Welcome To Stick & Stones
Thank you for stopping by my "growing from a little seed" website.
Follow along with me on this journey, and let's see what blooms.
Please enjoy my art and my authenticity, as well as my stories and inspirations.
My mission is to share my art with those who can enjoy and appreciate the energy that's crafted within.
None of my prices are "set in stone", so please reach out to me if there's a piece that you feel belongs to you, and we can negotiate.
Ultimately, I wish I could make a special one for everyone, and just give them away.
I believe that we all need a piece of nature's healing energy on hand.
My goal in life is to get there some day, where I can just create and share my love.
Each piece includes combinations of genuine crystals and stones, only attached with brass wire. There is no glue in my art, nor anything unnatural.
All my wands have leather handles. Some have pinecones, and some have feathers.
Due to the "migratory bird act", I will only be using Turkey feathers, or other legal feathers in my art. You may see an owl feather or a Jay feather on my site, but they only moved from my yard to my living room and are not for sale.
Free shipping on every piece, within the continental US.
Thank you for coming. Enjoy my site.
"Chakra Energy Healing Wands"
These wands are more than just art to me. They are an aesthetically pleasing tool, if used as intended. Let me explain more in my Blog post titled "Healing Wands".
The Story of Stick & Stones
The Spirit in the Storm
"COME GET YOUR STAFF"
The words I heard loud and clear every time I went to my kitchen window after the storm. This was the beginning of my journey towards the creation of these magical healing wands. I finally did as I was being "told". I went outside, around to the back of my house to get that branch and bring it to the front yard. Since that day, I have been divinely led on a journey of creating these decorative chakra healing wands. May their energy amaze you as it has me.
This is the story of the branch that was gifted to me by the big maple tree during a storm in 2022. It showed me a new reality that I'd like to share with you all here on my first endeavor at creating a website. I look forward to sharing my amazing experiences since the storm, and I welcome you to the healing journey.
2020 was a catapulting, life changing year for all of us, some more than others. Like many other's, I experienced too much loss. Covid wasn't the only thing taking people from my life, alcohol had also taken it's toll. In 2019, I decided to leave the bar industry to work in a care facility for people with brain injuries (some from drunk drivers). Having been a smoker for over 30 years, I had a persistent cough. Thanks to covid restrictions, that cough had cost me that new career. I went back to bartending, which was no longer what it had used to be, especially for me. I saw true colors from people I thought I knew, friends and community that lacked compassion for other's and were consumed by self righteousness. I was no longer the friendly bartender, I had become the "mask police" and a "Liberal", and a few other names that I won't mention. I've always been very sensitive to energies around me, including other people's energy. My last shift behind a bar in 2022, I served a person I cared about very much. I knew in that moment that I was serving her a cup of death, I knew she was killing herself with alcohol and I had just contributed to her suicide. I had an emotional moment, because I could feel with my soul that she wouldn't be with us for Christmas, and she wasn't. I never served another drink after the day I last saw her alive, and I never will again. This storm came shortly after her death, this storm that helped the Maple tree drop a branch outside my kitchen window in the posture of a hug, this storm that has changed my life forever.
The Branch
One could call it a "talking stick", because it spoke to me. I had this Branch in my front yard for almost a year before I knew what I was supposed to do with it. One afternoon, while sitting outside with the birds and only the sounds of the forest around me, I saw the vision in my mind. I thought to myself, "wow, cool, magic wands"! Then once again, as it had happened before at my kitchen window, I was told loud and clear... "NO! Not magic wands, HEALING WANDS!"
I replied, "Ok". My next question was "How?" And "With what?"
Prior to this experience, I was contacted by my friend whose Aunty was starting an online crystal store. I've always been drawn to pretty rocks and crystals. So, I started depleting my bank account on every beautiful piece that spoke to my soul. It was all starting to make sense now, and I could feel that I just needed to trust it all. My next question, "How do I attach these pretty stones to the branches?" Within days of asking, I woke up one morning with another loud and clear answer, "Only brass wire". I replied, "Ok", and immediately ordered some. The day it arrived, I was so excited to get started. This was the most joy I had felt in some time. I grabbed a random branch off the ground, because I wasn't ready to cut "thee" branch yet. The first thing I made with the wire, was a 6 pointed star. Afterwards, I had to look up all the different meanings behind this symbol and I went down a rabbit hole full of information about sacred geometry. This was prior to the war starting in Israel, so it wasn't a symbol I saw very often. Strangely, I had seemed to have been in a meditative state of mind and unaware of what I was making until it was done. I have made over 20 wands now, and the experience is the same. It's as if they are creating themselves through my hands, and I have been personally impressed by the outcomes several times. Each time a wand is completed, I always tell "them" they did a good job and
I say "THANK YOU"!!!
The Blue Jays
I have lived in the same place for almost 13 years. For 11 of those years, I was hardly ever home, always working (at times, two jobs). Any spare time that I had at home, I would spend it with my dog. I never paid much attention to the habits of the wildlife that lived in my "yard". My yard is 7 acres of forest. After being a bartender, and a drinker, for many years, I wasn't very healthy. I ate greasy bar food and would drink after work until I passed out. I didn't like to remember my dreams, because many times they were scary, and they would come true (which was more scary). Prior to quitting the industry for good, my gallbladder tried to kill me. After getting that little demon organ out of me, my life changed on another level. I quit drinking whiskey (my weakness). I also gave up bacon and butter. I know, big changes, but I felt so much better. I started getting up to watch the sun rise, instead of still being up (and drunk) after a closing bar shift. Sober sun rises are much more magical. The Steller Jays started talking to me and spending time with me when I was outside, they seemed to like my branch too. So, I started feeding them. Then the real magic began, as I now have a personal relationship with these beautiful birds.
The Bear Tooth
My first gift from the Jays was left in the spot where I had been leaving wild bird seed for them. Prior to this gift, I had already been collecting their gorgeous blue feathers from the ground around my home with intentions to incorporate them into my art. (Then I learned of the "Migratory Bird Act".) Up until this day, I hadn't yet figured out any ideas for a handle to complete the healing wands. I was considering leather (which they all are now), but I wasn't sure about using animal hide. After discovering the bear tooth, and realizing it was a gift, I was completely amazed. I was even more so amazed when the next message came through to me. It was softer this time, yet still clear. Just as I was using the bird feathers, and just like this bear tooth gift, "they aren't being used for their previous purpose any longer", so I knew in that moment that all the handles would be made with genuine leather. I thanked the Jays for the gift, and left them some pretty stones, they took them. We have since established a fun and exciting gift exchange that has been quite a magical experience for me. Between the Blue Jays, the squirrels, and the deer, I have a whole new array of demanding customers to please. I love it! This feels like how life on earth is supposed to be.
Artistic Visions Showcase
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