which really won't change anytime soon, with the parents coming to visit on Monday, and then still gotta get pieces up and done for the Steampunk Day at the Brooklyn Indie Market while still doing all my custom pieces, AND a day job. . . . oy, I hate the day job right now.

I had volunteered to get The Iron Fairies up on faespace.com  I don't know why.  I'm not paid nor treated exceptionally well.  Pity, because if I'd've had it done by today, I could have announced the 1 Year Anniversary party tonight. 

And part of my brain goes instantly into guilt-mode saying I should stop blogging right now and go do this thing, just this quick, it wouldn't take long.

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OK, there, I did it.  *sighs*  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so compelled to always be such a nice person.  I look around and see some really selfish bitches, and think how easy it must be for them.  But it's just not in my nature, and I suppose I should be thankful for that. 

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So, yes, busy.  I'm still a mad addict to Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab with no sign of slowing down.  My collection of imps is growing.  I'm going to the post office just as often for Imp swaps as I do to mail Magic Vial Necklaces.  The fact they have a whole discussion board devoted to non-perfume uses for their oils just fuels the fire.  I've made a solid perfume with cocoa butter and soy wax out of *Lightning* and have then used that to rub into my wooden hairsticks to scent my hair with.   I made a soap out of *Kubla Khan* and have diluted *Kitsune Tzuki* into a spritzer (with jojoba oil and vodka).  I've got an order of 6  1 ml rollerballs on the way for easier use, and am chomping at the bit, wanting to buy *Fairy Market* from the Neil Gaiman Stardust line.  I have an imp of it, and it's an AMAZING scent!

It wouldn't be so tempting to spend my paypal money if I hadn't had my bank account at WaMu. So it's been accumulating in paypal, instead of getting downloaded into my account and used for utilities and food.  I don't know when I'll have the time, but I've GOT to get a new bank.  *sighs*

NOTE TO EUROPEANS:  At this rate, the dollar's going to be worth ****.  You seriously might want to check out my shop, the exchange rate has *GOT* to be huge in your favor, and I will ship *ANYWHERE* as long as you cover the postage.  Izile's Oddities  Magic friendly, and custom work welcome!

Seriously, sorry for the long quiet, but I have been inundated!  I'm trying to get a lot of stuff together, because I've been invited to join the Brooklyn Indie Market's "Steam Punk Day!"  I've also been trying to figure out how to make more "steampunky" type items. 

That, and of course, there's the day job (oy), and the commission work through DeviantArt and Etsy, which I really can't afford to slack on. 

I've put the Goblin Market on back burner, maybe November, I couldn't do a market (even small barter market) in the same month as the BIM event.

I'm becoming even more a hopeless procrastinating addict to Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.  I'm really getting into Imp Swapping on the BPAL forums.  Last night I got in two long awaited imps, "The East" (from Gaiman's "Stardust") and "Fairy Market" (also from "Stardust").  I already own the bottle of Yvaine, and I may damn well have to have a full 5ml bottle of these as well!  Particularly since I've been learning uses for BPAL scents besides just extravagent perfumery. 

And in a strange personal note, a Magician and an Angel came into the shop and took me out for coffee, it was one of the nicest, but oddest social encounters I've had in a while.  It left me feeling upbeat, and laughing, 'My life is SO weird!" (in a good way, I think.)

So, I dunno, ever since I got back from DragonCon and got introduced
to Changeling: The Lost, I've been having crazy, mad, fun, fantasy ideas.

I'm not sure how to go about it, where to try and get interested
parties the information, or blah blah blah; but I want to start a REAL
Goblin Market.

Specifically, in DUMBO (down under the manhattan-brooklyn overpass),
either during the full moon or new moon; and the BIG rule, NO HUMAN
CURRENCY!

A fantasy/pagany/kinnish/hippie/faeish/eccentric barter market; people
could bring herbs, flowers, home-baked goodies, ACEOs, beads, odd
little knick-knacks, cool pieces of junk, poems, etc . .. and trade.

Since there'd be nothing sold or bought, it would bypass the need for
licensing.

Thoughts?

Few things to update about.  First off, I'm wanting to raise funds for more promotional materials, so I'm trying to drum up business with a bit of sale.

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I've had some new experiments, something a bit lighter and more fun.  I've made two tiny glass bottles, 2" tall and 3" in circumferance, filled according to two very different themes, and then capped off with different colors of raw silk and satin ribbon.

The first is "Fairy Food" and is filled with porridge, poppy seeds, sunflower seeds, red quinoa, saffron threads, lemon thyme, and honeycomb. (All ingredients are dry and uncooked, except for the lemon thyme which was fresh from my garden).

The second is "Vampire Repellent" and is filled with a clove of garlic, a dried red rose bud, a sterling silver cross, and a miniature wooden stake. 

They're both available at my etsy shop, Izile's Oddities, for $10.00, or, I have listed both of them as "trials" on my new WinkElf.com site, HERE, where I have a "make an offer" feature activated on each one. 

I'm not too sure about WinkElf.com, yet; but it's free so I'm willing to give it a try.  Very wait and see for now.

Aside from that, I'm getting ready to go to Atlanta, GA this weekend for DragonCon!  It's my first ever convention - since I don't count SantaCon (just 500+ people in santa suits wandering Manhattan yelling, "Santa needs a beer!").  My costume won't be fab, tight funds and all; but it won't be that bad, I don't hope.  I'm going to be the pirate Pride, of the seven deadly sins. 

The joke has been that I'll strut around as Pride, Lust will follow after me, leering, Wrath will follow him, glowering, and Envy will follow him, wanting the attention.  I'm not sure about Gluttony or Greed; and Sloth won't be there, because they were too lazy to come.  How much of this actually comes to pass, well, it's dubious.  Funny concept, though.

Took today off.  Thursday worked myself passed all sense and reason.  I'm trying to rest and recoup today.  Worked with my garden, had some powdery mildew infecting my cucumbers and squash.  Had to uproot all the cucumbers and massively amputate on the squash.  Hopefully my garden will be OK now.

I'm taking the night to seriously rest; watching Primeval.   I've got some more empty bottles to futz with, and a brand new shipment of my bulb-bottomed vials, and more sterling silver wire. 

Still waiting on my shipment of sapphires and rubies, but it's coming from out of the U.S., so it may take a while

I'm working on formulizing more European shipping rates, just shipped two vials to Spain that worked out to $5.00 USD, and I know I can ship single vials to the U.K. for $3.50, so most of Western Europe should be around that.  I figure my stuff is so cheap on the Euro, that being more global-friendly might be a good idea.  I just haven't put up the "EVERYWHERE ELSE" shipping on Etsy because I figure that as soon as I did that, I'd get an order from Australia and end up having a big chunk taken out of my pay.

Anyone interested in knowing what S&H would be to their country, feel free to ask.  I think the only thing I can't ship would be my body scrubs.