Winners, Chicken Dinners, Chunky Neckwear for my Sinners.

Hello ladyfriends. I want to give you all everything, but I had to pick just three. 

You know how you're supposed to pick giveaway winners randomly for fairness' sake? Yeah fuck that. I'm an artist I fuck shit up.

OK, so 1st 13 aka Marcia won these because someone else voted for you and that's just special. And your big b-day and your newly pierced ears. Thank you martinisfor2 for the recommendation. All winners need to convo me! 

Norma Conway won these for this reason- "I refer to you as my 'jewellery gal' when I talk about you which I do often." I mean. Come on. OK, yeah I try to be self-deprecating when y'all pile on the compliments but how am I supposed to resist that? Could you?

Betsi Goutal along with Norma wrote one of the longer comments which I also find hard to resist as the they're always filled with extraneous info about the commenter. Who can resist an over-sharer? AND she included this bit of redonk that spells out my name:

My heavens, she's an

Alchemist of

Rust and stone!

Ingeniously blending

Nonsense and beauty to create

Artworks of adornment.

 I guess the message I'm sending is flattery will get you earrings and I know that's wrong somehow....

 I'm having an impossible time photographing this particular piece. It's good though just take my word for it.

4ophelia's Georji sent me this crazy walnut with coral and quartz resined within.

 I love this! Numinosity gave me this pendant for my birthday and I used these awesome vintage baroque glass beads in thick wrapped steel.

 I soldered that connection to the nail head. The knotted cord came with a Patroness strand of carved grubby stones.

 But most of this stuff is from Kathyhaul and I just can't thank her enough.

 Like this needle case and these amethyst chunks. I wanted them to lay flat but the holes were through the middle so I did whatever this is with some actual sterling wire I had from forever ago.

 Is sterling strong? Is this going to hold? Should I cover it all with solder to re-enforce it? 

 Here is some hot pink for you. Glittery, blingy kuchi hot pink.

 I made this chain here for an unexpected industrial touch.

 Here's some more hot pink magenta silliness.

 This starburst stone I set in some cut and filed filigree.

OK, so this is a factory made locket but I antiqued it interestingly an added some unexpected cool stuff.

 Like this Kathyhaul sweater clip in conjunction with a ScorchedEarth bit for the closure!

 And this pewter re-cast of an ancient coin which is this giant man's head coming out of a bull's body.

And these amazing naturally drilled beach stones after a lovely lampwork.

 These stones and this stamping were Kathyhaul as well.

To end on a more dramatic note than just a picture of a cuff, I shall now share some tumblr gold wit'ch'all:

jacobtheloofah:
no but the best part is how he got the name:
his name was originally “potatoes,” and his owner, willoughby bertie, told the stable lad who helped him to write the horse’s name on a feed bin. the boy misheard it as, literally “pot-eight-o’s” and wrote it with 8 o’s. bertie found it so funny that he kept that as the horses name.

And if that doesn't make you happy I don't know what's wrong with you. Also, this gif blew my mind:

And someone called awwww-cute wrote "Rabbits are not very good at trust exercises," to go with this gif:

You're welcome.