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July 19, 2013

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I was interviewed for The Creativity Habit Podcast!
I had the honor of speaking with Daphne @thecreativityhabit a few months ago, about my life, my creative make-to-mend process, my how and why.
I’ll admit, I cried when I listened to myself, as I reflected on how incredibly fortunate and privileged I am to be where I am in my spiral process healing making mending journey today.
Hot damn, I’ve come a long way, baby!
I’d love for you to take a listen and I’d love to hear your thoughts upon listening.
Why do you Make? What’s your Why? Do you Make to Mend? Does hand making heal you? Tell me everything.... I want to know!
Copy and past this link into your browser http://thecreativityhabit.com/project/jennette-nielsen/

Or follow the link in Daphne’s bio @thecreativityhabit , where you will find many other beautiful interviews with artists, makers, writers and more.
Thanks for listening, friends!
#maketomend #makersgonnamake #slowmaking #potter #sewing #makeallthethings #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange #thecreativityhabit #smashingrubbish

Doing All the things, Tuesday... Harvesting comfrey today using the wicker pack basket I wove with snot and tears and invoking grace at the end of my long marriage. Interesting timing, weaving a leaving vessel.
Also communed with beloved Hawthorn this past week. oh my heart, she never fails me. I harvest full branches from overgrown and untended hedgerows and the bare branches will burn in a summer solstice bon fire with other magical woods. The flowers and leaves are infused in honey once wilted and dried for tea. My baby boy is middle named after this tree and we will harvest the haws from his trees on the croft this fall.
Making more boobs and butts and bellies goddess mugs, and bee rattles and Mother Mary rattles so I have lots of items for my trade blanket at @spiritweavers in a few weeks. Whatever’s left will go in my shop right when I return and before I leave for southern France and my newsletter subscribers will be the first to know!
Our woodshed is now stocked with our winter firewood. I think this is the earliest I’ve had it situated and with my rad boys help (and then me finishing in my bikini #bikinicroft ! 🤩) it’s all done and I feel like a realdeal straightup #gentlespiritbadassmotherfucker !

I’ve been visiting my favorite devils club plants in the mossy forest and whispering loving kindness to them for the good medicine they share with me. The woods and fields and flora and fauna are just breathtaking right now in the PNW. I love it.
Leaving on a red eye tonight for my third of four sessions at Orphan Wisdom School with #stephenjenkinson as a People Come Through Rain and Rune scholar. I’m going for the deep dive, sublime and saturated. See you on the other side good people. So mote it be ✨🐝✨ #survivalplan #thisisjustmylifenow #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #orphanwisdomschool #hawthorn #devilsclub #wicker #willow #packbasket #comfrey #honeybee #honeybeerattle #mothermary #goddessmug #cauldronandhive #cauldronandhivecroft #firewood #summersolstice #spiritweaversgathering #spiritbeavers

I returned home from our Fever Dreams Collective gathering in Sonoma almost a week ago and I’ve been quietly marinating in the magic of the exquisite experience as I re-entered the daily hustle and grind. Words won’t suffice but I’m compelled to try framing what’s been distilled and humbled and heart struck in me. -
This woman. We met online many moons ago and just met irl after two years of planning our Fever Dreams Collective gathering. Seriously, no joke. I had the audacity to reach out to her, at the beginning of my divorce, having no idea where I’d be in my life now, but didn’t let that stop me. I took the risk, figured the worst she could say is no way, and asked for creative partnership. {Always ask, friends! a wise witch taught me: when you know what you need, ask for what you want!} Alisha, I love you. Our friendship and work together heals and nourishes me. Your professionalism and old soul ways make it so super easy to collaborate. After so many google chats, to be with you in real time, was the cherry on top. I’m pleased our “conference” was/wasn’t a vortex! 😂🤩😍Thank you friend. -
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Happy Beltane, Beautiful Humans! -

I hope you get to spend some time in nature with your own wild animal self. I find it healing and necessary for my own good and well lived life. Maybe you’d like it too! ✨🌾✨ #beltane #beltaine #feralambrosialstrange #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #seasonalfestival #mayday #may1 #may1st #seasonalholiday #beltane2018 #spring #goddess #wheeloftheyear #magic #witchcraft #ritual #pagan #heathen #birthdaysuit #elemental #witch #thisisjustmylifenow
Images captured by my beautiful friend @hildelion 🤩

