Craftwyrkes of Greeneleaf Gifts

02/09/2026

Congratulations to the Seahawks on their Super Bowl win! 🏈🎉

See what happens on Google Search!

02/09/2026

Starting a GoFundMe to buy tickets for this... ❤🎶

02/09/2026

*Axoltl* questions, it'll tell you no lies, lol...I need this plush toy: 🥰

Offer Ends 2/12/26

12/05/2025

Hand sculpted Krampus pendant and earrings in progress, among the several Krampus items Craftwyrkes will be offering at the on the 13th in Bridgeview IL. (See info in separate post here.)

11/29/2025

Craftwyrkes will be vending at this!

11/21/2025

Latest "Krampus Kreation" (couldn't resist, sorry!)
Air dried clay master copy of a Krampus face, will make a negative mold of polymer clay when dried/ sealed. From there, will do several pendants and framed art, and a couple of fully articulated Krampus figures. You can adopt a Krampus (or a "Grampus"!) at the on the 13th in Bridgeview - see the ad posted here for location/ time, etc.

10/03/2025

6 new candles blended and poured for the NAWS Fall Craft Fair Saturday (see previous post below)...
Orange jars: "Pumpkin Patch" - on the mellow, yet spicy side.
Black jars: "Witches Brew" - a sexy blend of currant/ absinthe, Autumn Woods and other fragrances.

***Show runs from 10-3, Saturday, October 4th
St. John's UCC
11100 2nd St, Mokena, IL ****

Benefits to NAWS - a wonderful organization from which I adopted my precious Ryder 3 years ago. 💖 🐈‍⬛

10/01/2025

We owe these brave men a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. Mi'igwetch, sir, for your service and courage. 🙏

The Japanese broke every code.
Except this one — invented by Native American soldiers.
In 1944, Peter MacDonald wasn’t carrying a rifle. He was carrying something far more dangerous to the enemy: a voice the Japanese could never decode.
As a young Navajo radio operator with the 6th Marine Division, he transmitted vital battlefield messages in a code built entirely on the Navajo language — lightning-fast, complex, and completely unwritten. While Allied cryptographers struggled to keep pace with Axis code-breaking, the Navajo Code Talkers sent orders in seconds, with perfect accuracy.
The Japanese tried everything to break it. They failed. Every single time. Not one message sent in Navajo code was ever cracked.
MacDonald used it across Guam and China, helping secure victories that turned the tide of the Pacific War. He and hundreds of other Code Talkers were, in effect, living encryption systems.
And Navajo wasn’t the only language turned into a weapon. Mohawk, Choctaw, Seminole, Pawnee, Iroquois — more than a dozen Native dialects carried messages across battlefields in both world wars. Each one was a shield. Each speaker, a soldier whose heritage became the difference between victory and defeat.
Now nearly 100 years old, Peter MacDonald serves as the President of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, keeping alive the memory of the men who ensured their voices mattered even when their names were left out of history books.
Their code wasn’t written in ink. It was spoken from memory. And it helped win a world war.
Had you ever heard this story before? Should Native Code Talkers be taught more widely in schools?

09/06/2025

What's new:
"Speakeasy" and "English Garden" fragrance oils...mmmm, they smell amazing!
I see candles and soaps in your future!

08/20/2025

More items to go on the website...some are in limited quantities, all are from the UK, so am trying to order enough now before the De Minimus Exemption ends in another week.

08/13/2025

Soon, I hope...it's sloooowly coming along, in spite of screens locking up, Windows refusing to respond and wasted time waiting for pages to unfreeze...nothing like using an old Windows 10 Toshiba workhorse laptop, lol. Too bad some of the editing buttons appearing on the desktop Shopify version either aren't showing up on my phone (or don't work if they are.) Thought I'd be done and have it up and running by now.

08/10/2025

Apologies for being off my Craftwyrkes pages here so far...been a very busy summer what with rehabbing this townhouse and working on a few new projects in between putting down flooring and remodeling.
Among those projects is a new website...here's some teaser shots of a few of the things that will be on it...and yes, there will be plenty of Steampunk-related merchandise as well!
Hoping to go "live" within the next few days. Stay tuned!