First Jewelry Giveaway! Lucky Earrings!

Having seen these all over the internet, and how fun they can be, I'm going to give it a try :-)


Up for grabs, my new Enchantment Earrings!

Each cluster of semiprecious stones, glass beads, and wire is designed to help focus on a particular desire or goal. And look great doing it!

In theme with a giveaway contest, this is a pair of Luck Enchantment earrings :-D

Aventurine attracts luck, abundance, and financial health as well as correspondence with the heart chackra for love luck. Onyx attracts good vibes while filtering out the negative, and also enhances intuition and instinct (To know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em ;-}). Plus glass dice beads in black and silver. On sterling ear wires, with silver plated copper wire wrapped by hand.

This giveaway will be open until Friday March 18th, called on Saturday, and mailed early the next week. The winner will be selected via Random.org. Please include your email address on all entries, so I can ask you privately about your mailing address if you win.


The Rules!
Basic entry: Become a follower of this blog (if you haven't already). Leave a comment on this post, with your email address and a link to your favorite piece in my Etsy shop ;-)

Bonus entries:
+1 entry = "Like" us on the QOTCP Facebook page! And leave a separate blog comment saying you are a new/old Facebook follower.

+1 entry = Follow us on Twitter via QOTCPcf! Leave a separate blog comment saying you are a new/old follower and include your Twitter name.

+1 entry = Spread the word on this giveaway via Twitter! Leave a separate blog comment saying you have done so, with your Twitter name, but I can only count it if your account is open/visible to me. You can do this up to 3 times for extra entries.

+3 entries = Spread the word on this giveaway via your blog! Livejournal, Tumblr, Blogger, etc. all blogs welcome :-) And leave a separate comment here with a link to your blog entry so I can confirm.

+5 entries = Add Queen of the Cat People to your blogroll, and leave another comment saying as such with a link to your blog.


ADDITIONAL- Readers from outside the USA are definitely eligible to play :-) Also, if I didn't mention already I will cover shipping!


Queen of the Cat People, Class with a cult following.

Home and safe... phew!

Sorry I didn't post between the events, but I needed to hibernate for a bit. Both SalonCon and Wicked Labyrinth kicked convention butt, and I did very well for myself and for the Interstitial Arts Foundation.

Now the only question is, do I ask to be on the IAF's "friends" page as "Queen of the Cat People", Chrysilla, or my real name? They'll link my name to my website if I ask, but its always fun to be eccentric.

If you're curious:
Here is my SalonCon photo gallery,
And this is my Wicked Lab gallery, including a pic of the lovely lady who won the Other Mother necklace :-D

I have video footage of my booth kittens at Wicked Lab singing songs about selling shiny objects, but those will have to wait for now. First I need to redesign my website and start the Etsy-migration before I can wrestle around with YouTube ;-) And yes, this means I'm about to undertake a major online overhaul of shiny, just in time for the holiday shopping season (I hope!).

That also means there may be a lag in shiny postings, but I'll see what I can do. I'm going to start selling earrings online thru Etsy, so that's some new pictures you my readers have to look forward to. Also, STEAMPUNK!

And expect ... eventually ... more projects from my Bards & Beads community, especially after the New York Whole Bead Show this October. I've got three books to catch up on, yikes.

My next planned engagement is Wicked Faire in February 2008, but I'm currently waiting to hear if I've made it into the Bust Craftacular on December 8, ironically in the same space as the NYWBS.

<3 Chrysilla

Coming to a convention center near you!

First, I am the happy winner of the last challange on the Bards & Beads community. At about the same time we started reading Cat Valente's Orphan's Tales, she won the Tiptree Award for the same book. So she set us up the bar- whichever of our OT necklaces she liked best (posted by mid-May) she would purchase and wear to the ceremony. She was torn, and the other necklace was gorgeous too (I'm so jealous of people that know how to work in wire), but when she polled for help on LJ I came out the winner. Yay! So now Ms. Valente is the owner of the Ixora necklace, which will remain a QOTCP original.

Here's a pic taken by a mutual friend of ours of Ms. Valente in her full Tiptree regalia at Wiscon 31. It's gotta be an awesome ceremony if part of your award is a tiara. Congradulations!

Sadly, my finances did not balance out for me to go to Wiscon, but if I don't have the riotous good time my friends have promised me for DragonCon, I may make Wiscon next year's "big" convention. Between travel and convention expenses, each would probably cost about the same amount of $$ for me.


However, I am scheduled for several events over the next few months, some selling, some just attending:

Gothic Pirate Ball on Thursday, July 17, 2007 @ The Element/Vault which I think used to be The Bank (of legend). I will be selling jewelry there, but it's a less-vendors-more-dancing sort of event.

DragonCon, August 31st thru September 3rd 2007, in Atlanta, GA. I won't be vending, but I will be attending, and wearing as much jewelry as I can without passing out from the weight.

Camarilla Club North East Regional Event, September 13-16 in Syracuse, NY. This is a Cam Club event, and I'm not sure they'll have a dealer's room. Not sure if I'll have the energy for it anywhoo. But I will be well-costumed and bejeweled, promise ;-) If you're a fellow Cammunist, check out the Conventions page on the main Camarilla Club website.

The Salon Convention, September 22nd, in Edison, NJ. This was a blast last year! And this year the talent is even more impressive! This year my crew and I *may* host a room party the Friday nite before, but that is uncertain. Depends on who is going, and how much a suite costs, and if there are any left to begin with. I will be selling jewelry again this year.

Wicked Labyrinth, September 28-29 in Edison, NJ. They are taking over the whole hotel and doing strange and wonderous things with it, but I will be in the vendors room which is only open that Saturday.


Soooo... yes. September will be wild. I will have to sleep through August to get ready, but I think it will be worth it ;-) Still wondering if I should get real rennie garb this season, I'd certainly get a lot of use out of it.

<3 Chrysilla

Orphan's Tales, round 3

The Maidenhead, based on the pirate ship of the same name. Rich reds and natural bone beads, with a bit of far Eastern flavor.


Satyrs <3 Selkies!
Just go read the book, this one's a lovely story ;-) I wanted to encorporate the woodland life of the satyrs with the sea dwelling selkies, in necklace form.

And that's not all, I have even more pieces coming later!

In other news, my Ixora necklace won the challange set by Catherynne Valente on the Bards and Beads community. If delivery goes as planned, she will be wearing it for the Tiptree Award Ceremony at Wiscon this weekend. Thanx Catherynne!

Bead Dreams 2007, Bead&Button's Annual Bead Artistry Competition

Bead & Button is a magazine I like to read now and then. Not sure if I'm going to put in an entry, but I'm definitely thinking about it.

For more info, click here!