Lioness (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elisem) wrote,@ 2009-05-01 22:37:00 |
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ArtLog: Current Shinies... with new ones yet to come, and surprises in store
Greetings from snailsville, where the snails are filled with new clarity and resolve. As always, the only way to actually purchase any of these is to send mail to gimme@lioness.net, so feel free to comment here without worrying that you'll accidentally buy something.
I'll be taking those photographs of the newer pieces tomorrow when the sun's up, since it so did not happen today. Sorry about that.
Here are the current shinies, now with yet another additional set of bonus brand-new shinies at the end:
Named earrings:
"All the Vines He Ever Tended" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $60
"And On the Other Spiral" earrings: agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, GF wires. $48
"...And the Cat In Glory" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"And the Hills Rejoiced" earrings: glass, stone, and sterling silver. $34
"The Bears Know the Way Better Than We Do" earrings: opalite glass, other glass, sterling silver. $27
"Before the Story" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $20
"A Castle Childhood Remembered" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. Heavy. $28
... "Cloud Horses" earrings: jasper, sterling silver, and that glass they used to sell as "pineapple quartz."$29 surprise markdown: $16 SOLD
"The Crystallization Point of Music" earrings: sagenitic agate, glass, sterling silver. $35
"Distilling the Twilight Flowers" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
... "Down in the Grotto" earrings: snakeskin jasper, that Peruvian opal stuff that still looks like chalcedony to me, and sterling silver. $38 SOLD
"Dream Station" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $58
"Eos House" earrings: pink opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"The Fish Minuet" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. The blue is closest to the first photo, at least on my monitor. It's a true candy-glass glowing translucent blue, not a blue-green or aqua at all, at least to my eyes. $30
... "The Flower Fairy Rebellion" earrings: glass and sterling silver. (They were on hold for a long time, and now they're off hold.) $24 SOLD
"The Forever Afternoon" earrings: glass, jasper, rutilated quartz (I think -- there are couple of things it might be, but I think this is what it is), gold filled wire. $45
... "Fossil Perfume" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $26 SOLD
"The Goddess in Blue Jeans, II" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $60
"Hide and Go Slither" earrings: more lampwork lizards! Lampwork, glass, sterling silver. $38
"'Of the Treachery of Mortals, There Is No End,' Said Grandfather Dragon" earrings: Swarovski crystal, opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver. $28
"Memoir in a Bottle" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $75
"Midnight Sun" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, GF wire. $85
"The Music-Box Country" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $16
"Old Country, New Country" earrings: tektites and sterling silver. $65, and these are fairly light, despite being tektites.
"Pocket Glaciers" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. They're a little greener than they look here, but still pale. $27
"Points of Reference" earrings: feldspar beads, irregularly faceted, and if you look carefully you can find both a silvery moonstone effect and (ninety degrees from it) a flash-of-gold sunstone effect. I added some glass beads, had fun with asymmetry, and put them on gold filled wires. $45
"Quiet & Sly" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $14
"The Seven Bakers of Candlewick Close" earrings: lampwork and other glass, gold filled beads and wire. $38
"Sister Eventide" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $52
"Skyfishing Charm" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire. $32
"The Slow Sweetness of Grace" earrings: prehnite and gold filled wire. This prehnite is actually a delicate milky clouded green, far too beautiful for me to capture in a photograph. Be aware that these earrings are very heavy. $45
"The Smallest Shell Was Where She Loved To Sit" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. Gotta love those mottle-finish fire-polished crystal drops. $26
"Summer Ghosts" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Symphony for a Sea-Queen" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire. $45
"Talking to the Snake Lady" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver. $30
"Tendrils" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $22
"Third Lives" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
... "Through the Castle Gate He Saw Her" earrings: glass with GF wire and chain. $32 SOLD
"Today's Pixies Prefer Modern, Easy-To-Clean Formica!" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Touch Is Like Music" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $35
"Translations from the Original" earrings: aquamarine, glass, sterling silver. These earrings have more of those wonderful old purple crystal beads I've been saving. I love what the colors do together here. I should have bought more aquamarines when I had the chance, should I not? $30
"Tree Learning" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $20
"Trollheim in Space" earrings: stone and sterling silver. $16
"Two Bottles of Story, Please" earrings: stone and gold filled wire. $27
"Two More Things That Don't Rhyme With Orange" earrings: lampwork glass with metallic foil, GF wires. $75
... "Tylia and the Amplifier" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $18 SOLD
"Under the Leaves With You" earrings: lampwork beads from Victoria Gale with wonderful dichroic sparkle swirled through them, glass, sterling silver. I took many photos to try to show you all the moods of these beads, but they're much better in person. $40
"Whispers Behind the Throne" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. Post earrings. The intricately cut glass crystal beads in the center are pretty cool; I've been saving those, too. $45
Named pendants:
"And at that point, the illustrator was captured by pirates." pendant: laguna lace agate, sterling silver, and an incredulous sense of glee. $50, and I think this must be a Peter Max pirate poster for an album that Trader Horne made in an alternate universe. It's all in there: the sails of the ship as it comes, the secret island hideaway, the hallucinatory outlines of the brightly-colored waves.... I could look at this for hours.