Five things Friday:
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1. When people i have care and concern for go missing or people i love get really sick, the best thing for me to do for myself, to manage my emotions and fears, is take my salty tears and terrors to the #altar of #Earth, on my hands and knees in my wild and savage gardens, and rip bind weed and shot weed out while singing good medicine songs, at the top of my lungs. -
2. A group of pnw #witches gathered at Cauldron & Hive Croft this week to make brooms with @ladyursus and @thewomanwhomarriedabear, who, btw, are rad babes and easy to love. I get off on gathering with folx to engage in healing #handwork. It’s my jam. -
3. I pressed the last of the blooming #hellebores to take to #Sonoma next week for a #FeverDreamsCollective project. Two years in the making and @alisha_sommer and @addyeb_art and I are ready to pounce. And soak up the sun #sun sun. - (cont. in comments )

Apis & Urtica & boys and cats and stuff...
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This past week I put a honey super on my one hive that overwintered and withstood the great bear attack of 2017, which took down two hives. I love bee priestessing and being with the magical creatures. I started prepping my new top bar hive too. New colonies come next Sunday. -
Then I went to harvest a load of #nettle and I gotta tell you, I felt so empowered out there. I was singing and thinking to myself: I’m a badass, I can gather my own food, and sing songs of offering and gratitude, and #beepriestess and be well. It was a natural high and the sun was shining. It was just right. -
Then my baby turned 15. 15 you guys. 15. And he loves his cat. And he loves his brother. And I love them all. Love love love
#thisisjustmylifenow #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #feralambrosialstrange #cauldronandhivecroft #beehive #bee #apiary #apis #urtica #birthdayboy #love

Local Witches! 🧙🏼‍♀️
I’m hosting a Swept Away Broom Making Workshop at my house on Tuesday April 17, 6-9pm, with @ladyursus and @thewomanwhomarriedabear ! 🧙🏼‍♀️
We will make hand brooms and herbal smoke bundles, learn about cleaning magic, as well as ritual smoke and mist space-clearing, all while discussing the energetics of crafting and cleansing. Herbal tea will be involved. All supplies included. 🧙🏼‍♀️
DM me if you’re local enough to attend and I’ll give you payment details and directions. A handful of spots remain to be claimed! 🧙🏼‍♀️
Images also by @zohn_mandel and @giantgroundsloths , thank you!

Friends! Witches! Women! Artists! Makers! Creative Kindreds! *

I just added a new offering page on my website to share the news that there is ONE spot left for my France Makers Residency this summer (when the sunflower fields are in FULL bloom!)! *

It’s for those of us edge walkers who walk the both/and line: both freedom and devotion, both wild and reverent, both sacred and profane. *

You can get allllll the juicy details over there so check out the link in my bio and see the offerings tab on my site to claim the spot! *

There will be 12 of us total and 11 of us are already having a wicked good time, cackling in cahoots, over our giddy plan making and wanderlust adventure shenanigan exploration! We will spend time in the studio being tenacious and focused and time in far flung wild abandon being cosmic day tripper dreamers. Many of us are extending our time in the south of France to explore sanctuary and pilgrimage sights, ie, Lourdes, Mary Magdalene’s caves, also flea markets, artisans, hot springs and so much more. Come join us! * ( p.s. this first photo is me at a flea market on Friday night. My buddy @michellemcclinn had the goods! Another perfectly imperfect ship to join the other one I got from her 6 years ago, a men’s vintage silk tie scattered with roses, and a huge bark cloth curtain panel covered in blue florals and SPIDER WEBS!! Never seen anything quite like it and I’ve been hunting vintage for a looooooong time! I wonder what I’ll find in the south of France?! What will YOU find?!) #france #southoffrance #southfrance #durfort #toulouse #carcassone #makers #makersresidency #makersgonnamake #lavender #sunflower #castle #fleamarket #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #fuckyeah

blessed Ostara, friends. Yay, its Spring!

