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    By Silvertree

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Lovely Layers!

My Layering Experiments, now with emoticon ratings!   Smut 2007 + Body, Remember boooozey raw coconut & sugar cane, sexeh to the extreeeme. Smut 2007 + Touched Twice lovedrunk innocence utterly shattered by first taste of passion. moar booze + coconut goodness. Ice Princess Bath Oil + Touched Twice floating halo of sweet, creamy, faintly tropical white sparkles. Panther Moon + Variety of Pleasing Amusements sweet incensed leather. Dance of Death + Black Pearl yay accidental deliciousness! was testing these two (one on each wrist) and while they are both good on their own, together they are 100x better. Black Pearl gives a creamy sweet depth to DoD's dark elegance. Ivanushka + Entangled Okay, sometimes I just have to see if Ivanushka goes with something. Aaand this, was very weird. Not recommended.

Alia Kaitan

Alia Kaitan

 

Food Swap Q's

Are there any spices you know you need, or always use? I love cajun spices and would like to try out different types of salts. A good Italian blend (for sauces) would be fun to play with).   What colors are your kitchen? Do you need/would you use new potholders? Currently white cabinets, red walls. I’m trying to gather stuff for when I move out, so potholders would be useful – I plan on having a kitchen filled with Hello Kitty appliances. So a cute theme (for any kitchen stuff) would work best.   Any small kitchen gadgets you like, need, want or desire? As I mentioned, I’m trying to gather stuff to move out so small kitchen stuff that would be appreciated: Can opener Peeler Salt & Pepper shakers   Spiciness Medium.   Alcohol I do enjoy it – I love cooking with it.   things for the grill? I don’t think so, though spices, marinades, and/or recipes for grilling would be great.   would you prefer mostly made stuff that you can just open the box and eat? or ingredients that you can turn into something else? a combination? just whatever i feel like sending? Whatever you feel like sending is fine (though I do enjoy cooking and need some inspiration).

misamisa01

misamisa01

 

My Testing Wishlist

This is of course, always a work in progress.   Limited Edition/Discontinued Any of the Snake Pit CD scents.   General Catalog   Ars Amatoria Defututa   Diabolus Akuma Black Phoenix Bloodlust Hell's Belle   Excolo Nyx Obatala Skuld Verdandi   Mad Tea Party The Knave of Hearts Tis the Voice of the Lobster   RPG Neutral   Sin and Salvation Lust   Wanderlust Delphi     Un-Impable/Imp Pack Only General Catalog   Neil Gaiman The Ifrit Lamia Pepper War   Labyrinth Hoggle Jareth   The Last Unicorn Molly Grue   The Salon The Fox-Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child Lot and His Daughters The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil

csabreo

csabreo

 

Bridal BPAL wishlist! (I need to find the one!)

possibles:   Jacob's Ladder '05 (or the new one, if there is one for 2012) Villainess' Birthrite BPAL's Snow White 2005 Bewitched The Lion     I want to try decants of:   A Wonderful Light Belle Epoque* Beautiful and Adored* Cathedral Dreamland El Amor y la Muerte* Eternal Fallen The Girl* Helena Heavenly Love & Earthly Love Haunted Katrina Van Tassel Love's Philosophy* Lucy's Kiss Maiden Ophelia* Peony Moon Regan Silver Phoenix Succubus Swan Maiden* Szepasszony Titania* Two Five Seven* Unveiled* Vasakasajja*  

ancilla_morte

ancilla_morte

 

