ArtLog: I am having a shiny sale
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elisemThis is the grand list of everything available -- and right now, almost everything's on sale!
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, which surprised and delighted me. 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 the newest ones at the very end) with instructions on how to claim them if you see something you must carry off to your nest and coo over. Markdowns are listed in each section, though do keep checking as the sale goes on, because sometimes (sometimes? often!) I become whimsical and mark things down further.
The sale ends on the evening of February 22, at which point everything that's left goes back to full price. Why a sale now? I have had some unexpected exciting expensive things happening, so it's time for a sale. Whee!
(Also, if you'd like to get a Beads of the Month gift package for someone -- and hey, it's OK to get one for yourself, because you're someone, right? -- you'll want the Beads of the Month themes and ordering information. It's fine to buy a single month's package or multiples, whichever you like. This year packages start at ten dollars plus shipping for a one-star magpie package. They can get as big as you want. I'm currently working on a fifteen-star magpie package for a very lucky person.)
Goodies for Winterfair, as approved by Lois McMaster Bujold, now 50% off the listed price:
"Intricate World" pendant: leopardskin jasper, sterling silver. $10
"Slightly Dented World" pendant: leopardskin jasper, sterling silver. $9
Named earrings, now 25% off the listed price:
"The Adventurer's Tale" earrings: dendritic agate, glass, sterling silver. $38
"And the Sacred Places Where We Do Not Go" earrings: plastic, glass, sterling silver. $28
"And the Stones Shall Dance" earrings: agate (sardonyx, actually), opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver. $36
"The Answer Is More Than the Question Will Hold" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $34
"Asking the Old Ones" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"At the Tip of the World" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. One bead slightly distressed, as shown in last photo. $25
"Audience with the Queen" earrings: dinosaur bone, poppy jasper, gold filled wire. $85
"Boardwalk Afternoons" earrings: glass, sterling silver. These are really hard to photograph, color-wise; in person, they are transparent except when they're translucent in some lights, and green except when they're blue in some lights. Um, yeah. $25
"Bringing October In" earrings: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $28
"carry me back" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. $16
"Cat Dialectic" earrings: leopardskin jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $27
"Come Out Even" earrings: Botswana agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $25
"Coming Home" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $35
"Communications Array" earrings: lampwork and other glass, agate, sterling silver. $36
"Considering the Source" earrings: glass, labradorite, sterling silver. $40
"The Cosmologist's Birthday Gift" earrings: various jasper, sterling silver. $35
"A Different Kind of Wild" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, dyed impression stone, sterling silver. $60
"Dragonfly Instructions" earrings: glass, that stone called rainbow picasso jasper, sterling silver. $38
"The Dryad's Challenge" earrings: ocean jasper, some rather odd Botswana agate, sterling silver. $30
"The Elegant Ghosts of Art Deco" earrings: old glass and sterling silver. $45
"Empress of What Next" earrings: botswana agate, vintage plastic, lampwork glass (those silvery donut beads are lampwork, though they look like metal), sterling silver. $46
"extra life" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. These are super-light compared to how they look, and they do look like beach glass. $19
"Festival of Wishes and Gratitude" earring trio: glass and sterling silver. $21
"Festival Time" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, other crystal, sterling silver. $50
"For the Other World" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $40
"Found in a Pocket of a Vintage Dress, Addressed to You" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $43
"From the Department of Cryptic Messages" earrings: glass and sterling silver, and no matter what your screen tells you, these are really cobalt blue. $32
"Grandmother's Arts" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $39
"In Praise of Monsters" earrings: fossil coral, agate, sterling silver. $45
"Just Before" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $26
"The Landscape After" earrings: pietersite, lampwork glass, sterling silver. $40
"little wicked one" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. $16
"Living Inside the Question" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $36
"The Magic Before" earrings: birdseye rhyolite, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $36
"Memory Beach" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $31
