Welcome to The Purple Raven
Merry Meet, welcome to our blog. This is a peek into our lives, what we do where we go & most importantly for The Purple Raven, what we make & source for the website.
Merry Meet, welcome to our blog. This is a peek into our lives, what we do where we go & most importantly for The Purple Raven, what we make & source for the website.
All the handmade wooden items we sell via the website are made by collecting fallen trees, or ones that have been felled or pruned in the locality. We have a lot of woodland surrounding us so trees are always being taken down for one reason or another unfortunately. We don’t cut down any living trees for our stock.
We spend our free time sourcing vintage and pre-owned items. I personally love having an item on my altar or in my home that’s got a history, not mass produced and is (quite likely) unique to me. As I can’t possibly fit it all into my home, my altar isn’t that big either, I pass on some of the things I find, and can bear to part with, via Purple Raven.
Samhain is an important celebration in the Pagan & Wiccan calendar. This year though it is a little bit more special than normal.
You have probably been taking part in candle magic for many years without realising it. Many of us were told as a child to ‘make a wish’ before blowing out a candle on a birthday cake. Ancient Greeks were said to have been the ones to have started this tradition. They used to decorate cake …
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Words have meanings and names have power. They are a description that let people make an instant judgement and assumptions about us. Names are the first impression we have of people so what we chose to call ourselves can affect how people see us. We are given a name at birth, Your skin colour and …
Based in Nottinghamshire, a short distance from Sherwood Forest. We are lucky to live backing onto ancient woodland, actually a remnant of Sherwood Forest