dragon fairy

Dear all....

Remember my hopeful post about being a vendor for the WWRF? I was going to be showing and selling pieces from my Silver Leaves Collection (mostly)....pieces that look like this...



A lot of people asked me to post an update about how things went. Well, I'll spare you the rant/whimperage about that disaster, but suffice to say, because of the failure of others to do their jobs, my work was never shown or sold. I've gotten my package back from FedEx, and am hoping to cut my losses by auctioning off the pieces that aren't already spoken for. Please see my gallery journal to view the pieces up for auction, and, if you're willing, spread the SilverLeaf love, and promote my auction wherever and to whoever you think it might be appreciated!

Much oblidged..

~ Rhiannon, resident starving artist

Tomorrow marks a momentous occasion...a new Renaissance Faire opens!



The NorthEast (of the US) will no longer be Faire-deprived during the loooong Winter months. Tomorrow (Saturday), February 11th, between noon and midnight, Edison, NJ will set the stage for this adult-oriented extravaganza. Fear not, the snow! The Faire will be held in a convention center, and things will be kept plenty heated up, inside. Everything that you love about RenFests will be there (except the dusty trails through the woods), from food to vendors to performers...but the latter two won't have to restrain themselves to "child-safe" show and tell, as it were.

Why am I so excited about this, even though I'm stuck in the wrong part of the country? Because tomorrow marks a momentous occasion for me, as well, since I will be a vendor at said Faire! I won't be able to be there (o, woe!), but some of my jewelry will be. This marks the first time that my silverwork is available to the general public, since up until this point, I have been working purely on a custom-commission basis. I am very, very excited...and very, very anxious. Ok, petrified. But giddy, too. Basically, my brain is a blendered mix of several flavors of adrenaline.

It's an amazing opportunity for me, a heck of a testing ground for my business, and potentially a tiny flash of light at the end of a long, dark financial tunnel, for my family. Or, it could be a disaster. **GULP** I'm trying to keep my thoughts focused on wild n' crazy hopes for selling out, garnering a lot of commissions, and spreading my wonderful reputation. I'm told my work is up to par with or well beyond that of assorted bigwig expensive designers...but they stand a class apart, because their names are KNOWN. Well a Faire will certainly kick up the speed of the word of mouth I've largely been relying on....and if, beyond the adoration and patronage of the masses (ha ha), I can earn the respect and consideration of other Faires, then...Oh! What a happy Rennie I will be! Naturally, all prayers, well-wishing, candle-lighting, good-vibe-sending, and other such goodwill would be greatly appreciated. For a great deal more fun for yourselves, you could think those good thoughts at me while attending the Faire yourselves. Come on...I know some of you are close enough. ;-)

Money and time worked against my sending more, but I still managed to send a decent amount....

( For a preview of the work that I sent, look under here. Be warned, this is VERY image heavy...Collapse )

Does anyone wanna join my community ghostgate?
Maybe you wanna check it out?

Hi! Above is my shameless self-promotion for my little online store. Come visit me! This seems like such an enchanting little community. Does anyone have any books or movies they'd like to recommend? I ask since I can tell you are all similarly obsessed with the same things I am.

hey...i came across youre communtiy and seen you like fairies....well then join

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Where are the Dreamers who walk this world but refuse to be limited by it? Where are those who feel they belong in other places, other ages? Where are the romantics, the kindred, the spiritual, the magickal? Where are those who lavish in fantasy, in arcana, in the natural, the celestial, the medieval, the Renaissance, the Celtic lands, lore and legend, mythology and memory? Where are the old-world goths of dark beauty, of velvet and stone? Where are the fae spirits, the moon-dancers, the forest-wanderers, the wind-singers? Where are those who feel they've found their place in the world once they are at RenFests, or Faires, the SCA or RPGs? Where are you?

I know you're out there. After all, I am. And I'm trying so hard to bring a little more of the wonder of the world I'd rather be living in, into the world of mundane logistics that I'm stuck in. I'm trying to take the muddle of questions...of health, time, family, finances, sanity...and answer it in a way that allows me to meet all those needs with who I am, not just what I can do...and share it. Share it with the rest of you...the friends, those who could be friends, those who simply share the same kind of fondness for the world and its potentials. Those who have been yelling into my head until I head echoes of confidence that...I can do this.

I can start my own small business based on my artisanship, based on my personality, based on who I am and what I love and how I see the world. Butterfly Rose Creations can be another dream made more than a dream. And it's the sort of dream I can share.

But the yelling has faded to whispers now that I've started making my little declaration to the world, and few seem to want to stand by what was said. Would you take a look? Would you share with me what you make of what you find? Will you help me add a little more beauty, a little more meaning, to the world we're all lost and found in?

