The Perfect Bath

What’s your favorite story? Spring Storybook Candles have returned for a limited time 📚 Blackberry Sage.. smells like blackberries and sage. It was my absolute favorite tea when I worked as a barista, and now I’ve captured the scent and turned it into a candle! And a soap! Both are available now. Mr McGregor’s Garden smells of tomato vines and green peppers. A lovely day at the farmers market. Friendship smells of green grass and adventure! And Hunny smells like spiced honey and warmth. Cozy, not sweet sweet. Check out the Milk & Honey soap while you’re at it 🐝 And a great deal on all 4! Link in bio ✨ 🌿🪷✨🌲🦔📚 #candle #candles #candleshop #candlelover #candlesofinstagram #storybook #pooh #winniethepooh #poohandpiglet #hunny #peterrabbit #blackberry #sage #tea #stories #soycandles (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYGiSwrE6d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

5 New Soaps dropped! I’m just about to send out the email, which has a secret code for some #berriedtreasure so if you haven’t, go sign up real quick 🌿 Dragon Fruit 🐉 smells of dragon fruit! A little like pears and peach nectar, with a lovely freshness. Exfoliating poppyseeds for glowing skin! The new Milk & Honey has carrot purée, turmeric, and rose water for extra luxurious properties. East Indian Chai is another milk soap, with strong brewed Darjeeling tea and the tea leaves for exfoliation. Smells of cardamom, cinnamon, clove, ginger, tea, and cream. Healing Eucalyptus is so fresh and spa like, relaxing and lovely. Sea Clay gives it gentle exfoliation. And Bloom 🌸 smells of rain, jasmine, and orange blossoms. So bright and fresh. Which sounds the best to you? 🌷🦔✨🦉🌿🛀🏽🌙 #newsoap #soaper #soapmaker #soapersofinstagram #dragonfruit #chai #honey #milksoap #bloom #winx #bloom #selfcare #barsoap #sensitiveskincare (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp78Xd_LVA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Speak your wishes aloud. Hear them echo back, with a gentle nudge, for somewhere near an opportunity is ready to be seen. Wishing Well smells of wet stone and fresh ferns, lichen-filled rocks, earth, moss, and forest leaves. Available in candle, soap, and soon bath bomb elixirs. The bath bombs be available by tomorrow with the new soaps. I forgot to charge my camera or they’d be up now 🙃 So in the meantime, join our email on our website! I’ll be sending a #berriedtreasure secret code for some free products with the next one! Link in bio 🕯 🌙🦉✨🖤🌿🦔🌲🪷 #soap #barsoap #candles #candlesofinstagram #soycandles #sustainable #nontoxic #nontoxicskincare #nontoxiccandles #fantasy #wishingwell #witch #witchy #hedgewitch #hedgewitchery #bath #bathtime #selfcare #unique #uniquescents #stone #moss #forest #cottagecore #cottagecoreaesthetic (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp29l7guQmG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

✨ What book should be read by everyone at least once in their lives? My choice is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is life changing, life affirming. It reminded me of the important things when I was falling apart. And put me on the path of Sweetgrass. There’s an audible version read by the author herself in her kind, wise voice. I put my book up too, not because I think everyone should read it, but because it was my love story to the forest. It’s not a traditional love story, but a story of the things I love, that lifted my heart when it was low. It’s a story that celebrates the forest and the trees. Braiding Sweetgrass asks us to write so many love songs and love stories to the nature that it changes the world. That’s what I do with my business too, and garden. Earth Berry Apothecary and Mosswood Forest are love songs to nature. ✨ back to the question, what book should be read by everyone at least once in their lives? ✨bonus question: where is your favorite outside space? 