Moving...moving...moving!!!

oooohhh it's fair time in the Northwoods! Means school is just around the corner. We unfortunately aren't going to the fair this weekend===>we're moving instead! Still looking for some big burly helpers if you know of anyone off tomorrow!!! 8:30 am at our High Point house---11:00 am at our new location! PM me for details--there's treats in it for you...pizza n pop for lunch n who knows what else! Thanks for keeping us in mind and helping us to carry out this grand scheme fromabove n below. Trusting Creator, Mama Earth, our Ancestors and the goodwill of children and strangers on this one. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

We're at the point that all of our Tinctures and Oil Infusions have overtaken all of the counter-space and bookshelves in our current abode and are moving to a larger place tomorrow and over the weekend. I'm scheduled to be at Wabeno for the Country Market on Saturday and Eagle River's Farmer's Market on Sunday. I will need to see how this move affects my back and my walking abilities so---our intentions are good---but we'll see how it plays out. If there's anyone of our friends able to lend a hand---send me a PM and i'll be forever in your debt! Plus there's free food, goody bags from MountainsDreamz and who knows what else to all our helpers. Pardon me if I'm unable to get back to you right away--will be doing my best!

Guess what? We've added a Moving Sale to add to all the activity this next week and to say thank you to our amazing clients! This way, whether we make it to the scheduled fairs or not---you'll be getting a huge thank you and added incentive too! Thank you to each and every one of you!  Closer to our clients + more room for herbal creations = move to a new location. Thank you for your patience and compassion!!!!

PS....isn't this a lovely way to grow your herbs outside?  hmmmmm.....;).

Have a blessed day!

Reviews from our Clients...

Good morning!  First thing I saw this morning after feeding our little puppies was an email from one of our clients...and I thought I'd share this.  I truly am so very grateful to be working with Mother Earth in all of our creations!  I'm so happy that this feeling or energy shows through with our products--and look forward to continuing our creations.  Many thanks and as always, bee happy, bee blessed and bee guided by Spirit in all that you do as well!

Sandy
MountainsDreamz

Tell me you're not tired of more Vintage Botanical Prints

Here are 88 more!  Just for you--only this time the coloration's and fonts are historically accurate!  These come to us from Plant Curator, an online resource for all of us herbalists.  They have multiple series of these Vintage Botanical Prints as well as backgrounds and Facebook Cover images to choose from.  My all time favorite resource!

88 free vintage medicinal plant illustrations  

Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants was published in 1887 in Germany. It comes in four volumes and includes over 300 detailed, beautiful, botanical illustrations of plants. Below we supply 88 from Volume 1. The book was written by Kohler but the pictures were drawn by artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt. They were then rendered in chromolithography by a certain K. Gunther. Chromolithography was the number one technique for printing in colour for around a decade between the mid-18th and 19th Centuries.  This process required a skilled lithographer to draw the original painting, by hand, in reverse, onto limestone slabs and later zinc plates. They would then somehow ink this with a colour and use that to print onto paper. They then repeated this for all the other colours they needed, using a different stone for each one. The colours would overprint each other until the original image was recreated. What a faff. Printing methods started to get a little easier after this one. Wikipedia has a greattimeline of the History of Printing.

It is 75 years since the death of the author which in most of Europe denotes it is the Public Domain. That means all images are copyright free.

The original species title is written below exactly as it is printed on the picture. Where we think the currently accepted name differs significantly for the plant we have checked it against The Catalogue of Life or The Plant List and have written it in brackets. The common or vernacular name or names comes after that.

....take a look HERE for the rest of the downloads!

Now take a look at what to do with all of these...in your spare time of course.  Clicking on each photo below will take you to the original post.  Pillows, coasters or Wedding announcements needed?

   

Use the glass pane door that you've been saving up as a unique frame!

 

Group them together in a series with simple frames....

Print them off large or small!!!

So many beautiful things one can do with a botanical print!  We are just about to make our move closer to Eagle River and I'll have loads of walls to fill.  You never know who's walls will be next!  Enjoy the day--bee well, bee happy and above all, bee blessed!

Sandy

MountainsDreamz

a little story about a flower...

i'd like to share a little story with you about a flower that bloomed in our garden this past week.  several years ago i planted what i'd call a medicine garden--filled with all kinds of herbal medicines that i use to create balms, tinctures, massage oils and medicines for our friends and family.  the only trouble was, the medicine never grew.  or actually, it grew but was quickly eaten by the deer that live here.  this year i sprinkled some of one of my loaves of soap on the medicine garden--shaved up so that i could sprinkle it on every couple of weeks or after a rain.  so this year---and in fact just this past week--i had my bee balm bloom, and then my first echinacea come out.  i was beside myself.  first year blooms after having been planted two years ago?  i'd almost given up on the idea of anything growing up here since we're so far out in the woods.  yet there they were in all their glory!

the funny thing was, as the medicine was blooming--i was in the midst of working on a medicine shirt that has flowers on it.  it's the first shirt i've made with flowers on it--and i happen to be working on my appliqueing skills so it's rather detailed.  for those of you who know anything about ribbon shirts, ribbon dresses, shawls or any sort of ceremonial wear--you know that these items are all made in prayer.  not only a prayer for the person you're making them for, but for their prayers that will sung for, danced for or sacrificed for as they wear the item you are working on.  it's truly a gift to be able to create these pieces.  and it's not the first time spiritual stories or scenarios have occurred while i've been crafting away.  medicine shows up in the physical world all the time if one is walking in a good way like that, continuing to pray and meditate and be guided by Creator and Mama Earth. 

 last year we had a long and busy winter--with a spring that came upon us suddenly.  we were left with so much standing water as the snows began to melt--culverts and ravines were sodden-ed down and thousands of mosquitoes were hatched because of it.  now these mosquitoes were not your typical mosquito--they seemed to have grown double or triple the normal size of mosquitoes up here in the Northwoods.  We laughed about it all around town and waited on the dragonfly's to arrive.  it just so happened that i was crafting a shawl & dress for one of the granddaughters, that had dragonflies on it. so as i went outside to fringe this shawl, invariably the dragonfly's would appear.  15 plus landing on me as i fringed away--and suddenly too as if out of nowhere they were all there.  They came suddenly last year and helped us all out by depopulating the huge mosquitoes.  again, in all their glory!  Being in connection with Mother Earth shows us time and again these small yet incredibly powerful and potent messages, if we are listening.

so as stories go, this one too will wind back around to the beginning and honor the flowers that bloomed here in the Northwood's this past week.  i've taken some time to create some incredibly lovely Vintage Flower Botanical prints for you as a gift!  Feel free to download & print those you like, or share them with a friend.  Maybe soon you'll see some cards or tee shirts printed at our tables in the farmer's markets too!  If you do use these prints--remember to give thanks to Mother Earth and all that is, was and will be.  She's still struggling hard to support your earth walk and provide you with all the bounty she and Creator have created here.  At this time (like no other) she's also requiring you to clean up after yourselves, recycle what you can--stop harming the four leggeds and creepy crawlies or finned ones.  get your act together--and do some good for her, to her and with her.

Many thanks, continue to Bee well, Bee happy and Bee blessed,

Sandy

MountainsDreamz