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There's a new post over on my Patreon which you can read for free. It does need signing up for a free membership, but it is free, as will be all the rest of the posts and essays and whatevers in The Project, which is the current (placeholder?) title for whatever this art memoir thing I am doing ought to be called.

Here's the link: categorization, division, juxtaposition, connection

(It's about time for me to be adding a set of links in the form of an ever-growing table of contents for The Project. I'll try to do that soon, but today is stacked up with work, so it may be a couple of days.)

(Are you also stacked up with stuff that needs doing? My best wishes, and strength to your doing-things arm!)

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.)

A mix of expected things and unexpected things have managed to all want paying at once, so I'm having a 40% off sale on almost everything in my Etsy shop for probably as long as it takes to get what it takes. The 40% off sale includes all the new work I am putting up each day -- the current trays of things ready to be photographed and added to the shop have one pendant, two long necklaces, and eighty pairs of earrings because life is like that at the moment.

Neil boosted my sale online, and now things are selling literally as fast as I can put them up. If you're a regular on Etsy, you can set things to send you an alert when there are new pieces up, if you like. Pouncing is a strategy, and the alert is a useful thing, I am told.

What's coming up includes a lot of very seriously shiny stuff, because Swarovski. Specifically, ungettable Swarovski, the stuff they stopped selling to us hoi polloi, or however that should be said. However, my sister told me about a bead store that she loves that was closing, and to make a long story short, I now have the amount of Swarovski crystal that your above-average bead store might have at the end of their run. (SO MUCH SWAROVSKI. It took me weeks to sort and label it all. So much delight!) Anyhow, I turned a bunch of it into a pendant and a lot of earrings. Come see what you think, yah?

If you find something you like, and you would like me to hold it through more days of the sale so you can see if anything else pounce-worthy comes along, just tell me to "Let it ride," and I'll combine everything at the end and refund you the excess shipping.

Please spread the word about the sale if you can! As I said elsenet, I thank you, my family thanks you, the people who are going to take down the broken tree and haul it away thank you, the people doing our health care directives and wills thank you, my artist's wrangler thanks you, and so do the makers of ice cream. (I am coping with ice cream this week.)

Hey, I'm having an unexpected coupon opportunity because there are a couple of upcoming bills I need to pay. Here's a link. Lots of things are eligible for 30% off with the coupon code 2024FEB30PAYBILLSYAY. Here's a link:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/lionesselise/?etsrc=sdt&coupon=2024FEB30PAYBILLSYAY

You know how I get. :)

Please feel free to share this with anyone who might want some discount shinies. Be aware that it's a limited time offer, though, because once I have enough to pay those bills, the coupon will be discontinued.

Thank you for liking the shiny things. <3

So I just put this necklace called "Peach Wisdom" up in my Etsy shop, and posted about it on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/lionesselise.bsky.social/post/3kfxv3lzzul24

And I am amused because today the Pantone Color of the Year was announced.
Peachfuzz.

https://www.pantone.com/products/lifestyle/limited-edition-mug-pantone-color-of-the-year-2024

(No, I do not need a peachfuzz mug. Kind of wish I had gotten a periwinkle one when that was Color of the Year, but the cupboard is crowded as it is.)

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.

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?

It's been a challenging year... or two... or four. Something like that. And that only makes the perennial December struggle for balance more so.

I need to get a lot of (already finished) work into the Etsy shop.
I need to spend as much time as I can at the workbench because workbench helps everything including my ability to handle the chronic pain and similar things.

Today I will try to get a few more pieces into the shop. Before things changed, I had a reasonable hope of having between 200 and 300 things in the shop at the beginning of December. Now I'm in the middle 90s. Argh.

I hope people like them and buy them. That would be particularly handy right now. And I'll continue to spend a bunch of time at the workbench, doing various needful things but especially the ones that keep me going and give me the wherewithal emotionally to continue.

Wish me luck, please?

And now I need to have breakfast, because I forgot to, and then I need to get that new dragon pendant into the shop and then get myself up to the workbench.

Still letting my sleep cycle choose itself, but today I have gotten my Etsy boxes packed and labeled with postage on them, and have done so in time to schedule a pickup for tomorrow. Yay! As my vibrating alarm clock arrived today, I have the technology appropriate for a hard-of-hearing Lioness to be awakened in time to switch to the sofa near the door upon which the excellent USPS person-of-the-day will thump loudly, if they have read the sign beseeching them to do so. (I cannot hear a regular knock unless it's under exceptionally favorable conditions.)

