ArtLog: New Shinies, finally!
Greetings from snailsville, where the snails are starting to get excited about this upcoming hip replacement thing. The snails are also getting industrious, because the nice physical therapists say that that futon on the floor is not acceptable, and there needs to be a real bed, high enough to reach high-mid-thigh on this Lioness. Have you seen what mattresses and box springs with edge-support and some cushiness* cost nowadays? Yikes! Here are your shinies of newness, a smidgen late:



Named earrings:

"A Botanist in Faeryland" earrings: Lori Robbins lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $58

"A Dragonfly and a Scholar" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $84

"The Elixir of Longing" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $66

"Evensong Under Branches" earrings: Lori Robbins lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $59

... "First Flight" earrings: Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $18 SOLD

"Grape Magic" (which makes me giggle because of a story Neil told on himself) earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $64

"High Summer at Evergreen House" earrings: Lori Robbins lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $64

"The Ice Cream of Paradise" earrings: lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $60

"Idle Thoughts While Watching A Faun" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $64

"The Keepers of Lake and River Magic" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $52

"Life Is a Carnival" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $62

"Long-Tailed Dragonfly Queen" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $88

"The Lure" earrings: Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $24

"Madame Goes To the Circus" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $65

"Mama and Papa Circus" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $65

"Off to Look for my Island" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $48

"One Perfect Enchantment" earrings: lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $65

... "Poet's Blood" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $60 SOLD if the swap to niobium earwires works

"A Proper Ocean Gardener" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $49

"Return of the Summer Queen" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $65

... "The Rose-Queen's Apothecary" earrings: lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $62 SOLD

"Singing Songs to the Sun" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $53

"Sister in the Forest" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $64

"The Social Register of the Drowned Cities" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $68

"Summer at Dragonfly Lake" earrings: Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $47

"Tiny Golden Dragonfly" earrings: Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $30

"A Very Fey Childhood" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, GF beads and wire. $66

... "When Eldest Sister Grew Her Wings" earrings: Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $40 SOLD if the swap to niobium earwires works

"The Woman Who Built a Clockwork Universe" earrings: Lori Robbins lampwork beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver beads and wire. $66


Named necklaces:

"Candy for the Dead" necklace: glass, stone, plastic, sterling silver, and stories that want to be told. $110


Hairsticks:

... unnamed harvest-themed hairstick: wooden stick about eight inches long, with gold filled wire securing a dance of harvest-colored pearls. A chain from the top leads to a lovely carved bone bead. Stick has some discoloration on it near the top, so I marked it low, but it's still very cool and the discoloration is hardly noticeable. $40 SOLD



As always, the only way to actually purchase one of these things is to send me email at gimme@lioness.net and tell me you want to buy one. We'll reply, and Daniel will send you a total. Now that I've told you that secret, feel free to comment here, safe in the knowledge that you can't accidentally buy something (or put dibs on it) just by remarking on it.

Shipping is usually $6.50 in the U.S. and Canada and $8.50 elsewhere in the world, unless things are especially heavy or want insurance or something. Ask Daniel for a quote if you need one; the gimme address above will reach him, or you can catch him directly at stitchandlioness@gmail.com.

Thanks for looking at my shinies.



* Edge-support because sliding off or sinking down when I sit on it would be a very bad thing, post-surgery. Cushy because I have fibromyalgia and arthritis, in addition to all the other fun stuff, and sleep is sometimes hard to catch. We have a Very Good Bed upstairs, but even if we were to wrestle it to the first floor, it's too high to fit the guidelines. Therefore, new bed. Fortunately, some places around here are having a sale, and there's a very nice one on sale for about half-price that I will go look at tomorrow if all goes well. If that works, then the futon will go in the back bedroom for sonyawinter to sleep on when she's here, and the couch-daybed-thingie back there now will come up to the front room where jenett can snooze on it when she stays over a few nights during my recuperation. Plannage! Plannage is good. Anyhow, shinies can be traded for ducats which can be traded for mattress and box spring. That's the cunning plan, anyway. Hope you like them!