"Ariel Released" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $52
"Auntie's Stars" pendant: a wonderful lampwork bead from a talented beadmaker from Hawai'i whose name I have misplaced -- no, wait! I think it was Joel Park. (See this entry for some long-ago work involving beads by Joel Park and the other amazing Hawaiian beadmakers I met at Tucson), other glass, sterling silver. $80
"Binding the Lightning" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $85
"Bittersweet Harvest" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire, and stories yet to be told. $64
"A Candle For A Faun" pendant: ocean jasper, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver. $24
"Chasing Midnight" pendant: blue-dyed labradorite and sterling silver. There are elusive glowing blue labradorescent ghosts in here that I cannot photograph. They want just the right light. You'll see. $54
"The Clouds Below" pendant: stone, glass, and sterling silver. I know not who swims through the clouds below.... $22
"The Difference Between Mountain Magic and Forest Magic" pendant: stone, laminated shell, sterling silver. $200 It's a major piece, and it might take a long time for it to find its person, but that's how it is sometimes. This one makes a lot more sense in person, but I tried to show you as best I could with photos what's in here.
"The Escape" pendant: tektite and sterling silver. Can you tell I like this one a lot? I took so many pictures because it has so much coolness. $45
"A Few Lines on Coming Home" pendant: Imperial jasper, I do believe, and sterling silver. At first I thought, "Oh, no, I put it on upside-down!" but then realized that this is perfect, because then the wearer can pick it up and look at the hills of home. There's a little tiny chip on one side... but aren't we all like that, after enough journeys? $30
"Full Fathom Five, and Straight On 'Til Morning, She Said, Laughing" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver. $50
"Glyph" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $40
... "Greetings from the Great Old Ones!" pendant: a very Lovecraftian tektite, held by bonds of sterling silver... well, for now, anyhow.$60 surprise markdown: $50 SOLD
"Harp of the Waters, from the Farther Shore" pendant: tektite, labradorite, sterling silver. $55
"Hello!" pendant: tektite, sterling silver. $34
"How Nixies Make More Nixies" pendant: color-treated cultured pearl, enameled metal, aquamarine, GF wire. $45
"The Inventors on Summer Holiday" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl encased in faceted resin, GF wire. $78
"Last Call" pendant: dyed agate slab, turquoise in matrix, sterling silver. $40
"Love Is Where You Find It" pendant: lampwork bead from Remschneider Glass, rose plume agate, sterling silver. $48
"The Mirror of Sylvanus" pendant: dyed agate slab, Beau Hawn lampwork bead, sterling silver. $56
... "Navigational Instruments We Don't Understand, Vol. II" pendant: sterling silver, labradorite. $50 SOLD
"Nixie's Mill" pendant: blue lace agate and sterling silver. $55
"Of Spiders and Starships" pendant: tektite and sterling silver. $55
"The Old Moon Sleeps In the New Moon's Arms" pendant: blue lace agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $60
"Oyin's Quilt Farm" pendant: stone, glass, sterling silver, and there are definitely stories in this one. $24
"Pilgrims in the Wheatfield" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl, GF wire, enameled metal. And yeah, it's pretty much "Twa Corbies" in the U.S. Civil War. $65
"Places I've Never Been, #1" pendant: First of a series of this name. Lake Superior agate, sterling silver. $25
"The River Maids" pendant: tektite, cultured pearl, sterling silver. $40
"A Season For Ghosts" pendant: a wonderful slab of what was sold to me as serpentine, glass, gold filled wire. $110
"She-Carries-Them" pendant: tektite and three color-treated cultured freshwater pearls.$75 SURPRISE MARKDOWN: $50
"Somewhere Past the Sky" pendant: rose plume agate, glass, sterling silver. $35
