Lioness (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elisem) wrote,@ 2009-05-04 22:32:00 |
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ArtLog: the pretend-this-is-the-WisCon-dealers-room SALE! - all done, thanks!
Whee! Sale's over!
Despite our email difficulty earlier this evening, all seems to be well now, and every piece of email that people asked about has made it through. However, since it all came in at once, I have to sort through and re-order it by timestamp, which took a bit. All acknowledgements have been sent, including those for all the winning bids in the auctions....
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worky sleepybeast soon to zzzzz, and then to round up judges for the essay piece tomorrow.
Greetings from snailsville, where the snails are suffused with peace and gratitude today. Because I will not be in the dealers' room at WisCon, I'm taking the opportunity to have one of those clearance sales I do now and then.
I'll be adding some brand-new shinies every day in batches, and marking older things down in riotous abandon, as is my wont. Sometimes I mark things down two or three times, or more. I've even been known to mark new things down towards the end of a sale.
How long is this sale? This one will end tonight, Sunday night, May 10, at midnight Minneapolis time. (We're on Central Daylight Savings time, in case you're calculating differences.) At that point, all the markdowns vanish and things magically pop up to full price again. However, until that point, I'm going to have big sale fun. Especially in these final hours of the sale. Whee!
Tektite auction! There's also something new this time: I have some tektites that are a little too bulky to make pendants out of, so I'm offering them to the highest bidder. Bidding closes midnight Sunday night May 10, CDT, when the sale ends. Bids must be emailed to gimme@lioness.net to be valid, because I might not see it otherwise. I'll update bids as fast as I can, but please understand if I have to, you know, go eat and sleep sometimes. *grin* They're cool tektites, and I will be glad to see them find good homes. They'll be listed at the very very bottom of the page, along with the ....
Planet beads! When Lois McMaster Bujold said, "Those pendants look just like the planets in my book!" I said I was so glad to hear her say that, because people always remarked upon it. So yep, these are planet bead pendants. (I asked Lois which planet was which, and she said, "Ah-ah-ah, tell them they have to figure that out themselves." So there you go.)
How to purchase something: 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.
One more thing: because it's a clearance sale, there's no putting pieces on hold. It just gets too crazy trying to keep track of who's in line for what, like I do for the regular shinies postings. Thanks for understanding.
OK, here ya go: SHINIES!
Named earrings: two pairs left.
... "All the Vines He Ever Tended" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.$60 $50 SOLD
... "And On the Other Spiral" earrings: agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, GF wires.$48 $40 SOLD
... "...And the Cat In Glory" earrings: glass, sterling silver.$24 $18 $15 SOLD
"And the Hills Rejoiced" earrings: glass, stone, and sterling silver.$34 $26 $20 $16
... "The Bears Know the Way Better Than We Do" earrings: opalite glass, other glass, sterling silver.$27 $17 SOLD
... "Before the Story" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $20 SOLD
... "A Castle Childhood Remembered" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. Heavy.$28 $18 $11 $8 SOLD
... "Catch Us If You Can" earrings: ocean jasper and sterling silver.$24 $20 $19 SOLD
... "The Crystallization Point of Music" earrings: sagenitic agate, glass, sterling silver.$35 $30 $26 SOLD
... "Distilling the Twilight Flowers" earrings: glass, sterling silver.$26 $18 SOLD
... "Dream Station" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.$58 $48 SOLD
... "Eos House" earrings: pink opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.$30 $22 $16 $12 SOLD
... "Evidence of Environmental Degradation as Correlated to Faery Rings" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver. These are heavy.$25 $20 SOLD
... "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 $22 $16 $14 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 $35 $27 SOLD
... "The Goddess in Blue Jeans, II" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.$60 $50 $42 SOLD
... "Hide and Go Slither" earrings: more lampwork lizards! Lampwork, glass, sterling silver.$38 $32 SOLD
... "'Of the Treachery of Mortals, There Is No End,' Said Grandfather Dragon" earrings: Swarovski crystal, opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver.$28 $22 $17 $14 SOLD
... "Memoir in a Bottle" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.$75 $65 $56 SOLD
"Midnight Sun" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, GF wire.$85 $75 $66
... "The Music-Box Country" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$16 $12 SOLD
... "Old Country, New Country" earrings: tektites and sterling silver.$65 $55 $46, and these are fairly light, despite being tektites. SOLD
... "Pocket Glaciers" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. They're a little greener than they look here, but still pale.$27 $22 SOLD
... "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 $35 $26 $22 $19 SOLD
... "Prairie Style" earrings: ocean jasper and GF wire.$35 $30 SOLD
... "Quiet & Sly" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$14 $10 SOLD
... "The Seven Bakers of Candlewick Close" earrings: lampwork and other glass, gold filled beads and wire.$38 $28 SOLD
... "Sister Eventide" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.$52 $42 $36 SOLD
... "Skyfishing Charm" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire.$32 $28 $25 $23 SOLD
... "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 $35 $26 SOLD
... "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 $20 $16 SOLD
... "Summer Ghosts" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$24 $20 SOLD
... "Symphony for a Sea-Queen" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire.$45 $35 SOLD
... "Talking to the Snake Lady" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver.$30 $25 SOLD
... "Tendrils" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$22 $18 SOLD
... "Third Lives" earrings: glass, sterling silver.$24 $16 SOLD
... "Today's Pixies Prefer Modern, Easy-To-Clean Formica!" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$24 $18 $14 $12 SOLD
... "Touch Is Like Music" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver.$35 $28 $22 $18 SOLD
... "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 $22 SOLD
... "Tree Learning" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$20 $14 SOLD
... "Trollheim in Space" earrings: stone and sterling silver.$16 $12 $9 SOLD
... "Two Bottles of Story, Please" earrings: stone and gold filled wire.$27 $22 SOLD
... "Two More Things That Don't Rhyme With Orange" earrings: lampwork glass with metallic foil, GF wires.$75 $65 $58 $52 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 $30 $25 SOLD
... "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 $35 SOLD
... "Wicked Sweet" earrings: glass and sterling silver.$24 $20 SOLD</small>
Named pendants: five left.
