Monday, March 24th, 2008

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11:54a	post-Minicon Mondayfulness Am hanging out with truepenny and getting a little work done. (OK, actually a lot, which is nice. Company while working is a fine thing today.) Took a break for breakfast, and looked at a few things on-line. Was reminded that I want to ask papersky about what sort of creature from Wales might be the right one to match with a character. He's actually a real person: Potato Creek Johnny. (So who's from Wales, stands about 4'3", and would be lucky enough to find a huge gold nugget? And would have that amazing smile?) (I'm fond of Potato Creek Johnny because I was told family stories about ancestors that met him or knew him.) In other news, we're going to try to photograph all the shinies today and post them so you guys can see what I've been working on. And if I'm going to do that, I might as well make it a sale, so expect to see some discounts. Whee! (2 Comments | Comment on this)
3:22p	ArtLog: shinies on sale - ALL DONE - THANK YOU ALL! 12:01 Monday: I will now proceed to the following: Please check out the special extra-cool giveaway prize of Windfall-y Goodness that will be coming to some lucky person at the end of the sale. (The end of the sale is midnight CDT on Sunday, March 30.) Aaaaand the winner is: yarnivore! [Please note that the pieces on gold filled wire are still at the old prices. I have not marked them up to compensate for the recent insane rise in precious metal prices, so you're getting a serious deal there. Also: I add named things alphabetically, so don't just look at the end of each list for new goodies. The unnamed ones, though, I'll add to the ends of their respective lists. Unsold things are now boldface for the final hour of the sale, to make it easier for you.] Necklace-crowns: “Conversations with the Wallpaper” – glass and sterling silver $190 SOLD “Fantasy in Red and Black” – glass and sterling silver $265 $250 $210 “The Moving Particle Writes” – labradorite and sterling silver $210 $190 "Neptune's Daughter" necklace-crown: gold filled wire, slab pearls, Swarovski crystals in various almost-clear colors. I was playing with the off-white pearls and the elusive colored highlights that dance on them, as well as trying out a very flexible design. See how I can curl it around (carefully!) almost twice? I think this might be handy if pinning it around a chignon or whatchamacallit. $450, and would be a lot more if I took the gold prices today into consideration, so no markdown here. "The Oldest Mermaids Are the Most Beautiful" $410 sale price: $175 $165 SOLD Linked necklaces: "All the Currents Are One Current; All the Tides, One Tide" necklace: gold filled wire, labradorite, aquamarine, Swarovski crystal, metal, prehnite, plastic, lampwork glass, and so on. I tried to take pictures in a bunch of different lighting conditions to give you a good idea of it. Also, the shot of me with my chin wrinkled up is because I am in the land of ouch today. But it does give you an idea of the length of the piece and how it drapes. $625 $575 "Deadwood": wrapped links in sterling silver, lots of cool beads, including some outstanding lampwork, an antler button. and a carved bone horse. 48" long, $315 $215. SOLD "Drowned in Stone" necklace: lampwork and other glass, Petosky stone (fossil coral), lampwork from Grey Parrot Studio, and some metallic beads I can't remember the name of, all on sterling silver. $175 “Elf Passport” – glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver $55 sale price $45 SOLD "Her Mermaid" necklace: amethyst, dyed pearl/shell, lampwork and other glass, plastic, sterling silver, and so on. $100 SOLD "Her Mermaid II" necklace: shell, amethyst, dyed pearl/shell, plastic, glass, and wonder. $115 $100 "The Heretic" necklace: sterling silver, glass, tigereye, Imperial jasper, other stone, and so on, with a truly awesome clasp. $210 $195 "How Fish Tell Time" necklace: glass, aquamarine, sterling silver, and