Bottle List

To Keep: Absinthe & Lace Alice Anne Beany Autumn Lace Aziraphale The Antikythera Mechanism Bakeneko Banshee Beat Bastet Beanman & Beanwoman Prepare to Attack the Vagina Beaver Moon 2010 Beaver Moon 2011 Beaver Moon 2012 Beaver'versary Berry Moon 2009 Blackberry Jam and Scones Black Cat Black Pumpkin Floss The Black Temple Burlesque Troupe Blood Lotus Blue Moon 2012 Brown Thrasher Butterscotch Balls and Black Beetles Candles Moon 2010 Candy Corn Coated Candy Apple Ceanothus Silkmoth Chintamani-Dhupa Clockwork Couture: Female Cottonmouth Cupcake Splatter Pattern Analysis Dark Pumpkin Mead Deadly Nightshade Honey Defututa Delight and Consternation Devil's Night 2009 Diamond Star Dragon's Milk Dungeon Crawl Eldritch Dark E Pluribus Unum Eden Evil Fairy Wine Fighter Fledgling Raptor Moon Fruit of Paradise 2007 Goblin Market Good The Gorobble Great Vampire Bat Green Tree Viper Gypsy Harvest Moon 2012 Harvest Moon 2013 Hellhound On My Trail Heroine Holiday Moon 2005 Hony Mone 2007 Huesos de Santo 2008 Hungry Ghost Moon 2011 Hunter The Infernal Lover Inganok Jewelers Jailbait Jester Joyful Moon Lady Lilith Lick It Softly Lil' Menes' Feline Entertainments Lilith's Tea Party Lionheart (TAL) Little Egypt Loosening of the Obi The Malignant Dreams of Cthulhu in Love Mason and Jenkin's Port Jelly Mead Moon 2008 Miskatonic University Mme Moriarty, Misfortune Teller Monster Bait: Bloody Mary Moon of the Terrible 2012-13 Morocco Mother Shub's Spiced Lait de Chevre Mr. Nancy MVJBA: Pancake Breakfast Nikephoros Oceanus Procellarum Our Lady of Pain Paladin Peach I The Phoenix in Summer Pickled Imp Pomegranate IV Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin IV 2009 Pumpkin V 2009 Punkie Night 2010 Question Mark Quintessence of Dust Raven Moon 2012 Red Lantern 2006 Red Moon 2007 Samhain 2010 The Shadowy and The Sublime Shub-Niggurath Sibyl Silver Phoenix Single Note: Ambergris Accord Single Note: French Tobacco Single Note: Golgothan Myrrh Single Note: Madagascan Vanilla Rum Single Note: Spanish Red Carnation Sleipnir Smoky Moon 2012 Smut 2013 Snake Oil Snow White 2012 Southern Cloudywing Spanked Revisited Star Promenade Strawberry Moon 2012 Suck It 2012 Sugar Moon 2011 Sugar Skull 2005 Sugar Skull 2012 Thirteen (13): April 2012 Thirteen (13): December 2013 A Thought From Propertius Tiki Princess Time Does Not Bring Relief TKO (x2) Trick or Treat 2009 Ultraviolet Under the Harvest Moon The Unicorn Velvet Velvet Nudie Violet Ray Weeping Branches Moon Werepuppy WILF Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse Witch Dance Womb Furie 2010   To Sell: Eau de Ghoul Giallo Ma'at v17   Empties: Elixir IX: TKO Lionheart (TAL) Smut 2010 Lamia Pink Snowballs   On the Way: Giant Vulva

plainjean

plainjean

 

Tested!

Everything I've tried to date, in traditional alphabetical order.   Coyote Lear Lilium Inter Spinas Mage Ochosi On Darkness Pontarlier Scarecrow The School The Second of the Three Spirits Shadows of What May Be Sheol The White Rider Woods in Winter Yggdrasil

Eschezhivet

Eschezhivet

 

Huge Wishlist of Doom!

Most wanted (definitely bottles, but will also take decants):
- Amaterasu v3 - Anathema Device
- Elf v4 - Game Over
- Glowing Vulva
- Gothabilly - He'd Been an Angel Once
- Jingo-Kogo v6
- Queen of Spades
- Reflected Vulva
- Regan - Siberian Musk SN
- Tetramorph v2 - They Shut Me Up in Prose
- Voodoo Queen - WILF
- XCDL13

Less Wanted (Might not swap my "picky" bottles for these, but try me!):
- AF1
- AGLAV1
- Ava
- Cabaret Goth
- The Confectionary
- Dragon Moon 2012
- Echo
- Ecstasy of Passion
- The Girl
- Harikata
- Helios
- Hexennacht
- Hime Gyaru
- Joyful Moon (decant)
- King of Spades
- Krampus
- Loli.Goth
- Lovers in a Ricefield
- Makhanitis
- The Mark
- Old Moon
- Prosperous Flowers of the Twelve Seasons
- Silver-Haired Bat
- Tomoe Gozen
- Wolf Moon

GCs/Unimpables:
- Captain Cully
- Dana O'Shee
- Fairy Wine
- Le Petit Mort
- The Witch Queen

