A spring of creativity leads to viable products i can sell 🌱

in DIYHub2 months ago (edited)

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It has been a whirlwind Spring with so much activity not only on our land but also here at home where i have been creating endless products with the goal of settling on just a few of them which i will focus on as items i can advertise, mass produce and sell with relative ease. The main mission has been to find two or three products which are not only effective but also small and solid, making the packaging and posting easier. And i do believe i have now settled on my final products.

Before i get to that i would like to show you some of the things i have been working on recently.

Pottery

I mentioned a few posts ago that i found a reserve of clay in our garden while digging in a tree and after removing one bucket's worth i cleaned and dried it with the goal of making two eggs at Easter for my children. The eggs came out pretty good and it left me wanting more.
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So i sat down again with the clay and crafted a bowl for Sabrina and an ashtray for our courtyard.
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A little ridge on the underside of the bowl lid helps it stay on.
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I put the date on the bottom and also my initials, using the style of M.C.Escher.
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A little nod to this great artist whose work adorns the walls around my 'office' zone.
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Have had these images on my walls since i was a teenager.
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The ashtray was a lot of fun to make because it really got me thinking about how i might be able to improve on the functionality of this item which generally only serves one purpose.
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I enjoyed decorating the sides with little markings.
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But it was the base which no one sees that holds the key to being a more advanced kind of ashtray.
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I researched which gods & goddesses have been associated with cannabis over the years and found there to be many, settling in the end on the goddess Kali, due to her destructive powers (these are needed at this time in human history) and also her dilated pupil which reminds me of Luna.

Smoking really is a sacred act and i think perhaps we forget this too easily, so the ashtray will remind us and keep us grounded.

Sabrina has requested a bonsai tree pot next. With a tray to sit in. Shouldn't be too hard...

Obviously all these items still need to be painted and glazed so until i build a kiln in the garden to reach temperatures of over 1000°C none of them are finished.

Antenna

One of the first things i made at the beginning of the year was a combination of two ideas, an Ighina spiral with pyramid attached.
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The pyramid is made of iron & resin, the two components necessary to make this a functional orgonite, channeling its energy down the clockwise spiral into the soil.
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You just stick it in the soil next to your plant like this and watch how it explodes into life.
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I also made this one which was rather less planned. It was actually a full moon sleepless night which led to its creation and the pyramid has a rose quartz base. Because plants love crystals too!
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It is sitting now in this pot.
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Seen a month later here, looking a lot happier.
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Another design i tried out was this.
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And it sits now in our raised bed in the courtyard with a baby orange tree in the middle.
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I made this one for our home.
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Setting it in a resin/iron base.
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Then i made an antenna for wider spaces, this one for an 80 year old lady, our garden neighbour who has taught us so much over the years and deserves a present.
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It consists of four half lost cubit Ighina spirals with a full sized lost cubit spiral at the centre. And twelves 'spikes', four of them steel, six of them copper.
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Unlike previous antenna in this style i am using a resin/iron mix to attach all the pieces to the bamboo stick. A system which i will stick to in the future as it seems very effective.
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This is where i left it at the entrance to her garden, so that it would be a surprise for her.
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She was very grateful (though perhaps still a bit skeptical) and has since then erected it in the centre of her raspberry bed.

Next i made this one with a flat base and three fibonacci spirals.
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The base is the same conductive mix of iron & resin, but this time with two connecting cables which make contact with the iron.
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I designed it to sit here, on top of a solar powered hydroponic tower in the garden.
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I call this electroponics. Another combination of two ideas.
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Since installing the system in the garden i have germinated three lettuce and three rocket plants.
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The pump has a battery which keeps the water running on cloudy days.
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Am just experimenting for now, seeing what can be done with minimal nutrition and maximum electroculture, but overall I am quite impressed by the progress of the plants so far.

Charging plates & Obelisk

I made this charging plate for my brother before we went to America in Feb but it didn't dry in time so has ended up here on my desk.
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This one is much smaller but has a powerful iron/resin base and single tensor ring in the centre.
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As the iron base is magnetic all one has to do is attach a neodymium magnet to the back and it will stick to anything metal, making it an excellent fridge magnet which will bring life to the things in our fridge.
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This plate was very much an experiment, just to see if i could capture forever the essence of these Spring flowers.
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It isn't easy to do this as the flowers must be completely dry before going in the resin (otherwise the colours will change) so one is limited by their ability to dry flowers in a pleasing manner.
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Have been testing out all manner of flowers with limited success, but i will keep trying until i find 'just the right one' for my plates.

