skyelyric

Ok, box is on its way back to Em-, tetris'd within an inch of its life.

And my favorite thing is THAT RIDICULOUS FLUFFY OWL.  I cannot wait to wear it to work one day this week.  There were a couple of other things that I thought were fantastic but knew I wouldn't have occasion to wear, so I did not take them, but I loved the jam jar and toast earrings, and the tree of life pendant I really wanted to make into a shawl pin but decided I was not skilled enough to play with that yet.

Box has arrived! I just had to chase down our mailperson to get the parcel locker key.

Checked tracking from Vanesa and the dread box should be landing here today! 

Damn it, y'all, I'm sorry, I didn't realize my box was full and I'm not getting the forum notifications. My inbox is cleared out and I will pay better attention.  No excuse, but it has been a wild couple weeks over here.

On 1/19/2024 at 12:51 PM, kakiphony said:

Ooooooo! Me please. This is the incentive I need to make some decisions.

 

Quick question: Is there/or would anyone be interested in, a bag/box for single earrings? I will NEVER wear them, but I know some people like a mismatched ear look or someone might be able to take apart and use the parts?

I have an odd number of piercings so interesting single studs are awesome from my perspective (oh, that came out wrong but I'm leaving it anyway )  and with bigger dangly stuff I will demolish them for pendants or charms on costuming, so I would be!

And I'm in, please!

I mailed out my last card on Tuesday, so with any luck it has or will soon arrive.

@bookworm just saw what you said, yes, I took the owl photo.  For a few years there was a pair of great horned owls that made their nest in a big cottonwood by our community college so I got to watch them grow up and get some photos.  I think they found greener pastures through since the college was doing construction--the trees are still there, but it was pretty chaotic for a while.  And I both can't believe and have no problem at all believing how I mailed your first card.

My December card is going out this morning.

oh, surprise! I got the most adorable belated sloth card from bookworm!

And this weekend I got a very cute Fall card from @neptuneanblues in place of the disappeared card (which apparently reappeared the day after the replacement was sent)

eta: and the birthday card showed up!

I did get a lovely card from Lucchesa a few days ago, sorry I didn't report sooner.

Here are my lovely cards so far!  from winterblizzard, lorizav, Psuke, twilighteyes, Thuy, and Jenjin.  Thank you all! 

No pics yet since only 2 cards, but I have cards from lorizav and winterblizzard.  @winterblizzard I'm sure that macaw is hand pieced, that is so cool! ❤️

I have a couple cards already! At least I think I do, I got one from @lorizav a couple weeks ago which I have not opened thinking it's for this swap.

sept card was dropped directly at the post office today

@lorizav it seems like my card might have gone awry, if you haven't gotten it let me know and I will unbirthday card you

Mailed my August card earlier this week!

July card went out this week

mine went out this weekend

sent 2 days ago

On 10/11/2022 at 2:55 PM, Lucchesa said:

I looked through Dead Swaps. The last three years it’s gone up Nov. 1, 2&3. So right at the end of 13 Nights and in the middle of wolfenoot and Krampus gift gathering. It’s a smallish swap, tack, snack, wearable and book or pastime.  @skyelyric and @Dark Alice hosted last year — are you folks up for it this year??

Yep, I at least will be hosting the tack!

19 hours ago, Lucchesa said:

@skyelyric @Dark Alice Do you have the bandwidth to run the Tacky Ornament swap this year?  If not, I can take it over but I don't want to step on anyone's feet. 

 

So, I've looked in the Swap Cemetery for card swaps.  It looks like the last one was run in 2012!  Does anyone know who @CardSwap Faery was?  I would be happy to run this one except for one thing.  The instructions are everyone signs up to send either 2, 5 or 10 cards.  Presumably if you send 2, you receive 2, and so on.  That seems mathematically beyond me.  Is there a computer whiz who could help me with the matching?  Or an easy algorithm someone can point me to? 

Yes, I'm definitely up to the tacky swap this year. @Dark Alice, I've got all the documentation saved, so we just need to pick a date and I'll get it posted.

I think the idea of having groups would work, they probably sorted them out that way on the back end anyway even without having spots opened up. 

Tack is up, for those who were looking for it.

This is just incredibly beautiful. It starts off heavily lavender, but sadly my skin eats that pretty fast.  What's left behind however does not disappoint, it's a gorgeous blend of soft wood and soft herby floral, neither camp is overpowering, and it hangs around in this state for quite a while.

This really is a scent of gentle strength, it's not in your face, but comforting and fortifying. There's a little bit of something in the wood notes that reminds me of Lawful from the RPGs, as well.

I'm really pretty delighted by this--If I smell deliberately for them, I get honey and carnation, but if I just sniff without thinking about it, you know that smell in springtime when all the neighborhood trees are in bloom and it's like sweet happy pollen and bees everywhere?  This is exactly that scent to me.

Oh wow, this is a morpher, but Twenty-Four Paragons is absolutely stunning. Seriously, skin test it before you consign it anywhere. In the decant and wet, the fir and cypress are at the forefront, clean and astringent but not overpowering, though it's hard to get much else underneath it.  Over the course of the dry-down the evergreens fade, and I'd kind of forgotten I was wearing it until a billow of gorgeous creamy, slightly woody coconut showed up out of nowhere.  On me this really bloomed when it hit the coconut state, and doesn't seem inclined to morph any further.  I can't pick out individual notes, I'm guessing the woody/floral aspect is coming from the hyssop, and I'm not sure what ti leaf smells like to know what to attribute to it.  Overall this is the surprise hit of the Lupers for me.

Once it settles, I'd put this in the same family of scents as Intrigue, I think, with the woody coconut, but this is bright and creamy where I get a dark, slightly dusty feel from Intrigue.  It reminds me a little of the coconut in Goldenrod Crab Spider, too, but without the tang of citrus from that blend.

Overall impression, I cannot stop sniffing this.  I liked the evergreen phase, I *adore* the coconut.