"The Mermaid's Mirror" earrings: glass, labradorite, sterling silver. $45
"Message from the Strand" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $46
"A Mezuzah for my Spaceship, Please" earrings: prehnite? or other green stone with inclusions, glass, sterling silver. $30
"Morning Calibrations" earrings: lampwork and other glass, including glass coffee bean beads, and sterling silver. (And yes, one lampwork bead is darker than the other. Yep. For reference.) $28
"On the Dignity of Rock Sprites" earrings: boulder opal matrix (I don't think there's flash, but there might be some hiding), Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37
"One Revolution, with Sprinkles, Please" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $48
"Postcard from Another Planet" earrings: lampwork glass, miracle beads, sterling silver. Bloop bloop. $47
"Put On Your Party Hat" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $24
"She Came from Under the Hills" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $29
"The Sheriff of Feytown" earrings: thunderegg, coated glass, sterling silver. $40
"Slow Dance with Time" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, fossil dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $80
"The Soft Lessons of Patience" earrings: ocean jasper, sterling silver. $18
"The Technology of Yes" earrings: plastic, miracle beads, sterling silver. $25
"Test Pattern" earrings: glass, rock crystal, sterling silver. $29
"The Time It Takes to Get In" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $39
"Twice-Distilled Summer" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $60
"Two Stories About the Same Forest" earrings: glass, pietersite, sterling silver, stories. $28
"Untranslateably Good" earrings: lampwork and other glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $50
"Waltz for Communications Satellites" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $32
"The Way the Dragons Tell It" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver. $42
"Your Spring" earrings: plastic, opalite glass, sterling silver. $22
Named pendants, now 20% off the listed price:
"And the Woman in the Moon" pendant: druzy, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $75
"Brewer's Arts" pendant: boulder opal, pendant bead from Green Girl Studios, sterling silver. This opal has no flash, but is a stone of great presence nevertheless. $80
"Dinosaur Magic" pendant: dinosaur bone, agate, sterling silver. $30
"Doing Science In Dreams" pendant: included quartz, labradorite, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $110
"Emergent Properties" pendant: stone and sterling silver. $55
"Galaxies Inside Me" pendant: bloodstone, sterling silver. $29
"Keeping It" pendant: boulder opal, Swarovski crystal, GF wire. Yeah, there are a lot of photos here. Opal, you know? So many things going on. $90
"Not That Complicated After All" pendant: agate, cultured pearl, zinc alloy key charm, sterling silver. $62
"Souvenirs of the Fall" pendant: stone, sterling silver, tenacity. $60
"Still There" pendant: glass leaf, color-treated cultured pearls (including one faceted resin-encased one), jasper, moss agate, sterling silver. $100
(There are also some cross pendants available by request. Email me and I can send you a link to current photos.)
Named hair ornaments, now 30% off the listed price:
"The Keepsake" clip-comb: fossil dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. clip-comb. $50
"Seascape with Mermaid" clip-comb: fossil coral, Soochow jade*, sterling silver, clip-comb. $42
"Tiktaalik Roseae Descending a Staircase" hairstick: wood, sterling, fossil coral. $70
Named necklaces, now 20% off the listed price:
"Magic for All Seasons" necklace: glass, miracle beads, imperial jasper, carnelian, sardonyx, agate, blue goldstone glass, kambaba jasper, other stone, sterling silver. About fifty-two inches long or so. $130
"Mysterious Lizard Rituals" necklace: stone and glass and sterling silver. About fifty-seven inches long. A bit of an experiment, which is why it's discounted.$150 $120
"The Other Season" necklace: glass and distressed glass, opal matrix, a very pale aquamarine, metal, miracle beads, opalite glass, fancy jasper, fake pearls, real pearls, blue goldstone glass, Ethiopian opal, coated quartz crystal, stone, sterling silver. About fifty-eight inches long. $205
"Remembering How To Grow" necklace: boulder opal and matrix, labradorite, moss agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. About 98 inches long. $395
"Somewhere Along the Road" necklace: Swarovski crystal, other crystal, glass, millefiori glass, lampwork glass, metal, old vaseline glass trade bead, distressed glass, fiberoptic glass, furnace glass, blue goldstone glass, fake blueberry quartz (glass), sterling silver. About thirty-six inches long. $98
"That Powerful Rainbow" necklace: weathered and chipped vintage black glass beads, plastic, sterling silver. About 43 inches long. $98
"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. Its current incarnation is something like this. It's always in that color range, though: blues and purples on sterling silver.