This plate was another of those full moon moments where i was just going with the flow. Four trinity symbols surrounding a sacred cubit tensor ring on an iron/resin base.
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After which i added crystals and a central spiral to bring it to life.
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The finished charging plate here.
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It has ended up on my desk as a spot for my first obelisk which is currently holding my dowsing pendulm.
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Obelisks are amazing shapes, a bit more testing to make than your average pyramid.
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Time will tell if they also serve as effective antenna.

Pyramids

Still interested in the idea of preserving flowers i made a few pyramids with flowers & resin, plus a copper frame to give the item some kind of electroculture effect.
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Looks like four flowers from above but this is just the optical effect of the four sided pyramid.
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I also tried out this ivy flower cluster, with twisted wires and copper powder connection at the top.
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And was relatively happy with the result.
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I've had these copper rods for a while and had intended to weld them into a pyramid.
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But i went for the easy route in the end, buying these 3D printed corners which made construction extremely simple.
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The pyramid was placed on a courgette in the garden and there is no question about it, this courgette now looks healthier than the others.
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Coming back to the idea of twisted copper frame pyramids i made this pyramid with a quartz crystal at the centre and iron/resin around it.
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With a trinity tensor ring symbol at its base.
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Plus this one.
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With a simple tensor ring at the base.
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I really like these pyramids and knowing this is a 100% original design i kept pushing myself to make more, always playing and tweaking a little, trying to improve on the design. Some worked better than others.
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Am currently running tests with these pyramids to prove their effectiveness on plant growth.
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Because that which is good for plants is also good for us, making these decent pyramids to have around our home.

The 52° cement/basalt cone

Having seen the effectiveness of Yannick Van Doorne's cement/basalt tower on my plants i have been keen for a long time to make my own version of this. Here you can see Yannick's tower in the middle of my baby kale, keeping them healthy and strong.
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So i bought a cement cone mold, larger than the cone on Yannick's tower.
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My first finished basalt/cement cone seen here. Even without a base i know this shape is effective.
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So I put it amongst some pots on a table in the garden and almost instantly the reaction was clear.
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They love it!

Which of these products will i sell?

In truth i will happily make any of them on request but i will primarily focus on the last two, the copper frame iron pyramids and the cone. They are both heavy (which will make postage more expensive) but they are also extremely effective, compact and difficult to damage in a well packed box.

I am however not done personalizing the cone yet and have ordered more basalt in order that i can play now with the overall look. Like the pyramid, i want it black and i want copper tensor rings around it. Ideally a set of three, the Sacred, Lost & Empowerment cubits. Am even thinking to give the cone an outer layer of resin which will permanently seal the tensor rings against the cone and keep them looking shiny forever.

There are many people out there selling orgonite pyramids and basalt cones already so i want mine to stand out as being different to the others and believe a uniform black colour with copper outlines is a great step in this direction.

As a cheaper alternative to these two main products i will also offer the Ighina spirals with the iron/resin pyramids attached. These are easier/faster to produce and are more suited to a single plant, rather than a wider space in your garden or home.

Here is the plant one of these spiras ended up in and i must say i am impressed by the way it has reacted.
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Seems a darker shade of green than it was before.
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So there you have it!

Three products i believe in which are original, effective and beautiful.

I will keep running tests with them now, getting plenty of photographic evidence for their effectiveness and i will also make films which go with each product, to explain how they work and why i built them the way i did!

Excited to make these available to the public and start getting friendly with my local post office, should there be any demand...

I leave you with a shot of a myself and a recent book written by one of my sisters about the life of our father in the Philippines. I have a little bit of pride attached because one of the chapters was written by me.

Love & Light everyone 🌱

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Super fun!

Your ceramic creations are my favorite. They look really comfortable to hold.

One of your previous posts inspired me to create my own electroculture tall antennas for outdoors, and a few small ones for indoors. Can't really vouch for any true benefit they are adding, but it was a fun project to repurpose a long tree branch that fell and didn't want to get rid of.

With the extra copper wire I made pyramid, and tied a copper coil sphere pendulum to hang under the tip of the pyramid. By keeping it near the entrance to my primary living area, I have the feeling it has brought balance, peace, and power into my life by absorbing bad energy and harmonizing everything that enters. I used to get bad family news every few months threatening to permanently alter my life goals, and that doesn't seem to happen anymore.

Anyway, if these weird geo instruments aren't causing harm, they are either doing nothing, or something good. So no problem keeping them around to keep myself and others better grounded when they see and react to them.