BPTP Stuff:
- House of Unquenchable Fire Atmosphere Spray
- Lair of Nefarious Misdeeds Atmosphere Spray - Le Coucher de la Mariee Hair Gloss
- Mikado Saloon Hair Gloss
- Mrs Palmer's Establishment Atmosphere Spray
- Mummies of Mexico City Hair Gloss
- Oak Leaves and Kyphi Atmosphere Spray
- Revenant Rhythm Atmosphere Spray
- Samhain Atmosphere Spray
- Snake Charmer Hair Gloss
- So Below Hair Gloss
- The Purple Window Hair Gloss
- Thousand Pillar Atmosphere Spray
- Vespers Atmosphere Spray
*I realise that there's not much chance of ever getting my hands on some of these, but I would love any amount!!*

Stuff I can always use more of, but lower priority (my greatest loves):
- Banshee Beat
- Dee (aged)
- The Illustrated Woman
- Mme Moriarty

Andalei

Andalei

 

collection of non-bpal bottles.

non BPAL stash...
ALKEMIA arcanum experiments 2021 #3 arcanum experiments 2022 #7 arcanum experiments 2023 #8 black iris bohémiens en voyage (x2) jonquil alchemy lady krampus  (x2)
madam pearl  (x2) magnolia au vert old books and fresh flowers seduction vanille temptation une nuit de cléopâtre 

ARCANA infamy (1 dram bottle X3) queen crossbones

AVA LUXE
tuberose diabolique vamp   CONJURE OILS release the bats (partial)   MOONALISA starlight woods
  NOCTURNE ALCHEMY amber velvet eternal ankh fluorite heliotrope musk polychrome
POESIE PERFUME
Lady Disdain

POSSETS the damned flower evita peron fascinator sorrow   SIXTEEN 92 shout at the devil

SOLSTICE SCENTS estate carnation manor
nightgown orient rose

VIOLETTE MARKET
angora (dram, vintage VM)
new year's baby 2009 (dram, vintage VM)
dainty cake (dram, vintage VM)
nymph (dram, vintage VM)
queen cake (dram, vintage VM)
st. paul's churchyard
snow baby (dram, vintage VM)
swoon (dram, vintage VM)   all other mainstream/designer/etc scents listed on fragrantica

theseagrows

theseagrows

 

Fairytale Art Swap Q's

What is your favorite fairy tale, persona, or motif? What imagery does the story/person/thing evoke for you? Do you like or hate how it was handled by a movie or show? How about illustrations and pictures on the subject? Any you are particularly in love with? I’ve got to think about this one.   How are you with ethically sourced (read: found in the woods on the ground, on the beach, etc.) formerly living bits? Examples: feathers, butterfly wings, fossilized teeth/bone, clean-but-not fossilized bone. All good.   Would you rather have half of something that was super fabulous in conception, but ultimately too much to pull off completely in the time frame(although still fully functional? Why not – I also wouldn’t mind if you needed extra time to pull off and just sent me a hint of what’s to come (if that would be fine with the swap leaders).   Is there something specifically in fairytales you do NOT want to see? Can’t think of anything at the moment – will let you know if something comes up.   And would you be limited to the idea of 'fairytales' or would you be happy with crossing over into 'origin stories' or 'mythology'? I love mythology especially Greek and Egyptian.   If you've mentioned that purple is a favorite color, which shades do you prefer? Darker, royal shades or ones that tend to lean more red than blue. Lighter shades are also fine but not the biggest fan of pastels.   If in your questionnaire you talked about different styles or listed a number of favorite stories, now that we've been talking about the subject, has anything sort of popped into your head as a "you know I REALLY wish my artist would do something with X story/theme/subject/style." ? Not really.   How do you feeel about nudity? No problems with it.   How do you feel about more practical crafty kinds of things, rather than more traditional "art"? Like would you be ok with a decorated box or bag, or something like that? If I could use the art that you make me, that would be a bonus. I would love to get a bag for my gaming dice.   Would you like a retold fairy tale (in poem or story form) written by your artist as part of your swap? That would be really neat.   How do you feel about receiving a recipe of some sort based off your faerie tale of choice? Or say a meal plan you could do for a day or like a dinner party or something? This sounds so awesome.   How do you feel about anime in general? I love anime – go to conventions and cosplay too. I’m going as Sailor Moon for this year’s Sakura Con.   What kind of bodyshapes appeal to you in pin up art, male and female? I enjoy pin up – curves are always nice. Don’t really pay attention or look at a lot of male models, so just female for me.   How do you feel about excerpts in your art? Are words okay, or would you rather leave language to the imagination? If excerpts are needed, go ahead. If not tastefully, excerpts can really bring a piece together.   What is your favorite grimms tale?   Would you mind getting extra non fairytale goodies along with the required item? Like teas, bacon caramels, soap? Extras of any kind are always welcomed (though I’m not sure about bacon caramels).   Would you enjoy a wearable item? something hand knit by chance? Love knitted stuff.   What kinds of things do you like to eat? Snack wise, donuts and Asian sweets/cookies.   If you were my patron, is there are particular animal (or animals, or animal tale) from a faerie tale/myth/modern tale/legend that you love or emphasize with?   Do you have a particular house color palette? Not really; I’m also hoping to move out sometime in April or around that time and I don’t have any particular color palette in mind either.   If you were my patron, what would you be hoping for in miniature Miniatures are super fun! I'm up for anything, but dragons especially

