Earth & Elm Studio and Wellness Services

06/11/2025

New tattoo design available with Chel King - Reiki & Tattoo 🧡

05/11/2025

03/11/2025

EDIT: WE HAVE 1 SPOT LEFT!

Surprise 🧡 TATTOO FLASH DAY this Sunday the 9th of November! Earth & Elm Studio and Wellness Services

🧚‍♀️To claim a design & spot:

🧡DM or email admin@earthandelm.org with a screenshot of your favourite design.

🧡Let us know the size & placement you’d like (i.e.: 10cm, R inner forearm)

🧡 We’ll send you details to confirm your booking from there 👌

🧡 All designs may be tattooed more than once. Pricing starts at $90 for mini ornaments & goes to around $350 depending on size/detail xx

30/10/2025

As we come to the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to touch on something that still isn’t spoken about enough — grief.

Grief doesn’t just appear when someone dies. It shows up when we lose relationships, stability, direction, or versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown.

It can come suddenly, or it can move quietly through your life — weaving itself into moments that once felt steady.

For me, one of the deepest kinds of grief has been the grief of self — saying goodbye to the versions of me that once kept me alive, but can’t come with me where I’m going.

There are stages to it. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

And sometimes, you loop back through them more than once.

That’s human.

What no one really talks about is how much it hurts to let go — even when it’s necessary.

We hear a lot about “becoming your best self,” but not enough about the grief that comes before the growth.

The surrender.
The confusion.
The moments where you wonder if you’ll ever feel like yourself again.

I’m grateful now to have both personal and professional supports — people and practices that help me stay grounded through all of it.

But I didn’t always have that. And I know what it’s like to face those moments without a map.

So if you’re there now — in the middle of your own quiet transformation — please know that you’re not alone.

This post found you for a reason.
And maybe that’s enough for today.

###
Xavier

25/10/2025

Sweet peas for Bec & Annika 🧡🧡

23/10/2025

WIN YOUR NEXT TATTOO!!!

It’s that time of year again! Where we GIVEAWAY a tattoo to celebrate Chel King’s birthday 🎂

As usual we’re kicking off the raffle tonight, tickets are just $25- and you go in the draw for this years prizes drawn on November 24th 2025 🥳

🥇1st prize: Reiki Tattoo session for one of Chel’s medium-large available designs
🥈2nd prize: Reiki Tattoo session for one of Chel’s small available designs

👌Rules:
- Enter as many times as you like
- Entries close 11:59pm 23/11/2025
- Winner can gift their prize to a friend (great Christmas gift idea 😉 just let us know)

🎫 tickets via PayPal (as we can easily track them and haven’t had any impersonators since doing it like this)
If you’d prefer a different payment method, please message us xx

22/10/2025

It’s that time of year again! Where we GIVEAWAY a tattoo to celebrate Chel King’s birthday 🎂

As usual we’re kicking off the raffle tonight, tickets are just $25- and you go in the draw for this years prizes drawn on November 24th 2025 🥳

🥇1st prize: Reiki Tattoo session for one of Chel’s medium-large available designs

🥈2nd prize: Reiki Tattoo session for one of Chel’s small available designs

👌Rules:
- Enter as many times as you like
- Entries close 11:59pm 23/11/2025
- Winner can gift their prize to a friend (great Christmas gift idea 😉 just let us know)

🎫 tickets in comments via PayPal (as we can easily track them and haven’t had any impersonators since doing it like this)

If you’d prefer a different payment method, please message us xx

Here are a few available designs to choose from - plenty more via Chel’s page above or Instagram highlights 🥰

21/10/2025

👀👀👀

21/10/2025

Congratulations to all of you who are finalists! So proud to be a part of a town with many talented, inspiring and awesome businesses! ☺️

A hearty CONGRATULATIONS to these Dungog Shire businesses on being finalists in the Hunter Region Tourism Awards.
Royal Hotel Dungog
Bluegums Cabins
Chic & Antique
Dowling Street Hair Studio
Dungog Shire Visitor Centre
Erringhi Bakehouse
The Barracks, Tocal
Tinshed Brewery
Wallaringa Farm
Williams River Holiday Park
Earth & Elm Studio and Wellness Services
Wangat Lodge
Westwood Dungog Pty Ltd TA Westwood Dungog Providores
Sculpture on the Farm Inc
Tocal Homestead

Our Shire has so many excellent businesses that have a huge impact on tourism I am sure the judges had a difficult time choosing the finalists from the Hunter Region! And imagine 15 businesses from the Dungog Shire.

17/10/2025

Edit: spot has been taken

I’ve opened up bookings for this Wednesday 🧡

Open to Sml-med tattoos and reiki sessions.

To confirm a spot please DM or email me at admin@earthandelm.org with your ideas xxn

17/10/2025

We’re so proud to share that Earth & Elm Studio and Wellness Services has been selected as a finalist in the Specialised Small Business category for the 2025 Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards! 💛

This recognition feels especially meaningful because it honours the heart and artistry of Chel, whose vision and dedication have shaped Earth & Elm into the safe, soulful, and sensory-rich space it is today.

As a multi-disciplinary artist, tattooist, and art therapist, Chel has spent over 15 years creating work that holds deep meaning — helping clients reconnect with their stories, bodies, and emotions through both ink and art. Every piece she creates, every workshop she facilitates, and every person she holds space for reflects her quiet strength, creativity, and compassion.

From transforming skin into living art to using creativity as therapy and community connection, Chel continues to redefine what it means to build a business that truly heals and inspires.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported our journey — from our clients and collaborators to our local community who believe in what we do. This recognition is for all of you too. 🌻

15/10/2025

An email landed in our inbox this afternoon letting us know that we are FINALISTS for the Hunter Region Tourism awards!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Chel, Matthew and I couldn’t be more excited to celebrate with all the other finalists in a few weeks with our friends at Flamingos Live!

Thank you to all of our clients and supporters, we couldn’t do this without you. 🤟

Xavier