🌿🦉🪷🦦🌲🍄🦔 #book #books #bookrecommendations #booklover #braidingsweetgrass #nature #naturelovers #naturelover #naturelove #cottagecore #forest #forestlovers #forestlove #gooutside #getoutside #getoutdoors #bestbooks #bestbookever #naturalist (at St. Clair Shores, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxlVenrSJ9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Wishing Well soap is earthy and fresh, with notes of wet stones, emerald moss, and forest rain. I like to use this as a meditative soap, and imagine everything blocking me from my wishes washing away. The growing green of abundance filling its space. What is blocking me from my wishes? Usually me. Overthinking. Self doubt. Crummy self talk, who cares, why even try. You’ll mess it all up. They’re like weeds in a garden. Good thing I am a gardener. So I pluck them, toss them in the compost, let their lessons become rich soil. Spend a moment with your wishes, planting what you want. Remembering the kind words of others. Getting ready to notice new and interesting opportunities. Sacred Space is also meditative, cleansing. Spend a moment imagining your blocks washing away, peace and serenity filling the space. Lavender. Sage. Cedar. And Blackberry Sage. It smells like a tea I loved long ago. Nostalgic and garden friendly. Beneath the snow, the garden dreams. We dream together. Be well 🖤 🦉🪷✨🦦🍄🦔🌿 #soap #soaper #soapbars #wishingwell #earthy #smellgood #unique #soaper #soapersofinstagram #shower #showerthoughts #sacredspace #sage #lavender #blackberry #selfcare #selflove #lovenature (at St. Clair Shores, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpoDJVjPVQw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I’ve been thinking a lot about the starfish story. It begins on a beach that had been recently ravaged by a storm, and starfish were strewn across the sand from end to end. A young child was walking along the beach, picking up the stranded starfish and releasing them back into the water. An older person came up and said, “You know, you can’t help all of them.” To which the kid responded, after picking up a starfish and putting it in the water, “I made a difference to that one.” Sometimes we have no idea how we affect others. We have no idea of the power of our reach, especially in the form of art and music and stories, after they’re released into the world. And sometimes I get the most heartwarming feedback that brings me to happy tears. This business has brought me so much healing. I’ve been a shy moss a lot of my life, but when you start to share your heart and soul with the world, and the world sparkles back at you. Well. That’s something. My gratitude overflows. Sometimes the little things are the world. Remember that when something attracts your curiosity. Perhaps it will build into something beautiful and unexpected. Perhaps there’s a lesson in there. Or a new skill, that you will carry with you and use, say, when you open a successful small business, which has used a lifetime of gathered skills. I love you. I wish you the best. To sunshine and birdsong. Be well ❤️🦔 🌲🌙✨🍄🦉🫧📚🌿 📸 Getty Images #starfish #starfishbeach #starfishstory #storytime #empowerment #empower #artispower #stories #inspiration #inspirational #inspiring #healing #healingjourney #smallthings #love #lovemyjob #lovemyself (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiffCPvGBP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Morgana 🕯✨🌙 Warm Black Tea, Enticing Cardamom, Sweet Cream, Tonka Bean The mist curls through the woods bringing soft birdsong to the burbling brook. She joins the melody, her alluring voice adds strength and joy to the Forest. One of my go-to aromas, especially as a bath bomb elixir (I keep one in my dresser because it makes my clothes smell lovely too - but in a small, open plastic bag because there are luxurious butters and oils in the bath bombs) Enticing, alluring, sensual, delightful. Available as a candle, bath bomb, and (limited) soap 🖤🌙✨ Link in bio! Do you have a favorite character from the Arthur legends? We also have a Merlin candle that smells like scrolls and magic! 🦉🖤🦔🌲✨🌙🕯 #morgana #morganapendragon #arthur #pendragon #crystals #candle #candlesofinstagram #soycandles #fantasy #fantasyart #legends #myth #mythology #myths #mythiclegions #mythical #mythological #magic #witch #witchy #witchyvibes #witchythings #witchyinreallife #smellssogood #fyp #fantasyforest #mosswood (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpK2ioSrsZv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I am very patient for spring. If spring warms too early, the fruit tree blossoms open before the end of the spring freezes. No fruit. No good. (To be fair, I am still intensely excited for spring, it’s ok to be both) But even in winter, the earth