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I am so damn grateful for all of you guys.

Just sayin'.

Still in workbench mode. Home stretch to WisCon. Whee! These are the latest new shinies:

Flaming Feminist

Bringing Back the Dragons
The Plight of the Artist*
The Sky Consulate

You Can Call Her Horus

Asking the Right Questions
The Book of Lit Candles and the Ones Who Walk Between
Born to the Purple
The First Day of Carnival
Gaslamp Romance
Learning to Dance in the Dark
Little Incantations
Miss Prometheus Jones, I Presume
Music Is Code
Peacock Lessons
Rich Music and Strange
The Ritual
The Root Beer Conspiracy
Shared Worlds
Sharing the Currents
A Short History of Fashion
Sister Lizard Goes On Retreat
The Speed of Thought
Spirits in the Ink
Stone Fireworks
Tiger Attitude
Time Lapse & Red Shift
Upwelling, Indwelling



* This has coprolite in it, and made a friend laugh really hard.

Yep, still in workbench mode. So many things! And WisCon is NEXT WEEK. I am a happy worky beast. Here are the newest shinies:

Truth

The Arc Bends
Dinosaurs of the Sixties
Disguising the Elephant
Mod Witch

Glorious Old
Life Capsule

Anthem
Friendly Lizard Customs
Friendship is MAD SCIENCE
Green Resistance
Learning the Waters
Listening to the Corn Mother
My Little Dinosaur
Test Pattern
There Was A Sea Here Once
They Have a Fondness for Pluto, You Know
The Unlikely Alchemist Returns
The Urge To Fix It
Watching the Islands Come Home

Still working on WisCon goodies, which is why I'm not at the Capitol today to see the Minnesota State Senate vote on freedom to marry. Here's today's tease of names, which with the previous list will show you how busy I've been the last couple of weeks:

The Wisdom Flower

As Chronicled By Her Maid
Blood Is Relative
First Speaker Tells the Tale
The Fish of Wisdom
Grandmother Darkness
Grasshopper Song
Laneesha's Travels
Memoir of a Lake
When Peter Was a Girl

A Brief Note from an Undine
Cherry Blossom Vampire
Dinosaur Magic
Fields of Plenty
Infinity
Long-Tailed Morning
Three Kinds of Imagination
Time Traveling with Painters
Where the Waves Break

And She Shall Have Dominion
At the Bottom of the Garden Was a Door
Cataloger of Worlds
Dragonfly Revealed
Explaining Fairies
Hennigal's Patented Hydraulic Telephone
Manners on Starships
One World: Some Assembly Required
The Sky Desert
This Good Life
Time-Travel Is Easier in Farsi
Tomato Creed
Transitions

I've been busy getting ready for WisCon.

The Firefighter's Husband Says

Counting the Lightning
Don't Lie to the Rhinemaiden
Origin Story
Prairie Phoenix (sacred heart)
The Sky Above My Planet
Strange Benevolent Sky Machines
Triumph and Autumn

And Poison In Thy Tongue
Asking the Old Ones
Because She Can
The Circus at Midnight
Confidence. And Really Good Goggles.
Daughters of the Air
Delicate Arguments
Eight Things She Kept
Evensong in a Bottle
First Year Dreams
Goth Velvet
Her Grass-Green Mystery
Her Life As A Superhero
How To Turn Visible
I Can Find You In The Dark
The Inventor, Age Seven
Small Changes
Strolling in Faeryland
There Are Two Large Fish In This Picture. Can You Find Them?
Two Stories of How I Got Here
Walking to the Moon
Who You Calling Antediluvian?

I've been reveling in color today and yesterday. So much color. There are new lampwork earrings. There's a new necklace-crown. There are more than four new necklaces, and possibly more than six; I lost count. (Some were almost done, and I had a fit of finishing things.) There are pendants, including the vivid dyed purple crazy lace agate. Crazy lace agate is so beautiful. Also, I went wild with the Swarovski crystals.

Color. So much color. It wanted doing.

Depression? Yup, still there. Not chewing on me too hard today, but still there. But there are bright colors and there are beautiful stones, and wire to wind around them, and that's something pretty good.

I fly for refuge to the sangha of the workbench. ;-)

Mine's eased. But it's not so far away that I can't see it from here.

Probably most of you have read the Hyperbole and a Half on the subject. She's recently put up a followup post. Strong stuff. Mine looked a lot like that too. (Still does, some days. Mostly, it's easier. But like I said, I can still see it from here.)

Anyhow. You might want to read those. If you're in a good place to read them, I mean.

The worst part of it for me were the fall and winter of 2011/2012, but there have been other patches since. Lately pretty good, though, thank everything. Thank you, very likely, in fact. And especially thank art and everybody who encouraged me and keeps encouraging me.

I just mailed all the sale stuff that's paid, except for two that have address queries in email waiting to be answered, and another that someone's picking up. Whew! It's warm out there. I guess spring was about fifteen minutes this year.

During these last weeks before WisCon, I am in workbench mode. There are not enough hours in the day for as much time as I'd like to spend there, but I also need to balance it with time off to let my hands rest, plus everything else in life that needs doing. It's good to have so many things I want to make, though.

