Karin Celestine

Grandmother Badger gathers mushrooms under the full moon for healing.

The full moon calls the creatures to the woods. Can you hear the call too?

Weasel service announcement #clocksgoback

what a beautiful parcel arrived! At @great_northern_events @collingwoodnorris and I did a swap. We chatted ideas and she said she’d send me some scraps of yarn I was expecting a few tiny pieces and a lot of bits of wool but look what arrived!! Can’t wait to use it all. Thank you so much Flora! Xx

If you couldn't make it to GNCCF and fancy a creature, or you went and dithered, now is your chance. 7.30pm tonight they'll appear on my website new collection page.

There’s a little collection of creatures who didn’t find homes at @great_northern_events at the weekend. They’ll be on my site of webs new collection page 7.30pm this Friday.Iif you couldn’t come or couldn’t decide, now’s your chance! Don’t forget calendar preorders close on the 30th! Nab one quick

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing! Today they are stomping to Dexy’s Midnight Runners Come on Eileen. Come on and dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

“Daddy I made a new friend in Manchester can they come and stay with us? Can they? Please? They’re only tiny!” (Small guinea pig from @lizjanson )

All set up! Come and find the wild woods B23 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair

Hurrah it is Wednesday and while we are driving up to Manchester, the weasels are dancing! Today to the Happy Mondays to get us in the Manchester groove. Dance like a weasel, you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

Car is packed full of excited creatures and books ready for setting off bright and early to Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester. Come and see our little corner of Welsh wild woods at the beautiful Victoria Baths stand B23

Have you ordered a calendar yet? I think this pic might be in 2028 if I actually do what I say I’ll do every year and that is take a pic and decide each month so they’re all ready come October next year. Ha not gonna happen but we can live in hope! www.celestineandthehare.com/calendar

SCHOOLS! Would you like £500 of FREE books?! I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club" Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books. I have £500 ready for the next school, so get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Everyone is stocking up with travelling snacks from The Mouse Bakery for #gnccfmcr26 next week. Hope they save something for me!

 Grandmother Badger heard it might be cold and busy with humans in Manchester so she gathered Rosehips, haws and berries to make a tonic for the creatures and soft warm bedding.

“Ere Celestine can you help me make my bed please? It seems to have got a big saggy”

His Maj said he couldn’t help me today as he needs to get his beauty sleep in so he looks his best for his admiring fans in Manchester next week. Hmmm

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing! Today to a bit of Rock Lobster and the B52s. Dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

Today I’ve been wrangling stands and set up ideas for Greaat northern There were lots of panda words and paper cut outs as the clock cases are too heavy for my walls, but I think I’m getting there! Phew! If you zoom in you can get a sneak peek of some of the creatures coming.

Squizzers give a little flick of their tail when they find a specially good mushroom. 🍄 they’re hoping there’s some corkers at GNCCF when they get there

I met a spoon carving badger in the woods today. He’s hoping to be invited to spoonfest next year. In the meantime he’ll be demonstrating his skills at Great Northern craft fair in Manchester

Had a break from preparing for @great_northern_events and had a cuppa in the sunshine with this fun guy. Hope you had a small joy in your day too

‘Well met, fellow! Do you know the way to Manchester? @great_northern_events are expecting me’

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing! Today a little bit of Bowie to boogie to. Dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

Everyone is keen to try out the new chair! Meanwhile knitting shrew says “Psst Calendars will be up for preorder in 1st October! “

So what do you do when you hurt your thumb and have a lot of pondering to do? Make a tiny matchstick chair of course 😂 This one is for a knitting shrew. I hope your coming week is full of small joys and the full moon and equinox gives you a nudge in courage to be your authentic beautiful self!

On the full moon when day and night are equal, when spiders spin their most beautiful webs and earth smells of summer’s end, fairy mice gather a few of those gossamer fine webs to spin blankets for their babies. If you go out early, with a quiet heart, you might catch a glimpse

Can’t beat a squishy fun guy for an armchair! Come and see me and this little one at @great_northern_events in Manchester next month.

The sun brought everyone out to the woods for a spot of foraging today!

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. They had quite a few suggestions with panda words in after my week, but we settled on a bit of Blondie instead! Dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

It is the autumn equinox tomorrow The equinox hare is on their way. Those who are quiet of heart and walk the hedge might catch a glimpse. Do say hello if you do

Spoon carving badger was going to have a lovely scene with a log and axe but making the axe ended me up at minor injuries getting my thumb strapped up back together (oopsy) so here he is with no axe for now! Should heal in a week they said and no washing dishes till then, so that’s a silver lining!

Been celebrating my boy’s birthday today. He was working all day Friday so we celebrated today with coffee and Swedish cinnamon and cardamom buns I baked A friend shared a tutorial to make rosehip hearts for the garden, but being me I made it mouse sized! Sending Big birthday love to you all ❤️

It is the autumn equinox next week. I glimpsed the equinox hare gathering their finery in readiness . Hare will be at Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester next month after their celebrations

Wolf cub had been tucked in for the night and was meant to be sleeping but he couldn’t resist a little howl at the moon. Awwwooooo! He’ll be howling his way to Great northern contemporary craft fair in Manchester next month

Mouse popped in for tart from the Mouse Bakery on their way home. Making a few clock case scenes for @great_northern_events next month. Come and nab one and you could be popping in to the Mouse Bakery for cake too! #gnccfmcr26 #craftsayssomething

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. Today to Diana Ross. Dance like a weasel you know you want to. #weaselwednesday

Hare hung a moon boat in the sky ready for someone in need of a moon lullaby. I wonder who will find it?

Everyone was enjoying the warm afternoon sunshine today. Mouse was in a rush to catch post badger before he went home

Mouse knew just where to get the softest bedding for her babies

Sometimes it is really used having a tail! Specially when the ripest berries are just out of reach, or if you just fancy a swing!

The day of the shed! Hurrah! karincelestine.substack.com/p/the-day-of...

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing Today they are doing that thing to Basement Jaxx Such a joyful tune & a reminder to do your thing This is the week I celebrate not going back to teaching but going to my shed to do my thing. Dance like a weasel you know you want to #weaselwednesday

Every Tuesday Old Shrew pops by to visit Mouse and they swap books they’ve been reading.

Sometimes the only thing to do is lie back in the heather and look at the clouds. First little creature made ready for Great Northern Contemporary Craft fair in October. I’ve got a lot to do! Come and see us Srand B23 PoolB 16-18th Oct #gnccf #gnccfmcr26

I used to teach ancient history and tried writing cuneiform. This is just wonderful

September collection tonight 8pm www.celestineandthehare.com/new-collection