is changing and renewal is happening. Since the harvest, we (at least should have been) resting. Meditating. Removing what we no longer want in our lives, outgrown ways of being and understanding. Nurturing the seeds of what we do want. Sorting through the seed catalog. Planning. Resting more. I’m not totally sure where the metaphor stops, if it does. Who has read Braiding Sweetgrass? Who wants to go stand by the river with me? The text: “I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass 🕯🛀🏽✨🫧🦉🌙📚🌲 #braidingsweetgrass # (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIvfduvvZy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🐺 🕯 Wolf Pack • with notes of fir trees, orange peel, and a pinecone campfire • has a new label ✨ Also ❤️ Insomnia has been hitting me hard this week, and I had a glorious nap about it yesterday while the power was out. People need sleep. I get really wonky when I don’t have enough sleep. So I napped, and woke up feeling refreshed. While I slept, my Love wrote a list of things that he noticed that I love, things that make me happy. He read it to me when I woke up, and it squeezed sweet tears of joy from me. It was refreshing on a whole different level. He doesn't know how much I love lists of things that I love. I felt seen, and appreciated. Let's do an experiment. Go write a list of things that you notice someone you care about loves. Little things, big things, funny memory things. And read it to them. Possibly when they could use a boost. See what happens. Let us know. It's for science. ❤️❤️ and, write a list for yourself here! What do you love? ❤️❤️ Here are a few things on my list: • old rustic end tables • clearings in the forest • light coming in a window • moss • weird clouds • fuzzy things • tiny books • Joni Mitchell • old books with old book art • lunch on a blanket • Ghibli • wolves • edible forests 🕯🦔🌲📚🌱🪷🎨🌿 #wolf #wolves #howl #moon #howlatthemoon #wolflover #moonlovers #forest #fantasyforest #mosswood #wolfpack #family #familylove #sweetthings #lovemypartner (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDF7o8rPkn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Puddle: A Tale for the Curious hit the shelves exactly 7 years ago today. To celebrate, I decided to put some up in the shop. This is a story of things I love, that lifted my heart during a difficult time. I wrote it to give me sweet dreams of the forest. And I hope you enjoy it! There’s a free version as well. Link in bio 📚 The Plot Birch is about the graduate high school, and doesn’t really get… it. Why we do the things we do. Why we stick to such schedules, why we don’t stop and watch the moss. So, when the chance arises, she leaps through the reflection on a puddle to another world, right into a forest festival put on by the Trees themselves. 🌱🌲🌳🌳🌲🌿🌲🦔 #bookstagram #book #bookrecommendations #booklover #bookcover #authorsofinstagram #author #writer #writersofinstagram #puddle #forest #forestadventure #forestadventures #garden #gardentherapy #gardenersofinstagram #gardener #fantasyart #fantasybooks #fantasy #storytime #story #selfcare #fyp #woods (at St. Clair Shores, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0bJsHPBUu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

📚 I’m writing a story that you can download and print and turn into a tiny book. It’ll be available in our ꪀꫀ᭙ Tales of Mosswood Forest blog. It begins… The Hedge Witch lived in a cottage overgrown with roses and moss. One morning, as she left to gather berries and Forest mushrooms, she heard a ruffling from outside. Now, who do you think it may be? 🪷✨🦔🍄🌱🌙📚 #hedgehog #hedgewitch #book #bookish #booklover #tinybook #tinybooks #tinybookoftinystories #tinythings #cuteanimals #witch #witchhat #storytime #storylover #storybook #witchy #hedgehogs #hedgehoglove #hedgehoglovers #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #fantasyforest #forest #forestlove (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coxmn_-P1B1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

