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Happy Halloween/Samhain/Late Autumn folks! As promised last year, for a little while I’m bringing back some special moss pendants in time for the season; ones made with some local cemetery moss.

All of this moss was collected in a small pinch taken from a local historic cemetery.* I have nine pendants available this week, six small ones featuring “Worm Moss” (Bryoandersonia illecebra), and three larger rectangle pendants featuring “Palm Tree Moss” (Climacium dendroides). I should have a few more pieces available in the coming couple of weeks, as well.

Grave moss has long had a folkloric and symbolic association with spirits and the dead - perfect for the time of year when the veil, they say, is most thin.

(*No graves were disturbed in the harvesting of the moss, the moss was harvested from one of the oldest parts of the cemetery, far away from any plots that may still have mourners, the moss was taken from the ground, not a headstone).

All of these will be available tomorrow, Sunday the 20th of October at 12pm EST!

We’re now well into November, but I still have one, final batch of these to go! I was all ready for last week to be the last time these were available for the year, but as I was going through my dried specimens I realized I had an additional box of the specimens that wouldn’t quite fit in the main box.

I’m out of the Palm Tree Moss but have about 7 of the larger pendants with big feathery specimens of the Worm Moss, as well as 24 small pendants.

Thislast batch will be available tomorrow, Sunday November 10th at 1:30pm EST!

These are now available in the store!