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Cutting Custom Hoops

WRAPPING METAL HOOPS WITH CRUELTY-FREE FAUX SUEDE… WEAVING AND BEADING…

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The vast majority of feathers adorning your dreamcatchers come from small, sustainable, cruelty-free family farms.

These feathers have naturally molted from the birds and are collected, cleaned, and disinfected by the folks who lovingly raise the fluffies. Some of these gorgeous feathers are pristine, however most have natural imperfections and surprisingly minor wear and tear, since they were originally adorning an actual clucking or honking or quacking, wing-flapping living creature.

All photographs of birds, who are some of the actual birds molting these feathers, are provided by the farm families who care for them. see links to their stories in the descriptions below!

Above… Naturally molted and collected with care: Tufted American Geese and Silver Appleyard Duck feathers from PrimordialMressions, another small single family operating farmstead, in Silver Point, Tennessee. The owner of this shop is Holly and she also a gifted sculptor. See her work follow her story at www.facebook.com/bluetoothhollowfarm and on Etsy, https://www.etsy.com/shop/PrimordialMpressions!


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I have harvested the driftwood incorporated in some of your dreamcatchers from local beaches and waterways.

Every visit also entails picking up as much litter as possible. There is no other way to take gifts from the beach, even just photographs, without also taking what does not belong there. The mantra to use is “I can only carry what I can carry” and the mindset is similar to hunting for the perfect piece of driftwood: I try to stay present and be in the process. When I’m not hangry, it’s just like a treasure hunt, ha...