elisem

This is the grand list of everything currently available.



Welcome! I'm Elise, also called Lioness, and making these one-of-a-kind shinies is what I do. It's also what got me a rather unusual World Fantasy Award nomination in 2009. I love making art that inspires other people to make art, especially word-art. (That way there's more for me to read. Win!)

Here are all the shinies currently available, with instructions on how to claim them if you see something you must carry off to your nest and coo over. The newest pieces are boldfaced for your browsing convenience. (If you're browsing for pretty shiny inspiration and/or looking for already sold pieces, they can be viewed at ArtLog: Things I Have Made.)

Also, Beads of the Month continues (Year Twelve!) and here's more about getting in on that. (I added a theme, "My Personal Quest," and people are using it for things ranging from Supernatural fandom to recovery inspiration.) If you've got a Beads of the Month package coming, you can add anything purchased from this list for no extra shipping cost as long as everything still fits in the box.




The Various Kinds of Shinies:
Dinosaur bone, fossil coral, coprolite, and other fossil pieces
Tektite and meteorite pieces
Planet bead pendants (inspired by Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series)
Bottles of stardust
Named earrings
Named pendants
Named bracelets
Named hair jewelry
Named necklaces
Named necklace-crowns
Miscellania



Dinosaur bone, fossil coral, coprolite, and other fossil pieces:

"The Dancers, Long Vanished" earrings: fossil coral, tassels, sterling silver. One corner is flawed but smoothly polished. $28

"Deep Chronomancy" earrings: dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. $40

"Fossil Morning" earrings: turritella, lampwork glass, sterling silver. $48

"Intricate Comforts" earrings: dinosaur bone, agate, sterling silver. $75

"New Horizons in Space Opera" earrings: dinosaur bone, tourmalinated quartz, stone, sterling silver. $60

"Peace in the Garden" earrings: dinosaur bone, some beautiful green beads I got many years ago from a man from Afghanistan, and sterling silver. $50

"Reading from the Book of Dinosaurs" earrings: dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. $40

"Special Effects" earrings: tourmalinated quartz, dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $60

"Stealth Dinosaurs" earrings: dinosaur bone, stone, sterling silver. $40

"This Year's Model" earrings: dinosaur bone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $80

"Under Earlier Stars" earrings: dinosaur bone, jasper, sterling silver. $40

"Art Is Where You Find It" pendant: dinosaur bone, coprolite, sterling silver. $85

... big stone fireworks #3 pendant: fossil coral, glass, sterling silver. $26 HIDING SOMEWHERE

... "big stone fireworks #4" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $30 SOLD

"big stone fireworks #5" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $30

... "The Craft So Long to Learn" pendant: opalized ammonite, sterling silver. $80 SOLD

... "Featherfall" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $40 SOLD

"Fossil River" pendant: dinosaur bone rondelle, boulder opal slab, sterling silver. $55

"Let Me Tell You A Story I Heard Long Ago" pendant: fossil coral, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $60

"Listening Up the Years" pendant: dinosaur bone, Swarovski crystal, borosilicate lampwork glass, sterling silver. $78

... "little stone fireworks #1" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $25 SOLD

"Monet and the Dinosaurs" pendant: dinosaur bone, coprolite, sterling silver. $65

"Of Nest and Lineage" pendant: glass, dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $88

"The Oldest Inks" pendant: fossil coral, iolite, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver. $55

"On the Wing" pendant: dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. $65

"Rara Avis" pendant: Swarovski crystal, borosilicate lampwork glass, dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $78

"Scenes from a Life" pendant: coprolite, sterling silver. $50

"That Which Can Be Explained" pendant: dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. $65

"Time's Quilt" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $40

"Where the Time Goes" pendant: dinosaur bone, Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $85

"Wiggle Room" pendant: fossil coral, sterling silver. $40



Tektite and meteorite pieces:

"Finders, Keepers" pendant: glass owl bead, tektite, copper. $52

"In Letters of Fire" pendant: meteorite (Canyon Diablo) and sterling silver. $100

"Journals of a Time Machine Repair Technician" pendant: meteorite (NWA869), dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $100

"Like An Amulet" pendant: tektite (indochinite) and sterling silver. $50

swirly tektite pendant: tektite, sterling silver. $65

... "Written on the Skies" pendant: slab of the Muonionalusta meteorite, base metal key, sterling silver. $95 SOLD

zig-zag tektite pendant: tektite, sterling silver. $55



Planet bead pendants for Winterfair:

(Look! A testimonial from Lois herself!)