... "And at that point, the illustrator was captured by pirates." pendant: laguna lace agate, sterling silver, and an incredulous sense of glee.$50 $45, 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. SOLD
... "Ariel Released" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.$52 $47 $43 $39 $30 SOLD
... "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 $70 $62 $55 SOLD
... "Binding the Lightning" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.$85 $75 SOLD
... "Bittersweet Harvest" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire, and stories yet to be told.$64 $54 $43 SOLD
... "The Camp" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage") and sterling silver.$36 $32 $29 SOLD
..."A Candle For A Faun" pendant: ocean jasper, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver.$24 $20 SOLD
... "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 $44 SOLD
... "The Clouds Below" pendant: stone, glass, and sterling silver. I know not who swims through the clouds below....$22 $18 $15 SOLD
... "The Difference Between Mountain Magic and Forest Magic" pendant: stone, laminated shell, sterling silver.$200 $150 $100 $75 $65 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. SOLD
... "Don't Tug On Mr. Rackham's Sleeve, Dear" pendant: unknown stone with these cool blue bits in it, and sterling silver.$40 $35 $26 SOLD
"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 $40 $37 $35 $29 $25
... "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 $25 SOLD
... "Full Fathom Five, and Straight On 'Til Morning, She Said, Laughing" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver.$50 $45 $41 $38 $30 SOLD
... "Glyph" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.$40 $35 $31 $28 SOLD
... "Harp of the Waters, from the Farther Shore" pendant: tektite, labradorite, sterling silver.$55 $45 $36 $28 SOLD
... "Hello!" pendant: tektite, sterling silver.$34 $30 $28 $25 SOLD
... "How Nixies Make More Nixies" pendant: color-treated cultured pearl, enameled metal, aquamarine, GF wire.$45 $38 SOLD
... "The Inventors on Summer Holiday" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl encased in faceted resin, GF wire.$78 $68 SOLD
... "The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society" pendant: what looks like sagenitic agate, sold as Russian lace agate, with sterling silver.$26 $22 $19 $17 $15 SOLD
... "Last Call" pendant: dyed agate slab, turquoise in matrix, sterling silver.$40 $35 SOLD
... "Love Is Where You Find It" pendant: lampwork bead from Remschneider Glass, rose plume agate, sterling silver.$48 $43 $39 $25 SOLD
... "The Mirror of Sylvanus" pendant: dyed agate slab, Beau Hawn lampwork bead, sterling silver.$56 $46 $37 $29 SOLD
... "Nixie's Mill" pendant: blue lace agate and sterling silver.$55 $45 $38 SOLD
... "Of Spiders and Starships" pendant: tektite and sterling silver.$55 $45 $40 $36 $29 $25 SOLD
... "The Old Moon Sleeps In the New Moon's Arms" pendant: blue lace agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.$60 $50 $42 SOLD
... "Oyin's Quilt Farm" pendant: stone, glass, sterling silver, and there are definitely stories in this one.$24 $20 SOLD
"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 $55
"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 $68 $59 $45 $34
... "Places I've Never Been, #1" pendant: First of a series of this name. Lake Superior agate, sterling silver.$25 $20 $16 $12 SOLD
... "Places I've Never Been, #2" pendant: Cape amethyst and sterling silver.$38 $33 SOLD
... "The River Maids" pendant: tektite, cultured pearl, sterling silver.$40 $35 $31 SOLD
... "A Season For Ghosts" pendant: a wonderful slab of what was sold to me as serpentine, glass, gold filled wire.$110 $90 $78 $67 SOLD
... "She-Carries-Them" pendant: tektite and three color-treated cultured freshwater pearls.$75 $65 $56 SOLD
"Somewhere Past the Sky" pendant: rose plume agate, glass, sterling silver.$35 $30 $26 $20 $15
... "Stand Up On It, II" pendant: glass and GF wire.$30 $25 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, IV" pendant: glass and sterling silver.$22 $17 $14 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, VI" pendant: glass and GF wire.$26 $21 SOLD
"Stand Up On It, VIII" pendant: glass and stone and GF wire.$27 $22 $18 $15 $13
... "Stand Up On It, X" pendant: glass and sterling silver.$22 $17 $14 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, XVI" pendant: glass and sterling silver.$20 $15 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, XVII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. I mean, look at that face.$21 $16 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, XVIII" pendant: glass and sterling silver.$25 $20 $17 SOLD
... "Stand Up On It, XIX" pendant: glass and sterling silver.$26 $21 SOLD
... "The Steam Calliope and the Seelie Court" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver.$50 $44 $39 $32 SOLD
... "Sweet Bones" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire.$48 $38 SOLD
... "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 $100 $95 SOLD
... "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 huge bead is encased in clear glass, and it's wonderful to look into.$65 $55 $46 $40 $35 $26 $22 SOLD
... "Waiting for the Signal to Come" pendant: Cape amethyst, glass, and sterling silver.$32 $27 SOLD
... "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 $35 SOLD
... "Years Later, She Tried To Paint Where She Had Been" pendant: Cape amethyst and GF wire.$75 $65 $56 SOLD
Maddy's hair toys: all gone
... "Living Rock" hair toy: that cool stuff they keep selling me as "Peruvian opal," sterling silver, clip-comb.$65 $50 $42 SOLD
For reference: A clip-comb opened and then closed again.
Hairsticks: all gone
... "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 $70 $55 $41 $32 $25 $20... and it's a tricky thing to balance, but it's really cool. SOLD
Necklace-crowns: all gone.
... "Brambledaughter" necklace-crown: color-treated cultured pearls, Swarovsi crystal, sterling silver. Another photo here, but none of the photos really catch it, sorry.$275 $200 $165 SOLD
... "Bringing the Dawn In Her Pockets" necklace-crown: Swarovski crystal and sterling silver.$360 $250 $210 SOLD
... "The Fire Inside the Ice" necklace-crown: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.$250 $190 $180 SOLD
... "Love Songs for Machines" necklace-crown: rubber, old jewelry, watch parts, metal beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.$225 $175 $160 $150 $142 SOLD
Named necklaces: four left
"Carnival of Sinners" necklace: glass and sterling silver.$345 $225 $200 $180 $165 $155 $125
... "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 $210 $175 $165 $155 $130 SOLD
"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 $400 $350 $310 $275
"The Salmon of Wisdom's Last Will and Testament" necklace: glass and sterling silver.$225 $150 $130 $120 $112 $105 $100
"Taking My Baby Back To Clown Jail" necklace: glass and sterling silver.$385 $250 $220 $185 $160 $145 $125 $100
... "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 $260 $220 SOLD
Tuesday's new things: one left.
