I forgot to show y'all this!

May She Guide You.
It reads "May She Guide You." If you know some Spanish, you might think it says "That She Guide You." You'd be wrong. If you know very little Spanish but are a wise-ass, you'll say that it reads "What She Guide You." But then I'd just shoot you a look of disdain and not even justify it with a correction.

Background is from the central panel of The Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

Oh and it sold. So... oh well. 

Aw shucks you guys! The things you say. I lurv y'all.

My Soul from Elsewhere. 

How to End an Era.

By far my most memorable recent comment:
I’m afraid to say bad things on my blog ...Catholic nuns might be watching me from heaven and put me in Limbo for being a bad bad girl/ person.

 Beatnheart

So... flying nuns in the sky, reading your blogs for any inappropriateness?
 
And by bad, Beat, do you mean negative, bitchy? Or naughty? Like swearing? So fascinating! And when they do put you in limbo, does it look just like high school detention? I bet it does.
Among Empty Eternities.
About your question- the rubber is a tube! The wire is threaded through it. Ehhh? Ehhhh?

Unfortunately, only now do I realize this would have benefited from some verdigris.

The Secret Earth.
Same goes for this fellow.

AND this one, Goddamnit! (Yeah, I said it. Come at me nuns!)
Behind the Veil.
I guess I'll just leave these up and if they don't sell I'll add some verdigris, re-take ALL the pictures, re-edit, re-list, re-gripe and moan.You might not even be able to wrap your feeble mind around this, but- the ammonite here kinda sparkles in the sunlight with the microscopinist of gleeters...             Event Horizon.                                                                                                                                                                                            FINALLY got this bitch done and up.What else? I dunno but I miss you guys between posts. I need to just have y'all on a loop in my brain telling me I'm awesome. It's quite an ego inflater.Oh, p.s. I just indulged in some expensive beads:Jayzus, in real life they're AMAZING..I'm freaking out just thinking of them. EEEEeeeeeeee!

I gotchr listings right 'ere, lady.

Cancer Constellation.
Thirteen of them! Phew!

The Virgin of Empty Eternities.
And if I thought the lighting was bad day before yesterday- well, you should see it now.

We are the Miracle.
We're in the middle of one of those 'end of days' storms you sometimes see in the midwest. The sky is night-dark yet somehow glowing pale teal/grey ....

Pain So Deep.
Last night it just thundered for so long I kept going, "Naw, that's fireworks. ... No, gotta be thunder. No way, totally fireworks." etc. Did I look up from my computer to check? Of course not silly!

Bride of Vast Spaces. (Check it- I fixed her.)
At one point I considered some kind of bombing as an explanation.

Leaping from the Pinnacle.
Any case, all these mofo's are finally up! Phew! Really, I just drove myself nuts working on a zillion different things at the same time. 1st time I really felt my batch was out of hand. That was new.

The Inward Journey.
But I juiced today, got some new goodies in the mail (to stress myself out more! yay!).

After Many Dark Nights. (Sorry Sparrow!)
And time marches on. To think it's almost 10 years now since I moved to Chicago and got on meds and finally became functional and, like, a person.

Lady of Imperfect Worth.  (Decided to go with the fucked up image. Scratches and dots and bits of ruined paper. Oh well.)
Time moves so fast now! I feel the life (lives?) I led before meds to be 100x longer than this eyeblink.

Our Lady of the Scattered Stardust.
What an unexpected reward these years have been.

Brave Absurdity.
Though I often remember I told myself that if I ever deluded myself into thinking that any amount of joy "made up for" my pre-meds suffering, it meant I just didn't remember it well enough. And how could I? How to mentally encompass an experience so alien to your present one? To truly attempt to imagine it is somehow to re-live it. People who can perfectly remember past traumas are, in fact, suffering from PTSD. They're reliving them.

Space-Time.
But that's neither here nor there. Still folks are terrible at putting themselves in the place of others, easily forgetting what it was like to be a child or a newbie or the one not in power. When we get mad without understanding the situation of the other- the child annoying you, the newbie copying your work, the desperate poor illegally crossing our borders. Like when the rich freak out at the thought of being taxed at the same high rate as the poor and it boggles the mind that anyone can be so mean. They're that isolated from others that they don't see the problem.

