Female

I live in Roberts Creek, presently in Crystal Creek. Living the simple life, working at the gumboot, where I've wanted to since I was about six years old. Into life. Really into death, a little too much. But some of us have to be.

Into piercings, and tattoos, mainly traditional meathods and origins more than the modern piercing and tattoo communities. I carry Borneo rosettes and stretched ears, septum, sternum, tongue web, labret and others... Huge part of my life, piercing and bodily modification is. I spent a good deal of time working as a piercer and tattoo designer in Peru and know how that circle works in some places. I'm not so impressed...
I have a hard time letting go of things. I collect fossils and dead things, as well as hunt. I tan and cure hides (brain and other meathods), have emmense collections of feathers, mineral samples, teeth, skulls, bones and claws. I wish that more would approach me about these things (hint hint!!, I am presently overloaded with "STUFF" and need to trade/give away alot of animal related paraphenalia because I'd rather it be honoured than sitting in boxes) , as I feel that I am here to distribute them. I have all of this animal "medicine" but don't exactly know what to do with it. I have spent countless lifetimes studying and understanding it. I am more than certain that I know how to use most of it.

But it is not just for me. It's for you.

These are the gifts given to us by the earth to help us to understand ourselves and to help heal eachother through the knowledge and resurgence of memory... they're not alter cloths and not pieces to show off, nor things to stuff or things to hang on walls. They are things to be respected, cared for, worked with, and buried back in the ground if necessary.
Please drop me a line if your looking for anything in particular, or want to have a chat about anything I do. I love trades and giving things away as is the nature of my work, as I have so much more than I know what to do with. I am also living in peru, so the offer extends to wild-boars, boa skins, cat and monkey claws and skulls, and of course, turquoise stones, gorgeous malachite, black quartz, blue opals.... And by the way, I don't really like selling things, well, I don't sell my things, or things that I've been entrusted with, and am always looking to trade as a first option... :)
(I would love to trade for wood carving lessons and/or stone carving/shaping lessons)
I also love to teach tanning and sharing my knowledge of the natural world. Having a field day over the new mushrooming season, if any one wants to go out. I've been going since I was five and have a good grounding in mycological studies and field knowledge.
I design tattoos and paint water colour mandalas. Art is life, and life is forfeit without an understanding of art.
I think this is the first incarnation of my soul in which I have been a woman, Pagan of the old-world mind, I was supposed to have been born in another era...

My IAM is Kaya Marie Starchild, for all those in BME...