... "Both Ends of the Day (Mountains of Peace, Year 91873)" pendant: "amethyst sage" type jasper, sterling silver. $40 SOLD
... "Counting Galaxies Like Sheep" pendant: that jasper that was sold with the label "amethyst sage" and sterling silver. There's not really any blue in here, but there's a lovely grey that plays tricks.$45 $36 $32 SOLD, and a waiting list is forming in case the person backs out
... "A Dinosaur in the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft" pendant: fossil coral, GF wire. OK, I really like the idea of a clever dinosaur following the tenets of Ruskin, hanging out with George Rowley, et al. and making jewelry in the Guild. $50 SOLD
... "The Farm in Winter" pendant: more of that "amethyst sage" jasper, and a lot of sterling silver. Gorgeous markings in this stone.$58 $48 SOLD
"The Feast of Lovers" pendant: lampwork goodness; the little one is by an unknown artist, and the long one is by Anne Marie Herlich. On sterling silver.$42 $32 $25 $20
... "Places I've Never Been, #3" pendant: stone and sterling silver.$22 $16 SOLD
... "Special Delivery!" pendant: a wonderful long teardrop of a tektite in a silver wire wrapping. You can even see the greenish-brown color in the one edge that's thin, when the sun's behind it. $60 SOLD
Wednesday's new things: one left, plus one with people writing things for a discount.
... "Constance and the Dragon" pendant: that crackled agate stuff that I sometimes call "dragonscale carnelian", sterling silver, and a lampwork bead by Jami Hamilton of JH Designs. $53, and you should see what it does when the light's behind it. SOLD
"Enchanted Ground" pendant: another piece of that jasper that was labeled "amethyst sage," plus a color-treated cultured freshwater pearl and some sterling silver.$40 $30 $25 $22
... "For All My Teachers" earrings: amethyst bears, little Swarovski crystals, large lavender glass, and sterling silver.$25 $20 $18 $15 SOLD
... "The Forest Became Her Family Then" pendant: jasper ("amethyst sage" type) and sterling silver. There is no way to photograph the powerful feeling of, well, serenity and strength this stone has. It's got a sort of an awed hush to it, like a very old and living temple, and there is a sense that whoever the child is who has come under the forest's protection, she is very strongly warded indeed. This is a gorgeous piece of stone, this bead.$47 $37 $29 SOLD
... "Modern Dwarven Security Protocols" pendant: Cape amethyst, sterling silver. Has very cool internal mini-fractures that refract light in fascinating ways. I suspect the dwarves have gone very high-tech. $32 SOLD
... "The Name's Pan. Peter Pan." earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver.$22 $16 SOLD
... "Shadow Cat Discovers Space Travel" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver.$28 $19 SOLD
"The Way Time Passes" pendant: turitella, which is a stone full of fossil shells (and this one has some lovely examples), with jasper and sterling silver. $52, although anyone who fluently speaks a language in which they can give me a phrase that says something about "those things, so old, and so long ago they lived, and here am I, now, looking at what they left behind, and oh! the time between us, so long and yet compressed into an instant in this glance," will get a 20% discount on it if they provide me with that phrase and a paragraph (in that language) of not less than fifty words explaining some of the nuances of that phrase -- if the phrase and paragraph both pass muster with another person of my choice who is fluent in that language, which I shall have fun finding if anyone takes me up on this. (Hey, part of the fun of my gig is that every now and then I get to do something like this.) I'm not talking about an exact translation of what I said, mind; I mean something that has some of that flavor, something a person might think in that situation. And I'm getting a number of inquiries, so I am going to do the "write me something" thing described here, and give the winning one a discount on the piece. Yay! (Also, somebody has already spotted the careful way I worded the requirements up there, and identified what I didn't say. Heh.) Keep 'em coming, please! This is going to be fun, and I love reading what you guys think of when you see a piece and its title. Here's another look at it. THIS ONE WILL TAKE UNTIL TOMORROW TO JUDGE, AT LEAST.
... "You Go In There, You'll Be Different Coming Out" pendant: more of that jasper marked "amethyst sage" and sterling silver. And you will, too.$32 $28 $25 $23 SOLD
Thursday's new things: mineral specimens - three left
Michigan float copper - new specimens were lacquered, the dealer told me, so they won't tarnish. They're also lacy and interesting. The older specimens are smoother and much heavier, and I got them maybe ten years ago or so.
... #1: one older rectangular nugget $4 SOLD
...#2: one older rectangular nugget $4 SOLD
#3: one older sort of squarish nugget$4 $3 $2
... #4: new specimen $3 (I like the hole in this one.) SOLD
#5: three new specimens, one with a cool vug with a bit of copper in it.$5 $4 $3
... #6: one new bar-shaped specimen $4 SOLD
... #7: new specimen, striking animal shape (natural!) $6 SOLD
#8: five little new specimens, chosen because they have a range of colors in the rock associated with some of them.$10 $7
... #9: larger new specimen, a bit heavier, very three-dimensional. Pretty cool. $5 SOLD
... #10: a trio of new specimens chosen for the range of colors in the rock the copper embraces. $7 SOLD
Bismuth - cool stair-steppy crystal structure.
... #1: Nice long multicolored example. $10, 'cause it's way cool. SOLD
Geodes - 'cause I like little crystal caves.
... #1: itty bitty geode fifty cents. SOLD
Petoskey stone - fossil coral. Cool stuff. State rock of Michigan.
#1: nice big polished hunk of it. I photographed this, and then fell in love with it again, so I am not ready to give it up, but wanted to show it to you. (Sorry, that may be teasing. But it's so cool. I shall put up some Petoskey stone beads for sale if I can find my extras, OK?)
... Gypsum: "desert rose" is what they call these crystal formations
#1: yep, a desert rose.$2 $1 SOLD
Friday's new things: more mineral specimens: two left, plus a bag of opals to bid on.
Auction: bagful of opal rough - I thought there was no flash in this stuff, but the last photo proves me wrong. These are fun just to play with; they're real dragon-hoard goodness. Current bid: $12 (You can bid by sending email to gimme@lioness.net. Thanks!) SOLD to the $12 bidder!