the way the moon looks through water. $120 SOLD "The Lilac Fairy's Bubble Bath" necklace: dyed pearl/shell, opalite and other glass, Moe Cooper lampwork, sterling silver, and so forth. $175 SOLD "The Mermaid Dreams of Land" necklace: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver, and so on. $340 $320 $300 "Seventy Thousand Names for Home" necklace: sterling silver and ocean jasper. $275 $250 $225 "The Sibyl from Uptown" necklace: glass and sterling silver. The little flower beads are lotuses. $135 SOLD "Snow Dragons" – “dragonscale carnelian” and sterling silver $135 SOLD "There Is A Way From Here To There" necklace: lampwork, Venetian and other glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, and a lot of distressed matte glass. $325 $290 "The Three-Sided Promise" necklace: various glass, including Swarovski and other crystal, sterling silver, and music. $265 $235 $200 "Tinkerbell Tells All" necklace: opalite and other glass, that stuff they call "Peruvian opal" which still looks like chalcedony to me, aquamarine, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver, and so on. $220 $195 "To Know Is Not the Same Thing As To Understand, #5" necklace: 16 gauge sterling silver, turquoise, Roman glass bead with inlaid stuff (very wonderful extremely beat-up distressed bead), trade beads, handmade lampwork from Grey Parrot Studio, horn, and so on. $280 $255 "Twilight Has Two Doors" necklace: sterling silver, opals with purple and other flash, color-treated shell/pearl, glass, and wistfulness, I think. $545 $495 "The Water-Nymph Has No Regrets" necklace: sterling silver, opals, aquamarines, opalite glass, dyed onyx, glass, Swarovski crystal, and so on. I managed to get some of the opals to flash in the photographs! They're really, really pretty, and I cannot do them justice in photos, but there's an idea of them. $725, but there it is. Opals and aquamarines, pretty but pricey. Oh, what the heck, $650. SOLD "What Can Blight Can Bless, I" necklace: glass, fiber optic beads, blue goldstone glass, furnace glass, shell, wood, serpentine, other stone, and sterling silver. $270 $250 $200 $160 “Wicked Mermaids” – glass, chrysocolla, apatite, ocean jasper, dyed onyx, etc. and sterling silver $480 on large markdown because the chrysocolla beads are more delicate than I thought, and some have chipped. Sale price (as is): $250 (more views) SOLD Pendants, named: "Beloved Argument" pendant: stone and sterling silver. Really cool yellow-green and white in here. $45 $35 "Cabinet of Wonders" – rock polished by MB, GF wire $85 "The Cave-Painting Revival of 2093" pendant: stone polished by Marie Booth, gold filled wire. $35 "Cowboy Physics" pendant: stone, Swarovski crystal, gold filled wire, and the curves of the riata. $78 $68 "The Flying Lady, or, The Figurehead's Testimony" agate, pearl, and sterling silver. $55 $43 "The Four Lessons of Distance" $35 $24 SOLD "The Journey Looks Different From Here" pendant: handmade lampwork glass from Grey Parrot Studio on sterling silver. $50 $45 (And what you can't see in the picture are the green-gold flashes of dichroic or metallic fire deep inside the dark spots on that bead. I'll try for more photos sometime when the sun is very out.) "The Key" pendant: lampwork glass bead by Annemarie Herrlich on sterling silver wire. Incredible bead; I've been saving it for years. The heavier-than-usual silver wire sets it off nicely, I hope. $42 SOLD "King of the Canyon" – stone and sterling silver $75 $65 "Madame Troll, Modiste" pendant: jasper and sterling silver. Oh, how I love this one! $50, and more charming than I can say. Madame Troll has a hard row to hoe, but she's intrepid. Also, her strength is as the strength of ten, because she's really, really big. SOLD "Monet's Dilemma" pendant: stone and gold filled wire. $38 SOLD "My Kind of Story I" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45 "My Kind of Story II" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45 "Of Maps and Memory" pendant: