I have a bunch of clay critters for sale here.
I have a big pile of littler things for sale here, down a couple of paragraphs.
Most of them have holes for cord in the top, and can be used as necklace pendants, to decorate gift bags, or around jar candles – anything!
The “rock” looking things on the right side are, well, “rocks” made of glimmer and clay and sparkle and all such things, and are called “fairy stones” (well that’s what I call them). They look lovely by candles as candlescaping, or in potted plants. I have one in my car. They just make me smile!
I’m taking this stuff (along with lots more) to a show on Saturday, but I thought “Why not let other people get a shot at it too, then I won’t have to carry it all with me.” (See, I’m lazy like that.)
So if you see anything here you like – ANYTHING – any item is $3.50 + $1 shipping.
If you want several I will cut down on shipping and may even haggle on some of the little items.
But anyway these are SO fun to make that I have loads and piles of them accumulating in little boxes.
They are handily NUMBERED for your convenience.
Are they not nifty?
I take PayPal and please e-mail me first or I won’t know what you’re buying! ( glimmer @ glimmerville). You can use that e-mail for the paypal, too. If you have questions, if you like any, any little reason at all – e-mail glimmer @ glimmerville !
Tags: fairy stones, pendants, polymer clay, sale
I am photoblogging about the snow today, as requested by Fogllama, who lives in non-snowy area and is fascinated about snow in the same way the Weasleys are fascinated by Muggles. Can’t say I like that comparison, but anyway, let me proceed:
Foggy, THIS is an ice scraper.
This salt is placed conveniently by the back stairs.
This is how my yard looked at 7:00am.
Around 8:30am the parking lot looked like this.
Around 6:30pm it looked like this.
- And here is my driveway around 7:30pm.
I get less snow at my house than at the office. The office is in the edge of the “snow belt” and get lake-effect snow from Lake Erie.
Tags: photos, snow
Posted by: Rachel Ross in crafty
JB (jbscresties.com and catharsiscomic.com) said she likes seeing “crafts gone awry” so I am posting a couple of polymer clay things that didn’t go as planned.
Not sure what can be done with these
These little guys were made of layers of colored clay, and translucent clay – then covered with a thin layer of black clay, then stamped into, then the top layer was shaved off, revealing the stamped clay color only in the inset stamp pattern. Great, complicated idea, that is just not pretty.
I may do this again sometime – but these sure did not turn out very well.
Just not cute. At all.
These little guys… I thought maybe paint would repair them, but it didn’t. The lizard on the far right is mokume-gane, though, not paint. The cat on the far left is still waiting on more paint but it just looks so ugly to me I don’t think paint will repair it!
But you never know – maybe someone else thinks they’re cute.
And you can still learn through experimentation, even when the experiment fails.
What do you think?
Tags: failed crafts
I thought I’d give out a list of all the podcasts I listen to (with links!)
And if you want to suggest some more, please comment!
Podcast Novels
If your podcast novel is not on this list, well, I’m sorry but I am… picky and will just quit if there’s a lot of profanity or other “mature content” that I don’t want piped into my head. I really tried to listen to Infected and 7th Son but just could not make it through. Sorry guys.
Tags: podcast, podiobook
I changed the widgets down the side of this site, and added a “check this box if you want to keep following your comments thread” function, since someone asked for that feature.
Any other features you are interested in? Please let me know!
I don’t know how to code them, but I can sure google “WordPress Plugins”!
Tags: boring
I was featured on the Polymer Clay Productions website back in June and I never knew it, until I narcicisstically did an ego search just now! (The link to my feature is here.) They have a podcast too.
Wow, and I was just feeling a little bad about no one buying my stuff, too.
I feel much better now, even if no one does buy my stuff. 
But you can!
You can commission me – glimmer (at) glimmerville.com
Or you can check out anything on my etsy page to see what’s there and get a ballpark of how I price things. I have made a custom figure from someone’s sketch for about $60, though prices would vary. And the big Copper mech dragon was about $50 as well.
Also, my comments are set up to use Gravatars, globally recognized avatars. If you want a photo to appear by your name, set up an account at http://en.gravatar.com/ and then use the e-mail you’ve registered when you make a comment.
Tags: etsy, polymer clay
Monday
Monday I had Jury Duty.
Of course, in my head when the judge came out I called him “Udgey” and when the prosecution came out I called him “Edgeworth” and the defense was “Phoenix” – and, strangely, it was a little bit like that.
No the defense and prosecution and judges weren’t like that, really – the jury was!
Stolen from DS Fanboy
The defense and prosecution started out by asking questions of the jury, to see if anyone was unfit to stay (due to some kind of bias), and it was amazing the weird stuff that came out of the woodwork.
They disqualified one person, and the replacement was the granddaughter of the previous judge in the court. (And she looked like someone that could be in an Ace Attorney game, too – she was about 19 and had loads of blond ringlets and was continuously chewing gum.) Another jury member turned out to be the neighbor and friend of the prosecuting attorney. They asked if anyone had ever had a crime committed against them and fully half of the jury raised their hands to say they had had their homes/cars broken into. And this is a small rural village, not some kind of grimy downtown depressed area!
I had no idea it was so hard to pick a jury, even in a little case like this.
Anyway they didn’t pick me to stay on the jury, so I actually got some other things accomplished like sending a package to Philippa Ballantine (go read her books/listen to her podcast novel) and getting my snow tires put on. I helped babysit a 5 year old for about an hour, too. I went to get out all my old action figures so he’d have something to play with and I had 2 Darth Vaders, 2 Darth Sideous, and 1 Darth Maul Uhh… well everyone knows bad guys are coolest anyway.
