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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.)
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I have three sales a year, post-WisCon, birthday month (August), and end of the year. This is the big one. It runs through January 1st.

I've marked almost everything down, and I do continue marking certain things even further down as the sale goes on. If you want Etsy to send you alerts when I reduce the prices on things, they can do that. Things get pretty lively on the last day.

If you want me to, I can hold things and combine shipping at the end. Just tell me "let it ride," and I will. That way, when I mark stuff way below the free shipping threshold, you're already covered. I'll combine and send you a refund for the overage.

There, I think that's everything I was supposed to tell you.

Here, have a LionessElise Etsy shop link.
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I've almost got all the orders from the sale shipped out. There's a good reason for the last few being slow (they contain surprise pieces, which take me a bit of time to make and I forgot to plan ahead for getting multiple surprise piece orders in the sale), but it still makes me feel like I am in some weird thought experiment where the closer I get to the finish line, the longer it takes and the less likely it looks that I will actually reach it.

Zeno's packing paradox. Yep. It happens every time, and every time, I forget that it's going to.

Eh, at least it means I sold many shiny things, and that's needful, so OK then. Onward!
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I'm down to sixteen packages left to mail (and one not to mail, because it's a local pickup) after the sale. Eight of those are orders involving alterations or creation of new pieces, and half of those were finished in today's workbench session, so there are twelve things ready to pack and four still to finish.

I need to remember to revise the ship-by window for the creation-of-new-pieces listings the next time I have a sale, because getting a bunch of them at once does get a little tricky. I'm not complaining, though! It's lovely to have work to do.

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