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Y'all do know the Gem & Jewelry Show is this weekend, right? I went on Friday and got enough wire to do the rest of my solid head-thingy..... Oh, I just have to make up a name for these things... Kapes, was it, for head? And Iladi is ring, and aranare is to link together... All right. Henceforth we're calling them... hmmm.... You know, we could just use the word for web, because that's really what they are, webs of rings... Just call them arani. One aran, two arani. just like in Nia's last name. Arani Ilad'ai if we want to be very specific and differentiate from any other kind of woven/linked material.
Anyway, I got enough medium green to finish my latest aran, and a whole lot of a different kind of silver than I've ever seen. Plus a blue in 18- and 20-gauge. They've never had a decent blue before, so we'll see what it's good for. I also got some cheaper gold.
Then we helped Tom Freeland man his booth; he had nobody with him this show round, so we'd stay by and tell everybody that the silver lab opal rings are all 2/3 off, and the kachina dolls are up to $100 ... it was pretty fun, and mama got a bunch of rings to sell. She has a bunch of her most expensive stuff she bought from him in the front of his booth, trying to sell it and get some money... But it's all so gorgeous. I don't want it to go away. Someday fellow draconic hoarder types are going to have to come and play in mama's opals.
Here I sit, falling in love with Robert Plant all over again. May Led Zeppelin take over the world. Oh, did I tell you we played a counting game in Russian and when you lost you had to do some kind of performance? The only time I messed up I had to sing a song, so the first thing that came to mind was Ally's Legend, and I sang it. They were impressed that I'd made up both the tune and the language, let alone the verses in English. Which I'm not as good at reciting. I learned it better in Ailurian. I'll have to show you all the notation system I came up with. Pretty rudimentary still, but it works. Comment on my gargantuan update! Ally! Ev! Get your tails into Wyverns' and look at some of the stuff I fixed!
Anyway, I got enough medium green to finish my latest aran, and a whole lot of a different kind of silver than I've ever seen. Plus a blue in 18- and 20-gauge. They've never had a decent blue before, so we'll see what it's good for. I also got some cheaper gold.
Then we helped Tom Freeland man his booth; he had nobody with him this show round, so we'd stay by and tell everybody that the silver lab opal rings are all 2/3 off, and the kachina dolls are up to $100 ... it was pretty fun, and mama got a bunch of rings to sell. She has a bunch of her most expensive stuff she bought from him in the front of his booth, trying to sell it and get some money... But it's all so gorgeous. I don't want it to go away. Someday fellow draconic hoarder types are going to have to come and play in mama's opals.
Here I sit, falling in love with Robert Plant all over again. May Led Zeppelin take over the world. Oh, did I tell you we played a counting game in Russian and when you lost you had to do some kind of performance? The only time I messed up I had to sing a song, so the first thing that came to mind was Ally's Legend, and I sang it. They were impressed that I'd made up both the tune and the language, let alone the verses in English. Which I'm not as good at reciting. I learned it better in Ailurian. I'll have to show you all the notation system I came up with. Pretty rudimentary still, but it works. Comment on my gargantuan update! Ally! Ev! Get your tails into Wyverns' and look at some of the stuff I fixed!
