At long last, the new pendants are finally uploaded and ready for browsing! There are some very, very special pieces as you'll see below. Above, if you look very carefully (or sensibly click on the pic to enlarge it!), you may just see an enormous Faery ring, camouflaged amongst the leaves.

Below you'll find a whole range of beautiful new pendants: Inscribed pendants, carved pendants, an Avalonian Goddess bead and, of course here's also a link to the wristbands mentioned the other day.

Scrumptious new wristbands and bracelets!

A gorgeous new selection of wristbands and bracelets have been added to the main website today! I've juggled the pendants section around a little as it's now more of a jewellery section and you can find the wristbands page here. 

Wristbands make great gifts for Yule or Christmas (or for yourself!) and we're happy to craft custom wristbands or bracelets. The top two wristbands shown above are woven from cord thonging which gives a thicker weave and the bottom one is made from Irish flax which is beautifully delicate-looking and is very long-lasting. 

Don't forget if there's anything you see that you'd like and would prefer to exchange goods in a trade, make us an offer :)

Next to be added to the site is a whole selection of wonderful new pendants ... watch this space!

Trades offered!

We welcome trades!

Would you like to buy some Spirit of Old items but don't have the cash this year? As the credit crunch is in full swing, we're happy to offer trades this Christmas.

If you make or sell quality items which you'd like to trade, please email with details and photos and we'll be in touch! We'd be especially tempted by suitable things for presents for children ranging from 4 - 15 but will consider whatever you'd like to offer.

Time for a rethink ...

Important announcement

After long consideration we've decided to stop accepting orders to copy the majority of previously made/sold items (please see exceptions list below) from the website until further notice. We are however, happy to continue accepting custom orders. Admittedly, there's bound to be a grey area between custom items and copies so if in doubt, please ask anyway. 

One of the things we pride ourselves on at Spirit of Old is the individuality of the items and the fact that they're not mass-produced but as things progress, more and more time is spent copying previous items and it leaves little time for make fresh new ones. Each piece of wood collected has its own natural spirit and beauty and simply copying items instead of following that creative spirit to make fresh ones tends to kill the sense of creativity.

We sincerely hope that our customers will understand this. It may change again in the future but for now, it should mean you can look forward to seeing far more truly uniquely crafted items added for sale.

Exceptions list - Made to order items we will still be currently crafting:
D051 - Native Celtic Woods - Corresponding Rune sets
D060 - Native Celtic Woods - Real Ogham Staves
D080 - Selected Native Celtic Woods - Real Ogham Staves
TC001 - Celtic Tree Calendar staves
DB005 - Handcrafted leather ogham or rune bag
WB001 - Velvet wand bag

Autumn offer

Autumn Offer

£5 off orders over £50
£10 off orders over £100

Any combination of items
Excludes postage costs

Ends 30th November

New forum!

There's a new Spirit of Old forum up and just about running. Come and have a look, join in, you're all very welcome :) If you do happen to come across any glitches and annoyances, please let me know by pm on there ... it's so new ;)

I'll be adding a link to the main website in the next few days once I've ironed out any problems but for now you can register early at http://spiritofold.49.forumer.com/index.php

See you there!

Ancient Oak Rune Set with Birch bark box

Ancient Oak Runes with Birch bark box

This gorgeous set is very special ... the runes are crafted from naturally windfallen wood from an ancient oak. The wood is incredibly beautiful - full of warm red-brown hues and wonderful shapes. 

The set is stored within a traditional birch bark box which is completely handcrafted using prehistoric methods and materials. Even the scent of this box is wonderful! A rich aroma of the natural oils in the birch bark along with beeswax and pine resin from the ancient recipe glue used. Scrumptious! 

You can find details of the runes and box on the main Runes page.

I've also listed new pendants recently and didn't get the chance to add the details on here (end of the school summer holidays madness!). you can find them here on the main Spirit of Old website.