As I mentioned in my previous journal, none of my hemp jewelry sold on ebay, so now I'm offering it to you guys on deviantart. I've listed the prices and links to the pictures of the jewelry below. It's a first come, first serve basis.

YOU MUST NOTE ME THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AN ITEM. If you just write a comment, I might not read it for weeks. I read my notes immediately when I see I've received a new one. So if you want one of these, please, please NOTE me. All you have to put in the note is the links to any pieces you want to buy. If you're the first person to want it, I'll hold the item, taking it off the for sale list, for a week. I'll also send a confirmation note, asking for the address of where I'm sending it to and working out the payment details. If I do not get a response within a weeks time of when I send out the confirmation note, I'll contact the next person who was interested in it, or put it back up for sale.

All payments are through paypal. I may make some exceptions, so there's no harm in asking, but I'd like to keep it strictly paypal if at all possible, just to keep everyone safe and secure and all that. Free shipping, so the price you see on it is the price you pay!

If anyone has any questions at all, please note me. Like I said, I read my notes often and am very behind in reading my comments and replies, so if you want a quick answer, the best bet is a note. Further down this journal, there's a section on the custom jewelry I'm offering to make for people, so if you don't like any of these pre-made ones, maybe you'd rather help me design the perfect unique hemp jewelry for you?

Anyway! Without further adieu (sp?):


*Fifteen Dollar ($15.00) Necklaces:

Dust Devil - [link]
Peace Beads - [link]
Red Pitstone - [SOLD] - [link]


*Ten Dollar ($10.00) Necklaces:

Purple Swirls - [link]
Copper Green - [link]
Flying Saucer - [link]
Reversible - [SOLD] - [link] and [link]


*Five Dollar ($5.00) Necklaces and Bracelets:

Yellow Fever - [link]
Blood Candy - [link]
Fish Breath - [link]


*Two Dollar ($2.00) Keychains:

Onix - [link]
Clear Core - [link]


Custom Hemp Jewelry:

The important thing to remember is that I'm willing to work with every last person to make what you want. I know how much it sucks wanting a unique piece of jewelry or having a bead or charm you love, but you don't know what to do with it. If I don't have a color of hemp rope, or a specific stone someone wants, I will do my best to get them what they want. I'm here to make you guys the perfect hemp jewelry. So basically how this goes, is you note me with what you want your hemp item to look like, I'll get back to you as soon as possible and I'll let you know whether I can do the project or not, how long it will take, and at least an estimate, if not an exact number of how much it will cost. The only times I won't be able to give you an immediate price are if you need me to track down a certain color of rope or bead, etc.

Include the following things in your note:

-Item: (Here, you need to list whether you want a necklace/choker, bracelet, anklet, or keychain. If you want something other than these, go ahead and type it in here and I'll let you know whether I think I can pull it off or not.)

-Length: (Take a piece of string and wrap it around your neck, wrist, etc. so that it is the length you want your jewelry. Lay the string out next to a ruler, measuring how many inches the string is. Don't use inches? Don't worry about conversions, just write down the length it is to you and I'll do the rest.)

-Hemp color: (Currently, I offer regular colored hemp along with black and brown. I can get mostly any other color and any thickness, just let me know.)

-Knot Style: (Browse through the above links and find a knot style you think you would like. I can do any variation or combination of them. Or, if you have a knot style you want that you don't see, give me a link to a photo or description, and we'll see if i can figure it out.)

-Bead Color: (You can either tell me a bead color and be surprised, or you can tell me what color you're interested in and request to see the beads I have of that color on hand at the moment. I'll take a photo and put it in my scraps once it is requested. If you'd rather surf the internet and find beads for sale that you would like me to purchase and then make into an item for you, include a link to the page here. Depending on how expensive some beads are, I may or may not be able to afford to make the item. If you already have beads you want someone to put on a necklace, skip to the next section and leave this blank.)

