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slower progress, but progress nevertheless
Despite technical difficulties, photos continue to appear in the "current shinies" listing. Also, I added a necklace I didn't tell you about before, called "Sidhe Triumphans." It's a major piece, about eight feet long.

Gonna take break, then wrestle with more photo links and such. And do the other stuff that must get done tonight.

progress
First photo links up, including "Wednesday/Saturn," because I could not bear to make you wait. More soon, ongoing, in bits and bits.

progress, finally
Photos achieved. Uploading commencing now. Shinies with links and descriptions soon. Thank you for your patience, and for all the goodnesses. (You know who you are. Yes, I mean you.)

planning ahead (Arr, matey!)
For those of you who look forward to International Talk Like A Pirate Day as much as I do, you will be pleased to know that this year we'll be doing someting special. Yes, I know, we already have a special Pirate Treasure theme for the Beads of the Months, and I do usually make some pirate-themed shinies, but this is more and better, at least if you live or work in the Twin Cities metro area or have friends and dear ones who do.

This year, there will be a bit of a sale in September, and there will be a very special one-time delivery option offered: your package can be delivered by pirate! Yep, on September 19th, a pirate in full regalia will deliver your purchase to any address in the Twin Cities metro area that we can reasonably get to. Delivery times have not yet been determined, but we aim to make this available to those of you who would love to have a pirate come to your office on Friday to bring you a bag of loot. Send goodies to your Twin Cities friends! (We might even have a BotMo delivery-by-pirate option that month; watch and see!)

Arr!

(Yeah, I know, it's very silly indeed, but I cannot resist. And Daniel assures me he can score a pirate hat. We'll post photos as we get closer to time, so you can see what you'd be getting. Wait, that came out wrong. Oh, well, you know what I mean. We'll even send along a little bit of loot for your office mates. Don't forget to tip the pirate, now. Arr!)

ArtLog: current shinies, with new stuff (photos to come today)
( Here are the current shinies, with new ones in bold type. Whee! )

progress in three directions!
There will be a bunch of hair toys in the current shinies listing, which will be posted later today.

The first batch of Inner Magpie pendants go to the kiln people for fusing today.

And the IAF auction piece I made is up, live, today:

Willow Pattern by Elise Matthesen

Based on "Willow Pattern " by Jon Singer, from Interfictions.

Please be aware that this chain may leave marks if worn on light-colored clothing. This, too, is in keeping with the theme of the story: it may mark you to wear this piece.

Opening Bid: $40

Click here to bid and see the other Interfictions auctions.

ArtLog: more new work
I just made some earrings about Egyptian bears, and a hair ornament about lotuses, and a pendant that I am extremely pleased with. It's called "Wednesday/Saturn," and it is sterling silver wire and a big piece of opal matrix shaped like an upside-down teardrop, with some threads of green/bluegreen opal flash running through it. I am completely satisfied with that piece.

Life is good. And soon one of my apprentices comes to work, and then I probably work more afterwards.

ArtLog: work in progress, and new work, but no photos, just teasers.
There are lots of new earrings, many with borosilicate lampwork and some with jasper bears.
There are new necklaces, including one that Mike gave me the name for: "There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sky."
There are more things in progress.

This friday's list of shinies will be substantial. This is good, because it's only a few weeks until WisCon, which is sold out, so that means there will be a thousand people there.

Aiiee! I have to get the haiku earrings ready! Yikes! Agh. So much to do.

Life is good.

Inner Magpie pendant progress
Guess what we did today?

bead geeking is fun!
We've been doing a little of it in the Beads of the Month LJ. If you have a project you'd be willing to ask for some group ideas on, please do post it.

ArtLog: progress on BotMo May pendants!
I'll be posting updates over in

botmo, but we have progress.

Interstitial Arts Foundation auctions
Hey, they've started!

Much coolness. And there's going to be a shiny from me coming along in a couple of days, too.

Enjoy!

ArtLog: new work and work in progress
There are three new necklaces: one whose name is still in progress, one called "Moggy's Dream," and one called "What's Time To A Fish?" They'll be up on Friday in the usual collection-of-current-shinies post. Also, there are earrings in progress, and this should be fun. I have gotten started with those jasper bears.

Am feeling tremendously charged with creativity. Probably has something to do with actually getting very good sleep last night, but I've been working on these things right along, feeling good or feeling not-so-good. Work is a great comfort.

And I'm eyeing some opal pieces that want to be made into pendants. They're quirky and interesting, and I know they want to be things.

Other than that, I'm feeling a great pull to do a series of necklace-crowns again, so don't be surprised if that happens soon.

(And we shipped some things out today -- yay! And there will be e-mail queries going to a few people about stuff in progress.)

Progress. Progress is good.

ArtLog: those April info sheets and associated documentation are now all on-line
Check the three most recent posts in

botmo, which you will be able to read if you are a BotMo member. (I friends-locked them, though it did not allow me to filter for only April people. If somebody knows how to do that, please teach me? There seems to be no option for making community custom friends-groups, though.)

ArtLog: BotMo info sheet comments request
Might I please troll for comments to the BotMo info sheets I just posted last night? I'd love to hear what stuff you already knew about and what is new information, because it will help me know what to expand on for next time.

(And now I am going to try to post those scans, which Daniel said worked. So yay for that.)

ArtLog: BotMo achievement!
OK, the April info sheets are now up in the BotMo LJ, under friends-lock so I could more frankly discuss the Great eBay Fakes Chase.

Enjoy!

ArtLog: opal. Oh, Holy God!
When putting in links to the info sheets that are about to go up, I stumbled across this, which is a truly awesome black opal.

progress!
On home stretch with those info sheets.

I hang my head in shame.
Crap. I felt so lousy last night and today that I forgot my friend Mark was in town and going to be at the parade.

I am a bad friend.

slow progress
Still pollen-afflicted, head-hurty, short of breath and a space cadet, but I am making noticeable progress on those info sheets to be posted.

Still at three typoes per sentence,though, which does slow things down a bit.

Onward. Carefully.