Karin Celestine

A little felted shrew smiling on a fungus on a log. They hold a little book with a leaf cover bound with tiny green string

Shrews are known for carrying a notebook with them to record all the small joys and memories from their days.
Shrew said they’d let you have a peek inside theirs tomorrow.

45 mins for them to upload!

I bloody love living in Wales!

Lurcher snuggled under a fluffy blanket asleep

Lupin living his best life while I pack gift gatherer preorders on world book day

I hope so too!

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. Today they are boogying to TheJoy Division.
Dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

If you want a delightful gift for someone, I thoroughly recommend all of this series.
And if you need cheering up yourself, treat yourself to one!
You won't be disappointed.

Thanks so much!

Wild garlic and a felted crow and shrew with a feather

While Shrew watched Crow creating the most beautiful carved feather, he remembered gathering the softest of feathers to tickle his babies and soothe their tears away.
The Gift Gatherers is coming! Pre0rders will be arriving to you next week, still time to nab a copy pre publication date.

The Gift Gatherers Online Book Launch Join us for the launch of The Gift Gatherers, the final book in the Tales of the Turning Year series.

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Limited spaces book soon

Welsh dragon made of needle felt with daffodils Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Happy St David's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus
Happy St David's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Spring is coming

All paws on deck in the shed! The shrews are being super helpful packing up the pre 0rders of the Gift gatherers
Waving hi from under book mountain! Say hi back if you find me !

Huge congratulations to Hannah Spencer and @greenparty.org.uk
Well played Gorton and Denton, well played.

A felted shrew and wolf cub on a knarly tree stump in the woods

I’m snowed under wrapping up mountains of Gift Gatherers trying to get them ready for release day and making wolf cubs which seem endlessly popular (thank you) Shrew was hiding from the rain, and wolf cub, well they howl whatever the weather! Awooooo!

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the sun is shining and the weasels are dancing. ELO and Mr Blue Sky today. Dance like a weasel, you know you want to! #weaselwednesday

The Gift Gatherers — Celestine and the Hare

US customers dm me for a code to get free shipping from my publishers, EU you’ll need to go to Amazon to avoid customs etc or a local bookshop you know who imports. Everyone else order from my website for signed/dedicated books or ask your local bookshop

www.celestineandthehare.com/the-gift-gat...

not long now!

Unboxing Shed style.
Got my copies of The Gift Gatherers. Old Shrew is delighted and so am I.
@graffegbooks.bsky.social have done a beautiful job on the book!
Couple of weeks and I’ll be boxing up and sending out the pre0rders I get here, and they’ll be winging their way to bookshops too! Eeek!

Yay!

My friend in Italy just found and ordered it there, so hopefully you can too. Check you type in Karin Celestine as the small books you found are under Celestine and the hare.

Hardback Book | The Gift Gatherers | Folklore and the seasons The Gift Gatherers is a celebration of old and new and of the cycle that binds them. The third in this series of four seasonal stories based around British folklore, it includes notes on springtime traditions by Pamela Thom-Rowe. Karin's enchanting felt creations and the world they inhabit share a timeless, heartwarmin

I’m sorry I can’t ship to eu because of Brexit rules ☹️ it breaks my heart!
try my publishers link below, and if not, Amazon should have it
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Unboxing Schrödinger's boxes, inward smiles and heart melts.

karincelestine.substack.com/p/unboxing

Felted animals and a parcel. Unboxing by Karin Celestine https://karincelestine.substack.com/p/unboxing

I wrote a Substack blog if you’d like to have a read. About what’s happening here and how I unbox a new book. Link in alt text

Drop a crush from your youth

Three felted shrews in a bed of crocuses

Spring is coming!
Shrews and badgers are sticklers for the old ways, and while grandmother shrew sought out herbs for medicine, Old Shrew told the young one all about the root children.
The Gift Gatherers is nearly here. You can do purrr chase early thing in my site of webs

I know! Time flies

Don’t they just!

They really are though I am biased!

Lurcher - whippet mini poodle cross