Botswana agate, possible fun for wire wrapping, yah?
... slice #1 - $1.50 SOLD
slice #2 -$1.50 $1
slice #3 -$1.50 $1
... slice #4 - $2 because it's especially cool SOLD
... slice #5 -$1 fifty cents, because it's got a substantial flaw on one side... but it's still lovely. SOLD
... bag full of fun - four botswana agate slices to play with. $5 SOLD
... Treasure cave geode: I don't know what the iridescent metallic coating is inside the geode, but the crystals in there are quite striking. $5 SOLD
... Petosky stone beads: eight pale ones plus an odd one. Might be the foundation of an interesting necklace, but I never got around to it. These beads, $6. SOLD
... Curious rock with a creature incised in it. Not sure if it's a lion or what. $1 SOLD
Sunday's grand finale odds and ends
Beads, singly or bagged:
agate #1: very large! $3
... agate #2: very large! $3 SOLD
... ceramic starfish beads: a pair of these pretty things, which have iridescent finish on one side and unglazed undersides. $6 for the pair, which is less than what I paid for them. SOLD
... Green Girl pewter pendant: they call it a "mystery nut" but it sure looks like a hops blossom to me. Does a brewer need a necklace? Usually $8, but $6 today. SOLD
... moss agate discs: 7 beads for $4 SOLD
... Swarovski crystal-studded antiqued-metal (dark finish) beads in red: so hard to photograph, but they are very cool beads. The crystals are actually a vivid red. 14 beads for $20, which is a serious deal, because these have gone up a lot in price since I bought them. But hey, I'm not using them, and somebody should, right? SOLD
... tree agate cubes: 29 beads for $3 SOLD
Beads available in quantity while supplies last:
black faceted glass with a mix of various coatings: 6 for $1
blue candyglass beads with dark accent coating on one side: 7 for $1
blue-green glass flowers: 7 for $1
... bone horses: eight available. $3 per bead ALL GONE
dichroic glass rippled rectangles: golden with multicolor highlights, or silver-white with multicolor highlights. 6 golden available, 17 silver-white available. $1 per bead
flat-face faceted glass beads: blues and other colors deep inside these beads, and silvery coating on one side of them. 5 for $1
green givre beads with midnight-blue coating on one side: 7 for $1
lavender givre beads: 8 for $1
big "Monet's garden" beads: huge purple and green stone beads. $3 each
shiny multicolor (mostly blue) shimmery gridwork on black glass: 7 for $1
step-faceted beads with blues inside and silver outside: 5 for $1
Findings (vintage box clasps, new spacers, etc.):
tiny Bali-style spacers: sterling silver. Good for strung stuff; narrow holes. 10 for $2 while supplies last
... clasp #1: brass, probably; stones and stuff in it. Cool. Big. $5 SOLD
clasp #2: nine-strand with rhinestones. $6
clasp #3: five-strand with rhinestones. $5
... clasp #4: three-strand with rhinestones, and very cool. $6 SOLD
clasp #5: three-strand very tarnished clasp, but still cool. $3
... clasp #6: floral clasp with rhinestones, but has no hook part, so it's $1 SOLD
... pin finding #1: brass, ornate. $2 SOLD
... pin finding #2 with bonus bail: like #1 but with a bonus brass bail finding. $2 SOLD
... pin finding #3: more classical. $3 SOLD
... pin finding #4: the face of the winds! $5 SOLD
Curious leftovers:
3 big grey shell buttons: one's chipped, so all three for $2
5 really big fawn-colored shell buttons: iridescence plays across these in the right light. 5 for $5
... 8 tarnished simple metal buttons: might be nice for something steampunkish. 8 for $1 SOLD
... heart of stone #1: so beautiful. $4 SOLD
heart of stone #2: gorgeous markings. $4
moss agate shawl pin: was in a bin of beads I bought. Best offer over $5; ends at midnight. (Tell me your high offer, if you like, and I'll bid the minimum whole dollar for you.) Resolved, and SOLD. Yay!
... old mother-of-pearl buckle: $3 SOLD
... red glass hearts: not beads, but something to practice wire-wrapping on. 2 for $1 SOLD
TEKTITE AUCTION! Opening bid: $1; bidding increments in whole dollars, please. Thanks! These are the WINNING bids:
Tektite #1: current bid is $2
Tektite #2: current bid is $5
Tektite #3: current bid is $2
Tektite #4: current bid is $4
Tektite #5: current bid is $6
Tektite #6: current bid is $2
Tektite #7: current bid is $6
Tektite #8: current bid is $3
Planet beads: two left
... A. Giant planet of purple goodness.$24 $19 SOLD
... B. A black stone with white and reddish-brown intrusions.$12 $7 SOLD
... C. Orange planet, with a great orange spot. Well, a pretty good orange spot, anyway.$11 $6 SOLD
... D. Another black stone planet with white and red-brown lines.$12 $7 SOLD
... E. I think this was some azurite/malachite I had lying around. Gorgeous stuff.$22 $17 SOLD
... F. Purple and green and clear and white; softer blending and not so much with banding in this one.$24 $19 SOLD
... G. Dark planet with dramatic lines.$12 $7 SOLD
... H. Don't remember what this is, but it's really cool.$10 $5 SOLD
I. Planet with very faint agate banding and a little dark cave of secret goodness.$11 $6 $4 $3
... J. Agate with some lovely fortifications. $20 SOLD AT FULL PRICE AFTER CLOSE OF SALE
... K. "Nevada Lapis" is the name given to this pale pink and green stone.$10 $5 $4 $3 SOLD
... L. Golds and browns with a touch of green.$16 $11 SOLD
... M. A planet with a past.$12 $7 SOLD
... N. This is some kind of dendritic or plumed agate or something. White, yellow, and a touch of lavender, with dark inclusions.$6 $1 SOLD
... O. Agate with a lot going on. Nice!$21 $16 $13 $9 SOLD
... P. Some kind of agate with purple, white, and green markings.$24 $19 SOLD
... Q. a planet with an excellent stripe!$14 $9 SOLD
... R. Another azurite/malachite planet.$24 $19 SOLD
... S. Ooh! Grey-white, tiny blue dots, a little gold....$11 $6 SOLD
... T. This came either from a string of fancy jasper or a string of ocean jasper, and I don't remember which. Lovely soft colors.$11 $6 SOLD
... U. Pretty little green and white planet.$6 $1 SOLD
... V. Oh, gorgeous agate!$22 $17 $13 SOLD
... W. A little planet of green and white stone; it came in a string of ocean jasper and other jaspers.$12 $7 SOLD
... X. Gorgeous green, brown and white bead. I love this one so!$12 $7 SOLD
... Y. Orange!$11 $6 SOLD
... Z. Purple and other colors. Big!$24 $19 SOLD
... A.A. More purple-and-other goodness.$24 $19 SOLD
... B.B. From a string of pietersite. I like this one a lot.$10 $5 $4 SOLD
... C.C. Is that an agate, or is that an agate? Nifty bead!$15 $10 $8 SOLD
... D.D. More azurite/malachite goodness.$22 $17 SOLD even before I get the photographs up!
