Lioness ([info]elisem) wrote,
@ 2008-05-09 11:43:00
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ArtLog: current shinies, with new stuff
Here's everything I've got right now. New ones are in bold type like this. I've been busy. See?


Necklace-crowns:
"Neptune's Daughter" necklace-crown: gold filled wire, slab pearls, Swarovski crystals in various almost-clear colors. I was playing with the off-white pearls and the elusive colored highlights that dance on them, as well as trying out a very flexible design. See how I can curl it around (carefully!) almost twice? I think this might be handy if pinning it around a chignon or whatchamacallit. $450, and would be a lot more if I took the gold prices today into consideration, so and there may be a mark-UP, because Juan's lectures to me are having an effect....




Gorgets and other sculptural necklaces:

"Brought to Light" gorget with pendant and chain: lampwork glass, coral, sterling silver.




Linked necklaces:

"All the Currents Are One Current; All the Tides, One Tide" necklace: gold filled wire, labradorite, aquamarine, Swarovski crystal, metal, prehnite, plastic, lampwork glass, and so on. I tried to take pictures in a bunch of different lighting conditions to give you a good idea of it. Also, the shot of me with my chin wrinkled up is because I am in the land of ouch today. But it does give you an idea of the length of the piece and how it drapes. $625
"Doll with a Ghost in It, II" necklace: glass, wood, plastic, vintage buttons, sterling silver, a tiny glass bottle with a pearl and some really spooky corroded pins in it, and so on. This is a major piece of work. $725
"Fair Maid on the Shore" necklace: lampwork from Beau Hawn, glass, sterling silver, Venetian glass, etc. $225
"Her Mermaid II" necklace: shell, amethyst, dyed pearl/shell, plastic, glass, and wonder. $115
"The Heretic" necklace: sterling silver, glass, tigereye, Imperial jasper, other stone, and so on, with a truly awesome clasp. $210
"The Lady Who Looked In" necklace: glass and sterling silver, and that blue is a blue like no other. I cannot photograph it accurately, but oh. $310
"Love In Graveyards" necklace and earrings set: glass, labradorite, sterling silver, etc. $490
"The Mermaid Dreams of Land" necklace: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver, and so on. $340
"Moggy's Dream" necklace: Natural Touch resin, glass, sterling silver. 4 and 3/4 feet long. $260
"Odd Dinosaur Out" necklace: sterling silver wire, lampwork from Barefoot Beads and from Gray Parrot, glass, twenty-six beads made from agatized dinosaur bone, and a flaming meteor clasp. $225
"Om Mani Padme Hey Shiny! (Buddhism for ADD Monks)" necklace: gold filled wire and clasp, glass beads including old "wedding cake" lampwork glass. $115
"The Secret Pleasures of Turtles" necklace: glass and sterling silver, and whatever else I could find. $300
"Seventy Thousand Names for Home" necklace: sterling silver and ocean jasper. $275
"Sidhe Triumphans" necklace: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, fire-polished crystal, other glass, dyed agate, rescued vintage purple crystal, sterling silver, and so on.  About eight feet long.  $580
"Spring Treasure" necklace: tiny pewter toad bead from Green Girl Studios, lampwork and other glass, sterling silver, trade beads, and so on. $175
"That Which Is Precious" necklace: glass, wood, lampwork (H K Holly, Moe Cooper, and Unknown), dyed onyx, plastic, ceramic, sterling silver. $375
"There Is A Way From Here To There" necklace: lampwork, Venetian and other glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, and a lot of distressed matte glass. $325
"The Three-Sided Promise" necklace: various glass, including Swarovski and other crystal, sterling silver, and music. $265
"There's Plenty of Fish in the Sky" necklace: glass, Swarovski crystal, dichroic lampwork, plastic bead from mysterious sources, sterling silver, and love.  About six and a half feet long.  $400
"Tinkerbell Tells All" necklace: opalite and other glass, that stuff they call "Peruvian opal" which still looks like chalcedony to me, aquamarine, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, and so on. $220
"To Know Is Not the Same Thing As To Understand, #5" necklace: 16 gauge sterling silver, turquoise, Roman glass bead with inlaid stuff (very wonderful extremely beat-up distressed bead), trade beads, handmade lampwork from Grey Parrot Studio, horn, and so on. $280
"Twilight Has Two Doors" necklace: sterling silver, opals with purple and other flash, color-treated shell/pearl, glass, and wistfulness, I think. $545
"Upstream, Against All Odds!" necklace: glass and sterling silver and strong, mysterious promptings. $100  SOLD
"What Can Blight Can Bless, I" necklace: glass, fiber optic beads, blue goldstone glass, furnace glass, shell, wood, serpentine, other stone, and sterling silver. $270
"What's Time to a Fish?" necklace: Natural Touch resin, glass, sterling silver. 35" long. $115



