You may have noticed that the product churn at Magickal Realism has slowed down in the past year. It’s not because I’m tired of perfumery – anything but! It’s because I’ve been taking time out to explore my own creative horizons, and to become a better perfume artisan, with yet more unique fragrances and approaches to fragrance. This has caused a conscious separation from the perfume grind as you know it: I’m not easy to find in my usual places, and thanks to a family crisis, a move, and my upcoming wedding I’m maintaining my slow pace even if drives you all mad. :)
Along with brushing up on my writing and perfuming skills, I’ve been gardening and discovering a love for decoupage. I’ll leave scrabble pendants to the scrabble makers, but now that I’m covering every glass surface that wanders into my home, I’m looking at possibly releasing them as reed diffusers as an extension of my trashion line – assuming I can find something trashion-like to use as a diffuser (I feel not-good buying reeds for this purpose.)
For instance, I mentioned this chair before:
It’s now happily ensconsed on my balcony – I’ll be showing you the plants I’m growing on it soon. I’m hoping to train moon flower and morning glory up the chair, to make it a complete organic/trashion art piece. While it took a long time and did involve an incident with Mod Podge and poor ventilation, it was really a lot of fun to do.
I’m also grinding incense and including it in some trashion packaging:
Some of these are old spice jars. Some of these are other stuff – and I’m using herbs that I didn’t need for infusions, cooking or whatever. The intention is that you can use the jar to spice up your space and use the incense either as a spell powder (sprinkle where you need it most) or to burn on incense charcoal.
There will be other things coming this summer – artist’s statements for my established perfume line, and some insight into the perfume line I’m developing for my sister based on her love of the show Supernatural. Also, as part of that process, what I do to avoid trademark infringement and why it may not always work. Fortunately, you can’t trademark inspiration. Unfortunately, network television isn’t great with fan collaboration and brand hijacking, although some shows are more tolerant than others.