Today’s Challenge –– Craft a Felt Penny Spell Packet for Healing or Good Fortune (or both!)

I was looking through some of my files and found one of my favorite spellcasting techniques — the Penny Spell Packet.  So fun and easy to make — they don’t take that long to put together and last for years.  Versatile too, you can carry them in your pocket, make a brooch out of them, slip them between the pillowcase and pillow and so much more.  Penny Spell Packets in the form I show here, track their history back to the 1800s, starting around the time of the Civil War. 

Thrifty homemakers would use scraps of wool or felted wool from old clothing, blankets, and hats to create designs for mats or rugs. Using coins as templates, they created circles and each piece was then stitched in blanket stitch fashion. (Thus, the name…

Louisa Lolly just finished creating her Speedwell Healing and Recovery Candle Formula — Now, she’s arranging flowers she received and is putting them on the front porch railing so that everyone can enjoy them.  To celebrate pet day, we’ll be making special treats for our home pets and wild birds.

Today’s Challenge — Happy Pet Day!  Your pet senses energy changes in your environment.  Even if you think things are “norm”, he or she may be experiencing stress at the difference in your household routine.  Today is a marvelous day to do something fun and pleasant for your loving pet.  Don’t have a pet?  Send a care package to a friend who does, or donate to an animal shelter or people shelter, or take care of the wild critters by setting out appropriate food.

Even though we are under quarantine and things are “supposed” to be slow…um.  No.  My days…