... E.E. Agate in paler colors with nice wiggles.$16 $11 SOLD
... F.F. Rich brown bead with interesting striations.$12 $7 SOLD
... G.G. Big purple/white/gold/green one.$24 $21 SOLD
... H.H. White with green.$14 $9 $7 SOLD
... I.I. Forest-colored planet bead.$12 $7 SOLD
... J.J. More purple goodness, this one paler and with interesting lines.$24 $19 SOLD
... K.K. This little planet's had a rough life, but it's a cool bead.$12 $7 SOLD
... L.L. Golden-brown good-sized goodness.$16 $11 SOLD
M.M. Small ocean jasper bead with spots and actual craters. Very nifty.$18 $13 $11 $9
... N.N. Pale aquamarine with a little inclusion.$14 $9 SOLD
... O.O. The purple's a little less intense in real life, but this is a very cool bead.$24 $19 SOLD
... P.P. Really nice colors, green and grey and white and brown, in this one.$16 $11 SOLD
... Q.Q. Lovely agate banding.$18 $13 SOLD
... R.R. Brown with gold and red.$12 $7 SOLD
... S.S. This is a super stealthy planet bead. It looks black, except when it's blue, or when it's hinting at being something else. Cool bead.$11 $6 SOLD
To order, send email to gimme@lioness.net. You'll get a confirmation from me, and Daniel will send you an invoice at the end of the sale, unless you request one sooner.
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.
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's info sheet is posted here with links to photos of many of the beads. There's more information on Beads of the Month themes here.
Thanks for looking!
Whee! Sale's over!
Despite our email difficulty earlier this evening, all seems to be well now, and every piece of email that people asked about has made it through. However, since it all came in at once, I have to sort through and re-order it by timestamp, which took a bit. All acknowledgements have been sent, including those for all the winning bids in the auctions....
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worky sleepybeast soon to zzzzz, and then to round up judges for the essay piece tomorrow.
Greetings from snailsville, where the snails are suffused with peace and gratitude today. Because I will not be in the dealers' room at WisCon, I'm taking the opportunity to have one of those clearance sales I do now and then.
I'll be adding some brand-new shinies every day in batches, and marking older things down in riotous abandon, as is my wont. Sometimes I mark things down two or three times, or more. I've even been known to mark new things down towards the end of a sale.
How long is this sale? This one will end tonight, Sunday night, May 10, at midnight Minneapolis time. (We're on Central Daylight Savings time, in case you're calculating differences.) At that point, all the markdowns vanish and things magically pop up to full price again. However, until that point, I'm going to have big sale fun. Especially in these final hours of the sale. Whee!
Tektite auction! There's also something new this time: I have some tektites that are a little too bulky to make pendants out of, so I'm offering them to the highest bidder. Bidding closes midnight Sunday night May 10, CDT, when the sale ends. Bids must be emailed to gimme@lioness.net to be valid, because I might not see it otherwise. I'll update bids as fast as I can, but please understand if I have to, you know, go eat and sleep sometimes. *grin* They're cool tektites, and I will be glad to see them find good homes. They'll be listed at the very very bottom of the page, along with the ....
Planet beads! When Lois McMaster Bujold said, "Those pendants look just like the planets in my book!" I said I was so glad to hear her say that, because people always remarked upon it. So yep, these are planet bead pendants. (I asked Lois which planet was which, and she said, "Ah-ah-ah, tell them they have to figure that out themselves." So there you go.)
How to purchase something: 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.
One more thing: because it's a clearance sale, there's no putting pieces on hold. It just gets too crazy trying to keep track of who's in line for what, like I do for the regular shinies postings. Thanks for understanding.
OK, here ya go: SHINIES!
Named earrings: two pairs left.
... "All the Vines He Ever Tended" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.
... "And On the Other Spiral" earrings: agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, GF wires.
... "...And the Cat In Glory" earrings: glass, sterling silver.
"And the Hills Rejoiced" earrings: glass, stone, and sterling silver.
... "The Bears Know the Way Better Than We Do" earrings: opalite glass, other glass, sterling silver.
... "Before the Story" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. $20 SOLD
... "A Castle Childhood Remembered" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. Heavy.
... "Catch Us If You Can" earrings: ocean jasper and sterling silver.
... "The Crystallization Point of Music" earrings: sagenitic agate, glass, sterling silver.
... "Distilling the Twilight Flowers" earrings: glass, sterling silver.
... "Dream Station" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.
... "Eos House" earrings: pink opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Evidence of Environmental Degradation as Correlated to Faery Rings" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver. These are heavy.
... "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.
... "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.
... "The Goddess in Blue Jeans, II" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.
... "Hide and Go Slither" earrings: more lampwork lizards! Lampwork, glass, sterling silver.
... "'Of the Treachery of Mortals, There Is No End,' Said Grandfather Dragon" earrings: Swarovski crystal, opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver.
... "Memoir in a Bottle" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.
"Midnight Sun" earrings: Swarovski crystal, lampwork by Beau Hawn, GF wire.
... "The Music-Box Country" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Old Country, New Country" earrings: tektites and sterling silver.
... "Pocket Glaciers" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. They're a little greener than they look here, but still pale.
... "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.
... "Prairie Style" earrings: ocean jasper and GF wire.
... "Quiet & Sly" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "The Seven Bakers of Candlewick Close" earrings: lampwork and other glass, gold filled beads and wire.
... "Sister Eventide" earrings: lampwork by Beau Hawn, other glass, sterling silver.
... "Skyfishing Charm" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire.