Pendants, named:

"Beloved Argument" pendant: stone and sterling silver. Really cool yellow-green and white in here. $45
"Cabinet of Wonders" – rock polished by MB, GF wire $85
"cave/temple" pendant: Botswana agate slice and a lot of sterling silver. $68
"The Cave-Painting Revival of 2093" pendant: stone polished by Marie Booth, gold filled wire. $35
"cool blue core" pendant: glass and sterling silver; this glass is matte finished, and is most like the subdued final photo, unless you have bright light. $28
"Cowboy Physics" pendant: stone, Swarovski crystal, gold filled wire, and the curves of the riata. $78
"The Flying Lady, or, The Figurehead's Testimony" agate, pearl, and sterling silver. $55 ON HOLD
"Give Me Your Lilies" pendant: stone and sterling silver. $26
"The Journey Looks Different From Here" pendant: handmade lampwork glass from Grey Parrot Studio on sterling silver. $50 (And what you can't see in the picture are the green-gold flashes of dichroic or metallic fire deep inside the dark spots on that bead. I'll try for more photos sometime when the sun is very out.)
"King of the Canyon" – stone and sterling silver $75
"My Kind of Story I" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45
"My Kind of Story II" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45
"The Painted Screen, After the Inhabitants Have Departed" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45
"Pay-Per-View Elf Wrestling" $18 Note the rakish bead on top, like a hat askew.
"Pay-Per-View Elf Wrestling II: Stompy Boots!" $18 Stompy!
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: The Chaser's Wood" pendant: stone, glass, sterling silver. $25
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Our Days with Georgia" pendant: Imperial jasper, other stone, sterling silver. $65
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: We're In Your Star Machines" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $26
"To and From This Moment" pendant: stone and gold filled wire.  $20
"Trying to Explain Fish to a Rock" pendant: ocean jasper and gold filled wire. $45
"The Veil of the Ifrit" pendant: glass and gold filled wire. $32
"The Voyage" pendant: stone, Beau Hawn lampwork, sterling silver, and there is a lot to see in this one. $48
"Water Is Impermanent Magic" pendant: some beautiful green stuff that might be prehnite as it was sold to me, or might not be, and sterling silver.  $78
"Wednesday/Saturn" pendant: opal and sterling silver, and I took so many photos because this stone absolutely fascinates me. It's on a little blue-green neckcord with metal clasp, but could be worn on a chain or anything, really.  $100, and I wish I could take better photos of opals, but you get the drift, right?
"'You and I,' said the jester, ' remember different countries.'" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.  $50



Pendants, planet:
(to come)



Pendants, unnamed:

little branch in champagne pearls and gold filled wire. $99
“dragonscale carnelian” – four pendants on sterling silver at $20 each (a sense of scale) SOLD: the first one, the third one, and the fourth one
labradorite with stripes! pendant on sterling silver wire. $45
labradorite pendant with a wide spectrum of color on sterling silver wire. $40
labradorite in a thicket of silver sculptural pendant. $62
brownish-gold jasper pendant on gold filled wire. $12



Earrings, named:

"After the Rains" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30  SOLD

"And from what hills I cannot say...." earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes and sterling silver. $56
"Bearousel" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $29
"Bears in Egypt" earrings: jasper, glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $40

"The Canyons of Night" earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, glass and sterling silver. $72
"Church of Mother Mary Mermaid" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $18
"Clear Days Anticipating the Harvest" earrings: glass, sterling silver, and a smile. $26
"de/finite" earrings: furnace glass, other glass, sterling silver. $32
"Djinni Retro" earrings: glass, shell and sterling silver. $18  SOLD
"The Elegance of Snakes" earrings: Swarovski crystal and other glass, sterling silver. I love these because they are two different colors, and yet, not. $36
"Ghost Town Council" earrings: jasper bears, Stoney Marie lampwork, sterling silver.  $50
"The Goddess In Blue Jeans" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $27
"If Magic Lamps Came In Pairs" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $21
"Imaginary Worlds" earrings: Stoney Marie lampwork, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $80, and these are quite changeable but always amazing.
"In Their Spring Plumage" earrings: Swarovski crystal, stone, and sterling silver. $26

