# :wand\_tarot: Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Wonderful Wands **URL:** \ **Category:** Activities\ **Tags:** tools\ **Created:** [September 6, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-wonderful-wands/41525 "2023-09-06T16:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![Artemisia](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/artemisia/32/78846_2.png) [@Artemisia](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Artemisia)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-wonderful-wands/41525/39 "2023-09-07T21:24:34Z")
**Weekly Challenge Entry - Wonderful Wands** I decided to try and make another wand. I made my first one for [the Sacred Trees and Wood Challenge](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-sacred-trees-and-wood/18177). I got as far as whittling, sanding, and staining the branch by the end of the challenge. I finished it a few weeks afterward. I don’t think I’ve ever used it. I know at some point I had polymer clay additions but they cracked off pretty easily and away into hiding the wand went. I feel silly, to be honest, using large tools, so I decided to try a smaller one and see how that fit with my practice. I decided to use a skewer as a base and then roamed my craft supplies to see what I could find. The silver metallic polymer clay was an easy choice. Then I looked for stones that had a “lunar” quality. And yes, @BryWisteria you did guess right that I was making a wand specifically with Artemis in mind 😆 I found some small cat’s eye cabochons in silver and purple and complimented them with flashy moonstone faceted beads. The cabs, I knew how to mount in the clay using a bezel of clay, but the beads… I wasn’t sure since they were tiny. I test-placed a few of them and was just going to try to make a moon design, when the next thing I knew, I was creating spirals around the wand using moonstone. I think I got lucky with the right thickness of the clay in that the beads were embedded without doing anything extra to hold them in place. I even put a moonstone in the tip! ![20230906_182528-COLLAGE](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/4/3/43da211b683745752c037bd3546d989ef5c9cc4f.jpeg) This is where I was at the end of the day yesterday. I knew I wanted to add a light black wash to bring out the details and top it with a dragonfly purple sparkle glaze. You know how they say “The enemy of good is perfect”? I decided to add one more layer of a satin glaze but something went wrong and it cracked and was semi-opaque. 😢 I did my best to use water and soft cloth to polish and remove as much as I could to try to salvage the wand. Then hesitantly I added one layer of the purple sparkle glaze and called it good right then and there. It’s not perfect, but none of my handmade items are. I love the weight of it and it has an interesting but not uncomfortable feel with the faceted stones embedded in it. ![PXL_20230907_180135894~2(1)](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/1/1/1163cfd5fe0996a34c063fc614f8df8ac1e12669.jpeg) ![PXL_20230907_180142012~3(1)](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/4/5/45c21f3f08dcf7ed0571dccb5570601b2736d79b.jpeg) ![PXL_20230907_204147400](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/7/6/76006fc745aff37235d01c628b3e9dee61415259.jpeg) The top glaze adds such a delicate shifting purple-blue sparkle to it that perfectly fits the blue flashes in the moonstone. And just to give you a comparison of before and after a light color wash and glazing ![PXL_20230906_210238079](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/5/8/58835563e5c1b2131cc60b7d624418c0cb9f9ebc.jpeg) (Before adding additional color ⬆) (After ⬇ ) ![PXL_20230907_204105318](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/6/9/69cac316f8e43d6583f01ab8ccd59bc1470ab321.jpeg) Now to cleanse, charge, consecrate, and dedicate my new wand! 🪄 As always, I’m happiest when I creating or making ☺ 🌙🏹 🌿 🦌 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-wonderful-wands/41525)._