitchery and I thought I’d show you a few of the things that I’ve been working on. Because tonight there’s a full moon, I’m also gonna brew some “moonmylk” and show you some possible moon-themed crafts…

Imbolc – February plans

Imbolc is the witchy or (neo)pagan holiday that happens on February 1st and 2nd in the Northern hemisphere. On those same days, Southern Hemisphere witches celebrate Lammas or Lughnasadh. Since I’m in the Northern part of the world, this blogpost will focus on Imbolc. For ideas on how to celebrate or decorate for Lammas, check this blogpost.