Alyssa Blackwell - Hearth Craft Brooms

A black and white print depicting an elderly witch flying over a silhouetted town skyline in a broom, with a small child held in her lap. A crescent moon and flying black birds or bats fill the sky around her.

"A witch carrying a child on her broom." José Guadalupe Posada, c.1880-1990, zincograph, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain
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Workshop twine examples are now online! Only took me 5 years 😂

🤗 thank you so much!

Made it to the fun part

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Set against a black backdrop and surrounded by brooms and broommaking supplies atop an oriental-style rug, a long, slender black broom with a crooked handle leans against a high-backed chair with a carved green man face. Cool daylight illuminates the scene from the left, casting deep shadows to the right

Slow progress is so frustrating 😣 for so many days now, it’s been my goal to finish this broom. Things keep happening, things keep breaking, problems keep needing to be solved, materials keep needing to be changed out or acquired. I almost gave up yesterday. But I didn’t, and I can feel it today ❤️‍🔥

Been seein’ lots of nice mushrooms. Any mean ones?

Slowing down a lot lately, and trying some very silly things that I’m now very excited to finish after dayyys of slow progress 😆 sending lots of broom love 🫶🏻

Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has a seemingly friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the Met museum in the division of finds.

Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone, c. 1479–1425 BC 🦛❤️

Perhaps a practice sketch or a template from 3,500 years ago!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Literally thought of you! 🤭

I know, I love it so much. I’m getting super low on it so I’m kinda treating it like gold right now 😂

Laying out first of the Lovers Collection ❤️‍🔥

Aw thanks beautiful! 🥹🥰

Sunny scenes in the shop this week ☀️

Yay! Likewise!

🥹 tysm!

Thank you Glenna! I got lucky, shot it with the self-timer without my glasses on so I couldn’t see myself and had to just hope for the best 😂

Alright then 🦋