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Hey folks! It’s been a hot minute since I last did a giveaway, so I figured I’d do one again!

As you may or may not know, the past few weeks I’ve been making moss pendants using grave moss collected in October from a local historic cemetery, from a section dating back to the early 1800′s. This last week I put up my very last batch for the year.

One of the grave moss pendants from my last batch has a little flaw in the form of a tiny resin drip on the back corner but is otherwise a perfectly good piece, so I figured I’d give it away to a loving home!

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Winner will be chosen this Thursday, November the 13th in the evening!

And if you’d like to buy a grave moss pendant, at the time of this posting there are still some available before they’re gone until next October! Click the link here!

*This giveaway is run solely by me and is in no way affiliated with Tumblr

Happy Halloween/Samhain/Late Autumn folks! As promised last year, for a little while I’m bringing back some special moss pendants in time for the season; ones made with some local cemetery moss.

All of this moss was collected in a small pinch taken from a local historic cemetery.* I have nine pendants available this week, six small ones featuring “Worm Moss” (Bryoandersonia illecebra), and three larger rectangle pendants featuring “Palm Tree Moss” (Climacium dendroides). I should have a few more pieces available in the coming couple of weeks, as well.

Grave moss has long had a folkloric and symbolic association with spirits and the dead - perfect for the time of year when the veil, they say, is most thin.

(*No graves were disturbed in the harvesting of the moss, the moss was harvested from one of the oldest parts of the cemetery, far away from any plots that may still have mourners, the moss was taken from the ground, not a headstone).

I’m out of the Palm Tree Moss but have about 7 of the larger pendants with big feathery specimens of the Worm Moss, as well as 24 small pendants.

This is made from a gold plated fuse, used in high end stereo for superior sound quality. They have such a great look - atompunk/mid century - I didn’t want to really alter the look. The internal gold plate “S” connection has such great form I couldn’t improve on it.  I’ve sold several attached horizontally on a cord for men’s jewellery.  Audiophiles love them.

But I wanted to highlight it with light.  On the bottom of the fuse I’ve installed an LED with a connection post running through the base cap.  The light is turned on by plugging that pin into a small silver tone battery pack.  It holds tight to the pin.  The battery pack unscrews at the top so batteries can be replaced.  The bracket holding the fuse is not fixed so you could turn it up the other way and have the battery pack on the top of the fuse. To balance the piece without the battery I created a similar post on the other end.