Having just emerged from his egg days ago, Kuro is looking for a warm spot to curl up in, the safety provided by a dedicated guardian, and maybe some sweets if they happen to be laying around.  You couldn’t deny him sweets, could you?

I had this gorgeous scrap of the most beautiful deep, dark crimson silk velvet, and naturally my first thought is “dragon wings”.  I don’t know, I can’t help it.  Kuro is fully poseable, though his wire skeleton is comprised of thinner wire.  This allows for slightly easier movement than the larger crocheted dragons, but he’s a touch more delicate.  (Well of course he is—he’s just a baby!)  Even so, he’s got a great range of motion.

His belly and the bottoms of his feet are all sparkly too, thanks to fabric paint medium and iridescent pigment; so it’s not going to rub off.  He’s also got a few beaded accents along his back, tail, ears and toes.  The gemstone beads used for his eyes seem to be jasper, but don’t quote me on that one.

“Kuro” is “black” in Japanese, by the way.  He’s also available for sale, just looking for a safe, warm place to stay. Surely you could feed him a few sweets while you’re at it, couldn’t you?

Dangly Tachikoma Necklace!  Proof that I am incapable of taking time off.  Description:

Who wouldn’t love a tiny little Tachikoma looking out for them?  I did not plan this.  I know I say that a lot, but I mean it every time.  I just saw the back bead, which happened to be next to the round bead, and… yeah.  I refuse to try and explain how much of a pain it was to get the wire to work exactly like I wanted it to, but I succeeded and it’s over now and that seems really important.  And, well, Tachikoma!

So I had the little Tachikoma, right?  Surely that was over and i could get back to other things.  …And then somehow the idea of making a whole necklace for it happened, and… I don’t know.  I went through my beads, and there was this utterly gorgeous blue agate that worked perfectly.  So.  Yes.  That’s several more hours of my life, putting that thing together.  I do hope it’s worthy of the Major herself.

It’s also available for sale at the Shiny Things Etsy shop.

Just a reminder, all precious metal-wrapped 12mm gemstone materia pendants are 20% until November 14!  Included are red tiger’s eye, hawk’s eye (blue tiger’s eye), rainbow obsidian, green fluorite and purple fluorite.  They all come with a wide range of chains/necklaces to choose from included, as well.

I Want to Strangle the Stars for All They Promised Me.  Original description:

A promise is a promise, even if it’s from a force rather than a person. I will not rest until the sky falls down around me…

It just kind of happened. All wire is sterling silver. That gorgeous bottom bead is blue tiger’s eye/hawk’s eye, the top bead is dichroic glass, and the middle bead off to the left there is liquid crystal. Color-changing. Otherwise known as a “mood bead”; it changes color with temperature. Because my body temperature is lower than most people and clearly I must be a lizard, it’s pretty much always blue when I touch it. It shifts into greens, purples, and even sunset golds and rusts. That little “flare” below it is a starburst of Swarovski crystals, but of course. All of the other beads are glass.

As for the title, it’s a lyric from “Want” by Recoil. A very… personal song, you could say.

It’s also for sale, chain included.

Shared together because they were commissions that happened one right after the other from two separate people, and clearly it was meant to be.  The general premise: “Square-Enix’s official materia seem just a little ridiculously over-priced, could you do something similar for a bit less wallet slaughter?”

Sterling silver-wrapped rainbow obsidian, and sterling silver-wrapped green fluorite.  (One photo always has to be blurry even on retakes, that’s just how my camera is.)