Anti-Gloom Superlight Earrings:
These are all on sterling silver, and because I used a lighter-than-usual gauge of wire, they're lighter than the usual earrings. Please be aware that they are therefore more fragile, and will want to be handled gently. Right now, all anti-gloom earrings are
... april SOLD
... continuity SOLD
... discover SOLD
... expedition SOLD
... gather SOLD
... gentle SOLD
... lamp SOLD
... life SOLD
linger
... motherland SOLD
... next SOLD
playful
questing
... quirk SOLD
... remember SOLD
... sass SOLD
... understand SOLD
... valor SOLD
Dinosaurs, Meteorites, and Tektites:
"Dawn Scene with Thunder Lizards" pendant: coprolite, distressed glass bead, sterling silver.
"Dinos of the Desert" pendant: Faceted mookite, coprolite slab, sterling silver. And yep, coprolite is fossilized dino poo. Be the coolest science teacher at your school if you're wearing one of these.
"Dinosaurs Discover Fire" earrings: carnelian, dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
"Early Version" earrings: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
... "Event Horizon" pendant: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
... "O.T.P. #1" pendant: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver. One True Pairing: dino/meteorite!
"O.T.P. #2" pendant: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
"Shall We Dance?" earrings: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
... "Short Story" earrings: dinosaur bone, meteorite (NWA 869), sterling silver.
... "Somebody Order This?" pendant: meteorite (NWA 869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver.
stone raindrop #2 hairstick: tektite, wood, sterling silver.
... Tektite #2: tektite (indochinite) on sterling silver.
Tektite #3: tektite (indochinite) on sterling silver.
... Tektite #4: tektite (indochinite) on sterling silver.
Labradorite Goodness:
... "Divinities at Play" earrings: labradorite, glass, sterling silver.
... "Echo and the Moon" earrings: glass, labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Fae Apothecary" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "Fenwalker" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "Freeclimbing on Terra Quatorze" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "Goblin Rain" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "How She Learned To Be Brave" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
"Keeping Track of Pan" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "The Lighthouse Keeper's Diary" earrings: Swarovski crystal, labradorite, sterling silver.
... "My Cave Is the Best Cave" earrings: labradorite, glass, sterling silver.
... "My Year in the Sky Castle" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Nothing So Easily Told, My Dear" pendant: labradorite with a rather hypnotic silvery-grey-with-colors flash, gold filled wire.
... "The Painter's Comforts" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Somewhere Beyond Yes" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Stories That Do Not Fade" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "They Came from the North" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "Travel Token" pendant: labradorite and sterling silver.
... "The Water-Smith" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver.
... "Will-o-the-Wheat, Kansas, 1876" pendant: labradorite, gold filled wire.
Named Pendants:
"Elixir of Ever-After" pendant: prehnite, prasiolite and sterling silver. This is actually two shades of extremely pale green.
... "Following the Dreamcat" pendant: stone, sterling silver.
"Future Present" pendant: ocean jasper and sterling silver.
... "Galaxy Music" pendant: ocean jasper and sterling silver.
"Gopis of the Spaceways" pendant: Pilbara jasper, transfer-printed plastic bead, gf bead and wire.
"Insistence" pendant: tourmalinated quartz, sterling silver.
"The Inventor Takes A Mate" pendant: ocean jasper and sterling silver. Yes, she does.
"Keep Looking" pendant: pyrite in matrix, sterling silver.
... "Listening Underneath" pendant: stone, sterling silver.
"Message to the West" pendant: stone, sterling silver.
... "The Rainbow Catchers" pendant: quartz with an internal fracture that makes a rainbow optical effect, sterling silver.
... "Science from the Inside" pendant: jasper and sterling silver.
... "Simple, Not Easy" pendant: tourmalinated quartz, sterling silver.
... "Things I Learned From Fish" pendant: included quartz, sterling silver.
... "The Truth About Them" pendant: opal chips in resin, zinc alloy arrow charm, glass bottle, sterling silver, and hours of opal enjoyment goodness.
... "Watchful" pendant: stone, sterling silver.
Cloisonne Shell Earrings:
ALL CLOISONNE SHELL EARRINGS ARE $10 FOR THE REST OF THE SALE. WHEE!
