Medicine Bags

Bear & Company

Hello, I've lived in New York where I was born and raised but I have also lived in sunny, California and unpredictable, stormy Florida.

I'm a handcrafter, a user and believer of herbs as well as allopathic medicine too, the  wise wild woman ways and, a lover of Nature.  I spend a lot of time reading, studying, doing what I can to be a part of healing the planet, practicing Reiki, maintaining, dreaming, creating, and tending my wonderful cockatiel family of five; Josie, Roo, Nikki, BeBe and Spike. They also lovingly comprise the Board of Advisors here at little-bear-leathers-2008 and noras-nest. Please feel free to e-mail them with your questions, thoughts and, feelings. 

My bags are probably more accurately described as keepsake pouches for the wise woman, man, magical ecologist, naturalist, mother earth stewart ways. You know, tree huggers, earth lovers or just earthy folk in general. People who choose to stay connected and celebrate Earth's diversity.

The honoring medicine bags I make are for personal items that the caretaker wishes to keep safe and sound. They are used for housing sacred objects, fetishes, and intentions, as well as small gifts of kindness, and they may well help to empower their keeper’s goals, and aspirations since everything is perception.

But they have also found other uses. Some people have used them for housing sewing needles, gum, the visiting tooth fairy, their daughter's first moon time celebration, tucking jewelry into, gifts, as protection bags suspended from vehicle mirrors, tucked in glove compartments or suitcases when traveling, it seems they have varied uses.

All of the strap sizes can be lengthened so just ask. Though I often get requests I do not wholesale my items.

I’ve been making things since I was a kid but started getting serious about handcrafting back in 1987 when I started working with crystals and became fascinated with them. Before that I sewed clothes, knit scarfs, embroidered, made collages, and did some basic painting and drawing.

I worked with crystals for a while and then the following year started working with leather and buckskin. I love buckskin as a medium. It’s easy to work and be in partnership with.  I’ve been crafting with it and combining it with other mediums and keep coming up with some nice ideas. Buckskin has a mind of its own. I enjoy working with my hands and sharing my work. It’s relaxing and sometimes challenging but always interesting. I hope you enjoy what I do.

On a side note here incase you are curious, I am not Native American or profess to be and none of my crafts are Native American made, produced, or of a particular Native American tribe.