... "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.
... "The Smallest Shell Was Where She Loved To Sit" earrings: glass and gold filled wire. Gotta love those mottle-finish fire-polished crystal drops.
... "Summer Ghosts" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Symphony for a Sea-Queen" earrings: enameled metal, glass, GF wire.
... "Talking to the Snake Lady" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver.
... "Tendrils" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Third Lives" earrings: glass, sterling silver.
... "Today's Pixies Prefer Modern, Easy-To-Clean Formica!" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Touch Is Like Music" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver.
... "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?
... "Tree Learning" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Trollheim in Space" earrings: stone and sterling silver.
... "Two Bottles of Story, Please" earrings: stone and gold filled wire.
... "Two More Things That Don't Rhyme With Orange" earrings: lampwork glass with metallic foil, GF wires.
... "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.
... "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.
... "Wicked Sweet" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
Named pendants: five left.
... "And at that point, the illustrator was captured by pirates." pendant: laguna lace agate, sterling silver, and an incredulous sense of glee.
... "Ariel Released" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.
... "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.
... "Binding the Lightning" pendant: lampwork glass by Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.
... "Bittersweet Harvest" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire, and stories yet to be told.
... "The Camp" pendant: jasper (sold as "amethyst sage") and sterling silver.
..."A Candle For A Faun" pendant: ocean jasper, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver.
... "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.
... "The Clouds Below" pendant: stone, glass, and sterling silver. I know not who swims through the clouds below....
... "The Difference Between Mountain Magic and Forest Magic" pendant: stone, laminated shell, sterling silver.
... "Don't Tug On Mr. Rackham's Sleeve, Dear" pendant: unknown stone with these cool blue bits in it, and sterling silver.
"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.
... "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?
... "Full Fathom Five, and Straight On 'Til Morning, She Said, Laughing" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver.
... "Glyph" pendant: lampwork glass from Charlene Haycox, sterling silver.
... "Harp of the Waters, from the Farther Shore" pendant: tektite, labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Hello!" pendant: tektite, sterling silver.
... "How Nixies Make More Nixies" pendant: color-treated cultured pearl, enameled metal, aquamarine, GF wire.
... "The Inventors on Summer Holiday" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl encased in faceted resin, GF wire.
... "The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society" pendant: what looks like sagenitic agate, sold as Russian lace agate, with sterling silver.
... "Last Call" pendant: dyed agate slab, turquoise in matrix, sterling silver.
... "Love Is Where You Find It" pendant: lampwork bead from Remschneider Glass, rose plume agate, sterling silver.
... "The Mirror of Sylvanus" pendant: dyed agate slab, Beau Hawn lampwork bead, sterling silver.
... "Nixie's Mill" pendant: blue lace agate and sterling silver.
... "Of Spiders and Starships" pendant: tektite and sterling silver.
... "The Old Moon Sleeps In the New Moon's Arms" pendant: blue lace agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Oyin's Quilt Farm" pendant: stone, glass, sterling silver, and there are definitely stories in this one.
"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.
"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.
... "Places I've Never Been, #1" pendant: First of a series of this name. Lake Superior agate, sterling silver.
... "Places I've Never Been, #2" pendant: Cape amethyst and sterling silver.
... "The River Maids" pendant: tektite, cultured pearl, sterling silver.
... "A Season For Ghosts" pendant: a wonderful slab of what was sold to me as serpentine, glass, gold filled wire.
... "She-Carries-Them" pendant: tektite and three color-treated cultured freshwater pearls.
"Somewhere Past the Sky" pendant: rose plume agate, glass, sterling silver.
... "Stand Up On It, II" pendant: glass and GF wire.
... "Stand Up On It, IV" pendant: glass and sterling silver.
... "Stand Up On It, VI" pendant: glass and GF wire.
"Stand Up On It, VIII" pendant: glass and stone and GF wire.
... "Stand Up On It, X" pendant: glass and sterling silver.
... "Stand Up On It, XVI" pendant: glass and sterling silver.
... "Stand Up On It, XVII" pendant: glass and sterling silver. I mean, look at that face.
... "Stand Up On It, XVIII" pendant: glass and sterling silver.
... "Stand Up On It, XIX" pendant: glass and sterling silver.
... "The Steam Calliope and the Seelie Court" pendant: lampwork by Charlene Haycox, glass, sterling silver.
... "Sweet Bones" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearls, GF wire.
... "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.
... "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 huge bead is encased in clear glass, and it's wonderful to look into.
... "Waiting for the Signal to Come" pendant: Cape amethyst, glass, and sterling silver.
... "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.
... "Years Later, She Tried To Paint Where She Had Been" pendant: Cape amethyst and GF wire.
Maddy's hair toys: all gone
... "Living Rock" hair toy: that cool stuff they keep selling me as "Peruvian opal," sterling silver, clip-comb.
For reference: A clip-comb opened and then closed again.
Hairsticks: all gone
... "She Dwells Beneath" hairstick: gold-plated seahorse woman charm from Green Girl Studios, Swarovski crystal, gold filled wire and chain, seven-inch wooden hairstick.
Necklace-crowns: all gone.
... "Brambledaughter" necklace-crown: color-treated cultured pearls, Swarovsi crystal, sterling silver. Another photo here, but none of the photos really catch it, sorry.
... "Bringing the Dawn In Her Pockets" necklace-crown: Swarovski crystal and sterling silver.
... "The Fire Inside the Ice" necklace-crown: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Love Songs for Machines" necklace-crown: rubber, old jewelry, watch parts, metal beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
Named necklaces: four left
"Carnival of Sinners" necklace: glass and sterling silver.
... "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.
"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.
"The Salmon of Wisdom's Last Will and Testament" necklace: glass and sterling silver.
"Taking My Baby Back To Clown Jail" necklace: glass and sterling silver.
... "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.
Tuesday's new things: one left.
... "Both Ends of the Day (Mountains of Peace, Year 91873)" pendant: "amethyst sage" type jasper, sterling silver. $40 SOLD
... "Counting Galaxies Like Sheep" pendant: that jasper that was sold with the label "amethyst sage" and sterling silver. There's not really any blue in here, but there's a lovely grey that plays tricks.
