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These are names from pieces I have posted to the Etsy shop lately. May they be useful to anyone who wants a little inspiration today.

Big Cats and Rumors of Bigger Cats 
Is the Floating World Invisible Now? 
Ink Knight Vigil 
Underestimate Her At Your Peril 
The Sky Remembers the Flowers 
Cats and Trees and Ferns and How We Got This Way 
What We Really Want 
Unafraid To Be Kind 
Time Since and Again 
Your Favorite Day 
Heading for High Summer 
The Adornment Fairy Has Come To Call 
The Merfolk Are Amused 
In the Lavender Wood 
Sky Racing 
O Bright Morning in the Land of Ferns 
The Harbingers of Dawn 
At the Fae Craft Fair 
Someday Will Be September 
Messages from the Muses of Science 
Pomegranate Days Again 
Where They Keep the Real Sky 
Like a Fish Dreaming of Flight 
Life as a Seahorse 
And Now You See It 
The Friendly Kinds of Ice 
With a Clear Heart 
As In Days of Yore


(There are actually more, but I'm not listing the Particular Planet pendants, because they're numbered and have no individual names.)

If you want to go see them, here's the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise
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 I used to do this. Let's do it again and see what happens.

These are names from pieces I have posted to the Etsy shop lately. May they delight and inspire anyone who wants a little inspiration today.


The Chatelaine's Cat 
Gothic Spring 
By Her Unseen Hands 
Dreaming of the Sun in Shadow 
Particular Planet #6 
Where We Keep the Blues 
Give Us a Smile Now 
No Relation 
My Cat Is a Werekoi 
Shall I Compare Thee? 
The Word Moves (Through) the World 
Temporary Moon 
Bats Nibbling on the Blood Moon 
Slightly Less Temporary Moons 
Vintage Neon Fern Bar 
Sky Fallen to Earth 
A Solemnity of Wings 
As Below, So Above (Ocean + Storm) 


(If you want to see them, the Etsy shop is at https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise but a bunch of them have sold already.)
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 So many earrings.

A few days back, I sorted out my Swarovski crystal storage boxes. Since they've discontinued sales of their sparkly, sparkly goodies to us hoi polloi, I no longer need to keep my labeled compartments after they're empty and waiting for restock, because there are not going to be any restocks. So there was a great deal of removing empty compartments. I use a set of stacking cylindrical towers (5 high) that fit in a case (6 towers across), and I had nine cases. The clasp finally gave up on one of the cases, so it was handy to be able compress nine into eight by removing the empties. 

Sorting all those out means that I've updated my knowledge of what I have. It also means that when I was done sorting, there were 113 pairs of earrings ready for posting in my Etsy shop.

Seriously, it's always been true that the fastest way for me to get inspiration is to set out to tidy up the workshop. It works every time. The workshop never gets all the way tidied, but I'm too happy working on new pieces that I'm fine with that.

It may be an aspect of some ADHD superpower. Probably is. Whatever it is, I've learned to use the power for good, at least as far as making new stuff is concerned.

Do you have a place that's hard to tidy up because the inspiration is so thick there?
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 I made eleven pendants and overused my hands and now my right hand is upset in ways that are going to make photography a little tricky today.

Gotta learn how to stop when I need to stop, hyperfocus or no. And the hardest thing is to stop although it's being really, really satisfying.

I do not regret the pendants, though. Not one bit. Tektites, cats, labradorite, tanzanite, pen nib, Roman glass, and all.

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My Etsy shop, which is here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise
tells me that I have sold more than 3500 pieces there.

Huh. That's a lot.

Maybe I should do something to celebrate that. Must ponder.

It's Winterfair time. I could give out free planet pendants as celebration gifts. That might be fun.
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Remember how I mentioned that there are two long beaded necklaces with cats in them? I'm proofreading the second one now, and hope to be able to show you both of them soon.

Has any of your work had cats in it lately? In any sense, really. :)
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Until yesterday, my Etsy shop had been below 100 pieces for a long while. (Months and months. That is a very long while hereabouts.) And now it's at 111 pieces, and I am full of happiness about that, because it really does help.

OK, now some food and then some workbench. Yesssss. I may even get a Stardust pendant mostly done. And there's a tektite or ten waiting for me too.

What's the art in your life doing at the moment? Or what are you doing with it? Or both? Any milestones lately?
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Workbench time never fails to improve me. Today I had hours and hours of it. It was SO GOOD.

SO SO SO GOOD.

Now I need to switch from the necklace work that I go deep into when I'm sort of re-assembling myself and getting centered, because there are dragon pendants that need doing, plus this panjas bracelet thingie that I think I have got figured out now, so I need to finish the prototype. These things can be done, because both yesterday and today I had hours and hours of "sink deep into this necklace work" and also hot baths, which is a combo that is very powerful in how it improves my day.

(Wow. When I come out of necklace-work-space, my words do take a while to get back into linear thought rather than a fugue or some series of motifs or whatever it is when I'm composing four linear superimpositions in a long four-loop necklace. My eyes keep going to the previous paragraph and wanting to rearrange things with attention to enjambments and rhythmic structure.)

Oh right, I should mention that these necklaces are full of cats.
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So I mentioned that this necklace happened because I was sorting aquamarines and I found a bunch of them that looked (to me anyway) like waves in sequence.

If you lay the necklace out flat and consider it as a sort of zoetrope or flip book or something, the waves come to the shore one after another. I'm pretty sure it's a rocky shore, but those of you who live near a sea and know it better probably are the ones to ask.