... "And Gold Were Her Eyes" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Best of Us" earrings: cloisonne shell, glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"The Dance of Seven Shells" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Deep Secret Life" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Diving for Riddles" earrings: cloisonne shell, glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Honor's Price" earrings: cloisonne shell, resin, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "I Know What I Am" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, resin, sterling silver.
... "In All Their Array" earrings: cloisonne shell, glass, sterling silver.
... "Laughter in the Deeps" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Like the Tides" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Mermaid Science" earrings: fluorite, cloisonne shells, sterling silver.
"Santiago-sur-Mer" earrings: cloisonne shell, dyed sediment stone, sterling silver.
"The Sea-Queen's Wager" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Secondhand Ocean" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Solar Kiss" earrings: cloisonne shell, resin, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Sun-Dancer's Ocean" earrings: cloisonne shell, resin, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Water Minstrelsy" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Where My Love Keeps Vigil" earrings: cloisonne shell, glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"The Whisper-Girl" earrings: cloisonne shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
Thermal Color-Change Earrings: ALL GONE
... "How to Find a Djinn" earrings: color-change beads, glass, sterling silver.
... "The Message" earrings: color-change beads, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Mr. Mendel's Magics" earrings: color-change beads, plastic, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "What Flowers May Bloom" earrings: color-change beads, glass, sterling silver.
Named Earrings:
"Advanced Djinn Studies" earrings: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"The Angelic Debates" earrings: dyed magnesite, seraphimite, sterling silver.
"Breakfast with the Kelpies" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Breeze of Paradise" earrings: glass, sterling silver.
"Brunch with the Sorceress' Daughters" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
... "Chapel Under the Waves" earrings: paua shell, dyed magnesite, sterling silver.
... "Companions" earrings: lampwork skulls, sterling silver.
... "Counting the Seas" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Daughter of the Forest" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Dragonfly's Sister" earrings: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "Decipher Me" earrings: cloisonne, glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Dye-Worker's Magic" earrings: Swarovski crystal, stone, sterling silver.
... "Forester's Tale" earrings: ocean jasper, glass, sterling silver.
"The Herald" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "How to Convince a Leprechaun" earrings: stone, glass, sterling silver. These are actually purple, whatever your screen may say.
... "Intricate Music" earrings: cloisonne, glass, gold filled beads and wire.
... "Learning To Be A Mermaid" earrings: paua shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "A Little Memory Wine" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
"The Long Way Home" earrings: silverleaf jasper, glass, sterling silver.
... "The Mirror of Nature and Art" earrings: stone that reminds me of lapis nevada, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Moment of Twilight" earrings: stone and sterling silver. These are actually a delicate lavender shading to purple, but my screen and camera conspire to make them look blue. They're not, whatever your screen and mine may say.
"A New Sort of Enchantment" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Occasion" earrings: shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Patterns" earrings: shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Promise" earrings: opalite glass, other glass, sterling silver.
... "Puck and the Pickle Jar" earrings: glass and sterling silver.
"Reasons" earrings: included quartz, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. Yep, they're two different shades. (Included quartz is quartz with inclusions. In this case it seems to be rutile of the golden and strawberry varieties.)
... "Reflections" earrings: paua shell, stabilized turquoise, sterling silver.
"Response" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
... "The Royal Jewelry Box" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver.
"The Selkie's Harvest" earrings: stone and sterling silver.
"School for Dragons" earrings: crackled (dyed) chalcedony, sterling silver.
"Shining Star" earring series: Swarovski and other crystal on sterling silver. I made eight pairs of these, and put the photos up all together so you could compare colors more easily. They're really tough to photograph accurately; the colors are subtler and paler in person in most cases, but with even more flash.
Shining Star #1 earrings:
... Shining Star #2 earrings: SOLD
... Shining Star #3 earrings:
... Shining Star #4 earrings:
... Shining Star #5 earrings: SOLD
... Shining Star #6 earrings: SOLD
... Shining Star #7 earrings: SOLD
... Shining Star #8 earrings: SOLD
"Spell To Keep The Sea Friendly" earrings: opalite glass, Swarovski and other crystal, sterling silver.
"Spring Moon Magic" earrings: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Stories from a New Ocean" earrings: opalite glass, resin, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. These look exactly like beach glass, but are very light. That's the joy of resin. (Resin is the fancy-schmancy new word for plastic, when it comes to beads.)
