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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?
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Some of you know I sometimes do "Artists' Challenges" where pieces of my work wind up inspiring writers or other artists. One of the best parts of this for me is that I get to read things early. An even better part is knowing I put some encouragement out there, and someone made something from it, and now we all get to read/see/experience it.

Anyhow, I am thinking about this because I ran across a review of Sarah Monette's story collection Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, which has several stories in it that got a bit of inspiration from something I made.

I joke that it makes me feel like a sort of odd grandmother: I didn't do the work, but I am connected. :) Maybe I'm a fairy grandmother? (I'm definitely a fairy godmother. That's another part of my job that I like a lot.)

Anyhow, check out the review of the collection from a decade ago. From the review, I count six stories that were Artists' Challenges; I should go find my copy and make a better count.

Sarah is a hell of a writer, and in addition to all the Artists' Challenges, she's written the best description of an artist's job that I've ever seen. Maybe she'd let me reprint it here. Oh, wait, maybe it's out there already. (It's in the anthology Glass Bead Games, I know for sure, because it's the closer.)

Aha! Found it! Here: "Rhino Carries the Moon" -- and there is some lovely stuff in the comments, too.

And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to packing boxes of shiny things to send to their people. Only nineteen more orders to go before done. Might not get them all for tomorrow's pickup (which already has sixteen boxes in it) but I should manage by Monday, even at my slow rate. Sometimes Rhino carries the Moon slowly. Good wishes to all of you who are doing so, in whatever fashion.

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