For when you need to break-a-leg just a little more literally! The Break-a-Leg Charm is a lovely ritual to help boost your confidence before tackling something daunting, hard, scary, new, or the laundry. I'm not the boss of you, you get to decide. Simply open the wax seal using the dangly strings (it's a bit difficult on this first round, I'll get better at it, I promise, if you need to, run a knife around the bottle veeeery carefully to cut through the wax). Inside you will find:
- 1 small scroll of paper
- 1 bisque fired ceramic bone
Write the outcome you are hoping for on the paper, then roll it back up and put it back in the bottle. Take out the hand sculpted ceramic bone (each one is unique and made by me!), take a deep breath, and snap the bone in half! [The bones are only partially fired, and have a chalky feel to them, they break quite easily, very little pressure is needed. In all the tests I ran, the bones did not shoot out any shards of material, but keep in mind that is always a possibility, so maybe don't do it right next to your eyeball.] Take the resulting pieces of bone and put them back in the bottle. Pop the cork back in and keep as a memento of your heroic deeds (or throw it angrily against a wall in a fit of pique, whatever floats your boat). Now get out there and do the thing!
The Break-a-leg charm is intended as a small, every-day ritual (every-day as in, not only for special occasions, not like 1 per day, 7 days a week). It's intended as a confidence and focus aid and therefor is not guaranteed to affect the outcome of anything it is used for. I will say that it works pretty well for getting a 10yo to let you pull out her wiggly tooth, though.
All break-a-leg charms are made by hand in Canada.
