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The Art Alchemist's Guild

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I've made so many ventures into art and food involving harvesting and processing resources I get from nature around me, but none of them ever seem to work out. I'm in the midatlantic US and I see beautiful things to work with all the time but I feel I get discouraged easily. I personally have struggled with processing dogbane, getting pulp from rosehips, and learning what to use and how to weave or lash. I've had a good deal of success with foraging though! What kinds of things have you all been struggling with? Maybe we can help each other :)

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[–] WeevilFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you mean using the paper as the panels of the box? That sounds cool!

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep! I just posted another article here on it.

[–] WeevilFriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm super excited to see if that turns out well :)