I am not a huge retail shop with a storefront. My products are home- and hand-made and I don’t spend a lot on fancy labels or packaging. I sew my own mojo bags, for example, and since my momma and her momma and *her* momma were too busy teaching me folk cures, thirty five ways to cook a plucked chicken, and a dizzying list of patron saints and herbal applications, I never became much of a seamstress. The good news is that this stuff doesn’t have to be pretty to work.

The better news is that this frees me to devote time, energy, and money to getting, making, compounding, dressing, growing, blending, and/or preparing higher quality, authentic herbs, roots, oils, charged and blessed candles, animal and mineral curios, amulets, charms, and kits. I always ship discreetly and my lack of fancy packaging means you spend less on high-quality, ritually powerful items. I strive to get the best quality I can in season, and my mother grows and/or prepares a lot of the herbs, roots, and animal/mineral curios I use, from her five acres of land in rural, deep-south Alabama.

I got into exchanging money and spiritual items with the public almost by accident. I have made my own ritual oils and incenses for many years, and did spiritual work on behalf of myself and my friends and family. After a while, a friend would tell a friend, and I was getting requests from people who were essentially strangers for these things, and I was going broke giving my stuff away. So I started charging. Then I started offering some products, services, art, and supplies on the internet in the early 00s when I returned to the States after a few years overseas, and have had a regular inventory and full product line since 2007. So I know my stuff, and I've been doing this a while; I'm not a newcomer to hoodoo jumping on the bandwagon of its recent rise in popularity.

I am proud to be a founding member of AIRR, the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers. AIRR is a gathering of professional practitioners of African American folk magic, hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork who provide psychic readings and spiritual root doctoring services to the public. AIRR promotes quality service and ethical conduct by means of accreditation and evaluation of its members, all of whom are vetted, interviewed, vouched for, and tested before qualifying for membership.

Be sure to visit my blog, Big Lucky Hoodoo, at karmazain.livejournal.com for news, info, tips, tricks, spells, suggested reading and recommended links, and sales & specials. To see more photos, of jewelry, folk art, voodoo and hoodoo rosaries I've made, and altar work I've done for clients, visit me on facebook and/or see my flickr stream.