"Stand Up On It, II" pendant: glass and GF wire. $30
"Stand Up On It, IV" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22
... "Stand Up On It, V" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $23 SOLD
"Stand Up On It, VI" pendant: glass and GF wire. $26
"Stand Up On It, VIII" pendant: glass and stone and GF wire. $27
"Stand Up On It, X" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22
... "Stand Up On It, XI" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22 SOLD
"Stand Up On It, XVI" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $20
"Stand Up On It, XVII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. I mean, look at that face. $21
"Stand Up On It, XVIII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $25
"Stand Up On It, XIX" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $26
"The Steam Calliope and the Seelie Court" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver. $50
"Sweet Bones" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire. $48
"Triple Happiness, Astronomer's Version" pendant: moldavite, meteorite (Campo del Cielo), tektite (Australasian strewnfield). Slightly smaller than the previous pendant of this type, but no less cool. Oh, I do love working with these materials. It looks a little darker on, especially the moldavite (that green stuff) but I wanted to get it backlit so you could enjoy what happens then. $150
"Under Strange Seas (a steampunk adventure)" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox (and I love the little bumps like rivets on the bands at top and bottom), rose plume agate, sterling silver. The central part of the bead is encased in clear glass, and it's wonderful to look into. $65
"Where Ya Goin', Pardner?" pendant: stone and GF wire. This stone is a green that refuses steadfastly to be photographed accurately. It's darned cool, though. I can tell you that. $45
Maddy's hair toys:
"Living Rock" hair toy: that cool stuff they keep selling me as "Peruvian opal," sterling silver, clip-comb. $65
For reference: A clip-comb opened and then closed again.
Hairsticks:
"She Dwells Beneath" hairstick: gold-plated seahorse woman charm from Green Girl Studios, Swarovski crystal, gold filled wire and chain, seven-inch wooden hairstick. $90
Necklace-crowns:
"Brambledaughter" necklace-crown: color-treated cultured pearls, Swarovsi crystal, sterling silver. Another photo here, but none of the photos really catch it, sorry. $275
"Bringing the Dawn In Her Pockets" necklace-crown: Swarovski crystal and sterling silver. $360
"The Fire Inside the Ice" necklace-crown: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $250
"Love Songs for Machines" necklace-crown: rubber, old jewelry, watch parts, metal beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $225
Named necklaces:
"Carnival of Sinners" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $345
"Faeryland For Real" necklace: The colors here are considerably heightened by sunlight; usually they are more muted. But those golds do hide in there, and leap out under the right light. Pietersite, jasper, rhodonite, other stone and sterling silver. $310
"My Tidepool Beloved necklace: glass, Peruvian opal, aquamarine, prehnite, prasiolite, lampwork, sterling silver. This necklace has a detachable ornament that can be put wherever you like it; the necklace may also possibly be worn as a belt. (Or I suppose you could make the world's chunkiest wraparound bracelet.) It's seventy-six and a half inches long without the ornament. $480
"The Salmon of Wisdom's Last Will and Testament" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $225
"Taking My Baby Back To Clown Jail" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $385
"Three Sisters Turned Into Fish" necklace: distressed glass beads (which means yep, some have cracks and crackles, so please be aware of that), jasper and other stone, sterling silver, a fair bit of folklore, and who knows what else. $360
Brand-new shinies!