Named necklace-crowns, now 25% off the listed price:
"The Ice Queen Considers the Question of Her Heart" necklace-crown: glass leaves, button, Swarovski and other crystal, sterling silver. $300
"The Rainbow When She's Quiet" necklace-crown: rainbow moonstone, opalite glass, cultured pearls, sterling silver. $300
Newer named necklaces, now 10% off the listed price:
"Magic Beans" necklace: stone, glass, sterling silver. A bit over sixteen inches long. $50
"The Thing About Shipwrecks" necklace: glass, ocean jasper, miracle beads, Botswana agate, chevron beads, Laguna lace agate, other agate, prehnite, sterling silver. About fifty-three inches long. $260
Newer named bracelet, now 10% off the listed price:
"Through Seven Worlds They Traveled" bracelet: ocean jasper, sterling silver. About nine and a half inches long. $50
Newer named pendants, now 10% off the listed price:
"By Sunlight, By Starlight" pendant: labradorite, agate, sterling silver. $34
"The Courting-Gift" pendant: lampwork glass by Rita Orman, miracle beads, sterling silver. $58
"A Midsummer Night's Crossover" pendant: a really amazing piece of ocean jasper, fossil coral, sterling silver. $65
"Monet Under the Hill" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver. $26
"My Faithful Vampire" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $31
"Season of Metamorphosis" pendant: dyed stone (I think), glass, sterling silver. $18
"Sweet Laily Worm" pendant: lampwork glass, dyed agate, Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $50
"'Tam Lin, I've Come Again,' She Said" pendant: agate, sterling silver. $24
"Tell Me of the Places You Love" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $30
"The Three Tribes of Fae in the Museum of Natural History" pendant: chrysoprase, cultured pearls, sterling silver. $70
"Two Ways to Travel Space" pendant: Laguna lace agate, dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $45
"When She Came Down the Mountain" pendant: boulder opal, paua shell, sterling silver. $60
(There are also some inspiration key pendants. Email me and I can send you a link to current photos.)
Newer named earrings, now 10% off the listed price:
"All My Magic Aunts" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Ancestor Fashion" earrings: dyed agate, glass, sterling silver. $28
"And Sweeter Still the Spring" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $25
"Bargains and Blood Secrets" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $25
"Beauty and the Veil" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $35
"Best Practices for New Planets" earrings: bloodstone, glass, sterling silver. $36
"Beware When the Good Folk Smile" earrings: fluorite, glass, sterling silver. $27
"Box of Kindness" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"A Breath of Good Sea Air" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20
"Contingency Planning" earrings: agate, sterling silver. $30
"Dancing on Vanished Floors" earrings: fossil coral, glass, sterling silver. $34
"Devotions of a Scholar" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $30
"Everything a World Can Hold" earrings: bloodstone, glass, sterling silver. $45
"Faithful Wings" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"The Fearless Ones" earrings: glass, bloodstone, sterling silver. $27
"First Days" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Glory Jane and the Blossom Lady" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $38
"Go Ahead, Ask Her What She Knows About Love" earrings: old milagros, Owyhee jasper (I think), sterling silver. $39
"Got a Good Thing Going" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $25
"Grey Eyes See Through Everything" earrings: fiber-optic glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Haunted in a Good Way" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $21
"Heart Science" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Her Voice Like Lilies" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $28
"How to Know a Treasure" earrings: pietersite, glass, sterling silver. $26
"The Isles of My Sisters" earrings: cloisonné, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $35
"Jonquil Hopes" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"Little Songs for an Icebird" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
"Love Letters to the Sky" earrings: dyed agate, glass, sterling silver. $24
"The Message in the Weaving" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $24
"Occam's Spoon" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
... "Old Songs for New Dances" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20 SOLD at 10% off for $18 - thank you!
"Old When Atlantis Was Young" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $32
"The Ones Who Fly Far" earrings: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37
"Pick Your Histories" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $29
"The Priestess at Carnival" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Remembering the Word for Blue" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $26
"Rhyme Fire" earrings: Icelandic lava, glass, sterling silver. $29
"The Sea-Dancer's Rule" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $33
"Seed Catalog" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"A Smile In Her Pocket" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"The Steamworkers' Ball" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"Stronger than Winter" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20
"Studying by Fairylight" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Subtle" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"Then Farewell Dull Cares" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
"The Warm Past" earrings: fossil coral, glass, sterling silver. $45
"Westward Love" earrings: agate, jasper, sterling silver. $34
"What To Keep Summer Memories In" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"When You Arrive" earrings: glass, paua shell, sterling silver. $27
"'Where We Keep the Ashes,' She Said" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"Wreathed in Words of Power" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $36
... and even newer things to come, so do come back and see what happens next.
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. And do stop back as the sale goes on, because you know how I get with the markdowns and all. Whee!
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.
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!)
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, which surprised and delighted me. 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 the newest ones at the very end) with instructions on how to claim them if you see something you must carry off to your nest and coo over. Markdowns are listed in each section, though do keep checking as the sale goes on, because sometimes (sometimes? often!) I become whimsical and mark things down further.
