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The use of tools in your practice:

What tools do you use?
What elements do they represent?
What haven't you used and would like to use?

Tools:

I've never used any of the tools I've read about, that are listed as "things every witch should have". I have a tarot deck and some random stones that I like. I've looked at the other things, but nothing's struck as something special to me, so I didn't see a need to buy it.

What tools do you use? It depends on what I am doing and where I am. A pentacle, a chalice, a working knife, a dish, mortar and pestle, sometimes a cauldron and a wand, if it is in the kitchen I use my cast iron pots, wooden spoon, mortar and pestle, if I am outside I generally don't use anything if I do it is whatever I find around me at the time.

What elements do they represent? I don’t think my tools represent the elements. I do have a dish of river water, a dish of stones I have collected, a handmade candle, and vase of feathers, and an amethyst geode. Used to represent water, earth, fire, air and spirit respectively.

What haven't you used and would like to use?
I don’t often use my athame, I have on and love it, but I have a small space to work in and I am very clumsy so I tend to leave it sheathed and simply hold it when I chant or meditate.
I would love to use a staff. I am as yet to find the proper branch to make it out of though.

So do you use your stones in spell craft? If so do you use them any specific way?

Now do you have tools for ritual and tools for spells or just tools?

Interesting/. Why those specific elements?

Why do you have an athame?

I won mine at the pagan pride day last year.

Just tools, I use them whenever I have a need for them, regardless of whether it is spiritual ceremony or spell work.
Because of where I live I suppose, I often see the interaction of wind, water and earth. The spirit to me is the universal shimmering energy thread that runs through everything and interconnects us all. I tend to view fire as a representative of heat actually. Flame is not really something that occurs naturally in the nature around me, what touches me is the heat of the sun or the radiant heat from the center of the earth. My path is very centered on the spirit of place, the spirit of the land local to me, so that is where my elemental points are drawn from, the land around me.
I have been working with and contemplating the Celtic idea of three element Land Sea and Sky as of late, but it hasn’t worked its way into my practice yet.
Because when I was young and new to the path I thought I needed one. My husband (at the time my boyfriend) bought it for me as a gift for Yule. It works great with my energy and can direct it well; however I rarely if ever cast a full circle. Also as I said small space, plus clumsy me with feline and offspring variables make an equation for disaster.
That is awesome. I usually keep an eye out when I am hiking. I figure when the time is right I will find what I seek.

I've tried figuring out what they mean, but it doesn't really seem to matter.

Usually a staff, candles, a brass bell and some findings.

They don't really represent elements.

Some of the chemical oxides that enhance flame colors.