... "A Dinosaur in the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft" pendant: fossil coral, GF wire. OK, I really like the idea of a clever dinosaur following the tenets of Ruskin, hanging out with George Rowley, et al. and making jewelry in the Guild. $50 SOLD
... "The Farm in Winter" pendant: more of that "amethyst sage" jasper, and a lot of sterling silver. Gorgeous markings in this stone.
"The Feast of Lovers" pendant: lampwork goodness; the little one is by an unknown artist, and the long one is by Anne Marie Herlich. On sterling silver.
... "Places I've Never Been, #3" pendant: stone and sterling silver.
... "Special Delivery!" pendant: a wonderful long teardrop of a tektite in a silver wire wrapping. You can even see the greenish-brown color in the one edge that's thin, when the sun's behind it. $60 SOLD
Wednesday's new things: one left, plus one with people writing things for a discount.
... "Constance and the Dragon" pendant: that crackled agate stuff that I sometimes call "dragonscale carnelian", sterling silver, and a lampwork bead by Jami Hamilton of JH Designs. $53, and you should see what it does when the light's behind it. SOLD
"Enchanted Ground" pendant: another piece of that jasper that was labeled "amethyst sage," plus a color-treated cultured freshwater pearl and some sterling silver.
... "For All My Teachers" earrings: amethyst bears, little Swarovski crystals, large lavender glass, and sterling silver.
... "The Forest Became Her Family Then" pendant: jasper ("amethyst sage" type) and sterling silver. There is no way to photograph the powerful feeling of, well, serenity and strength this stone has. It's got a sort of an awed hush to it, like a very old and living temple, and there is a sense that whoever the child is who has come under the forest's protection, she is very strongly warded indeed. This is a gorgeous piece of stone, this bead.
... "Modern Dwarven Security Protocols" pendant: Cape amethyst, sterling silver. Has very cool internal mini-fractures that refract light in fascinating ways. I suspect the dwarves have gone very high-tech. $32 SOLD
... "The Name's Pan. Peter Pan." earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver.
... "Shadow Cat Discovers Space Travel" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver.
"The Way Time Passes" pendant: turitella, which is a stone full of fossil shells (and this one has some lovely examples), with jasper and sterling silver. $52, although anyone who fluently speaks a language in which they can give me a phrase that says something about "those things, so old, and so long ago they lived, and here am I, now, looking at what they left behind, and oh! the time between us, so long and yet compressed into an instant in this glance," will get a 20% discount on it if they provide me with that phrase and a paragraph (in that language) of not less than fifty words explaining some of the nuances of that phrase -- if the phrase and paragraph both pass muster with another person of my choice who is fluent in that language, which I shall have fun finding if anyone takes me up on this. (Hey, part of the fun of my gig is that every now and then I get to do something like this.) I'm not talking about an exact translation of what I said, mind; I mean something that has some of that flavor, something a person might think in that situation. And I'm getting a number of inquiries, so I am going to do the "write me something" thing described here, and give the winning one a discount on the piece. Yay! (Also, somebody has already spotted the careful way I worded the requirements up there, and identified what I didn't say. Heh.) Keep 'em coming, please! This is going to be fun, and I love reading what you guys think of when you see a piece and its title. Here's another look at it. THIS ONE WILL TAKE UNTIL TOMORROW TO JUDGE, AT LEAST.
... "You Go In There, You'll Be Different Coming Out" pendant: more of that jasper marked "amethyst sage" and sterling silver. And you will, too.
Thursday's new things: mineral specimens - three left
Michigan float copper - new specimens were lacquered, the dealer told me, so they won't tarnish. They're also lacy and interesting. The older specimens are smoother and much heavier, and I got them maybe ten years ago or so.
... #1: one older rectangular nugget $4 SOLD
...#2: one older rectangular nugget $4 SOLD
#3: one older sort of squarish nugget
... #4: new specimen $3 (I like the hole in this one.) SOLD
#5: three new specimens, one with a cool vug with a bit of copper in it.
... #6: one new bar-shaped specimen $4 SOLD
... #7: new specimen, striking animal shape (natural!) $6 SOLD
#8: five little new specimens, chosen because they have a range of colors in the rock associated with some of them.
... #9: larger new specimen, a bit heavier, very three-dimensional. Pretty cool. $5 SOLD
... #10: a trio of new specimens chosen for the range of colors in the rock the copper embraces. $7 SOLD
Bismuth - cool stair-steppy crystal structure.
... #1: Nice long multicolored example. $10, 'cause it's way cool. SOLD
Geodes - 'cause I like little crystal caves.
... #1: itty bitty geode fifty cents. SOLD
Petoskey stone - fossil coral. Cool stuff. State rock of Michigan.
#1: nice big polished hunk of it. I photographed this, and then fell in love with it again, so I am not ready to give it up, but wanted to show it to you. (Sorry, that may be teasing. But it's so cool. I shall put up some Petoskey stone beads for sale if I can find my extras, OK?)
... Gypsum: "desert rose" is what they call these crystal formations
#1: yep, a desert rose.
Friday's new things: more mineral specimens: two left, plus a bag of opals to bid on.
Auction: bagful of opal rough - I thought there was no flash in this stuff, but the last photo proves me wrong. These are fun just to play with; they're real dragon-hoard goodness. Current bid: $12 (You can bid by sending email to gimme@lioness.net. Thanks!) SOLD to the $12 bidder!
Botswana agate, possible fun for wire wrapping, yah?