misamisa01

misamisa01

 

A note on swap/sales package goodies.

Hi there! To get here, you likely clicked a link my wishlist or swap thread, thanks for being so thoughtful as to look around for information about things like this!   While I greatly appreciate freebies and extras in swap and sales packages, I needed to make a note regarding allergies and such.   We have a few food-related allergies in the house that are, honestly, difficult to avoid. The big one is soy - which rules out a lot of strange stuff. I have a (seizure-related) sensitivity to artificial sweeteners and a sulfa-related allergy to sodium saccharine. Household allergies to: beets, tomatoes, eggplant, strawberries, bananas.   I do enjoy tea, coffee, spices and the like provided they are soy and artificial sweetener free (you'd be surprised at what isn't!)   Here are some odd ones that I never knew I'd need to call out
Latex allergy - so no cute Band-Aids or other skin-touching-sticky things, please
Polyester allergy
Many candles are soy-wax based these days, if you aren't sure please hang onto it for your next package   There is also a household sensitivity (asthma-related) to most synthetic fragrance. I usually just avoid non-BPAL scents because so many of them also use synthetic carriers or soy-based products, which we can't have in the house. Other than BPAL, our house is mostly unscented - we don't use scented bath, beauty, laundry or household products. No incense, please, asthmatic child in the home (and we run HePA filters with UV-C sanitizing lights all the time, so the incense would be gone pretty quickly if we did try.)   I have a post up in the likes/dislikes thread that is linked in my wishlist for BPAL-related death-notes and other assorted scent-based information. This is linked in my wishlist.   Of course, if you include things that I can't have, I'll just pass them on to someone at the office (or in the case of scents and such, offer them up for swapping, frimp them to my next swapper) but I thought I'd try and make sure that everything you pay to ship is loved where it arrives.   Thanks so much for being so generous, everyone!

ladymeag

ladymeag

 

Swap

BN Bottles: Yellow Snowballs The Most Magnificent Christmas Tree Thirteen (Tentacle one)   Tested Bottles: Water Dragon The Death Horse The Hell of Great Heat Mango Lychee Champagne   Empty Bottles: Earth Ox Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers Lilith Victoria The Gladdener of All Hearts   Lab-Fresh Imps: Elli's Song Jabberwocky (aged, but label is in very poor condition)     BN LE Decants: HOD Resurrected       Tested Imps / LE Decants(various levels, although all over 50%): Amsterdam Arachne (marked label, DC'd) Baghdad Bathsheba Bayou Bedbug Beer from the Marsh Woman's Brewery Belladonna Black Hellebore Honey Blood Amber (spoiled label) Blood Countess Black Pearl Black Pearl (aged, spoiled label) Bordello Danube Edymion Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jiggokdayu (spoiled label) Epitaph (taped label) Epitaph (spoiled label) Godfather Death Hecate Jailbait Jolasveinar 2011 Kurukulla Lady Macbeth (taped label) L'Examen de Minuit Leanan Sidhe Love in Idleness Lysander Manila Nocha Buena 2011 Nocturne Ochosi Ogygia Poisoned Apple Pumpkin Masala Rooibos 2011 Reindeer Poop Scarecrow Shub-Niggurath The Apothecary The Pool of Tears The Sea Foams Blood Vasilissa Vixen     Sniffies: Sniffie unless otherwise mentioned A Blot Upon the Earth Blood Pearl Black Phoenix (spoiled label) Boo 2011 Dorian (tester) Elf Goliath Birdwing Hellion v2 Insupportable Misery Lamia Lulu Mort De Cesar 2008 Moxie Ogygia (ink ran on label) Solitude with Pillowbook (prototype) Soothing System v.1 prototype Stone and Darkness The Lion The Ragged Wood (spoiled label) Vamp.Goth x2   Conjured Cardea Indian Bracelet   Ellen Tracy Ellen Tracy eau de parfum imp (75%)   I Smell Good Cake (tested)   Lush: Snowcake x2 (never tested) Snowcake (1/2 decant)   Possets: Black Tea (tested) Cream (tested) Tortoise