-Special Requests/Comments: (Here is where you can enter any other special instructions or requests. If you are wanting me to make a necklace with a bead you already own, you will mention that here. In this case, you will need to pay for shipping the bead(s) to me. I know most people will not want to trust me with their beads at first, so I doubt I'll get many requests for this, but I'm offering it just in case.)

Well, I think that's it. Remember, this is my first time offering custom jewelry online, so I'm very open to suggestions and critiques on how to make this all more understandable or how to get it to run smoothly, etc. I'm also very flexible and open when it comes to working out the details of your jewelry with you and will note you back and forth as many times as you need to feel comfortable and confident that you're getting the perfect jewelry piece. If anyone has any questions or comments, don't hesitate to note me! Thank you all so much!

Peace, love, and happiness to you all!

Character List: [link]
Art Status: [link]

Clubs:

Just thought I'd update everyone on what's been going down. None of it has been good really.

-Brian was laid off two weeks ago and still has no job. I'm trying my best to make enough money to keep us going, but I only make about four hundred bucks every two weeks. Brian made more than that in a single week.

-My jewelry is not selling on ebay and not as many people seem to be excited about it on DA as I thought.

-Had to have a tooth pulled yesterday. It's in the front part of my mouth and on the lower jaw, right next to my canine. It had a vertical fracture in it and even running my tongue over it killed me, so off I went to a school of dentistry so I could have it pulled for fairly cheap (and because I don't have insurance). Whole goddamn thing still cost me over two hundred bucks. Not to mention that I have no idea when I'll be able to afford a fake replacement to fill the gap in. I very well may have to deal with missing a tooth until AFTER Brian and I get married and I'm put on his insurance, which means I will be missing a tooth in all of my wedding photos. Isn't life grand?

-My car remains broken. Since Brian's not working, we have no money to get it fixed. It's been sitting there so long, grass is beginning to grow around the fucking tires.

-Our house is STILL not fixed up. We've been living here over a year and because stupid shit keeps happening, we never have the time or money to upgrade it from the shit-hole it is now.

So yeah, I'm in pain, have no money, and everything keeps breaking. I don't know what Brian or I did to piss off the big person in charge up in the sky, or karma, or whatever you believe in. Whatever it is, neither of us can believe that we deserve to have luck this bad for this long.

I'm so hungry...all I've eaten in the past two days is half a can of drinkable soup and a little cup of applesauce.... I could cry.

Peace, love, and happiness to you all!

Character List: [link]
Art Status: [link]

Clubs:

Before I went through all the effort of making a price list for my custom hemp jewelry/accessories, I was wondering how many people would actually buy something from me.

The customs could be made of beads that you would either send to me if you have specific beads you already want put on a hemp rope, or beads that I buy, make into something, and ship to you. The only time anyone would have to pay shipping costs would be if they wanted to send personal beads to be woven into the item.

The prices would be cheaper than my current ebay prices, and like I said, shipping would be free. I'll go into more detail later, if anyone is interested, that's why I'm asking, because I don't want to go through and price everything if no one is going to bite.

I was also wondering if anyone that I owe something to would rather have something made of hemp rather than a drawing or what not. Just curious since I couldn't offer the hemp items as prizes or trades before. And I'm a lazy ass and the hemp items are way easier and quicker to make than the drawings. Whatever I owe people would translate into a different amount of hemp items I guess. For example, someone who I owe a full-color drawing to would get more hemp items instead while someone who I only owed a sketch to would get less.

Like I said, only if anyone is interested! ^^ Please give me your feedback and opinions, I'd really appreciate it!

Peace, love, and happiness to you all!

Character List: [link]
Art Status: [link]

Clubs:

Kara's NOT dead you say?

Indeed ladies and gentlesperm, I liiiive! Though I'm surprised I haven't been lynched by an angry mob of people who have been waiting on the things I owe them for over a year....