After I have something cool and enjoyable to drink, I have a few eBay things to pack as well, but since there is a pickup already scheduled, I do not need to race the clock here. The metaphorical clock, I mean, rather than the thumping one that will go inside my pillowcase... or possibly in a bag hung round my neck. We shall see.

Yesterday I forgot to write that the perfume of the day was Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's "Death" from the Tarot series. It is in a 10ml bottle, which will tell you how old this particular BPAL scent is. (Somewhere around here I have a couple of tarted imps, if there are any old-timers who remember those.) Today I'm wearing a Nocturne Alchemy scent: Ra's Vanilla Amber. The NA perfume oils do not age as well as Possets or BPAL.

And I got GLORIOUS WORKBENCH TIME today, and finished a thing, and have other things almost done, and I cannot wait to show you. Probably I will photograph a bunch and put them up in the Etsy shop while waiting for the USPS.

How do you interact with your mail and package pick-up/delivery people? Do you have favorites?

The boycott-that-they-keep-calling-a-strike is scheduled to start tomorrow, April 11, and run through April 18.

This is not something I feel I should do, because I have a previous commitment to be Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon on the 15-17. I am attending virtually, so the access to my work is through my Etsy shop, other than a few special pieces that a friend (Shawna Brown, whose work you may have seen at WisCon) will be displaying for me at her table. My art might get talked about in a panel or two, and Etsy is where people can see a hundred-some examples of it, and it does not seem right to take my work offline with no warning while the convention is happening.

Some of you know my take on this whole Etsy thing, which starts with "But we're customers of Etsy, not employees, so what you're proposing to do is a boycott rather than a strike," takes a ride through "they're increasing sellers fees from 5% to 6.5%, and while yes that is technically a 30% increase, it feels a tad misleading to put it that way" and the neighboring land of "Consignment shops were taking 50% or more last time I checked them out, so it's hard for me to get upset about fees under 7%" and "Etsy is still lower cost than most other online options," and winds up in the hinterlands of grumpiness with me muttering about labor action cosplay. I do in fact agree with "they should live up to the TOS and crack down on resellers" and "the mandatory Offsite Ads program and its 12-15% fees should not be imposed upon us without our consent," and so forth. I encourage people to take what action they feel is right. But if one more person exhorts me "Don't Cross the Picket Line!" about this thing, I am gonna make up some new verses for "Put It On the Ground," so help me Eugene V. Debs and Festus Claudius McKay.

tl;dr My shop will be open this week, including this coming weekend when I am Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon.

P.S. Arrangements have been made to bring purchases to the hotel the next day, if you buy something on Friday or Saturday, so you can pick them up there if you like. Or just have me ship them as usual, if that's better logistically.

P.P.S. There is traditionally a Sunday sale in the convention dealers' room, which I like calling the "Please Don't Make Me Pack This and Carry It Back Home" Sale. While that particular reason isn't in play for a virtual appearance, I'll probably do some kind of Sunday sale just for nostalgia's sake and because it's fun. You know how I get.

If you're already a customer who buys a shiny or two here and there, and a Beads of the Month package every month or so, please don't be misled into thinking you will help me by clicking on offsite ads you may see for my stuff. The ads you see outside Etsy that feature my stuff are part of Etsy's mandatory Offside Ads program, which I am not allowed to opt out of and must participate in for the lifetime of my shop.

Some well-intentioned buyers think clicking on offsite ads for us is a way to support us. IT'S NOT. What clicking on an offsite ad actually does is give Etsy an extra 12-15% off the top of anything* you buy from us after clicking on that ad.

Please be aware of this.

Thank you.

*Not just that item. Anything. And not off the net. Off the gross.

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THE PROJECT: categorization, division, juxtaposition, connection
ArtLog: a tease of names
YOU KNOW HOW I GET
Unexpected Limited Time Coupon Opportunity for 30% Off Some Shiny Things
Pantone Color of the Year amusement
ArtLog: That many? Really?
ArtLog: milestones and the great happiness thereof
ArtLog: the endless seasonal challenge
Birthday Month August 16: a-ha! midnight approaches!
Etsy, Minicon, and my Artist Guest of Honor-ship
Something my customers might not know about Etsy's ads

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