mymymai

mymymai

 

Art Swap Questions

What is your favorite fairy tale, persona, or motif? What imagery does the story/person/thing evoke for you? Do you like or hate how it was handled by a movie or show? How about illustrations and pictures on the subject? Any you are particularly in love with?   I think I answered this at length in the thread.   How are you with ethically sourced (read: found in the woods on the ground, on the beach, etc.) formerly living bits? Examples: feathers, butterfly wings, fossilized teeth/bone, clean-but-not fossilized bone.   Go for it!   Would you rather have half of something that was super fabulous in conception, but ultimately too much to pull off completely in the time frame(although still fully functional?   Yes. Do what you want and then send it my way.   Is there something specifically in fairytales you do NOT want to see?   Really, really graphic violence and incest.   And would you be limited to the idea of 'fairytales' or would you be happy with crossing over into 'origin stories' or 'mythology'?   DO IT.   If you've mentioned that purple is a favorite color, which shades do you prefer?   Jewel tones -- so vivid but darkish.   If in your questionnaire you talked about different styles or listed a number of favorite stories, now that we've been talking about the subject, has anything sort of popped into your head as a "you know I REALLY wish my artist would do something with X story/theme/subject/style." ?   I do like Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but I would also really like whatever style you are most comfortable with. I'd rather have a piece you are comfortable and confident making than something you bent over backwards to make in a style I like, but weren't as comfortable in. I'd like to see your expertise.   How do you feeel about nudity?   I'm not opposed.   How do you feel about more practical crafty kinds of things, rather than more traditional "art"? Like would you be ok with a decorated box or bag, or something like that?   I would love it.   Would you like a retold fairy tale (in poem or story form) written by your artist as part of your swap?   Sure!   How do you feel about receiving a recipe of some sort based off your faerie tale of choice?   Yessssss.   Or say a meal plan you could do for a day or like a dinner party or something?   Okay, yes, this would be fun.   How do you feel about anime in general?   I'm down with it.   What kind of bodyshapes appeal to you in pin up art, male and female?   Curvy, but realistic lady shapes.   How do you feel about excerpts in your art? Are words okay, or would you rather leave language to the imagination?   You do what you want.   What is your favorite grimms tale?   This is haaaaaaaard. Seriously, I don't even know.   New As of 10 Feb: Would you mind getting extra non fairytale goodies along with the required item? Like teas, bacon caramels, soap?   Sure!   Would you enjoy a wearable item? something hand knit by chance?   I'd love it. The asker of this question sent me a pair of wrist warmers last year and I wear them ALL THE TIME. She's a fantastic knitter.   New As of 11 Feb: What kinds of things do you like to eat?   All kinds of things. We're serious foodies. Oh, except not mushroom-truffles. Those kind of taste like feet to me. No matter how I have 'em, then end up just being gross. And I love mushrooms. But bllerrrrgh.   If you were my patron, is there are particular animal (or animals, or animal tale) from a faerie tale/myth/modern tale/legend that you love or emphasize with?   No.   New As of 12 Feb:   Do you have a particular house color palette? I think I already said this -- we have a very nice neutral light taupe wall color. I tend to decorate in browns and jewel tones.   New As of 13 Feb: If you were my patron, what would you be hoping for in miniature?   Whatever you are planning on sending me.