"Catch Us If You Can" earrings: ocean jasper and sterling silver. $24
"Evidence of Environmental Degradation as Correlated to Faery Rings" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver. These are heavy. $25
"The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society" pendant: what looks like sagenitic agate, sold as Russian lace agate, with sterling silver. $26
"Prairie Style" earrings: ocean jasper and GF wire. $35
"Waiting for the Signal to Come" pendant: Cape amethyst, glass, and sterling silver. $32
"Wicked Sweet" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Years Later, She Tried To Paint Where She Had Been" pendant: Cape amethyst and GF wire. $75
...and some even newer shinies:
"The Camp" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage") and sterling silver. $36
"Don't Tug On Mr. Rackham's Sleeve, Dear" pendant: unknown stone with these cool blue bits in it, and sterling silver. $40
"The Pine That Has Its Sorrows, Too" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage"), rainbow moonstone, sterling silver, and a memory of Jane Hirshfield's voice. $78
"Places I've Never Been, #2" pendant: Cape amethyst and sterling silver. $38
To order, send email to gimme@lioness.net. You'll get a confirmation from me, and Daniel will send you an invoice Monday when he comes in.
Shipping is usually $6.50 in the U.S. and Canada and $8.50 elsewhere, unless you'd like insurance or rush shipping, or unless whatever you fancy is really heavy. If you'd like to check on rates or have special shipping desires, please send an email to Daniel at stitchandlioness@gmail.com and he'll figure it out for you when he comes in on Monday.
Those of you who order Beads of the Month packages for the current month can combine shipping with anything you buy here, so we'll save you a little money on that if we can. Generally, a pair or two of earrings added to a BotMo Great Big Magpie or Mother Of All Magpies order won't need any additional shipping, unless they're super-heavy earrings or something. Adding things to a Little Bitty Magpie will raise the shipping costs because we shift things from a padded envelope to a box, so you'd pay the difference there. May is here... which means I really should get the photographs of those carved tigereye roses up. There's more information on Beads of the Month themes here.
Thanks for looking!
Greetings from snailsville, where the snails are filled with new clarity and resolve. As always, the only way to actually purchase any of these is to send mail to gimme@lioness.net, so feel free to comment here without worrying that you'll accidentally buy something.
I'll be taking those photographs of the newer pieces tomorrow when the sun's up, since it so did not happen today. Sorry about that.
Here are the current shinies, now with yet another additional set of bonus brand-new shinies at the end:
Named earrings:
"All the Vines He Ever Tended" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $60
"And On the Other Spiral" earrings: agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, GF wires. $48
"...And the Cat In Glory" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"And the Hills Rejoiced" earrings: glass, stone, and sterling silver. $34
"The Bears Know the Way Better Than We Do" earrings: opalite glass, other glass, sterling silver. $27
"Before the Story" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $20
"A Castle Childhood Remembered" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. Heavy. $28
... "Cloud Horses" earrings: jasper, sterling silver, and that glass they used to sell as "pineapple quartz."
"The Crystallization Point of Music" earrings: sagenitic agate, glass, sterling silver. $35
"Distilling the Twilight Flowers" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
... "Down in the Grotto" earrings: snakeskin jasper, that Peruvian opal stuff that still looks like chalcedony to me, and sterling silver. $38 SOLD
"Dream Station" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $58
"Eos House" earrings: pink opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"The Fish Minuet" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. The blue is closest to the first photo, at least on my monitor. It's a true candy-glass glowing translucent blue, not a blue-green or aqua at all, at least to my eyes. $30
... "The Flower Fairy Rebellion" earrings: glass and sterling silver. (They were on hold for a long time, and now they're off hold.) $24 SOLD
"The Forever Afternoon" earrings: glass, jasper, rutilated quartz (I think -- there are couple of things it might be, but I think this is what it is), gold filled wire. $45
... "Fossil Perfume" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $26 SOLD
"The Goddess in Blue Jeans, II" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $60
"Hide and Go Slither" earrings: more lampwork lizards! Lampwork, glass, sterling silver. $38
"'Of the Treachery of Mortals, There Is No End,' Said Grandfather Dragon" earrings: Swarovski crystal, opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver. $28
"Memoir in a Bottle" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $75
"Midnight Sun" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, GF wire. $85
"The Music-Box Country" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $16
"Old Country, New Country" earrings: tektites and sterling silver. $65, and these are fairly light, despite being tektites.