i'm still working on making these Mary rattles rattly enough for us to party down with as we do our shamanic witchcraft work. someone said my favorite one, with the spiral face, was scary and then i promptly accidentally dropped her while i was glazing her and her head clean busted off. poor Mary. i'm making more and newsletter subscribers will be the first to claim them. link in bio. also, i keep dropping all the things and i am now blaming it on perimenopause. and my eyesight is rapidly degrading. perimenopause, thanks a lot.
my nettles are so delicious and i am so grateful it's nettle season. and this year they are surrounded by a field of chickweed, so its a total feast. if you didn't catch it in my stories, here is the best thing i ate all week: a layer of salt and pepper potato kettle chips, layered with pepperoncini juice sautéed nettles, layered with two perfectly fried eggs, layered with diced avocado, topped with kimchi. fucking rad dinner, dude. try it. you're welcome.
i hung some of the lorry truck decorations i brought home from India on my front porch since i don't have a truck to attach these to the outside of, like they do in India, where they have the best damn decorated, embellished, accoutremented, paraphernalia'd, brightened and adorned trucks of all time. wouldn't we all be happier if everywhere we went, rainbow colored pompoms and tassels were flying in the wind, attached to the fronts and backs of all the big trucks on the roads? i think so. yes, yes we would be happier. stale amerikans. lively up yourselves.
my one remaining beehive, after the great winter bear debacle of 2017, in which two of my hives were torn apart by non-goldilocks-like bears, is alive and well! makes me so happy. i have enough pieces left over from the fiasco to recreate another langstroth hive but i just ordered a new top bar hive, which i'm so super stoked about, and two 3lb packages of carniolan bees with queens. even after 10 years of bee priestessing, its still a thrill and wonder to befriend and tend these little creatures. yay Spring!
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Sister witches... woo wee.... once in a tropical moon it just gushes out of me. #sorrynotsorry
This is going to be a tangly rambly all-over-the-place in-all-the-right-places kinda post.
I’m so emo today and I’m totally ok with it. I just can’t hide it. And I think I like it.
I’ve been living in my bikini the last two weeks in Costa Rica while my saltwater soul and honeycomb heart have been humping the sultry earth and ✨healing✨ my autonomic nervous system.
Today I bawled my eyes out on the beach while reading Vagina by Naomi Wolf when I got to the section that explained the unique developmental trauma that many years of childhood sexual abuse experience does to the brain of a child and I could see my adult self so clearly deep in it, still, and holy shit it packed a wallop. Wtf?! I’m floored and aghast on sooooo MANY levels but for starters: a.) how in THE FUCK am I only now reading this book?!?! (wading into the deep end of divine timing), b.) how is this not required reading for every single PERSON on the planet, like, can’t kids in sex ed classes be required to read this, and their parents, and their parents therapists too?! Or how about the fucking predatory fake president?! Can he read it? Cuz he need to!, c.) I might now need to become a scientist, or a doctor, or a whatever you have to be to make a spectacular career out of just one of the multiplicitous trails of nashing curiosity that arise as you read and formulate chapters of hypothesis and experience cavernous wonder about the health of a holy vagina and how it effects ones developing and maturing mental health and how the amazing brain is effected or defected and what that indicates for one creatively, emotionally, spiritually, socially, SEXUALLY, and, well, what that indicates about...everything, [continued in comments.]

Ahhhhh Costa Rica YES Please and Thank You
#costarica #santateresa #malpais #puravida #bueno

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hi friends
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i’ve got India on my mind while i’m over here busy bein’ free. *
which means packing a suitcase to travel again because when everything’s beautifully burned to ashes over the last two years, what’s left for one to do?
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#india #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia #feralambrosialstrange #natureofmygame #loveswhatigot #varanasi #deogarh #squad #amberfort #cottoncandy #pomegranate #jagatshiromanitemple #hindu #hindutemple #temple #lofi #pleasebevegetarian #avoidalcohol #portal #sunrise #stationmaster #rotaryphone #railway #broom #sweep

It’s Imbolc, it’s Brigit, it’s Candlemas!
Hurray!
It’s a day to “throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” (Anaïs Nin)

While I was in Varanasi and Jaipur, the ancient and traditional Hindu seasonal celebration of Makar Sankranti was occurring. This gorgeous kite festival occurs every January, marking the first day of the transit of the sun (Surya) moving northward from Makara (Capricorn, The Goat), into Winter Solstice in its solar cycle. Commemorating the beginning of the harvest season, tribute is paid to the sun by flying these bright and colorful kites all over the skyline from rooftops and ghats. It’s an incredible site to behold and one I will never forget.
Both Imbolc and Makar Sankranti mark the suns growing strength. The days are growing longer and I see signs of spring in my blooming hellebores. This makes me giddy even while I’m still regaining strength from being so ill. Spring is coming and I’m throwing my dreams into space like a kite. Yes. (Last photo by @kolleenharrison_ )
#india #varanasi #jaipur #makarsankranti #kite #kiteflying #goflyakite #wintersolstice #capricorn #makar #makara #imbolc #brigit #candlemas #loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #feralambrosialstrange #jansgotoindia #jainsgotoindia

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