Small planet beads on sterling silver. $8 each.

Medium planet beads on sterling silver. $12

Azurite-malachite planet beads on sterling silver. Big one is $25 and SOLD. Little ones are $12 each.

Tigereye planet beads on sterling silver in three colors, $15 each.
blue tigereye
red tigereye
tigereye in regular golden color



Bottles of stardust:

... "A Bottle of Stardust #1 pendant: Swarovski crystal, Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #2 pendant: Swarovski crystal, Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #3 pendant: Swarovski crystal, Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #4" pendant: Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #5" necklace: Swarovski crystal, meteorite dust (Campo del Cielo), glass, cork, zinc alloy bat, sterling silver, and wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. About nineteen inches long. $150 SOLD

"A Bottle of Stardust #6" pendant: Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50

... "A Bottle of Stardust #7" pendant: Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $50 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #8" pendant: Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, faceted resin-encased cultured pearl, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $60 SOLD

... "A Bottle of Stardust #9" pendant: Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $55 SOLD

"A Bottle of Stardust #10" pendant: Swarovski crystal, Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $55

... "A Bottle of Stardust #11" pendant: Swarovski crystal, Campo del Cielo meteorite dust, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $60 SOLD

"A Bottle of Stardust #12" pendant: cuttings from Campo del Cielo meteorite, glass, cork, sterling silver. Sealed with wax from Neil Gaiman's beehives. $60



Named earrings:

"+3 Nibs of Fortitude" earrings: Swarovski crystal, bronze-tone charms, sterling silver. $32

... "+2 Nibs of Mightiness" earrings: zinc alloy charms, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30 SOLD

... "+2 Nibs of Pellucidity" earrings: Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $30 SOLD

... +2 Nibs of Revising" earrings: Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $30 SOLD

"The Adventurer's Tale" earrings: dendritic agate, glass, sterling silver. $38

"All the Ways To Look At You" earrings: paua shell, glass, sterling silver. $35

"The Appreciator" earrings: pyrite in stone, quartz, sterling silver. $40

"Arcana" earrings: opalite glass, skin chalcedony, sterling silver. $35

"As Did They" earrings: boulder opal, Swarovski crystal, unknown carved beads, sterling silver. $45

... "Bessie, Looking Down" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $30 -- or half that, if you can tell me which Bessie I am thinking about without looking her name up. SOLD. And it's Bessie Coleman. Here's to you, Bessie: aviator, trailblazer, and first African-American to hold an international pilot's license.

"A Blessing On Your House" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $34

"The Committee" earrings: glass, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $29

"Compare the Words" earrings: stone, sterling silver. $32

"The Curve of Recognition" earrings: borosilicate lampwork glass, other glass, sterling silver. $60

"The Dance-Card" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $40

"Dark Light" earrings: tourmalinated and other quartz, sterling silver. $75

"Decisions, Decisions" earrings: base metal charms, wood, sterling silver. $32

"Descant" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $35

"Dove in the Evening" earrings: lampwork glass, Owyhee jasper, sterling silver. $48

"Festival of Wishes and Gratitude" earring trio: glass and sterling silver. $21

"firespeaker" earrings: boulder opal, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37

"Flying Feet" earrings: Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $23

"The Geomancers" earrings: agate, lampwork glass, sterling silver. $36

"Glamourgoth" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $25

"Ghost Photographs" earrings: stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $42

"Green Angel" earrings: glass, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $27

"Here's Looking at You, Cupcake" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $20