"Pocket Glaciers" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. They're a little greener than they look here, but still pale. $27
"Points of Reference" earrings: feldspar beads, irregularly faceted, and if you look carefully you can find both a silvery moonstone effect and (ninety degrees from it) a flash-of-gold sunstone effect. I added some glass beads, had fun with asymmetry, and put them on gold filled wires. $45
"Quiet & Sly" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $14
"The Seven Bakers of Candlewick Close" earrings: lampwork and other glass, gold filled beads and wire. $38
"Sister Eventide" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver. $52
"Skyfishing Charm" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire. $32
"The Slow Sweetness of Grace" earrings: prehnite and gold filled wire. This prehnite is actually a delicate milky clouded green, far too beautiful for me to capture in a photograph. Be aware that these earrings are very heavy. $45
"The Smallest Shell Was Where She Loved To Sit" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. Gotta love those mottle-finish fire-polished crystal drops. $26
"Summer Ghosts" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Symphony for a Sea-Queen" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire. $45
"Talking to the Snake Lady" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver. $30
"Tendrils" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $22
"Third Lives" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
... "Through the Castle Gate He Saw Her" earrings: glass with GF wire and chain. $32 SOLD
"Today's Pixies Prefer Modern, Easy-To-Clean Formica!" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Touch Is Like Music" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $35
"Translations from the Original" earrings: aquamarine, glass, sterling silver. These earrings have more of those wonderful old purple crystal beads I've been saving. I love what the colors do together here. I should have bought more aquamarines when I had the chance, should I not? $30
"Tree Learning" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $20
"Trollheim in Space" earrings: stone and sterling silver. $16
"Two Bottles of Story, Please" earrings: stone and gold filled wire. $27
"Two More Things That Don't Rhyme With Orange" earrings: lampwork glass with metallic foil, GF wires. $75
... "Tylia and the Amplifier" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $18 SOLD
"Under the Leaves With You" earrings: lampwork beads from Victoria Gale with wonderful dichroic sparkle swirled through them, glass, sterling silver. I took many photos to try to show you all the moods of these beads, but they're much better in person. $40
"Whispers Behind the Throne" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. Post earrings. The intricately cut glass crystal beads in the center are pretty cool; I've been saving those, too. $45
Named pendants:
"And at that point, the illustrator was captured by pirates." pendant: laguna lace agate, sterling silver, and an incredulous sense of glee. $50, and I think this must be a Peter Max pirate poster for an album that Trader Horne made in an alternate universe. It's all in there: the sails of the ship as it comes, the secret island hideaway, the hallucinatory outlines of the brightly-colored waves.... I could look at this for hours.
"Ariel Released" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $52
"Auntie's Stars" pendant: a wonderful lampwork bead from a talented beadmaker from Hawai'i whose name I have misplaced -- no, wait! I think it was Joel Park. (See this entry for some long-ago work involving beads by Joel Park and the other amazing Hawaiian beadmakers I met at Tucson), other glass, sterling silver. $80
"Binding the Lightning" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $85
"Bittersweet Harvest" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire, and stories yet to be told. $64
"A Candle For A Faun" pendant: ocean jasper, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver. $24
"Chasing Midnight" pendant: blue-dyed labradorite and sterling silver. There are elusive glowing blue labradorescent ghosts in here that I cannot photograph. They want just the right light. You'll see. $54
"The Clouds Below" pendant: stone, glass, and sterling silver. I know not who swims through the clouds below.... $22
"The Difference Between Mountain Magic and Forest Magic" pendant: stone, laminated shell, sterling silver. $200 It's a major piece, and it might take a long time for it to find its person, but that's how it is sometimes. This one makes a lot more sense in person, but I tried to show you as best I could with photos what's in here.