The sale ends on the evening of February 22, at which point everything that's left goes back to full price. Why a sale now? I have had some unexpected exciting expensive things happening, so it's time for a sale. Whee!
(Also, if you'd like to get a Beads of the Month gift package for someone -- and hey, it's OK to get one for yourself, because you're someone, right? -- you'll want the Beads of the Month themes and ordering information. It's fine to buy a single month's package or multiples, whichever you like. This year packages start at ten dollars plus shipping for a one-star magpie package. They can get as big as you want. I'm currently working on a fifteen-star magpie package for a very lucky person.)
Goodies for Winterfair, as approved by Lois McMaster Bujold, now 50% off the listed price:
"Intricate World" pendant: leopardskin jasper, sterling silver. $10
"Slightly Dented World" pendant: leopardskin jasper, sterling silver. $9
Named earrings, now 25% off the listed price:
"The Adventurer's Tale" earrings: dendritic agate, glass, sterling silver. $38
"And the Sacred Places Where We Do Not Go" earrings: plastic, glass, sterling silver. $28
"And the Stones Shall Dance" earrings: agate (sardonyx, actually), opalite glass and other glass, sterling silver. $36
"The Answer Is More Than the Question Will Hold" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $34
"Asking the Old Ones" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"At the Tip of the World" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. One bead slightly distressed, as shown in last photo. $25
"Audience with the Queen" earrings: dinosaur bone, poppy jasper, gold filled wire. $85
"Boardwalk Afternoons" earrings: glass, sterling silver. These are really hard to photograph, color-wise; in person, they are transparent except when they're translucent in some lights, and green except when they're blue in some lights. Um, yeah. $25
"Bringing October In" earrings: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $28
"carry me back" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. $16
"Cat Dialectic" earrings: leopardskin jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $27
"Come Out Even" earrings: Botswana agate, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $25
"Coming Home" earrings: glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $35
"Communications Array" earrings: lampwork and other glass, agate, sterling silver. $36
"Considering the Source" earrings: glass, labradorite, sterling silver. $40
"The Cosmologist's Birthday Gift" earrings: various jasper, sterling silver. $35
"A Different Kind of Wild" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, dyed impression stone, sterling silver. $60
"Dragonfly Instructions" earrings: glass, that stone called rainbow picasso jasper, sterling silver. $38
"The Dryad's Challenge" earrings: ocean jasper, some rather odd Botswana agate, sterling silver. $30
"The Elegant Ghosts of Art Deco" earrings: old glass and sterling silver. $45
"Empress of What Next" earrings: botswana agate, vintage plastic, lampwork glass (those silvery donut beads are lampwork, though they look like metal), sterling silver. $46
"extra life" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. These are super-light compared to how they look, and they do look like beach glass. $19
"Festival of Wishes and Gratitude" earring trio: glass and sterling silver. $21
"Festival Time" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, other crystal, sterling silver. $50
"For the Other World" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $40
"Found in a Pocket of a Vintage Dress, Addressed to You" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $43
"From the Department of Cryptic Messages" earrings: glass and sterling silver, and no matter what your screen tells you, these are really cobalt blue. $32
"Grandmother's Arts" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $39
"In Praise of Monsters" earrings: fossil coral, agate, sterling silver. $45
"Just Before" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $26
"The Landscape After" earrings: pietersite, lampwork glass, sterling silver. $40
"little wicked one" earrings: plastic (a.k.a. "resin," fancy-schmancy terminology), sterling silver. $16
"Living Inside the Question" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $36
"The Magic Before" earrings: birdseye rhyolite, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $36
"Memory Beach" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $31
"The Mermaid's Mirror" earrings: glass, labradorite, sterling silver. $45
"Message from the Strand" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $46
"A Mezuzah for my Spaceship, Please" earrings: prehnite? or other green stone with inclusions, glass, sterling silver. $30