"The Innocence Fish" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $21
"meltwater flowers" earrings: glass and sterling silver.  $26
"The Mer-King's Early Morning Thoughts" earrings: distressed (cracked) glass and sterling silver. $12
"Miss Undine's Third-Grade Class" earrings: Moe Cooper lampwork, glass and sterling silver. $40
"Never Annoy a Sorceress Unnecessarily" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, and sterling silver.  The big purple glass beads are heavy, but oh, so cool.  $40
"New Africa" earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, glass and sterling silver.
"Northern Swamp Magic" earrings: Stoney Marie lampwork, Swarovski and other crystal, glass, sterling silver. $88
"October Dream Bears" earrings: Swarovski crystal, stone, and sterling silver.  These are semi-translucent bears, and they fascinate me.  Give them a good home?  $42

"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Bright Leaf and the Chinese Poet" earrings: stone, sterling silver. $28
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Inside the Thunder" earrings: stone, sterling silver, and glass. $24
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Lumber, Cut and Stacked" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $27
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: My Sky, Your Moon" earrings: stone, sterling silver. $32
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: The Tarnished Flowers of Time" earrings: stone, sterling silver, glass, tarnished tiny rings and silver-plated flowers likewise. $25
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: The Strand and the Deep" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver, and the sound of waves breaking. $32
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: What Your Stories Take" earrings: stone, glass, and sterling silver. $28
"The River that Feeds Us" earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, glass and sterling silver. $78
"Snuffling for Dreams" earrings: stone, glass, and sterling silver.  Like truffle pigs, except for dreams.  $24
"Song for a Wild Nebula" earrings: Stoney Marie lampwork and sterling silver. $50  SOLD

"Spell for Summoning Lullabye Nymphs" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $22
"sugarcandypotiongirl" earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, glass and sterling silver. Oh, man, those are cool beads. $64
"Sweet Hope" earrings: Stoney Marie lampwork, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $70
"They Sprang Up Wherever Her Tears Fell" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, and sterling silver. $30
"The True History of the West in Three Sunsets" earrings: lampwork by Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, glass and sterling silver. $75
"Waltzing with the Uranium Fairy" earrings: vaseline glass (uranium glass), Swarovski crystal, other glass, sterling silver. $48 ON HOLD
"When the Icewings Migrate" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver.  $34
"When They Walked Here" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver.  Big beads, a little heavy, but very cool.  Love the tiger stripes.  $40
"While You Dream, the Bears Are Working" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $45
"You've Got Bears In Your Blood, Girl" earrings: Stoney Marie lampwork, Swarovski crystal, jasper bears, sterling silver.  $85



Earrings, Naughty Alice:

(to come when there are some)



Earrings, unnamed:

bears and amber: stone, amber, sterling silver. $30
somewhat fragile experimental earrings: another pair of incredible borosilicate lampwork beads from Stoney Marie, Swarovski crystal cubes, and a bunch of sterling silver. $78




Hair Ornaments (mostly Maddy's Hair Toys -style ones, this time):

3-lotus hair toy: glass, sterling silver, and a clip-comb. $50
bear and lotus hair toy: stone, glass, sterling silver and a clip-comb. $28
"A Bear Ponders the Woods" hair toy: stone, glass, sterling silver, and a clip-comb. $28
"The Perfumes of Vienna Before the War" hair toy: labradorite and sterling silver on a clip-comb.  $40
"Three Ways to Get There" hair toy: rainbow moonstone, labradorite, glass, sterling silver, and a base metal clip-comb to hold it securely. $50, and, as always, my thanks to Maddy G. for inspiration and design assistance.



Bracelets:

"Leaf Memory" bracelet: glass and memory wire. $20
"The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Underneath" bracelet: stone, sterling silver. It's mostly a rich medium chocolate brown with bits of green. $55




Shipping's $5 domestically and $7 internationally for small things, more for heavy things and for insurance; check with me for specifics at elise@lioness.net.

HOW TO PURCHASE: as always, if you want to buy something, send e-mail to gimme@lioness.net. Thanks!


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[info]arielstarshadow
2008-05-09 04:54 pm UTC (link)
What's interesting about your experimental earrings is that I had visions of something similar - doing funky-cool things with wire in between beads. Awesome!

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[info]maribou
2008-05-09 05:59 pm UTC (link)
"church of mother mary mermaid" is a startlingly lovely name for that pair.