Am so pleased you built some elecroculture/weird geo stuff! Certainly the effects are subtle but i think there is a cumulative effect when one just keeps on adding more and more 'stuff' to their home or garden. In addition i think our mind has a lot to do with it. So i don't just stick an antenna in the ground and observe what happens. I become an active player in its effectiveness by willing it on every day and generally acknowledging it in a positive light, appreciating its form and awesome powers. And as time goes on i can even feel a need to change their position on my land sometimes as perhaps they are not working optimally where they are. Also the seasons seem to play a role, so at certain times of year the antenna seems less effective than others.

Thank you for appreciating my ceramic creations. I used to make things like this at school and forgot how much i enjoyed doing it. Just hope i figure out how to glaze them in a way that looks pretty. Will write another post when i get round to building that kiln...

Long may your times of no bad family news continue!

My favorite, it spoke to me:

"Four trinity symbols surrounding a sacred cubit tensor ring on an iron/resin base....After which i added crystals and a central spiral to bring it to life....The finished charging plate here." It's cool that it ended up holding your first obelisk which is currently holding my dowsing pendulm.

These are all fascinating and really nice work! And cool about the collaborative work on the book.

Am so pleased this one spoke to you! I remember thinking at the time it felt more feminine and Sabrina also took a liking to it. Perhaps once i get myself organized a bit better i might try producing more of these with slightly different styles? Could be that the ones i have selected for selling are more masculine.

Thank you for always being an amazing supporter 🙏

Amazing, you're on fire dude! I read your first posts when you where first experimenting with electroculture and now all that energy is spiraling back into your creativity. If you don't mind me asking, what's a basic design I could do with minimal tools to place in my room, I'm experiencing extreme negativity as of late and could use a little balancing

Thanks for appreciating the creations! I think my advice would simply be copper wire. Buy some electrical copper wire, strip the plastic off it and start to play. Touching the copper alone is good for you. But if you have an electric drill you could refer to my post on tensor rings and start having some fun.

Personally i would create a set of three tensor rings (Sacred, Lost & Empowerment cubits) using 2.5mm copper wire and i would do this with a clear intention. Then i would put those rings somewhere near my head while i am sleeping. Perhaps on the wall or bedside table. Then i would think about the place i spend the most time during the day and move them there. Putting them back next to the bed before sleep! And repeat. Some people wear them round their necks all day, but this will make you look like Mr T, so you may not be into that.

Have had some words tumbling around my head recently which may be relevant here. People often say they are growing plants in their garden, but in truth it is the plants in their garden which are growing them. And the same thing applies to playing with copper. The more we do it, the more it grows us. So the bottom line is to find some aspect of copper which excites or interests you and get busy having fun. Remembering always that we came here as Creators, so while it is good to follow instructions precisely at the beginning, letting go of that and finding our own rhythm is ultimately more important.

Thanks for the awesome advice bro, I'm getting some copper wire today and start playing around with it 🙌🙌

Mosaics. Flowers preserved in resin (like ants in amber).
All these things hand-crafted by Sam - and your daughter too - all beautiful work!
I'm in awe. (And "awesome" is such an overused word, I don't use it lightly.)

Thank you for your compliment here Carol.

I actually just finished my new cone design today and look forward to posting some words about it.

Sam, you've heard of "pleaching," but again, for other followers here who (like me!) haven't heard of it until today:

Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge or lattices. Trees are planted in lines, and the branches are woven together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. Branches in close contact may grow together, due to a natural phenomenon called inosculation, a natural graft.


.... A bunch of skinny branches tied together in a crisscross like a kid’s sketch of a fence. Some people walk past it and chuckle. Others ask if we’re starting a garden teepee.
But this living fence? It’s the most important thing I’ve planted in years.
When my husband passed, the house went quiet in a way I wasn’t prepared for. I stopped caring how things looked outside. The shrubs grew wild. The mailbox leaned. And the wooden fence out front? Eventually collapsed entirely in a storm last spring.
I was going to hire someone to replace it, but something in me said… not yet.
I wanted to try something alive.
Something I’d have to tend to. Water. Watch grow. Like a slow promise to myself that maybe, just maybe, the quiet wouldn’t always feel so heavy.
I joined a few gardening groups on the Tedooo app to figure out how to build a living fence. I didn’t even know the term for it. Someone messaged me and said, “It’s called pleaching. Takes time, but you’ll fall in love with the process.” They were right.
I met a guy on the Tedooo app who sells starter sapling kits — I bought mine from him. He included a handwritten note that said, “Grow slowly. Stay.” I cried for ten minutes after opening that box.
Each tie I added was like a stitch through the grief. Every leaf that’s starting to push through right now feels like a whisper saying, “You stayed.”
This fence won’t keep anything out.
But it keeps something in.
It keeps me connected to the idea that beauty doesn’t always have to be fast. Or finished. It just has to keep going.
So no, it’s not much. Not yet.
But by next spring? It’ll be full and green and reaching for the sky.
And I will be, too.
Thanks, Tedooo — for the kit, the kindness, and the community that reminded me to try.

