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Flower and Cross
I felt like I'd been keeping the majority of the shiny components together for more than long enough and I really needed to do something with them. The decision to use satin ribbon was a bit of a last minute one that came with starting at the two tiny belt-style clasps I'd been holding on to as well, but I really enjoy the way it turned out.
Currently both are available for sale.
Flower and Cross
I felt like I'd been keeping the majority of the shiny components together for more than long enough and I really needed to do something with them. The decision to use satin ribbon was a bit of a last minute one that came with starting at the two tiny belt-style clasps I'd been holding on to as well, but I really enjoy the way it turned out.
Currently both are available for sale.
Unraveling Night
A gift and a test and maybe slightly a bit of a failure but in a "yeah, okay" sort of way. Woven on a much smaller makeshift loom and using what was ultimately a rougher and stretchier warp yarn than I'd used before, the initial blue worked out flawlessly. Then the purple. ...The pink started off fine and then for whatever reason proved to be rather easily pulled apart by said warp yarn no matter how much I tried to compensate with extra twisting, and so they were fighting up until the end, the pink yarn fluffing up and coming apart, but it actually looked kind of neat and there was no structural integrity lost, so. Art.
The stretchy yarn was at least well suited for the very simple macrame band. As for the tiny silver beads, what can I say, it needed stars.
Crocheted Rainbow Cuffs
It started off simply, really. Then I Got an Idea! I'd also snapped up this yarn a while back because I couldn't resist the colors, but I discovered in finally playing with it that it's basically a woven silver-white core with a layer of intense color over it, so it's got a bit of a glow effect that enhances the colors even more. My kind of yarn.
I also had these beautiful brilliant glow-in-the-dark beads laying around and I felt the need to spell out "STILL HERE" on a brilliant rainbow background. Gee I wonder why in this year of 2025 in what is supposedly still the United States of America, hm. Then I did just the slightest bit of lining the space between beads with a little bit of silver holographic thread because I could and I did and I can't really describe how or why that just works better than leaving the plain black thread but no complaints. It also kind of helps reflect a little of the glow... to the human eye. The camera was not a fan of me trying to get how astonishingly neon green the glow really is, but I tried. I can assure that it is very obvious and very bright for a surprisingly long time in total darkness, but the longer you charge it, the longer the glow lasts of course.
The other two cuffs came about because I wanted to see what another "plain" one would look like, and then what the color spread would look like widened to twice the size. Now we all know!
STILL HERE cuff, Unadorned Narrow Rainbow Cuff, and Unadorned Wide Rainbow Cuff are all currently available, but I am capable of taking commissions for more.
Snow Melt
Comprised of some leftover wire from another project, a bunch of beads I've been wanting to use together, and a whole lot of wishful thinking when it comes to when winter "actually ends" in New England. I just really wanted to do something simple and light and different, and I did actually enjoy this project even if getting back to the finishing fiddly bits took... about a month-ish.
Currently available to buy.
Bite Me
I think I spent as much time waiting for supplies to arrive as I did actually putting them together. It started so simply, this: finally using some beads that I had been keeping together for... years... as well as a few new ones I'd traded for recently, and I'd wanted to try something new with the multi-strand thing. Then, as is The Way of Things, Getting Ideas made it all a little more complicated, and some things I'd wanted to make use of didn't work out, so I got different ones, and finally this is a thing that's complete!
I was initially inspired by diamondback rattlesnake patterning and then just kind of meandered from there. Obviously I enjoyed adding "fang" beads and some "droplets" of red pearl at the bottom, but the actual title of the necklace drifted into being a little before that. Gotta entertain myself somehow, you know.
Really happy with how this turned out even if it did take F O R E V E R to space out every individual row to fall exactly where/how I wanted it to. Nine rows of beads, where seven of them had to work perfectly with the one above and below it, but the top and bottom gave me a little wiggle room up until the very end when everything got attached to the clasp. Which, by the way, is successfully comfortable against the back of my neck. But, it's been designed specifically so that the clasp can be changed at the buyer's request, because it took me quite a while to decide on a slide clasp as opposed to various types of multiple trigger/spring clasps. It was an adventure I'm not sure I want to repeat, is kind of the point, but I'm still glad I did the thing.
Currently available to buy!
Dreaming of Spring
Well. I failed the assignment to do something simple with these components, but I did manage to something different and interesting. Also admittedly the actual inspiration for this whole thing was being deeply offended by a necklace that was made of real silver but fake turquoise. Yeah, this'll... show you, probably rich designer who hasn't done your own jewelry making in who knows how many years. ...Lucky.
Anyway. Most of my gratitude for these truly gorgeous materials goes to a friend who traded me shinies for shinies (and leather! and cookies!). It took a long while of staring at the shiny pile before deciding what I wanted to do. Generally I cringe at the idea of just putting things on a string, because I... cannot do something that bores me. So I complicated. Things. But in an interesting way! And I wanted to do earrings again anyway, so. Many many simple things all jumbled together in labradorite, malachite, turquoise and silver. And predictably trying to get all the colors and flash to photograph was very difficult, but additional challenges.
Also I guess there's technically a whole lot of illustrating things I've learned and ways to improve the strength and comfort of supposedly simple things. It's where the complications come from!
Currently available for sale.
Prickles
At long last, Prickles the Cockasaurus Wrecks is here, with many accessories!
Full disclosure: I've been wanting to do this for many, many years. I've also been looking for the inspiration, but alas, Tomopop's archives are not quite helpful and it was way back at the start of the indie vinyl figure craze, so I'm not sure if I'll ever manage to find the figures again, but once I laid eyes on a whole table full of cutesy cartoony chibi-style anthropomorphic vulva vinyl figures for sale, I felt the weird need to create balance in the universe. My first go of this idea was actually a huge clay sculpture that started off very rough and gradually became """realistic""", but eventually I scrapped that because it just wasn't quite what I wanted it to be. Many years later, I finally decided I should just go with what I know, what I'm good at. Prickles was born! All in all, he's actually a full 21.5 inches in length from head to tail-tip, approximately 9 inches tall to his hips, and about 8 inches wide across the knees in his current pose (13.5 inches for the feet, in his current pose).
My plan was always to have a few fashionable accessories to go with, but I kind of decided what they'd be on the fly. I very much wanted wings, so I went with beaded felt wings with iridescent paint on the underside. The slouchy sweater was already a nebulous idea, but just got confirmed by a lovely patron an of course rainbow yarn was the only option. I definitely needed a hat, but the floppy yellow hat with a flower theme came to be in the moment, and the bandana was due to an old silk blend shirt that's been falling apart for years that I love the color of, and between my partner's suggestion of "something green" and my own desire to use the fabric for something fun, plus a few color-shift green/gold/purple beads, the bandana was born.
As for accessories I did not create: the cuff that the wings were built on, the pearl cuff and the lock cuff were all gifted to me by my housemate's mother who pretty much handed me a bag full of department store and costume jewelry to either use or donate somewhere. ...I dismantled all of it and have been gleefully putting it to my own uses. As one might expect.
Let me be clear here: Prickles is meant to be fun, silly, irreverent, and very much an art doll of my usual standards. His legs and toes are fully wired for poseability, and the rest is firmly-stuffed but still soft and squishy. This is a joyful piece of art that amuses me. It's also a protest piece against puritanical bullshit that cannot be escaped or looked away from in this year of 20-fucking-23. It is unapologetically weird, dumb, fun, and... wholesome in its own strange way. This is sex-positive and life-affirming and not in any way a black mark on my long line of charity chocobos or adorable plushes. I did this. I made this. This is mine and I could not be happier with the way it turned out.
Currently For Sale!