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Renfrew

Renfrew

Renfrew is bright-eyed and brand new to the world, and has a curiosity as enormous as his appetite. He’ll lose the iridescent green on his feet and tummy as he grows older, but he’ll gain them in stripes on his back.  Until then, he’s perfectly happy with the way he looks, thank you.

I MEANT TO DO SOMETHING SIMPLE.  I swear I did, really.  I recall, clearly, starting on the head and thinking, “Well, this should be easy.”  I have no idea what happened.  Somewhere along the way the idea to make him wired for full poseability came up and… I don’t know.  Head, neck, back, tail, legs and even each individual toe is all fully wired, fully poseable.

37 lovely glass beads grace Renfrew’s back and the top of his feet, and his eyes are real amethyst.  He’s made of smooth, soft acrylic yarn, and the green highlights are green iridescent pigment in a fabric paint base (it’s not coming off, in other words).  He’s 9.25 inches in length with his tail out straight, he stands roughly 3.5 inches tall (though his legs can be further straightened to stand taller if you’re into that sort of thing), and he’s approximately 2 inches wide at his widest point.

(“Renfrew” means “from the still waters” in Welsh, by the way.  It fit beautifully.)

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Date: 21 January 2012
I Want to Strangle the Stars for All They Promised Me

I Want to Strangle the Stars for All They Promised Me

A promise is a promise, even if it's from a force rather than a person. I will not rest until the sky falls down around me...

Do enlarge this. The sheer amount of color is incredibly worthwhile. No, really. I have no idea why this came to be, exactly. Too many chocobos, not enough cutting myself with wire? Anyway, it just kind of happened. All wire is sterling silver. That gorgeous bottom bead is blue tiger's eye/hawk's eye, the top bead is dichroic glass, and the middle bead off to the left there is liquid crystal. Color-changing. Otherwise known as a "mood bead"; it changes color with temperature. Because my body temperature is lower than most people and clearly I must be a lizard, it's pretty much always blue when I touch it. It shifts into greens, purples, and even sunset golds and rusts. That little "flare" below it is a starburst of Swarovski crystals, but of course. All of the other beads are glass.

As for the title, it's a lyric from "Want" by Recoil. A very... personal song, you could say.

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Date: 29 November 2011
Dangly Tachikoma Necklace

Dangly Tachikoma Necklace

Who wouldn't love a tiny little Tachikoma looking out for them? I did not plan this. I know I say that a lot, but I mean it every time. I just saw the back bead, which happened to be next to the round bead, and... yeah. I refuse to try and explain how much of a pain it was to get the wire to work exactly like I wanted it to, but I succeeded and it's over now and that seems really important. And, well, Tachikoma!

So I had the little Tachikoma, right? Surely that was over and i could get back to other things. ...And then somehow the idea of making a whole necklace for it happened, and... I don't know. I went through my beads, and there was this utterly gorgeous blue agate that worked perfectly. So. Yes. That's several more hours of my life, putting that thing together. I do hope it's worthy of the Major herself.

(Ghost in the Shell and Tachikomas belong to Masamune Shirow, Production I.G, and probably a lot more people and companies that I fail to realize. Some day I will have a Motoko action figure. Some day.)

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Date: 29 November 2011
Marluxia Pendant

Marluxia Pendant

You would not believe how long and hard I worked to get the roses just right. But wow, did I learn... a lot more than I cared to. Heh. Sculpey roses over a silver-plated wire frame surrounding a lovely rose quartz sphere. And I am so happy with it... but I wish the pictures would do the iridescent pink highlights justice. Ah well.

This was done in the style of my Aeris pendant, and was something I'd been wanting to do for a long while. Finally got around to just before (the good) Anime USA, and now it belongs to the fabulous SchalaKitty (whose web site needs pimping, since geeky 8-bit cross-stitch is awesome) as very minor thanks for all of her help with the panels. We could not have one it without you... or Kadaj.

Date: 29 November 2011
Gemstone Materia Pendants

Gemstone Materia Pendants

Beautiful gemstone beads wrapped in precious metal wire.  It's a thing that I like.  Quite a few are still available in my Etsy shop.

Date: 29 November 2011
Aerith Pendant

Aerith Pendant

I am amazed. No, really. This was a very vague request. Just something to be a reminder of Aeris. I started completely blind, no ideas. And this just happened. I'm very, very proud of it. The level of simplistic detail just... makes me happy.

It reminds me of Aeris and the very concept of "sanctuary", and everyone who had sought either. Everyone who had known her, everyone who had been through the church either on purpose or by accident.

In reality, it's just a 20 mm quartz sphere, copper wire, Sculpey and loads of time. To the obsessed, it's probably kinda cool. *grin*

Date: 29 November 2011
Corbin and Carden

Corbin and Carden

Corbin's the younger, and definitely the quiet, reserved type. He's thoughtful and friendly, he just prefers to listen and observe. Any shyness that other perceive is completely thrown out the window when he's asked to complete a task. A little strutting never hurt anyone.

Carden is, simply, silly. He's definitely a prankster, using his mock-innocence to misdirect so that he can hide and move things. Unbeknownst to his handler, there's a small collection of "lost keys" buried by the barn...

First off, what you have to know about these two is that their eyes are a little different. Corbin had real tiger's eye beads, and Carden has real jade. So I felt the need to treat my little black chocobos, what can I say. The camera does not properly pick up the tiger's eye, but it's got gorgeous bands of gold and dark honey.


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Date: 29 November 2011
Coco

Coco

Likes: plums, Miami Vice, dance music

Dislikes: polo shirts, cabana boys

Coco's a big chocobo. Just kinda turned out that way. Like with the rose quartz eyes. And why "Coco"? Why not "Coco"?

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Date: 29 November 2011