#io's thoughts

Draw or paint using your non-dominant hand to bring out your inner child

Create a mini oracle set out of bottlecaps or coins

Write odes to the tools, herbs, etc. that you use the most in your craft

Use only natural materials in a work of art- tea, coffee, dirt, plant parts, etc.

Decorate playing cards to act as talismans and keep in your pocket/wallet/bag (i.e. a money drawing card to keep in your wallet)

Bring your inner sacred space to life by drawing/painting/collaging/sculpting it

Use handmade images as offerings to spirits or deities; create personalized images of spirits or deities you're in contact with

Make a poppet of yourself and stuff it with petitions or pictograms of what you wish to embody

Create a powerful protection amulet to hang above the doorway of your home/sacred space. What does protection look like to you? Use materials that reflect the kind of protection that you're looking for.

Use enchanted waters such as moon, elemental or holy waters to enchant your paint water

Create a thoughtform for/ensorcell a tool (paintbrush, pencil, needle, etc.) to assist your spell(s)

Recite chants/prayers/affirmations (intention) as you work

Experiment using herbs, resins, teas, etc. to make magical pigments

Make sigil stamps out of erasers, cork, hot glue, etc.

Create a portrait of your shadow self, or your witch/wizard/whatever-sona

Compile or record different playlists for different spell 'genres', meditation, and "vision board-ing"

Create your own recycled handmade enchanted paper for petitions

Protect your spells by documenting them in pictograms- use only images to portray the process

Use an LED tealight or pillar candle and wrap with decorative papers. Use color and other correspondences and enchant your tools as you work! Attach personally meaningful enchanted symbols, charms, confettis, crystals, petitions, and whatever else your heart desires! No fire safety needed here kids (except hot glue gun=hot). Build up intention related to your spell's result and release it into the candle when you're done❤️‍🔥

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Hey friends! I started working on a big art magic project recently.

I thrifted this children's board book full of fun little flaps awhile ago and my mind instantly knew I was going to do some art witchery with it. (Pictured below is an example page that's been lightly gessoed over.)

After turning over the concept and personal symbolism of doors in my mind for awhile, I hashed out this idea to create a sort of living vision board that I can add to throughout the new year (and continue to open doors when I need them). Btw, I mean living in the sense of the ability to change and build, not like a servitor or spirit vessel.

I know I want to heavily utilize imagery over words for these manifestations, for a few reasons. One, I already have a separate manifestation vessel that harbors written petitions (I call it my wishing well, I'll post about it if anyone is interested!) Two, I've been itching to dive into folkloric and personal symbolism to capture the essence of my desires in a more creative, aesthetic and visually stimulating way. And three, just look at those flap shapes! Does the flap fold up, down, left or right? Rounded or squared or another shape entirely? How big or how small is the flap, and how big or small is the manifestation that should go inside it? They're begging to be interpreted and played upon! Flaps on flaps, baby. Pockets and fold-outs and ephemera, oh my. Can you tell how much this excites me?

Anyway, here's what I came up with for a lovely lively cover. It's not exactly what I imagined when I begun, but I find it fitting nonetheless. The cover has been turned into a giant door, and the magic in opening it via the knob is surprisingly powerful. A door to many more doors, each one eagerly waiting for me to open it.

And here is the unfinished first page I began today.

There's not quite enough pages to dedicate one to each month, so I'll have to play around with the format, but the idea is that every door houses a manifestation, a feeling, a spell, an energy, a goal or result, etc. that I wish to attract and embody and integrate. The act of opening the doors and what lies inside them releases a bit of the spell's energy each time and can be used in conjunction with related spells/rituals. And of course energy can/will be added back into each door in ways that I haven't fully realized quite yet. Am I making sense? Hopefully.

This custom piece was so incredibly fun to make for a fellow Tumblr user! They were involved in every step of the process and can't wait for their magic to reach their doorstep 🫶 the spell bottle features a specialized sigil as well as ingredients such a as mugwort, labradorite, and lavender 💜

Like what you see? DM me anytime to discuss custom enchanted necklaces, keychains, bracelets, and earrings (clip on and gauges available!) Everything can be customized- intention, bottle shape, charm sizes, hoop sizes, bead styles and colors, etc!