EmpressPixie

EmpressPixie

 

Note To Self:

Oh, the possibilities.   413 U.S. 15 / Miller Vs. California Leather, cognac, fig, ripe berry, and cream, stuffed into a plain brown paper bag.   Aglaea Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle.   Boo Eerie billows of spun sugar, fluttering white cotton, and sheets of cream. ( Can get plastic-y. Almost SN vanilla)   Crib Girls Seven honeys under one unkempt roof, with fiery-tart cubeb and dusty cardamom.   Detestable Putrescence Melty vanilla ice cream! ( Possible plastic vanilla)   Eclipse A delicious blend of bitter almond, vanilla, frankincense and heliotrope, with a drop of cinnamon. ( Can have over-powering cinnamon. Some people think it's similar to Snowcake Soap)   French Love A warm, soft, sexual blend. Sweet and alluring. Used to entice new lovers and add an aura of temptation and carnal sin to your environment.   Golletes A circular pastry glazed with pink sugar that symbolizes the sweetness of life and the certainty of death.   Giant Vulva Skin musk, sugar cane, honey, beeswax, vanilla flower, and copal.   Horse chestnut honey Horse chestnut honey (Supposed to by really cloying/caramel-ish)   Imp Devilishly playful: white peach, amber, golden musk and patchouli.   Josie Heady magnolia and honeyed peaches.   Kill-Devil Sugar cane, molasses, oak wood, and honey.   Lyonesse Golden vanilla and gilded musk, stargazer lily, white sandalwood, grey amber, elemi, orris root, ambergris and sea moss.   March Hare A twisted teatime tart: apricot and sweet clove.   Molly Grue An angry little beetle with her own kitchen beauty: fig, sesame, hazelnut, and cooking spices softened by rice flower.   Mouse's Long and Sad Tale ( Perfect Vanilla. Disappears *fast*.) Vanilla, two ambers, sweet pea and white sandalwood.   Redoul honey Redoul honey   Skuld Ylang ylang, honey, Egyptian and Arabian musks and labdanum.   Sugar Plum Fairy Queen of the Kingdom of Sweets: sugar plums, vanilla-infused sugar, tiare, amber musk, apricot peel, and a light dusting of cacao.   The Vine Bradford pear, honey, and vanilla cream.

SerendipityHQ

SerendipityHQ

 

Bottles

Lovelies: #OccupyWallstreet (x2) Ambergris Accord SN And There Was a Great Cry in Egypt Autumn Lace (x2) Black Forest Crowley Dorian in the Pumpkin Patch Eldritch Dark Faunalia Feed Me and Fill Me With Pleasure French Tobacco SN The Grand Basin Haitian Vetiver SN Heavenly Love and Earthly Love Ivanushka La Lugubre Gondola (x2) Red Lantern 2007 The Shivering Boy Siberian Musk Skadi '13 Smut 2011 Snake Charmer: Res Snake Oil ('09) Wolf Moon '13   Willing to part with... The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil Bezoar Chaos Theory V: Snake Oil Herr Drosselmeyer 2010 (1/3) Hell of Great Heat (1/2+) The Illustarted Woman (1/2+) Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn (1/3+) Quietude   Empties: A Low Candle-Lit Room Carnation SN In Winter In My Room Lovers with Rutting Cats Mme. Moriarty Midnight Mass '13 Narrow Opening Sleipnir Snake Oil 10ml ('06)     Arcana: Tinderbox (x4) Growl Filthy Viking Bonfires at Dusk Madame Lapine   Haunt: Winchester '12 (x2) The Burying Tree   {Updated 2/6/14}

liquidtrance

liquidtrance

 

Art Swap!