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[info]magentamn
2008-05-09 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Are all (or most) of these coming to Wiscon? Do you need help setting up? I'm in the Gathering, but would be available before it. And should we bring extra needle-nosed pliers for Haiku earrings, or is that happening?

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[info]elisem
2008-05-10 04:32 am UTC (link)
Whatever doesn't sell between now and then is definitely coming to WisCon.

Not sure what the set-up needs will be, but I think it's under control, since Katie's doing it with me. However, I will probably take you and [info]marykaykare up on the offers of Haiku Earring Party help. Thanks!

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[info]elisem
2008-05-17 06:10 am UTC (link)
And yes, Haiku Earring Party is Saturday night as is traditional. Thank you, WisCon Party Planners!

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anticipation! yay!
[info]weds
2008-05-09 11:14 pm UTC (link)
And now I hit refresh frequently until Wednesday/Saturn has a photo and a price... must... know if it sings...

Edited at 2008-05-09 11:15 pm UTC

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[info]bridgetj2
2008-05-10 03:52 am UTC (link)
"You Got Bears in Your Blood, Girl" is a positively fantastic name.

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[info]athenais
2008-05-10 05:24 am UTC (link)
The bears are all perfectly splendid!

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[info]firecat
2008-05-10 06:59 am UTC (link)
Speaking of fish in the sky, do you know the Tom Waits song "Fish & Bird"? (From Alice).

They bought a round for the sailor
And they heard his tale
Of a world that was so far away
And a song that we'd never heard
A song of a little bird
That fell in love with a whale

He said: you cannot live in the ocean
And she said to him:
You never can live in the sky
But the ocean is filled with tears
And the sea turns into a mirror
There's a whale in the moon when it's clear
And a bird on the tide

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[info]elisem
2008-05-10 04:18 pm UTC (link)
I didn't. Thanks! Is cool song.

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[info]tigerfemme
2008-05-10 01:01 pm UTC (link)
"You and I" and the amber and bears have me just going "Ohhhhh.... ohhhh..... oh....."

Drat.

which is to say they are stunning and resonate with me on a level that I haven't felt in a while. :-)

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[info]cjsherwood
2008-05-10 01:02 pm UTC (link)
Errr.... that was actually me. Forgot I was logged in as a friend because I'm at her house.

Doh!

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[info]tigerfemme
2008-05-10 03:22 pm UTC (link)
And this is actually tigerfemme. :) I don't mind your posting from my account...that jewelry is beautiful! You saw my reaction to it; I was pretty stunned.

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[info]pameladean
2008-05-10 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Awwws, the handwriting!

You are doing a lot of green-and-blue, which makes me drooly.

P.

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[info]fireriven
2008-05-10 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Maddy is awesome! As always. :)

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[info]elisem
2008-05-10 04:16 pm UTC (link)
I should probably go edit that bit, because the design assistance Maddy gave was with the initial prototype, and she also graciously allowed her name to be used, since I will forever think of them as Maddy's Hair Toys. We made the first one in a hotel room where she was hanging out with me for a bit while her father took a conference call in his room. They were going off for a tropical vacation the next day, so we made her something pretty to wear.

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[info]fireriven
2008-05-10 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh, very cool.

Did anyone write to ask if you would contact her father and see if he'd be willing to promote the IAF auctions? I sent an e-mail through his website, but you can imagine how many of those he receives.

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[info]papersky
2008-05-11 12:20 pm UTC (link)
"There's plenty of fish in the sky."

"Well of course there are!"

Love it, and love the Sidhe one too. Keep on making them in silver, it makes it easier to resist.

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[info]elisem
2008-05-17 06:10 am UTC (link)
*grin*

I just bought gold.

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[info]dichroic
2008-05-12 09:10 am UTC (link)
I love the title of Song for a Wild Nebula even more than the earrings:



Song for a Wild Nebula
I sing the stars triumphant
And the nebulae enveiled:
The galaxies new-borning
Sliced by comets' ion tails.
The pulsars' throbbing heartbeat
Pounds against the background glow
Where the quasars shone their stories
Unimagined time ago.

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[info]elisem
2008-05-13 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Nice!

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[info]puppytown
2008-05-13 05:55 pm UTC (link)
So! Many! Bears! Wow. You make them seem so ... unassuming. Gentle. You are sneaky.

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[info]elisem
2008-05-13 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Sneaky gentle bears!

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