Festival Season Finale & Your Crystal Kit for Fall 🍂✨
Summer isn't over yet. But you can feel the edges of it starting to soften.
There is a particular kind of magic that happens in Port Townsend in September. It is my favorite month!
The light changes. The air carries just the faintest hint of something crisper. There is a morning mist and fog that engulf the town. The geese start to migrate and land in my duck pond. The sun starts to set earlier, and the leaves are already starting to turn in the big trees outside the store.
You would think we were slowing down and the tourist season was winding down.
But somehow, impossibly, Port Townsend packs three more festivals into these final precious weeks of the season.
This weekend, the Wooden Boat Festival takes over the waterfront; one of the most beloved events of the entire year. In two weeks, the Film Festival (my personal favorite) arrives, celebrating storytelling and art in one of the most beautiful settings imaginable. And to close it all out, the Kinetic Sculpture Race rolls through the first week of October in the most wonderfully weird Port Townsend fashion possible.
Festival season isn't over. But it is getting ready to wrap up and take a bow.
Carry Your Crystals to the End 🌊
We put together our Festival Crystal Kits back in May for Rhody, and they have been one of our favorite things in the shop all summer long. We brought them back for these final festivals because the energy of a crowd doesn't change just because the season is winding down.
If anything, the end of summer carries its own particular emotional charge. There is joy in these final celebrations. And underneath it, for many of us, a quiet wistfulness. The bittersweet feeling of something beautiful coming to a close. The change of the season into something quieter and calmer and slower.
Our Festival Crystal Kit holds exactly what you need for both.
What's Inside the Kit 💎
Each kit is $39 and includes five powerful stones, thoughtfully chosen for festival energy and beyond:
Labradorite - Your energetic shield. It seals your aura and keeps your own energy yours, even in the middle of a crowd. Labradorite also heightens intuition, which is particularly beautiful as the season turns and you start to feel what autumn is asking of you.
Hematite - The anchor. When festival energy gets loud and stimulating, Hematite pulls you back into your body. Grounded. Steady. Present.
Black Tourmaline - The protector. It deflects the energetic static of crowds and transmutes what isn't yours before it lands in your field. An absolute essential for any big gathering.
Amethyst - The calm in the middle of the beautiful chaos. Amethyst keeps your nervous system relaxed so you can actually enjoy yourself rather than just survive the crowd.
Shungite - The modern essential. Thousands of people, all on their phones. Shungite neutralizes the electromagnetic frequencies that accumulate in crowded public spaces. Quietly powerful.
From Summer Into Fall
Here is what we love most about these kits right now.
They are not just festival crystals. They are transition crystals.
The same stones that carry you through a crowd on the waterfront this weekend will carry you through the shift from summer into autumn. Labradorite for the magic of the turning season. Hematite for staying grounded as routines change. Amethyst for processing whatever summer stirred up. Black Tourmaline for protecting your energy as the year moves into its quieter, more inward months.
The Kinetic Sculpture Race at the beginning of October is the perfect send-off. Port Townsend at its most gloriously strange and creative and alive. After that, we settle in.
Let these stones carry you all the way through.
Come find your Festival Crystal Kit in the shop before the Wooden Boat Festival this weekend. We would love to see you there, and here on Water Street too.
Here's to the final, beautiful stretch of summer. 🍂
With love,
Jenn 🌊