What is your favorite fairy tale, persona, or motif? I honesttttly love everything. I have books upon books of fairy tales     What imagery does the story/person/thing evoke for you? I just think its beautiful that stories are passed down from generation to generation. The older the fairy tale the more I love it. To have something last as long, its beyond me.   Do you like or hate how it was handled by a movie or show? I do not prefer shows as they fuck it up.     How about illustrations and pictures on the subject? I have seen plenty of beautiful imagery.   Any you are particularly in love with? The old style thats about it.   How are you with ethically sourced (read: found in the woods on the ground, on the beach, etc.) formerly living bits? eh?       Examples: feathers, butterfly wings, fossilized teeth/bone, clean-but-not fossilized bone. I love it   Would you rather have half of something that was super fabulous in conception, but ultimately too much to pull off completely in the time frame(although still fully functional? Either or is fine honestly. just super excited something is fairy tale themed.       Is there something specifically in fairytales you do NOT want to see? Not really. I am very easy to please.     And would you be limited to the idea of 'fairytales' or would you be happy with crossing over into 'origin stories' or 'mythology'? Cross on over baby!     If you've mentioned that purple is a favorite color, which shades do you prefer? Dark, light, love it all. ITS PURPLE DAMNIT     If in your questionnaire you talked about different styles or listed a number of favorite stories, now that we've been talking about the subject, has anything sort of popped into your head as a "you know I REALLY wish my artist would do something with X story/theme/subject/style." ? Gimme it all.     How do you feeel about nudity? DOOO IT. Doesnt phase me. Told you I was easy to please.   How do you feel about more practical crafty kinds of things, rather than more traditional "art"? Like would you be ok with a decorated box or bag, or something like that? Definitely!       Would you like a retold fairy tale (in poem or story form) written by your artist as part of your swap? Beautiful.     How do you feel about receiving a recipe of some sort based off your faerie tale of choice? Or say a meal plan you could do for a day or like a dinner party or something?\ Om nomnom.   How do you feel about anime in general? I like it, my husband loves it. So I'm game. We'd show it off!   What kind of bodyshapes appeal to you in pin up art, male and female?   Nothing obese? Im content.   How do you feel about excerpts in your art? Perfectly fine with me.     Are words okay, or would you rather leave language to the imagination?   Yes sir.     What is your favorite grimms tale? The Moon     Would you mind getting extra non fairytale goodies along with the required item? Like teas, bacon caramels, soap? Who says no to extra goodies?   Would you enjoy a wearable item? something hand knit by chance? Would love that, I don't have many items like that so I would probably wear it all the time.   What kinds of things do you like to eat? Fruits - oranges, strawberries. Veggies - Asparagus, Salads, Green Beans, Peas. Meat- steak, ham, bacon, hamburgers. Er..Sourdough bread.   If you were my patron, is there are particular animal (or animals, or animal tale) from a faerie tale/myth/modern tale/legend that you love or emphasize with? I absolutely love Wolves, and Ravens, from norse mythology.   Do you have a particular house color palette? We just moved in so honestly everything is just jumbled right now.   If you were my patron, what would you be hoping for in miniature? That..I do not know.

asterope

asterope

 

Art Swap #4 Questions List

As of 06 Feb: What is your favorite fairy tale, persona, or motif? What imagery does the story/person/thing evoke for you? Do you like or hate how it was handled by a movie or show? How about illustrations and pictures on the subject? Any you are particularly in love with? How are you with ethically sourced (read: found in the woods on the ground, on the beach, etc.) formerly living bits? Examples: feathers, butterfly wings, fossilized teeth/bone, clean-but-not fossilized bone. Would you rather have half of something that was super fabulous in conception, but ultimately too much to pull off completely in the time frame(although still fully functional? Is there something specifically in fairytales you do NOT want to see? And would you be limited to the idea of 'fairytales' or would you be happy with crossing over into 'origin stories' or 'mythology'? If you've mentioned that purple is a favorite color, which shades do you prefer? If in your questionnaire you talked about different styles or listed a number of favorite stories, now that we've been talking about the subject, has anything sort of popped into your head as a "you know I REALLY wish my artist would do something with X story/theme/subject/style." ? How do you feeel about nudity? How do you feel about more practical crafty kinds of things, rather than more traditional "art"? Like would you be ok with a decorated box or bag, or something like that? Would you like a retold fairy tale (in poem or story form) written by your artist as part of your swap? How do you feel about receiving a recipe of some sort based off your faerie tale of choice? Or say a meal plan you could do for a day or like a dinner party or something? How do you feel about anime in general? What kind of bodyshapes appeal to you in pin up art, male and female? How do you feel about excerpts in your art? Are words okay, or would you rather leave language to the imagination? What is your favorite grimms tale? New As of 10 Feb: Would you mind getting extra non fairytale goodies along with the required item? Like teas, bacon caramels, soap? Would you enjoy a wearable item? something hand knit by chance? New As of 11 Feb: What kinds of things do you like to eat? If you were my patron, is there are particular animal (or animals, or animal tale) from a faerie tale/myth/modern tale/legend that you love or emphasize with? New As of 12 Feb: Do you have a particular house color palette? New As of 13 Feb: If you were my patron, what would you be hoping for in miniature?