A lot has happened since I was away, and I'm sorry I missed so much of everyone. I'm going to be clearing out the ol' watchlist soon. It's been fun with a lot of people, but since I'm never on anymore, I see no reason to watch obscure people whose images I usually just delete in the mass anyway. So I'll be picking some close friends and some favorites I can't live without and letting the rest go unfortunately. Don't hate me!

I also wanted to let everyone know I'm finally up and selling on ebay! Check it out: [link]

I'll be putting up pictures of the necklaces on here as well for people to see what I can do and maybe take a few custom orders! ^^ At the very least, I'd love feedback about how they look and maybe what you guys would like to see from me! Thanks everyone!

Oh, random rant at the end of this, sorry, but you all know me

Back story: I just recently watched every last Star Trek: The Next Generation episode and shortly after that, Brian and I watched all the movies with the TNG cast in them as well. We just watched the last movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, the other day.

I simply refuse to acknowledge that that rambling bit of randomness is the way it ends, or that it's officially a movie at all.

No one probably knows what the hell I'm on about, but I wanted to get it off my chest anyway.

Feel free to read, but this is more of a personal rant/journal, so don't feel obligated to sit through it. ^^

It's funny. The past week, a lot of things have fallen into perspective for me...and some haven't so much fallen as they've been FORCED. Things like that happen I guess. I guess it works out that a few of those things are good, and others not so good. I've had these thoughts crashing and tumbling inside my head all week, and I can see them taking shape, and changing ME.

It's hard when you know you should say or do something, when you know you should stand up for yourself or others. KNOWING you should do it is the easy part, it's DOING it that's hard. Especially if you don't want to make anyone upset, or create more stupid problems. The worst part is, people don't notice that they make you feel like shit a lot of the time. No matter who they are, whether you like each other or not, people genuinely have a problem of realizing when they're being assholes. The worst part? If they don't see themselves at fault, when you bring it up to them, it makes YOU look like the asshole. Lovely vicious cycle we have here, isn't it?

You have to stop and wonder, would it even matter if I said anything? Maybe. In my case, I think not. It's been the same too long, I can't see it changing, just getting worse. Being pushed out again. Yay. Happened before, was hoping it wouldn't happen again, but there's the evidence.

Tell me, as humans, why are we so conceited and vain? Even when we try or claim to be above that, every last one of us boils down to an odd sense of vanity. One person may put too much stock in their looks, another might think too highly of themselves because of a skill they have. But regardless of whether you're a supermodel or the absolute BEST at whistling, you're still human, and guess what? Everyone else around you is a human too.

Does it give you the right to treat one better over the others? Does it make it okay to shun some while you put others up on a pedestal?

I like to think not.

Ugh, I apologize for the boring sludge of rant above, but I'm basically bleeding out onto the journal page here. I'm upset, in a deep way that I'm not sure I can ever shake off. Something...broke, I don't know what or where in my anatomy it is, but it broke. And after that break, there was nothing left but anger, confusion, and hurt. The same old feelings. Rising up again every time I have to deal with this bullshit. I've dealt with it in the past at least four different times, one of those times had to do with my own family, and I still can't talk to my two cousins without feeling this sick, annoying tension between us. It's what happens once you open your mouth and say the truth. So should I remain silent and continue to take it, or deal with it and lose something important?

Guess it's not important anymore actually, if it's come down to this point, it's not important to the others, so I guess it shouldn't be important to me. *sigh* I know I'm not making any sense, but for obvious reasons, I can't go into the details. Plus, re-living the details would only make me more upset.

I can feel the shift coming. It's like the feeling before a terrible storm. You can taste, smell, feel, and hear the storm, but you can't stop it from crashing down on top of you. You know the rain will make the plants grow and the wind will cool down the hot summer air, but living through it.... Sometimes that's the real challenge. My life is about to shift away from one direction and towards another, and I'm leaving the fucking storm behind, because I'm sick of them.

Only one person that reads this is probably going to understand any of it....