Ravenwood Apothecary

Wicked Wen's Witch Supplies are now available at the Ravenwood Apothecary! Salem's finest Witch Shoppe welcomes you. In business since 1692. We have everything you need for all your Potion Brewing and Spell Casting needs. Look no further for those rare and hard to find ingredients for your Witch's Brew. We are a one stop shop that can't be topped. So fly in for a spell and pick your poison. Mention Wicked Wens name and receive a special 'Good Witch' discount. All products are certified and endorsed by the Black Hat Society of Salem, Mass!
W.W. Ravenwood & Co., Alchemist & Purveyor of Advanced Magic, Coven of the Crescent Moon.

So what do you think? This was my labor of love this Halloween season. I was aiming for an old, Victorian sort of look and feel to my Apothecary. Picking the names and ingredients was a lot of fun. I can't wait for my friends and neighbors to come check it out at this year's Halloween party. They will be convinced that I am completely off my nut! And maybe, just maybe....they are right! Ha Ha Ha! I don't care what anyone thinks. I say let's give them something to talk about.

UPDATE May 29, 2009 When I set out to revamp my existing Apothecary and give it an older look and feel...I went searching on-line for ideas and photos. I came across some photos of bottles in an image search that were my inspiration. I found 2 sites that I thought were closest to the look I had in my mind's eye. The name of one site was www.aranamuerta.com, and that gal's work was fabulous. Not only was the work top notch, but she also gave step by step instructions for how to make them. So I used some of her ideas and general color scheme as a guide...but her technique was too labor intensive for me because I am inherently lazy...ha! So mine don't look as great as hers, but I was still pretty proud of them. I did make some changes of course to try and make them my own. I used my own apothecary name and text and some of my ingredients were different also. I borrowed a few of her cool names and then had to invent some of my own as well, which was big fun. However that is also what took me the longest time because I can get a bit neurotic about little details like that. Also, a lot of my bottles are actually vintage bottles that I've collected over the years, so I didn't want my labels permanently affixed, so I just used a glue stick and sometimes tie on mailing labels as well.

Well wouldn't you know, I found my way back to her site finally by web surfing through Halloween blogs, and now she actually sells the potions bottles. Eeegads! Why is it, that my timing is always off? If she had started selling these last year, I could have bought her fabulous creations and saved myself an awful lot of time and effort. Boo hoo! Oh well...maybe another 'Halloween Head' like myself will be able to benefit anyway. Check out her website and follow it to her Etsy store to purchase. Oh, and the bottles are one of the smaller things she creates...her big stuff is equally incredible, but way out of my league to attempt.