"The Escape" pendant: tektite and sterling silver. Can you tell I like this one a lot? I took so many pictures because it has so much coolness. $45
"A Few Lines on Coming Home" pendant: Imperial jasper, I do believe, and sterling silver. At first I thought, "Oh, no, I put it on upside-down!" but then realized that this is perfect, because then the wearer can pick it up and look at the hills of home. There's a little tiny chip on one side... but aren't we all like that, after enough journeys? $30
"Full Fathom Five, and Straight On 'Til Morning, She Said, Laughing" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver. $50
"Glyph" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver. $40
... "Greetings from the Great Old Ones!" pendant: a very Lovecraftian tektite, held by bonds of sterling silver... well, for now, anyhow.
"Harp of the Waters, from the Farther Shore" pendant: tektite, labradorite, sterling silver. $55
"Hello!" pendant: tektite, sterling silver. $34
"How Nixies Make More Nixies" pendant: color-treated cultured pearl, enameled metal, aquamarine, GF wire. $45
"The Inventors on Summer Holiday" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl encased in faceted resin, GF wire. $78
"Last Call" pendant: dyed agate slab, turquoise in matrix, sterling silver. $40
"Love Is Where You Find It" pendant: lampwork bead from Remschneider Glass, rose plume agate, sterling silver. $48
"The Mirror of Sylvanus" pendant: dyed agate slab, Beau Hawn lampwork bead, sterling silver. $56
... "Navigational Instruments We Don't Understand, Vol. II" pendant: sterling silver, labradorite. $50 SOLD
"Nixie's Mill" pendant: blue lace agate and sterling silver. $55
"Of Spiders and Starships" pendant: tektite and sterling silver. $55
"The Old Moon Sleeps In the New Moon's Arms" pendant: blue lace agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $60
"Oyin's Quilt Farm" pendant: stone, glass, sterling silver, and there are definitely stories in this one. $24
"Pilgrims in the Wheatfield" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl, GF wire, enameled metal. And yeah, it's pretty much "Twa Corbies" in the U.S. Civil War. $65
"Places I've Never Been, #1" pendant: First of a series of this name. Lake Superior agate, sterling silver. $25
"The River Maids" pendant: tektite, cultured pearl, sterling silver. $40
"A Season For Ghosts" pendant: a wonderful slab of what was sold to me as serpentine, glass, gold filled wire. $110
"She-Carries-Them" pendant: tektite and three color-treated cultured freshwater pearls.
"Somewhere Past the Sky" pendant: rose plume agate, glass, sterling silver. $35
"Stand Up On It, II" pendant: glass and GF wire. $30
"Stand Up On It, IV" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22
... "Stand Up On It, V" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $23 SOLD
"Stand Up On It, VI" pendant: glass and GF wire. $26
"Stand Up On It, VIII" pendant: glass and stone and GF wire. $27
"Stand Up On It, X" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22
... "Stand Up On It, XI" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $22 SOLD
"Stand Up On It, XVI" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $20
"Stand Up On It, XVII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. I mean, look at that face. $21
"Stand Up On It, XVIII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $25
"Stand Up On It, XIX" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $26
"The Steam Calliope and the Seelie Court" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver. $50
"Sweet Bones" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire. $48
"Triple Happiness, Astronomer's Version" pendant: moldavite, meteorite (Campo del Cielo), tektite (Australasian strewnfield). Slightly smaller than the previous pendant of this type, but no less cool. Oh, I do love working with these materials. It looks a little darker on, especially the moldavite (that green stuff) but I wanted to get it backlit so you could enjoy what happens then. $150
"Under Strange Seas (a steampunk adventure)" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox (and I love the little bumps like rivets on the bands at top and bottom), rose plume agate, sterling silver. The central part of the bead is encased in clear glass, and it's wonderful to look into. $65
"Where Ya Goin', Pardner?" pendant: stone and GF wire. This stone is a green that refuses steadfastly to be photographed accurately. It's darned cool, though. I can tell you that. $45
Maddy's hair toys:
"Living Rock" hair toy: that cool stuff they keep selling me as "Peruvian opal," sterling silver, clip-comb. $65
For reference: A clip-comb opened and then closed again.