Every Child a Saviour.
Wow, random unexpected rant there! Actually veered into the political. Hu. Well, here's everyone's favorite baby. Still have a handful of almost-dones. Then there's that other project, the packaging, the studio clean-up auto-proposal, the doctor's appointment, that tax thing they sent me, the broken washing machine, the trip to wisconsin....

Insanium in the Cranium

Hey! HAPPYFALLOUT! I'm so happy(fallout) to hear from you! Look at these crazy insane graphics that she sent with her comment, everyone. I assume you've been deeply immersed in PhD madness? I wonder if I can get these printed super-high rez to use in more shooledy (as my mom pronounces jewelry).

OK, the images in the 1st pic especially.

The cool thing about the images I'm using here is that they're printed gorgeously on metallic paper. Once it gets resin-ified you can't see the metallic but you still have the gorgeous precision. Though maybe... maybe I need something that is aesthetic and represents the galaxies/nebula/etc, but isn't necessarily even precise? 

I've been mind wrestling with some poop lately. I seem to wanna incorporate a cosmic thing into my thing, but... like, I'm seeing cosmic images everywhere on tumblrs and places (though obviously, I go to the ones I'm interested in which means the ones that have tons of cosmic images) and I worry it may just be a bandwagon I fell into?

 But it is such a fantastic way to visualize all kinds of things I think/feel about existence and the universe. In fact, I should be original and deal with sub-microscopic images since that, too, is what I'm all about.  Basically anything of an unimaginable scale quite outside of our human one.

But have I been too lazy, is that it? Or is it that people aren't coming up with gorgeous images of the sub-microscopic biznazz like they are of the cosmic? Cuz when I search etsy for microscopic, I get microscope slides and 'cellular' I get cell phones covers. *chuckle*

OK, this one is about time- the impossibly old fossil from before flowers had even evolved- and space, or place- the compass.  So that's ... that....

I colored this citrine to combine with the image. Not bad. Today the light was crappy non-existent so these photos are extremely manipulated. I'm so manipulative with my photos, sheesh.

This certainly has nothing to do with anything.  But I did get to wrestle with steel wire trying to get it into that shape. I'm wondering if I should just start taking pix on fresh new copier paper each time. How much of my life have I spent erasing shit from my backgrounds. Wherever I go, dog hair and shmutz appears. All the papers I use are soon filthy. The corner where I take pix is by the window so my dog likes to break into my studio and stand right there, shedding all his awesomeness all over the area. I have tried cleaning it, it's just that infinite! I mean, if I could keep things clean, I'd be a whole different person.

I'm also thinking no more acrylic windows ever. They just make awful reflections for pictures, show glue and crap all over the edges and they're not really necessary in this instance.

Here I tried to cover the unattractive edge where the window fits in and I ended up with this ode to ugly:

I know, creepy baby. (Oh wait- just got a pro-baby comment from alteredarcheology! Wooo-hooo! Validation!) I can just tear out all the windows and maybe, I dunno, more leafing? Ugh, never done.

Although I couldn't stop myself from over-fixing the above, the round focal is kind of a mess. It needed resining but since I didn't have enough that needed resin to use up the smallest batch they recommend, I thought I'd cheat with some clear embossing powder. Not only did I manage to emboss my dinner table, This guy's full of bubbles and absolutely refuses to go smooth and normal. And I think I busted my heat gun. Waaaahhh! Should stick to Utee.

 Same with this one. There's all kinds of crap in the resin/emboss there. And the reflections make pix crap. And you can't see the lab on the arcs are super flashy b/c of the lack of sunlight. Etc, etc, whine, bitch, complain.

Managed to get crab guy installed upside-down. OK, at least that's an easy fix.

Managed to turn this:

Into this:

After trying every combination of every imaginable thing around me. 

And you thought 2 huge pictures was enough! Noooo, you're not getting through this bitchy post that easily!

And finally managed to do something pretty decent with this:

 Which previously was looking like a horrible flower.

 

And I whipped these below up after a lightbulb moment with some bracelet links anvilartifacts sent me just for no reason at all. (Though maybe it's pity cuz I'm such a whiny whiner.)

What's that you say? Something's up with the ear wires? Well they look perfectly fine to me. Sooorry miss fancy-pants who uses only un-pixelated, reality-based ear wires!
And now I'm going to go visit my mom whose gotten me into the habit of going over there for dinner each and every evening like some little kid who can't feed herself.