Elation…
... is a trip to The Bone Room. The Bone Room has always been one of my favorite shops, long before I started reading bones. Once I started reading bones, this shop took on the allure of a candy store [...]
Diamonds
Dollar Store Diamonds I have a gem in my travel set. It is a small, glass gem meant to look like a large diamond. In my main set it is a Herkimer diamond. This piece sparkles and catches [...]
Cowrie Shells
Cowrie shells come in a wide variety of sizes and colors I have several cowries shells of various sizes and species in my bone sets. As shells go they are ideal for bone sets. Their fragile edges are [...]
Bone Readers, We Have Lost A Shining Light…
Dr. E teaching bone reading.* A gifted priest, rootworker, artist and bone reader has passed away. Eduardo Martinez Guitterez, better known in the Hoodoo Rootworker community as Dr. E, has passed on. I first encountered Dr. E in [...]
Abalone
I love abalone shell. It makes an appearance in my bone sets several times. In my main set I use two pieces like this to represent the people in a relationship. I carry extra pieces of this type for [...]
Adding a few more pieces to the bone reading set
Bone Reading Set being assembled. This is a set I assembled for a project. I talked about how I prepped the new bones for use here. I have added several more pieces to this set so I thought [...]
Paxton Gate, Portland Oregon
Last week I was in Portland Oregon and my wonderful hosts took me to an amazing store called Paxton Gate. Inside was a wonderful array of taxidermy, cabinets of bones, books, and jewelry. Here are some pictures. I apologize for [...]
Size Matters, but so do other things
Carved bone penises When looking at something that you are thinking of purchasing for your bone set several characteristics should get considered. I have a metal box that holds bones, shells and curios that didn't make it into [...]
Prepping new bones for use
I had to get a new bone set for a project I am working on so I decided to photograph the process I use to clean and prepare them for use and share it here. I start by rinsing them [...]
Eat the elephant one bite at a time
Pieces for the querent and an elephant When I do classes, one thing that I notice is that some people have trouble early on making sense out of the throw. They look at the throw and they know [...]