Alas, the shiny, it bites

[kiya]

The problem with getting altar kipple for Hetharu is that She and I appear to have near-identical senses of aesthetics, leaving me with the critical problem, "Do I just want this shiny thing and consider its use as an offering dish an excuse to get it, or does She fancy it?"

I decided it didn't matter. Because I failed my save versus craft fair in Harvard Square today, because of this woman's work. Scored: one small blue glass dish with a claw-strike of purple-rainbow rippling its surface. (Never forget the lion.)

(Then I went to Beadworks, on the principle that making the menat I've been tasked with will be much less of a financial strain if I get a string or three of beads when I happen to be near a bead store over time. Alas.)

It has been a highly shiny sort of evening. Also acquired: chocolate mousies for my father's wife, as a reasonably harmless small thing to acknowledge relationship with someone I barely know.

Then I went to tai chi and had a lesson full of, "Wow, cannot brain today; I have the dumb."

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[ardaniel]

I got out of my last class and walked smack face-first into the Annual Art Sale Supporting SMC Arts Programs, two doors down the hall from my final.

$16 later, Brighid and Manannan both had new offering bowls. I'm a little amused, because the mac Lir had already scored one years ago at a Japanese dollar store, but now he has two, and he is very smug about it. ;)

[ashlupa.livejournal.com]

It does make shopping very difficult...

[jenett]

Oooooooh that is gorgeous stuff. Wow. (And very reasonable prices for that kind of work, too.) Bookmarking.

[jenett]

Also, having looked at the tree on the dishware page, I now have a very good idea what I want my shiny new coven plate to look like. If only I had a shiny new coven to go with it. (On the other hand, since I do not have money for a custom order thing of that complexity yet, it might be a good thing.)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo shinies!

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Wow! I hope someday I will be able to fuse that well. I'm getting serious kiln envy looking at that site-- can't wait till I move so I can actually get into glasswork.

(I'm also semi-glad that Heru had execrable taste in altar ware, never had a problem figuring out which thingies He wanted me to get.)

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say that your icon hurt my head. A lot. But in a good way. :)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Lovely glass ware. The prices seemed much lower than what I'd pay over here for comparable stuff. There's a craft centre not far away, but though the things are often gorgeous, the prices are sky high.

[kiya]

Yeah, the dish I picked up I was sort of going, "Okay, this is probably going to be thirty bucks, and I'll have to dither and hem and haw about whether or not I can really afford it" over, and I asked how much it was, and the artist said, "Hmmm, did that one yesterday ... let's call it sixteen dollars?"

Thus, the blue thing, it is mine. :}

[luellon.livejournal.com]

That is very cool.

Hethert likes blue as far as I know. Beads are good.

Menat necklace, very cool!

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