Gretchen Helms
Guardians and Focii: Build Your Own!

In difficult times we have different needs; a need for self protection or perhaps a need for binding opposition. This workshop will teach you how to build a corn dolly which you can use for binding/hexing OR which you can build as a protective kitchen witch! Protective herb bundles are provided; bring small photos or small personal items for binding/hexing.

Gretch felt the callings of the nature spirits at a very young age, but then needed to survive Catholic school and didn’t fully realize that she was, in fact, a witch until shortly before the pandemic started.  She’s spent over thirty years in the tech industry and now creates her own jewelry, incense, and weaving.  She has several feral black cats that she tends to as well as the local tribe of crows and a beehive.  She adores tea and online gaming, and can’t stop making stuff for fear she might explode.

Gretchen is a solo witch who delights in creating things....from incense to jewelry and magickal tools. From the age of eight she has felt called to the trees and the wildlife; with Scottish blood she is particularly drawn to Druid ways and foggy damp environs.

Gretchen will also be vending at Hexenfest.

You can find her items for sale at https://laughing-cat-forge.myshopify.com/