Rock Out With Your Bench Block Out

OK you sexy bitches, strap in for some more hardcore, balls-to-the-wall.... um... jewelry. Impossible to sound bad-ass when you're talking about jewelry.

The Human Night.
This crucifix I've had since the Uruguay trip before this last one. Ermagha, you can't even tell but I've curved it.

And you know what else? Pendants!

Maid of Vast Distances.

I've been resining up a storm, making myself nuts with it, finally realized most of what I made could just end there and be pendants. No need to further develop. Did happy dance.

Back here? And the next one?

Cherub II.

These are from postcards I got on etsy advertising cigars. Dey sooooo prrrrdiiii.

Cherub. 

Can you tell this one is translucent? Cuz I sanded/rubbed/chewed all the back paper off?

See?

RANDOM INTERMISSION!     

From comments:

"here's a fun fact for you: did you know that a wombats poop is square? Not sure about 'roo poo."

--alteredarcheology
Of course this meant I had to look it up. This led me to an article called The wombat's cubic poop is one of nature's weirdest superpowers on a very interesting on line journal of geekery called io9. ("Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones" 'Dafuq?)Now I'm even more enamored of wombats, if only for their "enormous storage capacity" for poop. However, still looks like regular poop to me.
Other finds from io9. What happens when you play cypress hill through a squid fin:

And what it would sound like if DMX combined forces with Reading Rainbow. WARNING: this is really offensive and sez the n-word and my hubs thinks I should take it down.

My comment fave being:
 STOP. LOOK. SHUT 'EM DOWN OPEN UP A BOOK. - The Ruff Readerz Anthem
OK, I'll stop now. Back to pendants.

No More Than.
Finally fixed this one.  I know you were waiting with baited breath.

See da gold edge?
Specimen.
I feel like this is really a supply... er, a supply pendant. I mean, there's TWO loops. You can hang it with a dangle, you can put it on your wrist, it's totes up to you. You can scrub your toilet with it.

But yeah, more resin! Had me a buncha set stones in no time. Well, in some time, but without bezel burnishing. Cuz ugh.

Maria.
What would you call this style Mary is depicted in here? 50s cartooney?
I had this one bracelet up a while back that really wasn't working.

What's more, it wasn't selling- let's be honest here. So I done did this:

Always Forever. Named because of a scrap of text on the back. I dunno.

From Uruhaul artbook. Had to do this one in several layers because I wanted thick resin and it kept just dripping right off. On the other hand, drippy resin can be cut off- it doesn't mean the piece is ruined. But I dunno.... I dunno about anything that requires this level of exactitude. I've been trying to cover little surface imperfections and get rid of shine in all sorts of ways. Buffing with steel wool leaves scratches, anything finer has practically no effect. On some I've put a coat of glaze adhesive so i could rub it and mess it up.

Also I find by the time you perfect the back, as so:

Or such:

You've screwed up the front, as thus:

And suchly:

 Also, I've permanently resined some items on to my glass table. That was an improvement from the floor where dog hair would always find it's way in despite any coverings.

< And then this kind of fun. Oh but it's addictive, no matter how much I mess up. 

Also, even though this medal was very thick, it had a concavity in back, so I resined it to a blank by setting the medal level in another theeng, and then setting the blank on top:

Dunno if that makes sense. Oh, and I made the ugliest pair of earrings I've ever seen:

Oh the awkward fugliness. But I thought I'd share so... you know.... you'd see how.... awesome it is to make fuglies. Or if you are one of those people who compare yourselves to me in a way unflattering to you.... then you'd see that yeah. I got some new goodies in the mail though so I'm still determined to make them awesome. It's my hot body! I do what I want!

Oh, I completely failed to realize while making the soldery guy that the cuff base was a scant 12.5" in length, so it needed a closure for the staying of the on.

Cosmic Foam.

But it's really just another excuse to add more iridescence. What else? Oh, another attachment with resin:

But not even I can fool myself into thinking that's a completed pendant. And sales have been meh. Is it the economy? Is it that I've drunk the coolaid all you etsybitches have been serving and in actuality I've set the prices too high? Or do I have to just back the fuck up? And let things sell at their own rate? And stop blogging? Like right now?