stone, Beau Hawn lampwork, sterling silver. $48 PRIZE "The Painted Screen, After the Inhabitants Have Departed" pendant: stone, lampwork, sterling silver. $45 $40 "Path" $35 $25 SOLD "Pay-Per-View Elf Wrestling" $18 $11 $5 Note the rakish bead on top, like a hat askew. "Pay-Per-View Elf Wrestling II: Stompy Boots!" $18 $11 $5 Stompy! “The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Boundary Conditions” (third in photo) – stone and sterling silver $25 $20 “The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: A Flask to Keep the Wind In” – stone, Bali bead cap, sterling silver $20 SOLD "Serpent Moon #1" $25 $18 $10 SOLD "Serpent Moon #2" $25 $18 $10 SOLD "Serpent Moon #3" $30 $22 $15 SOLD "So She Moved Into A Lava Lamp" pendant: glass, Swarovski crystal rondelle, sterling silver. $21 $16 "storm fossil" pendant: itty bitty ocean jasper pendant on gold filled wire. $18 $15 SOLD "Trying to Explain Fish to a Rock" pendant: ocean jasper and gold filled wire. $45 $40 "The Voyage" pendant: stone, Beau Hawn lampwork, sterling silver, and there is a lot to see in this one. $48 $40 "Where Time Sleeps" pendant: blue lace agate slice and sterling silver. $65 SOLD Pendants, planet: Here's batch one. The big one's $20 as marked, and the other ones are $5 each. The key is this photo, and the curious blue/white one in the upper left is SOLD, as is the greenish one on the top right and the blue one on the left side one up from the bottom. Pendants, unnamed: blue chalcedony with some brown inclusions on the edge. (This is a stormy grey-blue, rather dark.) $30 $5 SOLD Ceramic and glass and sterling silver - $12 $5, and yeah, it hangs offcenter sometimes because that largehole ceramic bead moves around a bit. SOLD “dragonscale carnelian” – four pendants on sterling silver at $20 $15 $12 each (a sense of scale) SOLD: the third one, which is very cool, at $15 very pale just-barely-blue chalcedony which is really almost white. Think of it as one of those milk-sky days. The brown matrix rock on it is cool, and there's a white cloud in it. $18 $5 SOLD labradorite with stripes! pendant on sterling silver wire. $45 labradorite with a blue glass rondelle pendant on sterling silver wire. $26 SOLD labradorite from faeryland pendant with a pale blue rondelle on sterling silver wire, with the most wonderful elusive twinkles. $36 SOLD glorious labradorite pendant on sterling silver with a Swarovski crystal accent bead. $45 SOLD labradorite with hidden charms pendant on sterling silver. $26 labradorite pendant with a wide spectrum of color on sterling silver wire. $40 labradorite with a spiral pendant on sterling silver. Amazing, this one. $45 SOLD labradorite in a thicket of silver sculptural pendant. $62 $50 brownish-gold jasper pendant on gold filled wire. $12 $10 $5 many-colored jasper pendant on sterling silver wire. $14 $9 $5 SOLD ocean jasper with an itsy little crystal cave in it pendant on sterling silver wire. $15 $10 SOLD sunstone and moonstone effects in the same stone which is pretty trippy. (They're at ninety-degree angles to each other.) Feldspar on GF wire. $30 $20 $12 SOLD Earrings, named: "And all the spices of the East...." earrings: horn with inlaid metal, Beau Hawn lampwork, and gold filled wire. $45 SOLD "At the Mer-King's Cotillion" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, little fiber-optic beads, plastic shell beads (are these plastic-coated real shells?) and sterling silver. $38 "The Bruised Plums of Paradise" earrings: distressed glass and sterling silver. $15 $6 SOLD "Calm Seas and Safety" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, "black diamond" colored glass rondelles with AB finish, and sterling silver. $32 SOLD "Fighting For It" earrings: distressed glass and sterling silver. $15 $5 SOLD "The Genie's Breakfast" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $15 $9 $5 "How Sharper Than A Dragon's Tooth" earrings: opalite glass, Swarovski crystal rondelles, gold filled wire. $35 SOLD "If You Ask Her About the