"Morning Calibrations" earrings: lampwork and other glass, including glass coffee bean beads, and sterling silver. (And yes, one lampwork bead is darker than the other. Yep. For reference.) $28
"On the Dignity of Rock Sprites" earrings: boulder opal matrix (I don't think there's flash, but there might be some hiding), Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37
"One Revolution, with Sprinkles, Please" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $48
"Postcard from Another Planet" earrings: lampwork glass, miracle beads, sterling silver. Bloop bloop. $47
"Put On Your Party Hat" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $24
"She Came from Under the Hills" earrings: glass and sterling silver. $29
"The Sheriff of Feytown" earrings: thunderegg, coated glass, sterling silver. $40
"Slow Dance with Time" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, fossil dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $80
"The Soft Lessons of Patience" earrings: ocean jasper, sterling silver. $18
"The Technology of Yes" earrings: plastic, miracle beads, sterling silver. $25
"Test Pattern" earrings: glass, rock crystal, sterling silver. $29
"The Time It Takes to Get In" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $39
"Twice-Distilled Summer" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $60
"Two Stories About the Same Forest" earrings: glass, pietersite, sterling silver, stories. $28
"Untranslateably Good" earrings: lampwork and other glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $50
"Waltz for Communications Satellites" earrings: lampwork and other glass, sterling silver. $32
"The Way the Dragons Tell It" earrings: snakeskin jasper, glass, sterling silver. $42
"Your Spring" earrings: plastic, opalite glass, sterling silver. $22
Named pendants, now 20% off the listed price:
"And the Woman in the Moon" pendant: druzy, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $75
"Brewer's Arts" pendant: boulder opal, pendant bead from Green Girl Studios, sterling silver. This opal has no flash, but is a stone of great presence nevertheless. $80
"Dinosaur Magic" pendant: dinosaur bone, agate, sterling silver. $30
"Doing Science In Dreams" pendant: included quartz, labradorite, zinc alloy charms, sterling silver. $110
"Emergent Properties" pendant: stone and sterling silver. $55
"Galaxies Inside Me" pendant: bloodstone, sterling silver. $29
"Keeping It" pendant: boulder opal, Swarovski crystal, GF wire. Yeah, there are a lot of photos here. Opal, you know? So many things going on. $90
"Not That Complicated After All" pendant: agate, cultured pearl, zinc alloy key charm, sterling silver. $62
"Souvenirs of the Fall" pendant: stone, sterling silver, tenacity. $60
"Still There" pendant: glass leaf, color-treated cultured pearls (including one faceted resin-encased one), jasper, moss agate, sterling silver. $100
(There are also some cross pendants available by request. Email me and I can send you a link to current photos.)
Named hair ornaments, now 30% off the listed price:
"The Keepsake" clip-comb: fossil dinosaur bone, glass, sterling silver. clip-comb. $50
"Seascape with Mermaid" clip-comb: fossil coral, Soochow jade*, sterling silver, clip-comb. $42
"Tiktaalik Roseae Descending a Staircase" hairstick: wood, sterling, fossil coral. $70
Named necklaces, now 20% off the listed price:
"Magic for All Seasons" necklace: glass, miracle beads, imperial jasper, carnelian, sardonyx, agate, blue goldstone glass, kambaba jasper, other stone, sterling silver. About fifty-two inches long or so. $130
"Mysterious Lizard Rituals" necklace: stone and glass and sterling silver. About fifty-seven inches long. A bit of an experiment, which is why it's discounted.
"The Other Season" necklace: glass and distressed glass, opal matrix, a very pale aquamarine, metal, miracle beads, opalite glass, fancy jasper, fake pearls, real pearls, blue goldstone glass, Ethiopian opal, coated quartz crystal, stone, sterling silver. About fifty-eight inches long. $205
"Remembering How To Grow" necklace: boulder opal and matrix, labradorite, moss agate, Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. About 98 inches long. $395
"Somewhere Along the Road" necklace: Swarovski crystal, other crystal, glass, millefiori glass, lampwork glass, metal, old vaseline glass trade bead, distressed glass, fiberoptic glass, furnace glass, blue goldstone glass, fake blueberry quartz (glass), sterling silver. About thirty-six inches long. $98
"That Powerful Rainbow" necklace: weathered and chipped vintage black glass beads, plastic, sterling silver. About 43 inches long. $98
"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. Its current incarnation is something like this. It's always in that color range, though: blues and purples on sterling silver.