"Instruction Song" earrings: glass, tassels, sterling silver. $29

"It's Always the Quiet Ones" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $26

"Jewel-Toned Messenger" earrings: dyed bone, glass, sterling silver. $38

"Living Inside the Question" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $36

"Logic Underneath" earrings: glass, tassels, sterling silver. $38

"Long Time Telling" earrings: stone, glass, tassels, sterling silver. $32

... "Love and the Machine" earrings: faceted resin-encased cultured pearls, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $36 SOLD

"The Magic Before" earrings: birdseye rhyolite, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $36

"Meanwhile, Back In Electric Lotusland...." earrings: druzy, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $56

"Mechanical Muse" earrings: color-treated cultured pearls, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $50

"Message from the Strand" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $46

"The Motherlines" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $28

"Ms. Grumpy Bones" earrings: copper, wood, sterling silver. $25

"My Lady's Ways Are Subtle" earrings: glass, dyed bone, sterling silver. $30

"My Life As A Rock Sprite" earrings: glass, druzy, sterling silver. $36

"Of Spirits and Their Ways" earrings: agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $45

"The Ones Who Fly Far" earrings: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37

"The Physics of Nostalgia" earrings: borosilicate lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $50

... "A Pocket Full of Sky" earrings: glass, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $18 SOLD

"Prior Claim" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $35 I love glass ammonite beads, yes I do.

"Pyriscence" earrings: Swarovski crystal, dyed bone, gold filled wire and beads. $60

"Riding the Science" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $40

"The Rise and Fall" earrings: dyed bone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $40

"Second Verse, Complicated as the First" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $32

"She Carries Her Tribe Inside Her" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $40

"The Spoonworks" earrings: glass, zinc alloy charms and beads, sterling silver. I have no words for how fascinating these beads are. $32

... "Spring Cleaning with the Wood Witches" earrings: jasper, glass, sterling silver. $24 SOLD

"Steampunk Angels" earrings: glass, zinc alloy beads and charms, sterling silver. $38

"The Sunday Pirates Song" earrings: bone, agate, sterling silver. $40

"Sweetness Lost and Found" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $31

"This Land Changes" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $32

"This Mosaic Is Trying to Tell You Something" earrings: thermosensitive beads, glass, sterling silver. $50

"The Unfolding" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $30

"The Way You Find Them" earrings: Owyhee jasper, sterling silver. $32

"What Rani Means" earrings: Swarovski crystal, plastic, sterling silver. $30

"Which Tale Is Today?" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass owl beads, sterling silver. $28

"With Her Head Held High" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $29



Named pendants:

... "Always Deeper" pendant: amazonite with pyrite inclusions, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $60 SOLD

"Are You Getting This?" pendant: rutilated quartz, sterling silver. $40

"Bending the Narrative" pendant: agate, color-treated cultured pearl, Peruvian opal, sterling silver. $70

"Cave Sprites" pendant: boulder opal, sterling silver. $50

... "The Country of Winds" pendant: druzy, sterling silver. $68 SOLD

... "Courier's Road" pendant: druzy, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $60 SOLD

"Devotions" pendant: druzy, glass, sterling silver. $50

"The Door To Home (Cappadocia)" pendant: rutilated quartz, copper key, sterling silver. $45

... "The Door To Home (Sweden [tomte])" pendant: fancy jasper, zinc alloy key, sterling silver. $55 SOLD

"A Dream of Maps" pendant: agate, color-treated cultured pearls, sterling silver. $46

"Everywhere Is Her Body" pendant: dyed magnesite, glass, sterling silver. $36

"Fae Everywhere, Fae Fae Everywhere" pendant: boulder opal, sterling silver, and bounce. Look at this in bright light and find the tiny flares of fire that I cannot photograph well. $28

"Finding That Sky" pendant: Owyhee jasper, glass, sterling silver. $40

"Finest Preserved Spoons in the Galaxy" pendant: zinc alloy spoons, resin with glitter, glass, cork, sterling silver. $75

