Omorka's Lair

Looking for a heptagram pendant that has one point straight down instead of straight up, any metal other than gold. I would also consider ceramic or glass as options. Anyone seen anything like that, or know where I could start looking? Ebay and Google are not being helpful, and I seem to have failed my Etsy roll.

Finally finished the necklace for the "Miracle of the Serpents" pendant from chimera_fancies. Not getting the beads to overwhelm the pendant was more difficult than I'd anticipated, and one of the copper beads I'd wanted to use didn't have a large enough hole even for the <2mm cord. It's symmetrical, partly because I lack courage and partly because I'm not 100% sure I like the idea of asymmetry with these, even though by definition the text-pendants are themselves asymmetrical.

*sigh* More stuff I need to get my camera working for.

Now I need to figure out what to do with the "Lands of the Mystery" pendant. As well as doing the forest-themed piece and the ocean-themed piece that I've been collecting beads for, and doing something with those awesome ceramic beads with the spiral, and working on Waterfall/Cracked Ice, and . . . wow, this is worse than my yarn stash, even. :-/

Knit Picks is clearancing all their Twirl yarn out. It's a boucle-style alpaca-and-wool bulky-weight mix, with a nylon binder thread. Basically, it's Lion Brand Homespun done right, except in solid colors, not their sorta-kinda-marled look. Unlike Homespun, I can knit with it and not split the yarn constantly. Like Homespun, it's hard to make even stitches in, but in this case, it doesn't really matter that much.

I got two balls of their Fog colorway to do Urchin from the Fall '07 Knitty. I'm almost done, and it's shaping up beautifully. Just my luck to fall in love with a yarn that's being clearanced out. So I did what any sane girl would do and bought more so I can make several more of these hats in the same yarn (different colorways this time). Also picked up some undyed wool worsted weight to try Kool-Aid dying with (hopefully that'll become something interesting) and some interesting-looking tweedy stuff.

My three skeins of Brown Sheep Prairie Silks came in, too - I'm going to try the Pick-Up Diamonds Tam from the Winter '04 Knitter's Magazine. I tried that once back in '05, but made an inappropriate yarn substitution without sufficient body to hold the hat's shape, and a shapeless tam is a berry-picking bag that happens to be sitting on your head - it looks ridiculous.

I'm kind of on a hat kick right now. After spending what feels like eons on Cobweb, and with another long-term project (the Rona lace shawl) on needles, it feels really good to do small, week-or-less projects and just have them there to use or give away. (I also didn't get a photograph of my crocheted firecracker-red shawl for wren_chan before she skedaddled off to Colorado, which I feel stupid about.)

But - I'm spending too much on my hobbies right now; between yarn, needles and hooks, perfume oils, and beads, I have plenty to keep me busy and I need to stop buying new stuff. If nothing else, I don't have room for another stash box, either beads or yarn. I think what I've got will hold me until I start ordering stuff for holiday presents in September. I might pick up the Options set in the nickel-plate when I do that, so I can use them for two-circular-needle stuff, but honestly, I've been cataloguing my tools on Ravelry and trying to get my stuff organized and I have plenty of needles. The only things I'm missing, except for DPNs which I'm trying to avoid for the most part, are an L hook (although I need to find my E hook; I can't imagine where it's gotten to unless it's hiding in my stash boxes somewhere) and circulars in some of the smaller sizes (I have 4s and 5s but nothing smaller right now, and if I'm seriously going to do lace - or socks - I need to pick some up at some point).

My necklace - the one it took me the length of TT:EE to do - broke this morning. I'm not sure whether the weak spot was the knot, and it just came undone despite my gluing it, or whether the jumpring opened enough for the knot to slip off and it came undone because of the now-open center. Either way, now I have to restring it this weekend (and find time to do the restringing).

On the other hand, my FMG order came in today, including enough little bitty Czech seed beads to try a multi-strand big, flowing necklace - the idea is vaguely inspired by something I saw in a catalog, and if it works, it'll be titled "Waterfall." (If it comes out differently from what I'm envisioning, but is still wearable, it may be called "Cracked Ice" instead.)

I also now have a few obviously Pagan-ish pendants, and one vaguely Buddhist one. I'm going to have to play with these a bit to see what they want to become, but I think the ocean jasper I bought this summer may finally get made into a necklace with one of these.

*sigh* Of course, now that I'm in a beading flurry, my yarn is looking at me mournfully. There's just not enough time to be Crafty, it seems . . .