SultryWolf

SultryWolf

 

My BPALs

BPALs I love: Snake Oil Morocco Red Lace Joyful Moon Lillith Victoria The Shadowy & the Sublime Madame Moriarty Voodoo The Mysterious Warning Black Heart Hecate Black Opal Smut Endymion Bordello Nymphia Fae Titania The Velvets Metal Rabbit Midnight Kiss Hollywood Babylon Ville Marie Ode On Melancholy Leanan Sidhe Zorya Haloes Mother Ginger Peach Moon Lunar Eclipse 08 Black Butterfly Moon Mouse's Long Sad Tale Faunalia WILF Valentine of Rome Womb Furie Boo 2011 Pink Snowballs 2011 Cleric Lust     Others I have and don't wear much: Zephyr Suck It Seraglio Spellbound Blood Countess Anne Bonny Belle Vinu The Ta Ta Evil Good French Love All Night Long Blot Upon the Earth Gelt Shadow Witch Orchid Samhain 2010 Lambs Wool 2010 Phantom Queen Queen Mab Come To Me

Lorna Brigid

Lorna Brigid

 

Bottle List - February 2, 2012

I haven't worked out a system yet for keeping track of changes. Right now:   #occupywallstreet 13 (February 2009) (x2 PIF) Aelopile Atlas Moth Banshee Beat Boadicea Belladonna (PIF; partial, in non-Lab bottle) Chaos Theory III: DCLXIV Chimera (partial, in non-Lab bottle) Copulating Mice Egg Nog 2007 Elf Forbidding Foyer (PIF) Haloa 2006 Haloa 2007 (whoops; I thought it was the same year) Hay Moon Inextinguishable Hatred Interfector Leo 2007 Lycaon (full plus partial) The Magi Osiris v4 (x2) Phantom Calliope (partial) Priala (partial) Prosperity of a Country Satyr (partial, in non-Lab bottle) Snake Oil (partial) Sugar Skull 2008 Tabella Tezcatlipoca Tombeur (partial) WILF Wulric (partial)   Conjure: Something Under the Stairs Haunt: Shapeshifter Haunt: Winchester ZOMG: Ariel's Fancy-Pants Birthday Pie   So that's 2 shungas, 5 yules, 3 carnival, and 2 vampires dsa. Along with 7 GCs. Other GC favorites I have enough imps to make a bottle: Dracul, No. 93 Engine.   Incoming: UOH34 Meskhenet the Vulture Maiden Conjure: We Three Kings   Sale/trade box:   Expressive Head (partial) The Harpy Celaeno Havana The Mandrake Charm (partial) Moai The Triumph of Death (partial) The Winter of Our Dicontent Wood Phoenix

Teaotter

Teaotter

 

Investigating Oakmoss

A question I asked today:     In testing my imps, I've been trying to give priority to the ones with oakmoss, although after a recent cold, I got sidetracked onto eucalyptus (resulting in two bottles of Ultraviolet and an upcoming purchase of Schrodinger's Cat and Jabberwocky). This may not be the best sense-of-smell day for me, since my allergies are breaking through my antihistamine a bit, but I can't help wanting to experiment anyway. The stash-tracker doesn't work well for the length of comments I sometimes want to make, or for noting the changes over time or layering/mixing effects, so I've decided to track all that here.   This morning, I'm trying Two Monsters, and it's falling kind of flat. From my stash notes:     I'm wondering if I did Two Monsters a disservice by layering it over whatever remains of yesterday's Schrodinger's Jabberwocky. I'll have to try this one again when my nose is clear and skin is clean.   Schrodinger's Jabberwocky, on the other hand, was amazing, and I kept getting lovely whiffs of it even in my sleep several hours later -- not sure how much of that was the Schrodinger's Cat, which seemed to vanish in 10-20 minutes, but I'm going to be getting bottles of both in case the Jabberwocky delightfulness was a byproduct of the layering. The combo even went amazingly well with a bedtime application of Oneroi.

eris523

eris523

 

The Quest

From my intro post, 26 Nov 11         Responses recommended I try: Cat Allingham (DC) Shub-Niggurath (own a bottle, almost but not quite there) The Ifrit (plan to order in next batch) Arkham scents other than S-N (for oceanic qualities) Morocco (own an imp) Ozymandias

eris523

eris523

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