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And so, now, I try to discern if #pleaching is how the hedge rows of Normandy came to be.

This failure to identify and assess the impact of the hedgerows, and then develop tactics and training procedures to deal with them, resulted in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of Allied Soldiers.
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The Normandy hedgerows were made up of linear mounds or walls of earth topped by a thick tangle of trees and brush. Most of the hedgerows dated back hundreds of years, some back to the time of William the Conqueror. Centuries of soil compaction and vegetation growth meant the hedgerows were dense, sturdy obstacles that were virtually impossible to penetrate. On a flat and otherwise featureless coastal plain the hedgerows created heavily dissected terrain with limited line of sight and restricted virtually all off-road movement.
.... But the question remains – how did we miss the impact the hedgerows would have on our tactical operations? We didn’t lack for topographic intelligence analysis during the planning phases for Overlord. The beaches and inland areas of Normandy received some of the most intensive Engineer terrain and intelligence analysis ever applied to a piece of ground. We collected tens of thousands of aerial photos (many of them in stereo), built hundreds of terrain models and printed thousands of special maps and geographic (terrain) studies of the Normandy region. Small unit commanders had the best picture of their objectives, and the terrain leading up to their objectives, than had ever been developed for any military operation up to that time – and yet we missed the hedgerows!

https://oldtopographer.net/2014/05/26/we-missed-the-hedgerows/

Answer: Not Pleaching.

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The Normandy hedgerows were made up of linear mounds or walls of earth topped by a thick tangle of trees and brush. Most of the hedgerows dated back hundreds of years, some back to the time of William the Conqueror. Centuries of soil compaction and vegetation growth meant the hedgerows were dense, sturdy obstacles that were virtually impossible to penetrate. On a flat and otherwise featureless coastal plain the hedgerows created heavily dissected terrain with limited line of sight and restricted virtually all off-road movement.

Awesome! Very excited to try this one day...

Such a great post
You are doing amazingly well

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Wow nice all products

Thanks! Am pleased you found them enjoyable.

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Sam,
Searching your wall for posts on textiles and their vibrational frequencies, I didn't find any. You know all this already, I'm sure, but for the sake of any followers who may see this:

The vibrational frequencies of natural fabrics typically range between 100 mHz to 5000 Hz, whereas synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon tend to have lower, often detrimental frequencies.

-- Enhance Emotional Well-being: Wearing high-frequency fabrics like wool, linen, and organic cotton is thought to enhance emotional balance by harmonizing with the body’s energy field. These fabrics promote calmness, reduce stress, and foster a sense of peace.
-- Boost Physical Health: Natural fibers can support the body’s natural healing processes by aligning with the body’s electromagnetic field. For instance, merino wool is known for its ability to regulate body temperature, supporting the immune system and enhancing overall vitality.
-- Grounding and Detoxification: Linen and organic cotton are believed to support detoxification and grounding. This helps to eliminate excess energy and promote mental clarity.

-- Energy Drain: Synthetic fibers, with their lower vibrational frequencies, can cause an imbalance in the wearer’s energy field. This disruption may lead to feelings of fatigue, irritability, or anxiety, as the body works harder to adjust to the synthetic fabric’s energy.
-- Emotional and Mental Fatigue: Research in energy medicine suggests that wearing synthetic fabrics for long periods can interfere with the body’s natural frequencies. This can lead to emotional instability, difficulty concentrating, and even sleep disturbances.

More at [The Advantages of Natural Fiber Clothing vs Synthetic Clothing: Vibrational Frequencies and Wellness](https://publicmyth.com/blog/high-vibration-clothing/

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Had been aware of this to a certain extent but not enough to throw out my wardrobe yet!

It's the same with electroculture. No need for plastic bits when this only pulls down the overall frequency of the device. This is why i always strip the plastic off the copper wire now.

Many thanks for the info and link.

Thank you for all your insights and information!
I'm forever in amazement at all that you accomplish!