Hairsticks:
"She Dwells Beneath" hairstick: gold-plated seahorse woman charm from Green Girl Studios, Swarovski crystal, gold filled wire and chain, seven-inch wooden hairstick. $90
Necklace-crowns:
"Brambledaughter" necklace-crown: color-treated cultured pearls, Swarovsi crystal, sterling silver. Another photo here, but none of the photos really catch it, sorry. $275
"Bringing the Dawn In Her Pockets" necklace-crown: Swarovski crystal and sterling silver. $360
"The Fire Inside the Ice" necklace-crown: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $250
"Love Songs for Machines" necklace-crown: rubber, old jewelry, watch parts, metal beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $225
Named necklaces:
"Carnival of Sinners" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $345
"Faeryland For Real" necklace: The colors here are considerably heightened by sunlight; usually they are more muted. But those golds do hide in there, and leap out under the right light. Pietersite, jasper, rhodonite, other stone and sterling silver. $310
"My Tidepool Beloved necklace: glass, Peruvian opal, aquamarine, prehnite, prasiolite, lampwork, sterling silver. This necklace has a detachable ornament that can be put wherever you like it; the necklace may also possibly be worn as a belt. (Or I suppose you could make the world's chunkiest wraparound bracelet.) It's seventy-six and a half inches long without the ornament. $480
"The Salmon of Wisdom's Last Will and Testament" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $225
"Taking My Baby Back To Clown Jail" necklace: glass and sterling silver. $385
"Three Sisters Turned Into Fish" necklace: distressed glass beads (which means yep, some have cracks and crackles, so please be aware of that), jasper and other stone, sterling silver, a fair bit of folklore, and who knows what else. $360
Brand-new shinies!
"Catch Us If You Can" earrings: ocean jasper and sterling silver. $24
"Evidence of Environmental Degradation as Correlated to Faery Rings" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver. These are heavy. $25
"The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society" pendant: what looks like sagenitic agate, sold as Russian lace agate, with sterling silver. $26
"Prairie Style" earrings: ocean jasper and GF wire. $35
"Waiting for the Signal to Come" pendant: Cape amethyst, glass, and sterling silver. $32
"Wicked Sweet" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $24
"Years Later, She Tried To Paint Where She Had Been" pendant: Cape amethyst and GF wire. $75
...and some even newer shinies:
"The Camp" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage") and sterling silver. $36
"Don't Tug On Mr. Rackham's Sleeve, Dear" pendant: unknown stone with these cool blue bits in it, and sterling silver. $40
"The Pine That Has Its Sorrows, Too" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage"), rainbow moonstone, sterling silver, and a memory of Jane Hirshfield's voice. $78
"Places I've Never Been, #2" pendant: Cape amethyst and sterling silver. $38
To order, send email to gimme@lioness.net. You'll get a confirmation from me, and Daniel will send you an invoice Monday when he comes in.
Shipping is usually $6.50 in the U.S. and Canada and $8.50 elsewhere, unless you'd like insurance or rush shipping, or unless whatever you fancy is really heavy. If you'd like to check on rates or have special shipping desires, please send an email to Daniel at stitchandlioness@gmail.com and he'll figure it out for you when he comes in on Monday.
Those of you who order Beads of the Month packages for the current month can combine shipping with anything you buy here, so we'll save you a little money on that if we can. Generally, a pair or two of earrings added to a BotMo Great Big Magpie or Mother Of All Magpies order won't need any additional shipping, unless they're super-heavy earrings or something. Adding things to a Little Bitty Magpie will raise the shipping costs because we shift things from a padded envelope to a box, so you'd pay the difference there. May is here... which means I really should get the photographs of those carved tigereye roses up. There's more information on Beads of the Month themes here.
Thanks for looking!