These aquamarines are a long way from perfect, and that's why I love them. Those of you who have heard me rhapsodizing about "rasty tourmalines" and the like will know this already. Back in the days when I had several dozen Beads of the Month people, I used to have a lot of fun buying significant quantities of beads and pulling all the well-formed ones with uniform color and qualities, so as to make the Beads of the Month packages equivalent. That left all the weird beads for me, which was a true delight. (I still do that to an extent, but the number of packages I need to pull is smaller since I moved it to Patreon.)

Anyhow, let me know what you think of the beads. The piece is here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1550006235/will-the-sea-remember-me-short-necklace
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Look! Here is a thing. I made the thing! It is a necklace-crown in the new style, which means that instead of a hook and loop closure built out of the wirework of the necklace, this one has a loop on each end and uses a detachable chain with a clasp on each end, which you can wrap and loop until the necklace suits you best.

"Marsh Wisdom" is a necklace-crown that looks rather bronze/beige/grey from a distance and shows more colors close up. There are Czech glass lily beads scattered in it in various metallic tones, and bead-covered wirework like stems and tendrils, with treasures hidden between and beneath.

There is more to show you, but I really wanted to get this one up so you could see it.

And now I go find something very cold, because it was a bit warm in the workshop today.
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Fluorescent shinies coming:

"Calling the Witnesses"
"The Daughters of Ghostflower House"
"It's Never What You Expect"
"So the Fish Told Her the Way"
"Utility Pendant: Fluorescence"

"All My Magic Aunts"
"And Sweeter Still the Spring"
"Beauty and the Veil"
"Beware When the Good Folk Smile"
"Box of Kindness"
"Devotions of a Scholar"
"Faithful Wings"
"Got a Good Thing Going"
"The Hall of Ghost Knights"
"Haunted in a Good Way"
"Jonquil Hopes"
"Little Songs for an Icebird"
"Occam's Spoon"
"Science in the Morning"
"Seed Catalog"
"A Smile In Her Pocket"
"Subtle"
"Then Farewell Dull Cares"
"What To Keep Summer Memories In"


Non-fluorescent shinies coming:

"Magic Beans"

"A Midsummer Night's Crossover"
"Still It Flows, and Ever Will"
"The Three Tribes of Fae in the Museum of Natural History"
"When She Came Down the Mountain"

"Dancing on Vanished Floors"
"Heart Science"
"Her Voice Like Lilies"
"Pick Your Histories"
"Rhyme Fire"
"The Warm Past"
"Where We Keep the Ashes"
"Wreathed in Words of Power"



I've taken photos of these, so with any luck, they'll go up late tonight in their own post. Watch this journal! (And I'm going to try doing it both here and on LJ.)
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Remember when we had such a fine time with "Nine Things About Oracles"?

A little while ago, several people all forwarded me the same call for submissions to an exhibition. (Pretty much every email said "Did they write this call for entries with you specifically in mind, or what?") Well, you know how I get. I went up to the workshop and talked to some wire and a piece of druzy and a whole bunch of aquamarines, and this happened:

"What the Oracle Didn't Tell You"

I'm going to submit it to them, but I wanted to give you guys a chance to play with it first. Getting picked to be in an exhibition would be great, but playing catch back and forth with art in wire and words is where I live and I live there with all of you, and we do it together.

Whether "What the Oracle Didn't Tell You" gets into that exhibition or not, making this piece turned out to be a love letter to all of you and to what we do collectively.

Thank you. You make my life better than I can say.
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Oh, hey! I'm sorry I forgot to mention it already, but there are many shinies for sale. I keep marking them down, too. You know how I get.
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So I've decided to just post, already. ;-) Hello again, Dreamwidth folks.

Today the workbench is covered with dinosaur bones. Well, not entirely covered -- I don't have that many. But there are seventeen pairs of dinosaur bone earrings waiting to get their earwires put on, and two pairs of amber earrings (some of the dino bone earrings have amber on them as well), and a pair of amber and stegodon bone earrings, and a pair of amber and stegodon and dino bone earrings, and a rather large pair that has amber and dinosaur bone and large round beads machined out of meteorite NWA869. Because I could. And because dinosaur bone beads are a great comfort, for some reason.

These particular shinies are made with the specific intent of paying for a trip I hope to take this summer. Dinosaurs might take me traveling. (Now I have a mental image of harnessing up the dinos to the wagon and heading for the rising sun.)
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necklace, something about weasels and dreaming: yellow metal, aqua and yellow glass beads, some of which are splendiferous Moe Beads

Very surprising. This one just jumped up at me from the bead table, so I'm halfway through it. It'll be fairly fragile, though. But I think it'll work.

Other than that, there are seventy-'leven other things in progress as usual. And I owe the great revolving world and her dog some e-mail, as usual also.
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"Brother Moonlamp's Tale" necklace: medium length (over the head, no clasp), yellow metal; pale matte and shiny glass beads in blues, lavenders, green, and other colors, including some spiral beads and some lovely furnace glass triangular tube beads and some small pale blue hearts'ease (pansy) flower beads

"Brother Moonlamp and the Dragon" necklace: medium length (over the head, no clasp), yellow metal; beads like the necklace above, but adding some vivid sapphire blue crystal and spiral and other beads to the mix

in progress: "The Five Sorrows of Brother Moonlamp" necklace, which takes the mix down into the dark blues and black with AB (aurora borealis shimmer); this necklace is on wrapped sterling silver wire, so it will be more work and more expensive, but I think it will turn out well. It should be sufficiently long that a person could wear it as a belly necklace if a person wanted to, too.

The previously mentioned ones in progress are still. "Evensong" is one of them, and there are several others. And I am eyeing some pearls speculatively and thinking about pearl and sterling bustiers.

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