✨ Simple & Divine Body Butter ✨ 🪷Flower petal soft 🪷 It’s finally here. Thank you for your patience. It is worth the wait ❤️ This light, all natural body butter is nourishing and deeply moisturizing. It absorbs quickly, and leaves your skin silky smooth. To use, massage onto skin as often as desired. For best results, apply just after bathing, for the warmth and water droplets helps absorption. For the best of the best results, spend a moment sending loving thoughts to each part of your body as you massage this hydrating cream onto your skin. And then stretch, and finally embark on a forest adventure. Link in bio! 🕯🛀🏽🫧💙🌙✨🪷 #bodybutter #bodybutters #naturalskincare #naturalskincareproducts #naturalbodybutter #mangobutter #spa #homespa #feelgood #treatyourself #fyp (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CouWYWGuQ7H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Supreme Bundle of Bath and Body Care 🛀🏽 Includes: ✦ 8 oz soy candle ✦ 8 oz body butter ✦ Full-size artisan soap ✦ 2 bath bomb elixirs ✦ Exfoliating spa bag ✦ Bamboo toothbrush Currently available scents: River Spirit ✦ Cherry Blossom, Juniper Berry, Fresh Evergreens, Restorative Tea Elemental Air ✦ Light Ginger, Soft Jasmine Blossoms, Tea Brandywine Cottage ✦ Wild Cranberries & Sugared Chestnuts (bath bomb will be Pomona’s Orchard, pear and apple) I’ll add more, but these are nice to start with 🖤 Link in bio 🌲🌙✨🫧🕯🪷🍄 #bath #bathtime #selfcare #selfcaresunday #selfcarematters #treatyourself #treatyourskin #naturalskincare #naturalskincareproducts #feelinggood #spa #homespa #fyp (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CouSg9NuZqb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🕯 River Spirit 🐉 smells of Cherry Blossoms, Juniper Berry, Fresh Evergreens, & Restorative Tea The river’s song is wise and sweet with bubbles, ancient as the earth herself. It reminds us that each moment is unique, to dance with the changes, that a single drop is part of the whole. Candle is available now. Soap will be up hopefully today. Bath bombs coming soon. This calm, gentle, river-spa scent feels like spring, refreshing, uplifting, hopeful and sweet. Link in bio 🌙🪷🌱🐉✨☔️🕯 #candle #soycandles #river #water #dragon #soycandle #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #fantasyart #fantasy (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoruEI7O9nG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🫧🛀🏽 Want free soap? That YOU designed? I 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 our Design A Soap challenges. Come on over to our group on FB for more details: Earth Berry Community. 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧 #sudsy #soap #soapmaking #soaper #handmade #handmadesoap #handmadesoaps #handmadesoapshop #designchallenge #prettysoap #cutesoaps #madewithlove #skincare #skincareproducts #skincarenatural #skincareessentials #art #dtiys #artist #challenge #challengeaccepted (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Com0rIQLQ9R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🕯 Speak your wishes aloud. Hear them echo back, with a gentle nudge, for somewhere near an opportunity is ready to be seen. 🕯 🌱 Wishing Well carries notes of Wet Stone, Musky Earth, Lush Moss, and Lichen-Covered Rocks 🦔🌱🌙✨🍄🪷🌲 📸 many by Pexels #wishingwell #moss #candle #candles #soycandle #soycandles #unique #nature #inspiredbynature #cottagecore #cottagecoreart #cottagedecor #cottagewitch #hedgewitch #hedgehog #snail (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok7ky_PDeC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🕯 New candles! And some old favorites with new labels🌲 🍄 Mosswood 🐸 Forest Rain * Wet Leaves * Rich Damp Earth * Mossy Trees Wishing Well 🌱 Wet Stone * Musky Earth * Lush Moss * Lichen-Covered Rocks Sacred Space 🪷 Silvery Lavender * Mountain Sage * Cedar Leaves * Rosemary Firefly Dreams ✨ Sweet Vanilla Cream * Chantilly Cake * Orange Slices * Sugar-Spun Clouds Morgana 🔮 Warm Black Tea * Enticing Cardamom * Sweet Cream * Tonka Bean River Spirit 🐉 Cherry Blossom * Juniper Berry * Fresh Evergreens * Restorative Tea Forest Spirit 🦔 Evergreen Trees * Silvery Lavender * Warm Clove * Wild Ginger Wolf Pack 🐺 Fir Trees * Orange Peel * Pinecone Campfire * Howling at the Moon Link in bio! Stay cozy nature friends! 🕯🌲🍄🦔✨🌱🪷 #moss #mossy #mossyforest #mosswood #mossgarden #candles #candlesofinstagram #candlelover #fantasy #fantasyart #mushrooms #mushroomart #forest #forestlove #forestlover #forestlovers🌿🌳 #nature #naturelover #natureart #photography (at St. Clair Shores, MI) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cohw6nELKgB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=