Spyrit Dancers' Musings On All Things Wiccan

If you notice the set we made I posted about earlier, one thing that is missing is a goblet. We wanted to make one, but as far as my husband and I knew, there wasn’t any way to glaze the chalice and make it safe to drink out of without firing it.

We stopped yesterday at a local craft store and told her our dilemna. Both of us have worked with greenware in the past, but it was 20 years ago. We happily found out that times and materials have changed. And we found a glaze we can spray on that will coat the chalice and make it safe to drink out of. Whooo hoo!

So my husband carved a chalice last night, and it has the triple moon on the front of it like our cauldron does. We also have a triple moon tile that we can use to burn our self-igniting incense we will be coming out with in the next week in. This will give us a more complete altar set than we had before.

I’m also going to have him carve a Libations dish, and a bowl for water. Along with our wands that we make, that will give you everything you need for your altar, and it will be a matched set. And the best thing, it is all hand made in the USA by a practicing Wiccan and her helpful husband…not some factory in a 3rd world country.

I told him I want a purple set of everything. Have I mentioned I love purple? I tend to wear a lot of it, and my office walls are painted a light lilac color with dark purple flecks that have glitter in them. So I likes my purple.

Always great to be able to post that more products are coming soon!

This has been a labor of love of my husband and I. It started with “I’d love a candle holder that I don’t drip wax all over the carpet”. So I drew out what I thought would be a good design, and he carved it out of clay. Then we figured, heh, we could do a cauldron to burn incense. And a small salt holder would be good, and how about an altar tile too?

So he got to carving, then we made a mold for each item.

Then we experimented with different casting mediums. That was fun. We tried, I think, 4 different materials until we came up with what we liked best. After that, we started casting sets.

Unfortunately for him, we only have 1 candle holder mold, and the set requires 6 candle holders, so that slowed production way down. If these first two sets sell (I have one listed on Etsy, one on Ebay Unfortunately, we only made one altar tile for some reason, so only the one on eBay has the altar tile) then we will make more molds for the candle holders so we can pour more of them at once.

Then the fun started. My husband loves to airbrush things and spatter them to make them look aged. So we painted everything first, then took them and spattered them. The directional candle holders each have 3 colors spattered on them, and everything else at least two.

We hope to do more at once next time, as changing paints in the airbrush gets old when you are only painting a few minutes at a time, lol.

We finally finished them up yesterday night, and got the pictures all shot this morning. What do you think?

Here is the full set

here are just the candles from the first set

Close-up of cauldron in set one

My husband, who is a really good sculptor,  created a candle holder for taper candles, a cauldron  for burning incense, and a salt holder out of clay.  We poured the rubber yesterday, to make molds for all three items, and they molds should be cured by this afternoon.  Then the fun begins, we can start pouring them, and making the items.  Then each one will be hand finished and painted.

I plan on having candle holders and candle sets for the four directions, and two for the altar candles.  This first cauldron has the triple moon symbol on the side and is very cool looking.  My husband is an airbrush artist too, so you can be sure each one will be unique, and a work of art.  I can’t wait to get them listed up.  This is his first item that he will be crafting start to finish for me, so I’m hoping they sell well for him.

Most of the candle holders I’ve seen for taper candles for the directions are kinda cool, like stars and stuff, but lets face it, those types of candles drip and since I do rituals indoors, I’d end up with a carpet covered in candle wax.

So he designed a candle holder that has a reservoir that will hold the wax for you.  It wouldn’t hold an entire candle’s worth, but it would definitely hold a few hours worth to get you through any rituals and ceremonies.    Stay tuned for the posting.

I have them! Handmade by a Wiccan, and blessed and empowered during the full moon. Take a look!

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Visit the Wiccan / Witch Wood Wands Category at the Wiccan Magick Shack on eBay or visit my Wands category at my Wiccan Magick Shack on Etsy Store for all the listings.