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Magpie Telegraph Alert prizes...
... will be announced tomorrow. Whee!

ArtLog: in a scientific mood, as in, the romance of science
Yeah, that's what happens when I start playing with those dinosaur bone beads and meteorite beads. I'm putting the meteorite 12mm and 10mm round beads on pendant wires for those who ordered them. Along the way, of course, some unclaimed beads jumped out at me and demanded to be made into things, so you'll be seeing some pendants and earrings soon. (I hope to show them next Friday; it depends on when my computer gets back from the shop. Silly computer. Second time it needs service within three weeks.)

Anyhow, it's not every day a person gets to make a pendant with a glass cat face and a dinosaur bone bead and call it "Sure, But You Have To Catch One First." Or a dino bone/meteorite pair of earrings in elegant gold filled wire, and call it "Boom?? Whaddya Mean, Boom??!?" I am having way too much fun, which is exactly the right thing.

Daniel's packing things like mad, so you should start seeing click-n-ship notices soon. A lot of things will go out tomorrow, and more on Monday and Tuesday. Me, I'll be at the workbench.

Looking for leftover yarn
Hey, I'm on a quest. Ever since

sonyawinter taught me to crochet, I've been doing it and loving it. I just finished my first big sweater, in fact. Crochet turns out to be major pain relief for me, which is a great goodness.

Now, I've found one of my great "comfort yarns" -- and the darned stuff is discontinued. Augh! If you or somebody you know has some Berocco Softy stashed away unused, I'd like to talk with you about taking it off your hands. Can offer Lioness shiny gift certificates if you like, or we can do the PayPal thing if you like.

Seriously, it is the most comforting thing I've ever felt. I am going to make whatever I can make out of it, depending on how much I can find.

Thanks!

P.S. Yeah, I'm a yarn zombie these days. You know: I wander around and bump into things and say, "Skeins! Skeeeeeiiiins!" a lot.

boosting the signal: Scraps (Soren) deSelby
Info here. More there as we hear, I expect.

Update: just heard he's lucid and bitching mightily about wanting to go home. This is a VERY good sign, I am told. Also, Velma says everybody should get some sleep.

Current Mood: praying hard

ArtLog: Wow, and thank you!
OK, that sale was pretty amazing. Thank you! Because we simultaneously sold so many Beads of the Month packages, I've accidentally put Daniel into a huge work crunch, so please forgive us if it takes him through the end of the week to get your invoices out. (Yes, he's working overtime in hopes of getting it all done that fast.)

If you've got a very specific time crunch on something that you need for a present or an occasion, please ping me right away, OK? Otherwise, we'll do the best we can at getting invoices to people -- AND getting all the BotMo rosters filled in -- as soon as we can.

Thank you very much for your patience with us.

signed,
your not-always-so-good-at-planning Lioness
(as is also evidenced by how today I learned that
putting a dental appointment on the day after a sale
is not such a good plan either.
*sigh* Silly Lioness. But I'll learn.
Thanks for your patience.)

six hours and forty-five minutes...
... until the discount on Beads of the Month goes away. (Multi-month package purchases are 10% off during the clearance sale.)

We've sold out of the Mother Of All Magpies for three of the months, and there are a bunch of other packages going fast. You'll find a list here.

ArtLog: yeah, that usually happens around this time....
There are about thirty-two hours to go in the sale. I should be putting up the photos of the color-sorted bead bags and the rest of the dinosaur bone beads, but instead I got restless and did that thing I usually do around this time in a big clearance sale: marked down a few things. OK, more than a few things.

Let's just say that if you like Beau Hawn beads, Karl & Krista Tseu beads, or a few other gorgeous specimens of lampwork in your earrings, this next thirty-two hours would be a rare opportunity, because they don't get marked down to thirty bucks very often.

OK, now I am going to have my snack and then I'll get the rest of those bead packages up.

Current Mood: gleeful clearance-y

worth clicking, really
This is why I had to have those dinosaur bone beads. I mean, look: black and red. I could get drunk on the colors and shapes in these beads.

Dinos!
The first batch of dinosaur bone beads are up, in the sale post. Whew! Finally! Hope people like them.

ArtLog: sorting dinosaur bone beads
I just posted about it in BotMo, and there are photographs. Check it out.

a word to the wise on which Beads of the Month packages are selling out fast
I've posted here about which are selling fastest, in case you are pondering but would hate to miss a particular month entirely.

We've been taking orders for thirty-three hours now, and three packages are sold out entirely, with a couple more on the two-thirds gone and the half-gone lists. This is the wildest BotMo frenzy ever.

ArtLog: Beads of the Month gobsmackery
Uh, we're sold out of April MOAMs and November MOAMs.

Still got other sizes left for those months, though. But wow: we sold out of two months of MOAMs in twenty-two hours.

Edited to add:
We are now also sold out of October MOAMs.

Current Mood: gobsmacked, for sure

It's Magpie Telegraph Alert System time again....
Hey, I'm doing that clearance sale thing I do every now and then. That means it's time for the Magpie Telegraph Alert System.

Anybody who links to the sale post at http://elisem.livejournal.com/1528096.html in a public post is eligible if they put a pointer to their post in the comments here. (Or you can use http://tinyurl.com/magpiealert which is shorter, for those of you who are twittering. Thanks,

ide_cyan!)

The winner gets... hmm, let's see. Oh! I know: the winner gets their choice of a trio of planet bead pendants (that ought to fetch the Vorkosigan fans), a custom-made other pendant of my choice (though I will ask for suggestions, themes, and preferences, and will take them into consideration), or a custom-made bead mix selected for them by your friendly Lioness here.

Thank you in vast quantities for getting the word out. I'm really glad to be getting back to serious work after all the surgery-and-recuperation stuff that ate most of the middle of my year. (And thank you for all your good wishes and friendly words and nifty encouraging presents; they meant a lot, and they definitely helped. I will be fierce and nimble again as soon as I can. How can I do otherwise with such good company?)

OK, onward. Let the magpie fun begin!

ArtLog: BotMo ordering opens tomorrow during the sale
Information on Beads of the Month, Year Seven, is here.

You can get a special bonus (either a discount or a bag of goodies, your choice) if you purchase a multiple-month package during the clearance sale here. Instructions are in the sale.

Whee! Have fun!

I have COOKIES!
So a bunch of you know that I had a small part in helping Brandon Sanderson get chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series. Well, since then I've been teasing Brandon about cookies. It came from an exchange I had with Harriet.

Me: Brandon Sanderson owes me a drink!
Harriet, laughing: He's a Mormon, dear.
Me: OK then, he owes me a cookie.

So on this lovely day, not too long after I got email announcing that The Gathering Storm is #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, there is a big knock at the door. I answer it, and am handed a box to sign for. Inside... well, I have cookies! Not just now, but a year's worth. Brandon got me a subscription to a Cookie of the Month program. I am delighted.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to take a break and settle down with a glass of milk and some of these chocolate macadamia cookies, because I'm reading book four now, and I have to see what happens next.

Current Mood: grinning, with crumbs

ArtLog: more pondering Beads of the Month, Year Seven
I added some notes here, taking one of the most popular suggestions for a theme, and am trolling for more ideas. Also, there will be dinosaur bone beads, if all goes well.