Shiny!

Here I am again! The days have been filled with rehearsals (Heavens I missed my companions!) and lots of time making shiny things.

I finished covering my corset in crystals. Any guesses on how many it took to finish?
It’s a lot, I will tell you that!!!! And I am really really looking forward to crystal encrusting a few more corsets in my future. What can I say? It’s like glitter… only it doesn’t rub off on everyone else!!!

Also, the amazing Satyr-Dancing ShadowCat has a blog!!!!
You should go and read it and look at his art, I think you’ll all enjoy it!

Artwork

…Once upon a time there was a Pooka that really liked glass. She loved seeing what it could do, how others used it. So she started learning to work with glass, to manipulate it in flame and turn it into works of art. Months turned to years and before she knew it she was arriving at the two year anniversary of her start date at the torch…..

Yep. February 18 will be three years! I can hardly believe it! It seems like just yesterday that Melissa was sitting me down at her torch to melt glass. My first beads weren’t worth writing home about, but they were MINE!

These were the first ones:

Yep, those were in fact my first beads. Since then I have learned that glass can do amazing things. Two years later the explosion that comes from thrusting a rod of glass into the flame too quickly still scares the heck out of me!

Then came the first beads at my own torch.

Since then my skill has grown, there have been many times where I've been called away to another set of things to do but I've still been enjoying glass. I make all of the beads for the Key Pendants that are at most of our gigs even.

There are some of my newer pieces 

The New Year - 2011

Happy New Year to all of you out there! I really hope that there was lots of glitter, hugging, kissing and celebrating when the clock struck midnight to ring in the new year!

There is SO MUCH going on this year already. So much in fact, that Queen Mab decided that I need a babysitter… But enough of that for now. On to the Pandora Celtica news!

• January 21 & 22 we will be in Colorado Springs at MysticCon! I’m really excited to start the new year with a bang and lots of shiny!
• Also, in March we have been confirmed for AnomalyCon, so look for us all decked out in Steampunk! I’m really excited about this show, I’m also excited for the chance to expand my wardrobe! *glee*
• Then in May? Beltania! Last year was so breathtaking and amazing and wonderful that I am really really excited to go and sing again this year!

   And now on to the topic of babysitters… Well not exactly babysitters… But a Knight that my Queen has seen fit to charge me with? Or rather, she’s charged him with keeping track of me. Se, I have this… trickster streak… It’s completely harmless, I swear! Just, oh you know… glitter in the shoes of some of the Courtiers that I don’t get along with. Or maybe the fact that I manage to always get myself in a… Fix when I’m left to my own devices. So Mab, the oh-so-wise Queen that she is, has given me a Knight.

….I wish she would have wrapped him in a bow… Ahem, I mean… *blush*

Right! So there is lots of shiny to come. I’m not going to let some stuffy Knight of the Crown keep me from my glitter-filled days of awesome and magic. I may just have to be sneakier now….