... "The Summer-Keeper" earrings: dyed shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Tell Me Stories Of Space, Mama" earrings: stone, ocean jasper and sterling silver.
"Wisdom of Flowers" earrings: cloisonne, carnelian, gold filled beads and wire.
Named Necklaces:
... "Abuela's Advice" necklace: dyed magnesite, sterling silver.
... "The Candy Stores of Elfland" necklace: glass, chrysoprace, chalcedony, prehnite, aquamarine, Peruvian opal, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. About sixty inches long.
... "Friend to the Phoenix" necklace: agate, carnelian, other stone, sterling silver.
... "Miss Teresa Talks To The Citrus Fairies" necklace: sterling silver, prehnite, glass, aquamarine, probably chalcedony, other stone, sterling silver. About twenty-four inches long (no clasp).
"Mrs. Dragon, In Her Garden, Midsummer" necklace: glass and sterling silver.
"The Northwoman's Plan" necklace: glass and sterling silver.
"Old Ways In A New Land" necklace: turquoise, dyed magnesite, sterling silver.
"Sea-Maiden, Sea-Monster" necklace: paua shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Stronger Together" necklace: resin, stone, glass, shell, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
"Table of Correspondences" necklace: turquoise (some stabilized), dyed magnesite, stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, and scholarship.
"The Waters of Twilight Are Endless" necklace: glass and sterling silver. This one is sold by the inch. In this particular sale, at this particular moment, it's $3 an inch, and clasps are $5. I keep adding beads in the middle so it grows, so there's always more of it. I think there's eighty feet of it in the world so far. Something like that, anyway. Someday I'd love to get together at a convention with many people who have pieces of it, have them all label their piece, and then hook them all together and stand inside the circle and take a picture. SOLD SO FAR: seven inches and a clasp, twenty-four inches and a clasp; lots more left.
Necklace-Crowns:
"Modern Enchantments" necklace-crown: vintage plastic, color-treated pearls, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver.
Named Hair Jewelry:
"Counting the Leaves" hairstick: wood, brass, glass.
"Where Horses Have Wings and Spoons Grow On Trees" hairstick: base metal charms and chain, brass wire, wood. Treat this as somewhat fragile, please; I'm experimenting with this base metal chain, hence the lower prices.
Katabasis Series
This is the series based on "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" by Sarah Monette, a.k.a.
truepenny. The story itself was sparked by a necklace called "Why Do You Linger?", which has been involved in a number of different stories by Sarah. "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" is an intricate and many-folded story with twenty-four little section headings that are themselves the lyrics to a song, given out of order. ... your hatred, like a sleeping beast - pendant of mixed metals including sterling silver and steel, glass, resin, glitter, and old machine parts embedded in the resin within the bottle.
... your face, dark behind the glass - pendant of sterling silver, zinc alloy, opalite glass and glitter in resin, glass. Where is my Stag of Candles?
wings, torn from cloudy moths - pendant of brass, glitter and brassy wings in resin, glass.
those cold mirrors - pendant of brass, with brass stampings (you see the lighthouse; if you hold the bottle just right you can see the brass lightning bolt cast in the resin), glitter, resin, and glass.
long-held breath - pendant of sterling silver, quartz crystal and glitter in resin, glass, zinc alloy, and base metal stampings.
singing home the rooks and ravens - pendant of copper, resin, glitter, brass, and glass. A pencil, a measuring stick...
dead leaves - pendant of brass, copper, zinc alloy, resin, glitter, glass. And exquisite manners.
... reaching for your reflection - pendant of sterling silver, zinc alloy, various metals, glitter, resin, and glass.
ALL DONE - everything remaining is back to regular price.
As usual, the only way to get something is to send me email at lionesselise@gmail.com and tell me you want it. Feel free to comment here without worrying that you'll accidentally put dibs on something, because emailing is the only way to do that. Thanks!
If you'll be at CONvergence, I will be happy to bring your shinies to you there, free of charge. (I'm not in the dealers' room; I'm going to be hanging out enjoying the convention rather than working so hard, but I'll bring goodies to you if you like.) For those of you not attending CONvergence, or not in the Twin Cities and in the habit of picking up your goodies, postage is $6.75 domestic priority mail, $13 Canadian priority mail, $15 rest of the world priority mail.