Other things I did yesterday include impulsively buying The Secret Sketchbook of Brian Froud. (I’m not sure I’m happy with this purchase.) I even made some art [$5 + shipping, if you are interested, e-mail glimmer (at) glimmerville].:
$5
Also, the description of this Tome of Levity game supplement book cracks me up. Any game mechanic that lets you eat the fruit out of still life paintings is awesome.
And one more parting link: A poem by G. K. Chesterton, that was quoted in part on The Sonic Society.
Tags: art, books, jury duty
I decided to make a big pile of links that interested me this week. Hopefully you’ll find a few interesting too. And if you have any you’d like to add, by all means comment and/or mail me ( glimmer (at) glimmerville.com )
Well this week I found the website www.twellow.com – it’s a neat site that lets you search Twitter users by interest, so you can find other people whose interests mesh with yours. And, in fact, while on Twitter @GrammarGirl (who has a great podcast and book) mentioned this website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/ that shows earthquakes practically as they happen.
Fogllama showed me this website http://finviz.com/calendar.ashx that lists economic indicators each day, and what their actual outcome was vs. the predicted outcome. It also gives an idea of how important those indicators are. Very cool. Or perhaps scary.
Aviary is a neat online art/photo-editing suite that aims to be a lot like Adobe CS.
I haven’t messed with it much, but I thought I’d share the link. While you’re at it, check out Tineye – this website lets you identify photos to minimize theft of your art and photos! And to make it a threesome, Google just released a new version of Sketchup, the online, free, 3D modeling software according to this blog.
My Korg DS-10 came this week, which also prompted me to download Milky Tracker (suggested by Dudymas) but I didn’t install it yet.
And I ordered some Apoxie sculpt from http://www.avesstudio.com/ – can’t wait to try this stuff.
So far all I made is this tiny axe:
I am having a hard time finding any tutorials, but I did find a website that supposedly carries DVDs. I haven’t tried ordering any yet. Another place that seems to sell sculpting DVDs is Massive Black.
The Ever Awesome JB has a new weekly comic all about Crested Geckos and it’s over here: http://jbscresties.com/comic/
She also has geckos for sale!
Well that’s about it for now. I know these links had very little rhyme or reason, but that’s about how I work.
Tags: links, sculpting
Posted by: Rachel Ross in art
Fogllama requested I post some “scraps of art” that I wasn’t planning to post on deviantART.
Well, he didn’t say it exactly like that.
Anyway, here are some random doodles.
Tags: art
Now I know approximately 2 of you 5 readers said “Vat ist? Rachel did not start a blog by going on and on about flying and stuff like that?” So never fear – NOW is the first blog where I will “go on and on about flying and stuff like that”. Some people might think I’m obsessed. Ha. Ha ha. Ha, ha ha, obsessed.
Um.
How about those Cleveland Browns?
Continuing blithely, I sure wish I could fly!
Certainly it can be a metaphor for all sorts of things that I admire, like creativity and imagination and freedom. I am not even above (ha) giving it a spiritual application, since Christians are compared to sparrows and eagles many times in the Bible, and can “mount up on wings as eagles” when we wait upon the Lord to renew our strength.
But also… it’d just be really awesome.
Which reminds me of Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #114 which actually brought me to tears, go listen NOW.
So if you are flying with me, here are some good songs for the journey, selected from my library of actual physical compact discs, none of this mp3 music download stuff*:
*incidentally, you look much less ridiculous flying while carrying a iPod Nano etc. than while carrying a huge 80′s style boom box, so rip your CDs to mp3 for the sake of dignity.
Only If… – Enya
I Gotta Crow – Mary Martin (Peter Pan)
Fly Away – FFH
Requiem in the Air – Last Exile OST
Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
I’ll Fly Away – (Traditional hymn)
I’m Flying – Mary Martin (Peter Pan)
Weightless – Mike Oldfield
Weightless – Brian Eno
Celestial Sodapop – Ray Lynch
Oh! Of Pleasure – Ray Lynch
Lighten Up! – A Positive Life
Bird’s Eye View – Uman
Superman (main theme) – John Williams
Ascension – Mike Oldfield
Ascension – Amethystium
I am the Wind – Castlevania Symphony of the Night soundtrack
Winds over Neo-Tokyo – Akira soundtrack
His Eye is on the Sparrow – (Traditional Hymn)
Wind and Spirit – Chris Rice
Sky’s Beyond – Nightingale
True Spirit of Mom and Dad – Ray Lynch
Tiny Geometries – Ray Lynch
Japanese Spring – Nightengale
Night Wind – David Arkenstone
Pacific Wind – Ryan Farish
Solar Wind – David Cohen
The Sense – Luttrell ”A Sense of Impending Levitation” CD
Wind at Dawn – Deuter
Wind on Sea – Anuna
Wind Source – Uman
Euphoria (Firefly) – Delerium
I Believe I can Fly – R. Kelly
Signal in the Sky – Apples in Stereo
Jupiter – Holst’s The Planets
Five Miles Out – Mike Oldfield
Cloud Age Symphony – Last Exile OST
A Morning in Norkia – Last Exile OST
Over the Sky – Last Exile OST – Actually, any song from last Exile OST
And most background music from any Miyazaki film. I don’t think there is a single Miyazaki film without a good flying scene in it. (I have not seen Puyo, though.) And I want to marry Howl.
This is NOT exhaustive. If you have more good suggestions for songs, please leave them in Comments!
Just get out there and defy gravity to any song you like.
Tags: flying, music
