pixels, light and hot wax

I am so excited — in conjunction with Sovereign Sea Designs, I had a dozen pendants made from my some of my photographs. They need to be properly individually photographed and strung before I list them on artfire, but here is a quickie pic (well, scan. It was faster than grabbing the camera) of what’s to come.

A baker's dozen of adorable photo pendants

One of the poppies is already spoken for; if you want to call dibs on one, speak quickly. They’ll be  $15 + shipping/tax as appropriate.

UPDATE: They have all been added to the shop (except the anemone bracelet, which still needs it’s bracelet constructed) and you can check them out here: Jeliza’s Photo Jewelry. Free Shipping (in the US and Canada) until Dec. 20th!

…. that I had taken the time, several years ago, to pull everything from my original hand-coded version and made a new, spiffy, wordpress version of the Gilbert and Sullivan Parody Archive back before I really understood much about wordpress sites.

And then, this week, someone e-mailed me with some new parodies. So I’ve gone in, cleaned up the place, and will start listing new material next week. (Um, and probably prettify it, and do the rounds of the G&S groups to find new stuff, and all that.)

(Because I need a project to get my head out of obsessing on the perils on entrepreneurship, but I don’t feel well enough to dig out the drawing table right now.)

I have been accepted into a new regional stock agency… specifically for work I pretty much never show anybody and tend to shoot as potential photoillustration backgrounds (city shots). Who knows if it will go anywhere, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, eh?

Also, I have been invited to be a pro at Norwescon this coming year. What that will mean in terms of panels, I’ve no idea at this point, but it does mean I will definitely be in the art show, hopefully with some mixed-media originals and some jewelry based on space art.

Now, if I can just manage the concurrence of myself, some of the fabulous people who have volunteered to model for me, and a studio rental I can afford, we’ll be good to go on the “making serious new art” front. But it’s looking like that isn’t going to be happening this month.

(found via Victoria and Tammy)

The artisan at the art fair:

I had originally planned to do the more traditional “starts Cyber Monday” holiday sale in my ArtFire shop, but, well, I spent the morning at the auto body shop.

SO I’ve changed the dates. From now until December 15th Free Shipping (in the US and Canada) on everything but albums. Use coupon code FREESHIP2010 (there is a reminder widget at the shop itself.)

Also, I will be adding new work over the next week, and if you would like to buy a print of an image not yet in the shop, just e-mail or convo me, and I’ll set it up.

And if you were hankering after one of the large framed pieces I’ve been showing recently, they are still available (local buyers only: King and Snohomish county), except Dandelions in Blue Vase (but I’d be happy to make another one for you, it will just take a few weeks, and I cannot guarantee the same frame style!)

It is excessively frustrating how many of the affordable, effective ways to promote a small business involve giving money to unethical corporations. I’m trying really, really hard to approach my business from a “Right Living” perspective, and it is hard, sometimes to tell where the right trade-off between “not giving money to evil” and “not doing things the business needs to survive” are.

I don’t want to give money or traffic to Facebook. I don’t really want to advertise with major players in the Wedding Industrial Complex. But I also need to reach the people for whom my services would be a life-improving thing. Offbeat Bride, vendor directories and twitter, while a decent start, does not a sufficient advertising plan make, and while I try to make helpful and useful and non-intrusive-vendor comments on the blogs I love that I think my “Right People” also hang out at, I fret about it a lot AND abandon 90% of them unfinished; I’m a visual artist, NOT a writer, I barely comment on my friend’s blogs most of the time because I’m afraid of saying something wrong. (I’m probably only going to hit publish on this because it’s 7 am and I’ve had almost no sleep.)

I want to pay my bills without compromising my ethics.

While I won’t go so far to say that I *like* being up at this hour of the morning (eldest daughter had a nightmare at 4 am,  and after settling her I haven’t been able to go back to sleep) there is a quiet and a stillness to sleeping house and sleeping night that I very much appreciate.

I did the dishes (slowly, so as not to clank), and then sat down with a folder of untouched, pre-2003 film scans to see what else there was to see. These pieces went well with my current, quiet, mood.

Though I wonder if I would process them differently, if it were 5 in the evening and brightly sunny.

Ending November 7th: Saving Grace Charity Auction: Any print, your choice. (Bid stands at $20 as of this writing)

Ending November 9th: A La Carte Albums Giveaway (on the blog): 221 entries to date.

I was looking through scans of my old film work, and found a number of photographs that fit in perfectly with the new direction of floral abstraction I took this year; it was probably the same lens, too. (Thank you, Pentax, for lens backward-compatibility!)

Prints will be available for these two, with a goodly dose more to come:

I think, when this current storm of activity mellows out and/or becomes routine, that I need to find a local leatherworker who needs some product photography. Because I do have a lot of jewelry/accessory ideas in my head, many incorporating my art, and well, most of them involve bold strips of leather. Because that’s just my aesthetic. (Yes, I’m going to see what I can do with canvas, which is still probably going to involve some “and you attach this how?” lessons, but is not as “I’m pretty sure there are special tools involved” as leather.)

Oh, and my ad isn’t up yet. *twitch*. I will, of course, post as soon as it is.

And in other news, ArcaneSociety twitterfic is back! Squeeeeeeeeee! (I amazed that Jayne Ann Krentz manages to be this prolific without dropping in quality, which pretty much no other romance author I’ve read has managed, which is why I don’t read some of them anymore. And am willing to patiently wait for my other favorites to do their only-one-book-a-year.)

And since this is turning into a X things makes a post, Heather at livingartist twittered I think the best Trash the Dress session which actually involves dress trashing (most of them don’t actually damage the dress) I’ve ever seen: Dress, Cheeze Balls, Paint, Bob Ross