Quick Specs
- Author: Lindsay Squire
- Illustrator: Viki Lester
- Format: Paperback with sticker sheets
- Pages: 144
- Stickers Included: 200+
- Spells & Affirmations: 40
- Publisher / Manufacturer: Leaping Hare Press
- Weight: 1.1 lb
Stickers and Spellwork from the Witch of the Forest
Lindsay Squire writes as the Witch of the Forest, a name she’s built across several books on accessible, nature-based witchcraft, and Botanical Magickal Stickers and Spells is her most hands-on release yet. Rather than a straight spellbook, it pairs more than 200 botanical stickers, illustrated by Viki Lester, with 40 spells and affirmations written to work alongside them. The book leans into green witchcraft specifically, the branch of practice centered on plants, seasons, and the natural world, rather than ceremonial ritual or a specific pantheon.
Viki Lester’s illustrations cover a wide range of botanical subjects, drawn in a style built for cutting out and using, not just looking at. That distinction matters here. This is functionally an activity book as much as a reference, so the stickers are meant to end up on your journal pages, your spell jars, or your altar cloth, rather than stay pristine and unused on their original sheet. Squire’s spells and affirmations are written short and plainly, without a lot of specialized vocabulary, so you can pair a sticker with a spell without needing outside references to follow along.
The book also includes a botanical correspondence guide, which lists common plants and their traditional magical associations, giving you a starting point for writing your own spells once you’ve worked through the 40 included in the book.
What sets this apart from a standalone spellbook is that the stickers and the spells were built to work together from the start. A spell about clarity comes with sticker imagery you can actually use to mark that spell in your journal or decorate a jar built around that same intention, so the visual and the written spellwork reinforce each other instead of living in separate parts of your practice. That makes it a genuinely different object than either a sticker sheet or a spell book bought on their own.
I stock this for the green witches and journal-keepers in the shop who want their practice to look like something, not just work like something. It’s an easy entry point if spellcraft feels intimidating, since the spells here are short, plainly written, and paired with a physical action, decorating something, that gives you an immediate sense of progress.
Because it’s part activity book, treat the stickers as consumable rather than precious. The correspondence guide at the back is there specifically so you keep creating past the 40 included spells once you’ve used them.
Practical Ritual Applications
Pair each sticker with its matching spell or affirmation the first time through the book, using them together rather than treating the stickers as decoration and the spells as separate text. Stick botanical imagery onto a journal page as you write out the spell in your own hand, or use a sticker to mark a spell jar so you can identify its intention at a glance later.
Once you’ve worked through some of the 40 included spells, use the botanical correspondence guide to start building your own. Match a plant’s traditional association to an intention you’re working with, then choose a sticker that fits and write a short spell of your own around it, following the format the book has already shown you.
For more spell-focused reading, browse the shop’s spellcraft and witchcraft collection, and for other nature-rooted practice, the Celtic, druidry, and nature collection has related titles.
How to Use the Stickers and Spells Together
This is a simple way to start working through the book without wasting stickers on the first few pages.
This is a simple way to start working through the book without wasting stickers on the first few pages.
- Read a Spell Before You Peel Any Stickers
Flip through the 40 spells and affirmations first and pick one that matches something you’re actually working on right now, rather than starting from page one out of order. Read it fully, including the botanical correspondence notes, before you touch the sticker sheets. Knowing which plant imagery the spell is built around will help you choose the right stickers on purpose instead of picking whatever catches your eye first and hoping it fits.
- Write the Spell Out By Hand in a Journal
Copy the spell or affirmation into a journal or notebook in your own handwriting rather than just reading it off the page. This is a common practice in spellwork generally, and it gives you a physical record you can decorate and return to later. Leave space around the text for stickers, and don’t worry about making the page look finished on the first pass. You can keep adding to a spell page over several days as the working develops.
- Decorate the Page or Jar with Matching Stickers
Choose stickers whose botanical imagery matches the spell’s plant correspondences and use them to decorate the journal page, a spell jar label, or an altar item connected to that spell. Layer a few different stickers if one intention calls for more than one plant, rather than limiting yourself to a single image per spell. Once you’re comfortable with this process, use the correspondence guide at the back of the book to build your own spells and choose stickers for them the same way.
Tarot Fellow Standard
I brought Botanical Magickal Stickers and Spells into the shop because it’s rare to find something this hands-on that’s also genuinely usable, not just cute. Lindsay Squire’s spells are short and plainly written, Viki Lester’s botanical illustrations are made to be cut and stuck rather than admired from a distance, and the two were built to work together. It’s a good starting point if spellcraft has felt intimidating, since every spell comes with an immediate, physical action attached to it.
Frequently Asked Questions
The book includes more than 200 botanical stickers illustrated by Viki Lester, paired with 40 nature-based spells and affirmations written by Lindsay Squire, along with a botanical correspondence guide at the back for writing your own spells once you’ve worked through the ones already included. The stickers cover a wide range of plants, so you’re not stuck reusing the same handful of images across every spell you decorate.
No. The spells and affirmations are written short and plainly, without heavy ritual vocabulary or assumed background knowledge, and each one is designed to pair with a sticker and a simple physical action, decorating a journal, jar, or altar item, that gives you an immediate, tangible sense of progress even on your very first spell, which makes it a reasonable place to start if spellcraft has felt intimidating before.
The stickers are meant to decorate journals, spell jars, altars, vision boards, and similar practice items, ideally matched to the plant correspondences of whatever spell or affirmation you’re working with at the time, rather than used purely as decoration disconnected from any intention. The book’s correspondence guide helps you choose stickers on purpose once you start writing your own spells beyond the 40 already included.
It’s genuinely both at once. The 40 spells and affirmations function as real, usable spellwork, but the book is built around a hands-on activity, pairing each spell with matching botanical stickers, so it reads and works more like a journal companion you decorate as you go than a straight reference spellbook you’d only read without ever picking up scissors or a pen.
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