Sale's done! Thank you all very very much. Invoices tomorrow. Fall over go sleep now.

Three hours left to get wild 50% deals on shinies. Whee! (My thanks to those of you who have already bought things, because you are making it possible for me to go to WisCon and MuseCon.)

... for a surprise sale. I need some traveling money for WisCon. And also, it's spring, and I'm feeling a bit wild.

Today and tomorrow (that's Monday and Tuesday) everything I have is 50% off.

There, that's pretty wild. Tell people, eh?

I've been busy.

"Troll-Maiden Accepts An Apology"

"And Seas Unknown"
"The Bridge-Makers"
"The Comforts of Hard Science"
"Dino 2.0"
"Falling Upward"
"Hallucinatory Sciences"
"Hoofprints, Wheel Ruts, Booster Scorch"
"Just As It Was"
"Lizard Logic"
"Mad Ludwig and the Dinosaurs"
"Maps for Places I've Never Been"
"Not the Territory"
"Not Where We're Going, There Isn't"
"The Old Road"
"One Way to Bring You Flowers"
"Over the Rim of the Sky"
"the path your heart takes over the water"
"Pathfinding"
"She Saddled Up Her Dinosaurs and Headed For the Sea"
"Starship Circus"
"Strange Customs"
"Tell My Story"
"Thinking Makes It So: Adventures in Neuroscience with the Bard"
"Time Capsule"
"Trying To Tell You Something"
"What the Artist Left For You"
"Why I Do Science"

"Audience with the Queen"
"Bathing Beauties"
"Come Out and Play!"
"Decisions"
"Dino Princess"
"dinodammerung"
"Dinosaur's Diary"
"Elegies"
"Everything's Better With Dinosaurs"
"Forget-Me-Not"
"Four Memories Worth Keeping"
"A Good Day for Dinosaurs"
"The Immigrant"
"Land Stories and Sea Stories"
"Music for Time and Change"
"Pooh Bear and the Plesiosaurs"
"Really Old Trade Routes"
"Reminder"
"The Soft Histories"
"Student of Old Wars"
"Who's There?"
"Wishful Thinking"
"The Work of Her Hands"

Or something like that. I've been very snaily this past week due to a small but tedious silly body thing that should be resolved soon. Sorry about the radio silence. I owe everybody and her cat email. Should be better soon.

The things from the sale that are paid for are now packed, with postage on them, waiting for me to take them to the post office in a minute or two. So are all of the April Beads of the Month, except for the ones people want me to combine with something else that either isn't here yet (May BotMo, for example) or isn't paid for yet (sale stuff, and that's only two people).

And it's the 5th of the month. And I'm shipping BotMo.

THANK YOU, scotia_girl, for all the help! Yay!

Getting little crumbs of fossilized dinosaur bone down one's back is uncomfortable. Just saying.

(When I went to try the piece on to make sure the clasp was workable for my (mildly) arthritic fingers, the pressure on the bead made it disintegrate. That's part of why I test things. It does wind up with me getting crumbs of beads down my back occasionally.)

I'm having some minor foot surgery on May 28 June 4. The surgeon told me to figure two months of convalescence. (I don't know how little I'll be allowed/able to do during that time, but he said I should be able to teach at MuseCon at the end of it with no worries if all goes according to plan.)

So here's my thought: at various times, people have come and stayed here and I've taught them jewelry things, or given writing feedback, or other things they wanted and found useful. If I'm going to be mostly stuck in the house for a few weeks, I might as well make it as full of art as I can manage. Therefore, I'm thinking maybe I should arrange a few house guests, amiable sorts who are up for helping look after a Lioness with a sore paw for a few days and interested in participating in a Convalescence Temple of Art. (It's not required that people have to want to learn jewelry techniques; I'm just thinking that making art is one of my known ways of post-op pain management, and teaching is sufficiently brain-intense that it ought to absorb a lot. But if a person wants to just hang out and talk while I make stuff, that's cool too.)

Might there be anybody interested in such things? I'm figuring the most useful dates are between May 30 June 4 and the end of June, with an emphasis on early June. I'll screen comments for privacy on this one. That way I don't blush if nobody wants to come hang out. ;-)

P.S. There are two guest beds, we're on a major bus line, and there's a park to walk in about five blocks away.

P.P.S. It really is minor. Really really minor. I'm probably overplanning by ridiculous amounts, but better to overplan than underplan.

P.P.P.S. Changed the date due to tricky timing getting back from WisCon.

The net is being absolutely goofy here today, knocking me offline every minute and a half. It is taking forever to get invoices organized from emails and the sale post before sending, let alone sending them. I will keep working, but it's going to be a while, and I'm out tonight, so it may get done in bits and pieces over the weekend. But you'll get them.

Thanks for understanding. I'm sorry about the delay.

Was going to do invoices immediately, but am falling over now. Must go zzzz and begin invoices in morning.

Thank you, everybody.

Shiny sale ends tonight at more or less midnight Minneapolis time. Watch for random exuberant markdowns, especially at the end.