"The Further Adventures of Space Bear" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $23

... "The Glimmer" pendant: rutilated quartz, sterling silver. $50 SOLD

"Glitter Goth Amulet" pendant: druzy, zinc alloy bat charm, sterling silver. $60

"Here Is Where" pendant: moss agate, sterling silver. $50

... "How Magic Works This Week" pendant: druzy, zinc alloy gears, sterling silver. $85 SOLD

"How We Measure These Things" pendant: lampwork glass, sterling silver. $50

"I've Come All This Way To Tell You" pendant: borosilicate lampwork and other glass, Swarovski crystal, GF wire and bead. $58

"In My Night" pendant: charoite, other stone, sterling silver. $40

... "In/Tension" pendant: dyed magnesite, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $26 SOLD

"Interrupted" pendant: Green Girl Studios mermaid bead, Peruvian opal, color-treated cultured pearls, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $78

"Just A Little Way Further" pendant: dyed magnesite, zinc alloy key, sterling silver. $26

"A Matter of Asking the Right Questions" pendant: agate and other stone, sterling silver. $50

"Memory Arc" pendant: moss agate, sterling silver. $48

... "The Moment Remembered" pendant: druzy, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $55 SOLD

"O Pilgrim Snail, Where Do You Go?" pendant: stone, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $29

... "Octopus In Her Workshop" pendant: fancy jasper, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $40 SOLD

... "On the Mathematicks of Ghosts" pendant: rutilated quartz, sterling silver. $40 SOLD

"Over Strange Seas" pendant: druzy, brass, sterling silver. $50

"Saving It" pendant: labradorite, sterling silver. $43

"Scraps of Language" pendant: blue lace agate, faceted resin-encased cultured pearl, Peruvian opal, sterling silver. $78

"Secret Lives" pendant: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30

... "The Secret of Navigation" pendant: stone, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $48 SOLD

"Statement of Principles" pendant: boulder opal, sterling silver. $50

"'Then Vanquish Dull Care!' Cried Puck" pendant: lodalite, quartz, sterling silver. $38

... "Things Your Friends Will Tell You" pendant: thermal color-change bead, glass owl, stone, color-treated cultured pearls, sterling silver. $50 SOLD

"The Three Tribes of Fae in the Museum of Natural History" pendant: chrysoprase, cultured pearls, sterling silver. $70

"Threshold Level" pendant: druzy, zinc alloy key charm, sterling silver. $65

"The True Story" pendant: druzy, glass, sterling silver. $55

"Waiting by the River" pendant: stone, faceted resin-encased cultured pearl, sterling silver. $30

... "Weird Owl Yankovic" pendant: glass and sterling silver. $11 SOLD

"What You'll Need There" pendant: stone, copper key, sterling silver. $45

"The Worldbuilders" pendant: boulder opal, carved stone, sterling silver. $32

"Yet Another Charm Against Disemvowelment" pendant: glass, stone, sterling silver. $26

... "You Have To Get Up Early" pendant: shell, glass trilobite bead, sterling silver. $35 SOLD

"Your Morning Wish" pendant: druzy, sterling silver. $50



Named bracelets:

Coming soon.



Named hair ornaments:

"Report from Out There" hairstick: coated crystal, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, wood. About eight inches long. $70

"To Catch the Sky" hairstick: coated crystal, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, wood. About eight inches long. $85



Named necklaces:

"All the Names of Water" necklace: quartz, lampwork and other glass (including a lot of old crystal beads I was saving), sterling silver. About forty-three inches long. $250

"Duet for Flute and Canyon" necklace: turquoise, glass, sterling silver. About a hundred and two inches long. $410

"Ever Yours, Ariel" necklace: glass, prehnite, other stone, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. About fifty-two inches long. $185

"Magic Beans" necklace: stone, glass, sterling silver. A bit over sixteen inches long. $50

"Mensajera del Sol" necklace: borosilicate lampwork glass, mother-of-pearl, agate, jasper, plastic, plume agate, rose plume agate, other stone, glass, sterling silver. About sixty inches long. $245

