The Winking Toad Apothecary

The Winking Toad Apothecary A small business offering handmade herbal bath teas, salts, soaps, herbal charms, bonecraft, amulets, just a bit of everything Hedgewitch. Feel free to ask.

The Winking Toad has many of the same services that were offered by the ancient Hedgewitches. herbs, bath blends, charms, herbal amulets, some jewelry, and much more. Everything here is made by hand, so no two items are identical. We also take requests and special orders.

07/15/2016

This week has been a wine and mead week, my kitchen counters covered in gallons and gallons. Over this last year I've been researching and trying my hand at creating folk wines and honey meads using the fruit, flowers, and herbs I have in my local area. I was happily surprised at the absolute abundance of material that can be used! Roses, quince blossoms, violets, muscadine, daylily, dandelion.. My only "ick" moments have come from reading umpteen books on winemaking that call for unnatural flavoring and chemical stabilizers. No thanks. So, I did more research to see what people used before. Now I wait and see! I'm mentally making a checklist to make a batch of mead using wild yeasts from juniper. There will be failures, that's the nature of the beast. But, hey...it's my mead for myself. If it's terrible, I learned. If it's not...well, then that's a new road.

06/01/2016

It's hot hot today! But, the first of the chamomile blossoms are picked...so a new batch of Sleepy Head lotion will be ready in the next few days. I'm also testing a new herbal fly and mosquito repellant. I've been tweaking the recipe for a better scent

05/09/2016

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!

One of the great things about working with the cycles of nature is having staggered harvests. As soon as the quince blos...
05/05/2016

One of the great things about working with the cycles of nature is having staggered harvests. As soon as the quince blossoms finished, cherry blossoms opened. Then roses overlap spiderwort and honeysuckle. It makes for an interesting life, lol. Today is for making rose wine and honeysuckle jelly...who knows about tomorrow. Maybe rose milk bath, but Madame Yarrow is near blooming too...and that means tincture time.

02/19/2016

So the weather is finally taking a break from cold and blustery so I can go in search of some wild greens! My family has begun our spring herbal detox from all the heavy winter foods, and I'll be the first to say...teas are getting old, lol. I'm ready for fresh dandelion, gill-over-the ground, and chickweed. There is nothing like that first bowl of salad greens to remind your body that winter won't last forever.

01/15/2016

What an odd winter...dark and dreary and yet not cold enough to be winter..

08/04/2015

Please forgive my absence Lovies. Difficult times are on me right now. I share alot about my life on the Toad's page, mostly on self sustainability, witchcraft, and wortcraft. I dont usually share much about my personal life, or my health. Most of you know that I depend a great deal on the plants I grow and wildharvest to see to my health needs. What I dont say much about is that I also have kidney disease. Its something that requires both herbal and conventional medicine. And right now, Im sick. Real sick. I still have a full inventory, but I cant take new commissions for a bit. Besides the little homestead, the kids and their back to school/social lives(not even gonna go there tonite... Did you know so and so is allergic to shrimp and the other so and so has a boyfriend?), and babysitting some long hours, Im taking a hard look at what I can actually accomplish right now. Getting fully dressed in real jeans(not jamas)....I can still do...most days. Weeding the garden....only with help. Degreasing skulls is still enjoyable, carving vertabraxe into candlesticks...not so much. It will get better, always does. Please bear with me for now. If you message and I dont get right back to you, I promise I will just as quickly as I can.

07/24/2015

Rainy days are a blessing to me! Then I get to come indoors and be spoiled in the air conditioning for a bit, lol. Im long overdue finishing some pagan rosaries and prayer beads anyway!

07/21/2015

Ppl assume that once an animal is rescued and finds a home, its all happy endings, and face licks, and full bellies. Not so. Today my dog Redman reminded me that sometimes, there is no amount of love that can take away what's been done to you. Sometimes, the best i can do for him is to let him live his life on his own terms.He's progressed by leaps and bounds in the years we have had him, he no longer pees himself when I touch him, for example. And...sometimes he even plays...which is HUGE. However, there's been nothing that can change how anxious he is. This morning, a neighbor slammed his tailgate, and poor Redman peed all over his legs and hit the dirt. Phoebe(my Old English sheepdog), in true Pheeb fashion, goes to him and stands over him...she has him under her massive legs and began to drop her head looking for his "attacker". Before I could even get out of the chicken coop, she had him up and moving toward the house. She herded him in and came back to get me. She has done more for him than I ever could.

07/20/2015

Harvesting more yarrow today! I will have more dried herb as well as tincture for sale now. Herb will be available tomorrow, tincture is already on the list

Let's talk about the Dark Moon Lovies. Many fear this phase and the changes it brings. It is a difficult time for workin...
07/13/2015

Let's talk about the Dark Moon Lovies. Many fear this phase and the changes it brings. It is a difficult time for workings, but don't fear it. Yes, this is a time for death, stripping away, banishing, cursing.....but all these things lead to the fullfillment of the greater cycle. Lilith is the goddess that rules during this phase. The dark goddess has many names hower, most of us know this. The Morrigan, Lilith, Hecate, Kali....Her demoness/goddess energies soak thru me during this time. It is something I happily embrace, because she truly holds me up during these hard workingsThe have been taken advantage of at every turn lately, and this is my time to say "No more. You will take no more from me, an you will give me what is mine". I am guilty of being too soft, too gullible to others, but Lilith shows us that sometimes punishment is in order. When all mundane lines have been tried and failed, then comes workings. When that is done, it is time to let that hurt die and move on. Lay the curse, seek retribution, and then learn the lesson. She is not simply a goddess of punishment, but one who teaches me that in the end, I must build higher banks between kindness an being gullible....for that line has been far to thin. That leads to another aspect of the Dark Moon, self inspection and shadow work, which in turn leads to rest and recovery. The dark moon can be a scary time, epecially if you fight against the tide, however if you really want to change things in yourself, and are willing to do the hard work, there is no better time.

Sorry its been a few days, my life has been quite hectic! I've been dealing with some sadness as of late. But I've been ...
07/13/2015

Sorry its been a few days, my life has been quite hectic! I've been dealing with some sadness as of late. But I've been working on some new items for the shop, and it does help me feel better to work. Today was a day for gourd work. I use a stone to shape and smooth the bowl, so its very tedious but theraputic. This one will be a libation bowl, complete with a small lip to pour accurately. The other half of the gourd became a feed scoop for my hens, lol. I've also finished a turtle skull spirit house for my own altar, and I have 2 animal spirit bottles nearly ready! A doe ad a squirrel. Those I won't show just yet. 😎 The fox skull spirit house wwont be up for sale for a few more days. Tomorrow is for oils! The St.John's wort oil is ready to be strained and bottled, and so is a peppermint oil and a mugwot oil.

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T-Bonee@hoTmailcom
Selmer, TN
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