Named necklace-crowns, now 25% off the listed price:
"The Ice Queen Considers the Question of Her Heart" necklace-crown: glass leaves, button, Swarovski and other crystal, sterling silver. $300
"The Rainbow When She's Quiet" necklace-crown: rainbow moonstone, opalite glass, cultured pearls, sterling silver. $300
Newer named necklaces, now 10% off the listed price:
"Magic Beans" necklace: stone, glass, sterling silver. A bit over sixteen inches long. $50
"The Thing About Shipwrecks" necklace: glass, ocean jasper, miracle beads, Botswana agate, chevron beads, Laguna lace agate, other agate, prehnite, sterling silver. About fifty-three inches long. $260
Newer named bracelet, now 10% off the listed price:
"Through Seven Worlds They Traveled" bracelet: ocean jasper, sterling silver. About nine and a half inches long. $50
Newer named pendants, now 10% off the listed price:
"By Sunlight, By Starlight" pendant: labradorite, agate, sterling silver. $34
"The Courting-Gift" pendant: lampwork glass by Rita Orman, miracle beads, sterling silver. $58
"A Midsummer Night's Crossover" pendant: a really amazing piece of ocean jasper, fossil coral, sterling silver. $65
"Monet Under the Hill" pendant: stone, color-treated cultured pearl, sterling silver. $26
"My Faithful Vampire" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $31
"Season of Metamorphosis" pendant: dyed stone (I think), glass, sterling silver. $18
"Sweet Laily Worm" pendant: lampwork glass, dyed agate, Swarovski crystal, zinc alloy charm, sterling silver. $50
"'Tam Lin, I've Come Again,' She Said" pendant: agate, sterling silver. $24
"Tell Me of the Places You Love" pendant: stone, sterling silver. $30
"The Three Tribes of Fae in the Museum of Natural History" pendant: chrysoprase, cultured pearls, sterling silver. $70
"Two Ways to Travel Space" pendant: Laguna lace agate, dinosaur bone, sterling silver. $45
"When She Came Down the Mountain" pendant: boulder opal, paua shell, sterling silver. $60
(There are also some inspiration key pendants. Email me and I can send you a link to current photos.)
Newer named earrings, now 10% off the listed price:
"All My Magic Aunts" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Ancestor Fashion" earrings: dyed agate, glass, sterling silver. $28
"And Sweeter Still the Spring" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $25
"Bargains and Blood Secrets" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $25
"Beauty and the Veil" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $35
"Best Practices for New Planets" earrings: bloodstone, glass, sterling silver. $36
"Beware When the Good Folk Smile" earrings: fluorite, glass, sterling silver. $27
"Box of Kindness" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"A Breath of Good Sea Air" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20
"Contingency Planning" earrings: agate, sterling silver. $30
"Dancing on Vanished Floors" earrings: fossil coral, glass, sterling silver. $34
"Devotions of a Scholar" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $30
"Everything a World Can Hold" earrings: bloodstone, glass, sterling silver. $45
"Faithful Wings" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"The Fearless Ones" earrings: glass, bloodstone, sterling silver. $27
"First Days" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Glory Jane and the Blossom Lady" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $38
"Go Ahead, Ask Her What She Knows About Love" earrings: old milagros, Owyhee jasper (I think), sterling silver. $39
"Got a Good Thing Going" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $25
"Grey Eyes See Through Everything" earrings: fiber-optic glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Haunted in a Good Way" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $21
"Heart Science" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $28
"Her Voice Like Lilies" earrings: Swarovski crystal, glass, sterling silver. $28
"How to Know a Treasure" earrings: pietersite, glass, sterling silver. $26
"The Isles of My Sisters" earrings: cloisonné, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $35
"Jonquil Hopes" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"Little Songs for an Icebird" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
"Love Letters to the Sky" earrings: dyed agate, glass, sterling silver. $24
"The Message in the Weaving" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $24
"Occam's Spoon" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
... "Old Songs for New Dances" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20 SOLD at 10% off for $18 - thank you!
"Old When Atlantis Was Young" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $32
"The Ones Who Fly Far" earrings: ocean jasper, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $37
"Pick Your Histories" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $29
"The Priestess at Carnival" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Remembering the Word for Blue" earrings: glass, stone, sterling silver. $26
"Rhyme Fire" earrings: Icelandic lava, glass, sterling silver. $29
"The Sea-Dancer's Rule" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $33
"Seed Catalog" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"A Smile In Her Pocket" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"The Steamworkers' Ball" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"Stronger than Winter" earrings: cloisonné, glass, sterling silver. $20
"Studying by Fairylight" earrings: lampwork glass, Swarovski crystal, sterling silver. $30
"Subtle" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $16
"Then Farewell Dull Cares" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $23
"The Warm Past" earrings: fossil coral, glass, sterling silver. $45
"Westward Love" earrings: agate, jasper, sterling silver. $34
"What To Keep Summer Memories In" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $26
"When You Arrive" earrings: glass, paua shell, sterling silver. $27
"'Where We Keep the Ashes,' She Said" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $24
"Wreathed in Words of Power" earrings: glass, sterling silver. $36
... and even newer things to come, so do come back and see what happens next.
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. And do stop back as the sale goes on, because you know how I get with the markdowns and all. Whee!
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.
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!)