Please?

Some of you know me, know what I offer in friendship, advice, information or ideas. Some of you might simply remember my offer of DragonMoons previously. Now I am running two new auctions (yes, EBay auctions, I admit it...but I'm desperate), here and here. The first is of a chain-maille styled choker and matching earrings, featuring shiny stainless steel rings, fittings, and cascading chain, and blue stone stars. The second is of a matching hand-flower/slave bracelet (a bracelet that extends over the back of the hand to at least one finger). Both are hand-made, original designs on a shooting star theme. (This is, after all, about passionate wishes.) Both are feminine yet not fragile, both durable and beautiful, professional but not standardized. The auctions have about 3 days and 20 hours left.

Some of the images can be found here ( belowCollapse )

Good e'en, all...

I'm a rather old spirit who has recently decided that "appropriate reality" as popularly conceived in this day and age, nevermind the jobs available within it, simply does not suit me well enough to humor, anymore. Or, perhaps, this is not so recently decided, but I've recently been able to start doing something about it. I'm actually trying to start my own small business based on my artistic services and my artisanship, most flowing from my tendancies towards anything old-world...Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance, Goth, Arcane, Fantasy, Celestial, Nature-based...sometimes brightly, etherialy shimmering, sometimes darkly romantic. If I can get this going, I can live in ever-so-much-less pain (metaphorically and literally...I have a disability that dreams of wings don't help make any more compatable with "normal" jobs), bringing more magick and wonder to the whole of the life I share with my husband and friends, instead of only living vicariously within a small bubble floating through it. No less worthy, I could do this by way of sharing that same magick and beauty and wonder with other kindred spirits out there. Ahhh...to dream!

Of course, this is just starting out, and so rather slowly untangling from a rather mundane muddle. As one of the early stages in this process, I'm trying to get a feel for how people respond to some of my designs, and if anyone feels that they are worthy of taking into their own lives, and so helping along my own. I've got an e-bay auction going at the moment, with one of my jewelry sets...what I call the "DragonMoon" set. It's a hand-made, original-design, necklace/earrings set featuring silver chain, silver moons, hematite (metallic black stone) stars, and silver cast "dragon moons".

The auction can be found here. I'd really, really appreciate it if you took a look, asked questions, gave feedback...and if you are a'tall interested and able, if you'd bid...or if you think anyone else might be interested and able, please tell them about it so that they can bid! The auction only had one day and 20 hours left. Eep!

If you're curious, the set looks like this ( hereCollapse ) The auction page also shows a close-up of the back of the necklace, as well as a close-up of what the earrings look like, and oodles of information.

Thank you thank you thank you and otherwise I'm looking forward to meeting kindred in all these lovely new communities I've found. Ah yes...I admit cross-posting this...mudanity makes me desperate. ;-)

* DIMENSIONS *

Every Other Friday Night Starting Oct 17th.
Hosted by Lions Lair
@ 661 Bay St. Staten Island, NY.
(718)556-0179
Email: Dimensions@ImABadLittleBoy.com


DJ Lost spinning a Mix of Gothic, Industrial, SynthPop, EBM, Dark Wave, New Wave, Doom Metal, Etc.....

Doors open at 10pm, party goes on until 3:30am

18 to party, 21 to Travel to other Dimensions
Vaild ID a MUST

7$ Cover, 5$ w/ flyer

Drink Specials changing all Night.2$ drafts,2$ shots,3$ Cosmos,etc

8 TVs on all night. Showing everything from old Horror flicks to B&W Betty Page movies.

Living Dead Dolls and other raffles going on all night


Directions To Dimensions(Lions Lair):

Coming from over the Verrazano bridge by Car:
Take Bay St exit, turn right on School Road, turn left onto bay street, bay all the way down to the bar. Corner of Bay St And Thompson St.

Coming from over the Verrazano bridge by Bus:
When coming across on the 53,get off the bus right over bridge on Lilly Pond Road, transfer to the 51 going twards the St George Ferry. The 51 stops on bay street in Directly in front of the bar. Corner of Bay St And Thompson St.

Coming from over either NJ bridge:
Take i-278 east, exit at clove road, go forward for two lights, at second light make a left onto Targee St, take Targee St down to Broad St, make a right onto Broad St, Broad Street ends at Bay St, left onto Bay St, bar one block down on right of street. Corner of Bay St And Thompson St.

Public Trans coming from Manhattan:
Coming over the Staten Island Ferry, take the 76 or the 51 leaving the ferry. Both buses stop right across the street from the Bar. Corner of Bay St And Thompson St.
You can also take a cab right from the Ferry to the Bar for only 4$.

ok, new site version is finally up. yay!!! love me

Most of these I have permission. I'ts just easier this way.
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