Hello my dear spell-casting friends! ;-)
Very often people want to know how we do things around here at the Spellmaker offices! So I thought I would start a series of posts that let you know a little bit about how we make certain items and what kind of care goes into the products that we send you.
One of our most popular products are our Bayou Vodou Potions! These are extremely strong and powerful wearable (never drinkable) potions. The very history of the potions is so wonderful and dear to my heart that m My Aunt Fannie (who has now passed away) is the original creator of the potions that we use today. I have had my own hand in them, of course, but for the most part I have kept as close as possible to her original formulae.
It took me quite a bit of time to reproduce the forumale in the first place. Aunt Fannie wasn't trying to be difficult, I promise you, but there was a lot of, "Well, honey, I think I put about, oh, I don't know, an ounce or two of rose oil in this one... or wait.. no, well, yes, I think it was definitely an ounce or two." LOL. So that took quite a bit of time to get it down to what we both remembered.
So how do we make them? :-) Like the majority of our products, we mix them right here in our office. I used to make them a gallon at a time, but I actually like making a smaller batch. I don't even know why! Maybe I just like to make them!! LOL. That way if I only make a quart at a time I have to do it more often. ;-) Most often I make them from start to finish. Occasionally Parran Matt makes them up and does his part of the consecration and then I do my part of the consecration. We find it especially powerful on the love potions if we do our consecration together. It feel really awesome to put a little bit of our own love in a product that is meant to help other people attain their happiness.
Following my hard-won written forumale, we mix the oils in one at a time and allow each one to "rest" on top of the next one. Each potion contains 7 or more different oils. Many herbal and flower oils are used. After all the oils are added, the bottle is very gently rotated to blend the oils without bruising them. Hand blending of delicate oils without the usage of any metal tools keeps them as clear as possible (although some clouding is usually inevitable) and is said to help them retain their inherent ingredients.
After they are mixed and blended, they are consecrated. They are then bottled up into their individual containers and await your order! ;-)
I really wanted to share with you all a picture of my Aunt Fannie. Unfortunately, there are some of her family members who are less than enthusiastic about her memory (she did pass a few years ago) being linked with voodoo. SO, I set out to look for a picture of someone in a movie or something that might be a pretty good representation of what she looked like. WELL, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I found a picture of a painting by a Mr. Francoise Duparc that to me looks exactly like Aunt Fannie looked in her elder years (well, not the outfit, but the face and eyes are just incredibly like hers).
I was not familiar with Mr. Duparc's work until now, but I thank him so much for this painting because it just so looks like my dear Auntie, the original creator of the potions that some of you are wearing as you read this!
Love, Mambo Sam
