How do you like your wand ???

[-Dark-Moon-]

'more of an artist' - geez bit of an internal critic there ?

I think your wands are really cool !

[MsMollimizz]

Why thank you...
I try to make them where more than just me likes them...
but I must confess, I like them all !

Gentle Light
MsMollimizz

[-Dark-Moon-]

They are really great.

[Kassandra]

Things like this make me wish there was a 'like' button.

I'll see if we could get one for the emoticon section.

[DPhoenix]

Things like this make me wish there was a 'like' button.

I'll see if we could get one for the emoticon section.

That would be great!

[WalnutDryad]

I don't have a wand, but I have to thank you for your questions, they gave me a good idea on making one

[MsMollimizz]

Can I see when you are done ???

Gentle Light
MsMollimizz

[Pinkpower_80]

For now my wand is a simple small limb that fell off of my Dogwood tree. I've not embellished it any but I would like to. My bf wants to help me find one that is a bit thicker & he's gonna help me with it. He's very smart & good at making things

[Holdasown]

I don't have any wands or use them, yet anyway.

[Vervain]

I prefer to make my own tools when I can, however this is not always doable.

I have always been a big Harry Potter fan (which funny enough has nothing to do with how I got into Wicca and witchcraft), and for one of my HP-themed birthday parties my mom and I went to a local woodshop and asked the woman there to turn wands as party favors. She was going to charge $5 per plus cost of wood, but in the end she said she had so much fun making them she only charged us for the wood! She made each one as a thin, tapered dowel fit into a wider, turned handle something like this http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jTdy9lGTIzA/U ... 12+015.jpg but not quite. The one I felt drawn to was a dark walnut where the handle and stem woods matched. It has no crystals, it's just the wood. I have made a few wands since this one came into my possession, but I always come back to this one. Perhaps I will try to get a picture of it later.

I know if I could choose to make a wand any way I like it would differ in many ways from this one I use, but at the same time I now have a history with this wand, and our connection goes back to my childhood in a way no other wand could.

I've seen a wand around recently that I have my eyes on, but I can't bring myself to buy it because if I am going to have another wand, I want to make it. It's beautiful, though, made of driftwood... this is not it, but it's something like this: http://www.etsy.com/listing/90913694/cr ... ome_active

My favorite thing about it is where it once had little twigs branching off there are smaller quartz crystals nested in those spaces. It's beautiful and I would like to make something like that, but I think it could only be for a certain kind of magic. I don't know. I can do lots of thinking about magic but it always end up being more about feeling and intuition.

[MsMollimizz]

Those were cool, reminds me of the wands in Harry Potter...
I'm still working on them despite not taking them to the
Pagan Pride Festival I went to last week !
I'm working on two stalks of cherry wood right now,
I think I'm going to leave one bare like it is, just a clear
coat...? I've got to get the camera out to photograph
the last 3 or 4, I made not listed in my wand thread.

Gentle Light
MsMollimizz

[DPhoenix]

I don't have any wands or use them, yet anyway.

An athame is a suitable/popular substitute (and using your finger works in a pinch). Though they say the fae will flee from a witch carrying an athame so if you work with fairies you may want to make one or pick one up.