"The Mesmer Blues" necklace: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. About sixty-six inches long. $300

"Met By Chance" necklace: carved bone, glass, sterling silver, and a title from Beth Meacham. (Thanks!) $155

"Shadow Machineries" necklace: glass, stone, plastic, sterling silver. About a hundred and two inches long. $410

"Theme Song" necklace: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, faux turquoise, sterling silver. About thirty-five inches long. $125

"Watching Jacob's Ladder" necklace: quartz rounds, glass, sterling silver. About seventy inches long. $280

"The Waters of Twilight Are Endless" necklace-by-the-inch: Just what it says. I have an endlessly renewing long string of links (which endlessly renew because I add links scattered all the way through it, any time it gets short), and will sell you a random gorgeous piece of it for $4 an inch plus $5 for the clasp. It looked like this as of January 2013. And this is what it looked like in June 2012. Recently it looked something like this, and then it took a turn for the starry and now it looks rather like this. It's always in that color range, though: blues and purples on sterling silver.



Named necklace-crowns:

"Heirlooms" necklace-crown: blue lace agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver wire and broken sterling silver chains. $325

"Industrial Mermaids" necklace-crown: laser-cut seared wood gears, base metal chain and charms, old jewelry, light bulb, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. This is a generously large necklace-crown; it can be smallened if need be. $450

"Unexpected Flowering" necklace-crown: color-treated cultured pearls, glass, sterling silver, and joy. $425



Miscellania:

I almost never do two pieces with the same name, but there are these nifty owl beads and a lot of people need owls right now, it appears, so I'm doing two series of earring, the plain owls and the Owls of Simplicity. Plain owls are plain. Owls of Simplicity each bear a tiny key. All of them are on sterling silver. The owl beads are glass, and the keys are various lead-free base metal charms. Here's a comparison shot. Multiple pairs are available unless noted.

Plain owls: $20
Colors available:
teal & black
lime & black
purple
blue & gold
dark woods
blue & green
(see below for photos of these colors)

Owls of Simplicity: $21
Colors available:
teal & black, silvertone keys
teal & black, coppertone keys
... purple, silvertone keys (yes, the shades vary on these) SOLD OUT
lime & black, silvertone keys
... green & copper, coppertone keys (this is the only pair in these colors) SOLD OUT
dark woods, coppertone keys
turquoise, goldtone keys (this is the only pair in these colors)
blue & green, silvertone keys
blue, goldtone keys
... blue, coppertone keys SOLD OUT
(not pictured yet) brown, coppertone keys (this is the only pair left in these colors)

If there's a combination not listed that you want, and the owl color is listed under plain owls, email me and I'll see what I can do, OK?


SPECIAL NOTE: If you need niobium earwires because you can't wear sterling silver or gold filled, send me an email; I probably can swap those in for a small charge. Same for earring clips, though that can take longer as I usually need to special-order the parts.)





HOW TO ORDER:

As usual, the only way to get something is to send email to me at lionesselise@gmail.com. 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.

Gift certificates can be purchased in any amount, in case you'd like to give someone else the fun of picking out their own shinies.

Shipping is currently $6.75 domestic priority mail, $20 Canadian priority mail, $25 rest of the world priority mail. Other arrangements by arrangement, which means that if you're an established international customer and want to experiment with first class mail, we can try that. If you've got a Beads of the Month package coming, I can put it in there for no additional shipping charge, which is ever so handy.

When you order, please tell me where I will be shipping.

Thank you for looking at the shinies!


P.S. Since things listed here eventually get removed after being sold, you may see comments about pieces that are no longer on this list. I hope it's not too bewildering. Sold pieces may be viewed at ArtLog: Things I Have Made.

P.P.S. If you want an extra testimonial, I asked Neil Gaiman for one once, and he said, "Elise Matthesen is my favourite jewellery maker." So there ya go. (Thanks, Neil!)