... slice #1 - $1.50 SOLD
slice #2 -
slice #3 -
... slice #4 - $2 because it's especially cool SOLD
... slice #5 -
... bag full of fun - four botswana agate slices to play with. $5 SOLD
... Treasure cave geode: I don't know what the iridescent metallic coating is inside the geode, but the crystals in there are quite striking. $5 SOLD
... Petosky stone beads: eight pale ones plus an odd one. Might be the foundation of an interesting necklace, but I never got around to it. These beads, $6. SOLD
... Curious rock with a creature incised in it. Not sure if it's a lion or what. $1 SOLD
Sunday's grand finale odds and ends
Beads, singly or bagged:
agate #1: very large! $3
... agate #2: very large! $3 SOLD
... ceramic starfish beads: a pair of these pretty things, which have iridescent finish on one side and unglazed undersides. $6 for the pair, which is less than what I paid for them. SOLD
... Green Girl pewter pendant: they call it a "mystery nut" but it sure looks like a hops blossom to me. Does a brewer need a necklace? Usually $8, but $6 today. SOLD
... moss agate discs: 7 beads for $4 SOLD
... Swarovski crystal-studded antiqued-metal (dark finish) beads in red: so hard to photograph, but they are very cool beads. The crystals are actually a vivid red. 14 beads for $20, which is a serious deal, because these have gone up a lot in price since I bought them. But hey, I'm not using them, and somebody should, right? SOLD
... tree agate cubes: 29 beads for $3 SOLD
Beads available in quantity while supplies last:
black faceted glass with a mix of various coatings: 6 for $1
blue candyglass beads with dark accent coating on one side: 7 for $1
blue-green glass flowers: 7 for $1
... bone horses: eight available. $3 per bead ALL GONE
dichroic glass rippled rectangles: golden with multicolor highlights, or silver-white with multicolor highlights. 6 golden available, 17 silver-white available. $1 per bead
flat-face faceted glass beads: blues and other colors deep inside these beads, and silvery coating on one side of them. 5 for $1
green givre beads with midnight-blue coating on one side: 7 for $1
lavender givre beads: 8 for $1
big "Monet's garden" beads: huge purple and green stone beads. $3 each
shiny multicolor (mostly blue) shimmery gridwork on black glass: 7 for $1
step-faceted beads with blues inside and silver outside: 5 for $1
Findings (vintage box clasps, new spacers, etc.):
tiny Bali-style spacers: sterling silver. Good for strung stuff; narrow holes. 10 for $2 while supplies last
... clasp #1: brass, probably; stones and stuff in it. Cool. Big. $5 SOLD
clasp #2: nine-strand with rhinestones. $6
clasp #3: five-strand with rhinestones. $5
... clasp #4: three-strand with rhinestones, and very cool. $6 SOLD
clasp #5: three-strand very tarnished clasp, but still cool. $3
... clasp #6: floral clasp with rhinestones, but has no hook part, so it's $1 SOLD
... pin finding #1: brass, ornate. $2 SOLD
... pin finding #2 with bonus bail: like #1 but with a bonus brass bail finding. $2 SOLD
... pin finding #3: more classical. $3 SOLD
... pin finding #4: the face of the winds! $5 SOLD
Curious leftovers:
3 big grey shell buttons: one's chipped, so all three for $2
5 really big fawn-colored shell buttons: iridescence plays across these in the right light. 5 for $5
... 8 tarnished simple metal buttons: might be nice for something steampunkish. 8 for $1 SOLD
... heart of stone #1: so beautiful. $4 SOLD
heart of stone #2: gorgeous markings. $4
moss agate shawl pin: was in a bin of beads I bought. Best offer over $5; ends at midnight. (Tell me your high offer, if you like, and I'll bid the minimum whole dollar for you.) Resolved, and SOLD. Yay!
... old mother-of-pearl buckle: $3 SOLD
... red glass hearts: not beads, but something to practice wire-wrapping on. 2 for $1 SOLD
TEKTITE AUCTION! Opening bid: $1; bidding increments in whole dollars, please. Thanks! These are the WINNING bids:
Tektite #1: current bid is $2
Tektite #2: current bid is $5
Tektite #3: current bid is $2
Tektite #4: current bid is $4
Tektite #5: current bid is $6
Tektite #6: current bid is $2
Tektite #7: current bid is $6
Tektite #8: current bid is $3
Planet beads: two left
... A. Giant planet of purple goodness.
... B. A black stone with white and reddish-brown intrusions.
... C. Orange planet, with a great orange spot. Well, a pretty good orange spot, anyway.
... D. Another black stone planet with white and red-brown lines.
... E. I think this was some azurite/malachite I had lying around. Gorgeous stuff.
... F. Purple and green and clear and white; softer blending and not so much with banding in this one.
... G. Dark planet with dramatic lines.
... H. Don't remember what this is, but it's really cool.
I. Planet with very faint agate banding and a little dark cave of secret goodness.
... J. Agate with some lovely fortifications. $20 SOLD AT FULL PRICE AFTER CLOSE OF SALE
... K. "Nevada Lapis" is the name given to this pale pink and green stone.
... L. Golds and browns with a touch of green.
... M. A planet with a past.
... N. This is some kind of dendritic or plumed agate or something. White, yellow, and a touch of lavender, with dark inclusions.
... O. Agate with a lot going on. Nice!
... P. Some kind of agate with purple, white, and green markings.
... Q. a planet with an excellent stripe!
... R. Another azurite/malachite planet.
... S. Ooh! Grey-white, tiny blue dots, a little gold....
... T. This came either from a string of fancy jasper or a string of ocean jasper, and I don't remember which. Lovely soft colors.
... U. Pretty little green and white planet.
... V. Oh, gorgeous agate!
... W. A little planet of green and white stone; it came in a string of ocean jasper and other jaspers.
... X. Gorgeous green, brown and white bead. I love this one so!
... Y. Orange!
... Z. Purple and other colors. Big!
... A.A. More purple-and-other goodness.
... B.B. From a string of pietersite. I like this one a lot.
... C.C. Is that an agate, or is that an agate? Nifty bead!
... D.D. More azurite/malachite goodness.
... E.E. Agate in paler colors with nice wiggles.
... F.F. Rich brown bead with interesting striations.
... G.G. Big purple/white/gold/green one.
... H.H. White with green.
... I.I. Forest-colored planet bead.
... J.J. More purple goodness, this one paler and with interesting lines.
... K.K. This little planet's had a rough life, but it's a cool bead.
... L.L. Golden-brown good-sized goodness.
M.M. Small ocean jasper bead with spots and actual craters. Very nifty.
... N.N. Pale aquamarine with a little inclusion.
... O.O. The purple's a little less intense in real life, but this is a very cool bead.
... P.P. Really nice colors, green and grey and white and brown, in this one.
... Q.Q. Lovely agate banding.
... R.R. Brown with gold and red.
... S.S. This is a super stealthy planet bead. It looks black, except when it's blue, or when it's hinting at being something else. Cool bead.
To order, send email to gimme@lioness.net. You'll get a confirmation from me, and Daniel will send you an invoice at the end of the sale, unless you request one sooner.
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.
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's info sheet is posted here with links to photos of many of the beads. There's more information on Beads of the Month themes here.
Thanks for looking!
