Birthday Month 2023 August 21: sleep ate my day again!

I took it easy yestertoday, the 21st, because sleep ate my day again. On the other hand, I did have some nice workbench time, and it was a decent birthday eve.

The perfume of the day was Amber 46 from Nocturne Alchemy, which is pretty serious stuff. I really like amber.

A nice cool bath also made the day bearable. Plus I got the outgoing packages packed and postage run in time to get the pickup scheduled (so I had better get to bed now, so I can get up in two hours and wait for the thump on the door). Also had a nice phone call with my sister. And my friend S is home from the hospital after appendix removal. Whew!

OK, sleep now.

Well, after I remember to tell you that since the 22 is my birthday proper, all the new things and many of the previously un-marked-down things are 25% off today only. (The sale continues through the end of the month, and I may well get wild the later it gets, but this is a good chance to catch the new things I've added, which are selling quickly, at a nice price.) Today's markdown is because You Know How I Get. :-)

The shop is here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise

Do you have any stories about where your LionessElise shinies have been worn, or stories about why you got them?

Birthday Month 2023 August 22: Birthday Proper

Last night at the workbench I finished the aquamarine necklace called "Will the Sea Remember Me?" It has a sterling silver lobster clasp which has a swivel, so the necklace can be untwisted without removing it. Useful little thing, a swivel clasp.

Here it is in the Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1550006235/will-the-sea-remember-me-short-necklace

I woke early today because it's a shipping day and I need to be near the door to hear when the USPS folks thump. (I have a note on the door asking them please to thump, because I am hard of hearing and cannot hear regular knocking very easily.) So with any luck I'll be able to get a good batch of new pieces up. There are a lot of them ready to go, and have been for a while. (See also "I need to have four of me to do everything on my task list.")

Today's perfume is Voodoo Queen from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, since it seems appropriate to wear a rare scent today.

I will almost certainly update this post again as my birthday proper continues. Whee!

What is your relationship to the sea? To other entities of water?

ArtLog: making the aquamarine necklace "Will the Sea Remember Me?"

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