"Chat Botte"

"Magic Flute"

"Coniglio"

And next is Andy Kehoe, whose work would be perfect as illustrations to the most amazing children’s book ever about dark spirits who live in the woods. And, he has an Etsy shop!

"Lord of Ghouls"

"Revel in the Wild Joy"

"Vessel of Venom"

Her other work is extraordinary too, such as this:

Carved Elk Antler & Freshwater Pearl Necklace from The Bone Forest Collection, featured in the DEER Inspiration treasury by YarnworksbytheCreek

Real Bone Cone Incense Burner 2 from Goblinesquerie, featured in the My Lovely Bones treasury by earthmama9009.

Whole Coyote Jaw Bone Jasper Beaded Necklace from The Bone Forest Collection and Vintage Copper Cuff Bracelet with Coyote Tooth from Goblinesquerie, both featured in the SHOW YOUR BONES treasury by Amyrose Ahlstrom 

Note: the bird and rabbit skulls from the last post are all gone! But I still have several pigeon wings, and will be uploading some new treasures in the next week or so, including a pretty exciting and fairly rare skull.

Expect to see more “raw” animal bits at Goblinesquerie now and then, as I often have more than I can use for my own art. And I know some people might want just a plain skull or other piece to use in their own work or make into a ritual item themselves.

By the way, I’m donating 50% of proceeds from the pigeon wings and skulls to a local avian rehabilitation center, so your purchase will go to help rescued birds!

The title song, “Kywitt! Kywitt!” is actually based on a fairytale, a Grimm offering called The Juniper Tree. It is sung in German, for the most part. The lyrics are straight from the tale, a very gruesome one as you can gather:

“My mother she killed me /My father he ate me / My sister, little Marlinchen / Gathered together all my bones / Tied them in a silken handkerchief / Laid them beneath the juniper-tree”

The other song I’m currently playing several times a day is Dundellion Wine. I can’t say the lyrics make a lot of “sense” but they feel somehow meaningful nonetheless. There is a lot of repetitive rhyming that is almost trance-inducing. The music itself is a mad rollick, punctuated by a variety of goblinesque voices during one part.

“It’s quarter to nine / Dinner time / Come and try / Dundellion wine/ All soundss are blind / All colors are white / All numbers are nine / Dundellion wine”

If it’s dundellion (dandelion?) wine they’re drinking that’s done this to their minds, I think I need to try some of that.

“Real Coyote Skull Chalkboard” is featured in the Contrast treasury by Anji Marth Resonanteye (a fellow Oregonian bone-collector)

“Real Bone Cone Incense Burner 1” is featured in the Brittle Little Bones treasury by Layne Mikesell

[By the way, tomorrow marks the one month mark for my little goblin shop - thanks to everyone who has favorited items, and the shop itself, added me to treasuries, and most of all purchased things! Stay tuned for more good stuff - I've got an upload planned soon to de-stash some awesome skulls, bones and wings.]

This is thanks to Etsy’s new policy that allows shop name-changes. When I first began imWalde, that name was taken on Etsy so I chose to use my moniker “The Bog Witch” as the shop name instead. Later, I started calling my specific line of beaded bone jewelry “The Bone Forest” (after a Robert Holdstock story, by the way), thinking I might eventually start a second shop for other work (which I recently did: Goblinesquerie), all under the umbrella of imWalde. But I was stuck with the original URL. Now, all is as it should be. All old links will still work, and redirect to the new address.

And let me just take this chance to remind you that in addition to the new crafts at Goblinesquerie, I’m still offering a lovely collection of jewelry over at The Bone Forest, with sparkling beads and interesting animal parts such as tiny squirrel bones, a whole coyote jaw, carved elk antler, beaver claw, and many other curiosities! Come see what’s currently available.

["Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti]

imWalde is proud to announce a new shop (companion to The Bone Forest Collection) called GOBLINESQUERIE, which features curious and creepy artefacts from the forest’s underbelly – assemblage jewelry, ritual implements, decorative art, and any other thing the night creatures might uncover.

Expect plenty of animal bones in the mix, along with wool, leaves, crystals, copper, wood, clay, silver, leather, and other enticing materials. Here you might find skulls becoming art, antler and felt transformed into jewelry, and strange objects for a curiosity cabinet or natural history collection.