Islands" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, little fiber-optic beads, glass flowers (and yes, they really are sort of dark reddish with purple overtones, or purple with reddish undertones) and sterling silver. $38 SOLD "In the Desert, They Know How To Laugh" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, tiny fiber-optic beads, sterling silver. $30 SOLD "Open Mic Night at the Dragonfly Cafe" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, color-treated resin-encased pearls, plain color-treated pearls, and sterling silver. $38 SOLD "The Post-Colonial Literature of Elves: Your Leaves Are as Soft as Skin" – stone and sterling silver $20 SOLD "Red Hot Mama Goddess To You, Buster" (little brass lipstick charms! GF wires, though, so as not to set off allergies.) $22 $18 $12 SOLD "Shifting Horizons" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, color-treated pearls, sterling silver. $28 SOLD "Singing Harmony with the Tower Clock" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork, faceted resin-encased colored pearls, and gold filled wire. I tried to photograph the shifting color moods of these, but they're tricky; average out the photos, and you'd get close. $46 SOLD "Some Dimensions Are Yummier Than Others" earrings: color-treated pearls, sterling silver, Beau Hawn lampwork. $35 SOLD "The Stromatolite Fairy's Album" earrings: Beau Hawn lampwork and other glass on sterling silver. $30 SOLD "Take Me Where You Took Dorothy" earrings: sterling silver and those amazing beads TNH and I found last time. $40 SOLD "Things the Sky Does When You're Not Looking" earrings: four of those amazing lampwork beads from Beau Hawn, color-treated pearls, and gold filled wire. $60 $50 Earrings, Naughty Alice: "midnight gardens" earrings: glass (the little rondelles are green with swirls of black, and all the other beads are black), brass, gold-plated earwires. $12 SOLD "sanguine cordial" earrings: glass, brass, gold-plated earwires. $14 SOLD "Those are pearls.... You know the rest." earrings: pearls, brass, gold-plated earwires. $15 SOLD "wicked fairy apologists union no. 97" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $25 SOLD Earrings, unnamed: some earrings about dragons on sterling silver. $24 $19 SOLD Combs: Labradorite, aquamarine, base metal, sterling silver - $75 SOLD (it's the one on the left) Labradorite, base metal, sterling silver - $75 SOLD Bracelets: "Ghost Town" bracelet: pewter, glass, plastic, memory wire. $40 $32 PRIZE "Iggy's Favorite Hiding Place" is a bracelet about a very shy iguana. The pewter bead from Green Girl Studios will hide, no matter where you try to put it. $40 SOLD "The Mermaid Dreams of Land II" bracelet: lots of beads on memory wire. $24 SOLD "Old Machine Temple" bracelet: lots of beads on memory wire. $40 SOLD "Old Machine Temple II" bracelet: a different take on the subject, still with lots of beads on memory wire. $45 SOLD "The Peacock Queen Has Her Reasons" bracelet: glass and rubber on memory wire, and it's less aqua and more cobalt than the pictures suggest. It's all jewel and peacock colors, though, any way you look at it. $60 $50 $45 Shipping's $5 domestically and $7 internationally for small things, more for heavy things and for insurance; check with me for specifics at elise@lioness.net. (Alas, these things cannot be added to the BotMo packages, as those are already at Katie's place and will go out before the sale packages. Sale goes to the end of the weekend, Sunday at midnight Central Daylight Savings Time.) Just so you know, these are not permanent markdowns. One minute after midnight, things go back up to full price. (And I turn into a pumpkin, and wake to send out many invoices. Whee!) Right after I draw the prize-winning name... which I am going to go do right now. It'll take fifteen minutes, possibly, because I have to double-check things and I am sleeeeepy... but watch this space! (83 Comments | Comment on this)

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