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Athena's Owl Healing and Creations

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Athena's Owl Healing and Creations

Welcome to my page!! I make macrame jewellery with semi precious gems, and will be expanding into silver smithing. Feel free to have a look and say hello!

As an Empath, I am extremely passionate about helping people through the field of Holistic Health.

25/07/2025

Ahoj my friends! I'm in the city today restocking my cube. If you are in Melbourne Central and want to support my business, along with many other Aussie crafters, make your way over here!

30/05/2025

And here she iiiiiiiis!! Fully completed now!! I am so happy with how she turned out. I found myself constantly holding her and going "ooooh, ahhhhh".

This is a wrapped Howlite cabochon in 30mm x 20mm. The cording is 100% waxed polyester in 1mm thickness. The colours are Black and Cherry Black, with a 3mm brass bead at the bottom. She is also on an adjustable necklace as well.

This beauty is now available on my website:
www.madeit.com.au/collections/athenas-owl-healing-and-creations

22/05/2025

Just about finished this one!! This piece has taken a while to do, but I am extremely happy with how it has turned out!! I have had to redo this one a few times in order to get the pattern that I want correctly, and that included getting the knotting techniques down-pat as well. It also took some trial and error to be able to get the black bordering done around the cabochon in the one colour, rather than having the cherry black cording be included in the knotwork.

And I am loving the little coil that I added as a feature, this is fast becoming a favourite bit to do and will become a staple in future projects too.

I tell you what, once you figure out the knotwork and technique and practice practice practice; it knot (see what I did there? 🤣) only becomes smooth sailing from that point on, but you can create your pieces much faster also!

Now time to clean it up, I will put a small brass bead on the very bottom to help give an extra pop of colour and balance, then the necklace part, and she will be ready to go to a new home!

❤️

16/05/2025

Every time I am getting ready to work, or continuing working on a piece, this one always insists on cuddling up and demanding attentionz, patz and the belleh rubz. *Sigh* The things we do for our furbabies!!

01/05/2025

Yes, I am invincible!! Finally figured out how to connect the two wrapped cabochons using this method. When I practice this a few more times, my technique will be snatched!!

I am loving how this is looking so far, still tossing up how I want to do the necklace part, as in the part that sits around the neck, do I keep it simple or do I make something more flowy? Either way, squeeeeee!!!

⚡️✨ ❤️

24/04/2025

Sometimes as a crafter, you complete your work but you're just not happy with it. This is the case here. I made more stock of these bracelets, and sadly I had run out of the cording size that I normally use for the beads that are 8mm in size, so I made makeshift cording. Which is do-able, but they just didn't look great and I didn't get very positive feedback for them at the Fantasy Medieval market a couple of weeks back.

Luckily my order of the correct cording arrived, so I will be repurposing them. Some crafters may find doing so rather frustrating, but I actually don't mind because these will be remade fairly quickly. And I would much rather have my pieces look clean, professional and above all eye-catching too. Also luckily, there isn't that much to redo (or at least for me it is not 🤣🤣🤣).

Have a good one wherever you are and for my fellow Aussies, enjoy the long weekend!

07/04/2025

Macrame artist friends, I really need your help. I want to start making more wrapped cabochon necklaces, and I want to have two cabochons linked together.

The part that I am having trouble with is how to thread them together so that they stay together, and as tight as possible so that the cabs aren't flailing everywhere. Trying to get the technique right, exactly how many knots need to be made etc. I'm including a picture here, with arrows showing what it is that I need help with.

Any suggestions, or even youtube tutorials would be awesome.

06/04/2025

Thank you for an awesome weekend, Mount Gambier!! We had so much fun with making sales, meeting new people, making new friends and talking to all the attendees!! Looking forward to coming back next year ☺️

Very, veeeeeeeery tired right now. Just chilling back at the motel now. Tomorrow we make the looong trip back to Ballarat and then home.

❤️

04/04/2025

Mount Gambier, we are heeeeeeeeeeere!!!!! Getting our gear ready for the Mt Gambier Fantasy Medieval Fair.

If you enjoy all things Medieval, this is the place for you. Your gal and my mate Brendan Crawford from Keipa's Carpentry will be there. Come one, come all and come say haiiiii to us!!

21/03/2025

This is the look that I am going for. I'm practicing how to connect wrapped cabochons together. It's not perfect, but this is my first attempt so, not bad! I need to make adjustments to get it to sit properly, sturdily and symmetrically as well. There is definitely a technique to this for sure 🤣🤣🤣 I'm going to seek help from the FB groups on how to get the technique right, and then I will have become the master of the thing!!!!

19/03/2025

So here are some cabochons that I have wrapped with the new bead loom I got myself last week. These cabs are wrapped for projects that I will be working on. In the last pic, this will be worked into one necklace. Feeling excited, feeling design creativity coming back as well!!

17/03/2025

A few weeks back, I bought myself a bead loom. A very basic one. Sadly it kept flopping all over the place and I couldn't do any wrapping work on it. Clipping it down proved useless with this particular model.

Then I noticed a fellow macrame maker had a loom that appeared to be a little bit more heavy-duty, and could be easily held down with bulldog clips on a normal clip-board, therefore making it easier to work with rather than having it slip and slide everywhere.

After looking at this maker's loom and then a google search later, Tah-daaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Now I have the same loom myself! It has this adjustable frame and metal pieces on both ends, so that they can be clipped down to make it sturdy.

I tell you what, this is also a game-changer for me. I love having products and equipment that is efficient, sturdy and just plain works!

Doing the wrap work took a little bit of getting used to because I am not used to the cording being raised. But now that I figured out the technique, I'm just banging out wrap after wrap!! 🤣🤣🤣

I already have a new piece in mind and I can't wait to show you the finished result!

Address

Ringwood East, VIC

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

0437075600

Website

http://madeit.com.au/collections/athenas-owl-healing-and-creations

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