cracked moon

i miss livejournal. i miss the community. but all my friends here have scattered on to tumblr & other such sites, and so have i. but i still read my friends page here every few days or so. i am not good at commenting, but i am here, i am reading. i'm just quiet.

I've really been neglecting my LJ of late, but then I haven't been working on art as much as something new: handmade incense. I make cones & loose incense for now, I have a tool for making sticks, but haven't yet perfected the recipes. All the incense is made from scratch using woods, herbs, resins, & essential oils, & I form the cones with a mold I made myself. I'm still in the baby stages of everything, my shop is small & basic for now, but if you would like to take a look, please do!

My incense shop: Modern Dryad.

In more art-related news, I'm going to be selling at the second Mayday Underground show on November 6. I'm trying to finish up some altered dolls & get frames for oil drawings. So, I'm busy busy, I guess. Art, incense, my work space is a crazy mess like you wouldn't believe.

Just posted nine newish art cards in my Etsy shop. Have a look, if you please. :)

I bought a fake Blythe (called Blybe) awhile back to customise. Here she is so far.

Yesterday, got up early to go hawk my wares at the Mayday Underground show!

The day went basically as follows: sold some art (!), went out for some Mexican with the creature, came home, promptly collapsed into bed from eight pm until one in the afternoon today.

Being around people all day, while fun, is exhausting for me. I’m a hermit who lives in a hobbit hole with my computer & my boy-creature & my animals & my dolls. Also exhausting is trying to carry a heavy objects I'm not strong enough to carry & thus screwing up my back & my arms. I'm a sore bunny all over.

I sold art though! I sold a doll I finished the night before, so no pictures were taken. She will be in limbo forever I guess. I also sold a witch bottle to the adorable Goth Lolita selling her art two booths down. Lots of art cards went, a few drawings. All in all, fairly successful, for me anyway. I mean, not like I am making a living at this yet, but better than nothing.

The show was amazing. I wanted to buy stuff from about 75% of the other sellers. I gave myself a $20 budget though. Got some alpaca & wool fiber for spinning from one seller, tiny needlefelted mushrooms
from another (<- this girl is one of the shows organizers) , & some buttons from a third. But I wanted tons of other things, art & soap & more art & greeting cards that said things like “eat my fuck ” & “i think of you when i masturbate” & pretty pendants & hand painted fabric wallets & crocheted cupcakes & so on & on…..

In other news, I have closed my Artfire shop & moved everything to a new BigCartel-powered shop on my website as well as reopening my Etsy store for what I can't fit on my site. I will be updating soon with some newer pieces I made for the show that didn't sell.

Now, I go back to iced tea & Star Trek (Original Series).

1. Long Black Hair--Warwick Goble, 2. swallows, 3. quilted pincushion, 4. juliet, 5. her body hardened and grew roots, 6. a frightened stag bounded away through the woods, 7. pegasus flew wildly over the sea and mountains, 8. zephyr, the west wind, carried psyche gently, 9. Museum diorama - Kampong living - eating rice, 10. Shakey Bear's Altar I, 11. Ancestor Protection Charm Bottle - With Moss From A Guanche Sacred Place Of Power, 12. For Joey?, 13. Untitled, 14. Untitled, 15. Rosa, 16. Untitled, 17. berberis, 18. Ice creams!, 19. Momoko and I Wish You a Happy Easter, 20. Doll Portraits, 21. Miss Blue with 3 extra knotted knots!!!, 22. Hanged Box, 23. Pared de muñecos colgantes, 24. ✯Fairy Tale Charm Apple Tree✯, 25. Night Messenger, 26. Untitled, 27. Gris, 28. Untitled, 29. New dress :), 30. The end of the bookfair, 31. BY OAK, ASH & THORN, 32. Haunted, 33. Morning Stretch v2.0, 34. CROSS MY PALM WITH SILVER, 35. Shivian Balaris, 36. Glass Bottle Cemetery

It's a start.

Cleaning up the friends list today, taking off people who are no longer active, deleted, & such & so on. If I remove you & you are still active & reading this journal let me know & I'll add you back.