What I've been up to---

[jess]

for those of you who read nontheistnexus (http://nontheistnexus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=109), those are my shoes and some stitching.

I wonm a 2nd place ribbon for the butterfly one at a national contest, and I just taught it, professionally, for the first time.

There just isn't a smilely here to capture how I feel... ;)

[Shelli]

Your linkie no workie, Jess. :=)

[fragment]

There's a space in it. Try this (http://nontheistnexus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=109).

Nice shoes, jess!

[JamesBannon]

Well done, Jess!

[Shelli]

OMG! Those are SO cool! :goldcup:

[jess]

Thank you--- and thanks for providing a link--- I fixed mine.

I'd love to hear what people *think* about the shoes... I unloaded a whole spice rack of symbolism into them... I'd like to know what came through...

[Watser?]

Ooooh, they are good. Love the spider web and the Arab coin chain thing.

I give it 4 Snoopies :thumbup:

:joecool2: :joecool2: :joecool2: :joecool2:

[Kevlar]

Pardon my stupid question... but do you wear them or are they just for display?

(Nice job, by the way)

[jess]

I struggled with that--- decided to not wear them and they are lined with fur and broken glass.

:D

The coins are actual belly dance coins collected off the stage after shows... The feathers (also lining them) are from a vegas style headdress.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

those are some cool shoes. i dig :)

[Ymir's blood]

Spiderweb. :)

Is that a snake on the spike heel?

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

what's your avatar all about, Ymir? it looks familiar for some reason...

my wife was one of you freaks. well, she still is...she married me :)

[jess]

Yes--- there's a snake crawling up the heel on one. There's a caterpillar on the other.

I dunno if this (http://rationalpagans.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=529)is open to viewing or not... but you can join... ;) It may have bigger pics.

[Ymir's blood]

what's your avatar all about, Ymir? it looks familiar for some reason...
The girl's name was Elsie Paroubek. Look up Henry Darger for her story, but it's not really that important. I picked it as an avatar because it's just haunting.

[Ymir's blood]

Yes--- there's a snake crawling up the heel on one. There's a caterpillar on the other.

I dunno if this (http://rationalpagans.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=529)is open to viewing or not... but you can join... ;) It may have bigger pics.
It's not open to viewing. Not sure if they'd want me as a member though, being neither rational nor pagan. :wink:

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

in the realms of the unreal! that's one of my favourite documentaries!! i knew i knew that picture!! :D

[jess]

Trust me, they'd be happy to have you.

[Legs]

Jess, I love the shoes and believe me, I know shoes ;)

[Pinecone]

The one with flowers looks soft and scary like a coffin.

[Shake]

Very cool, Jess.

And hey, I recently wrote an article (http://nontheistnexus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=105) for the Nexus.

[jess]

Legs: I believe it ;)

Pinecone: coffin? cool--- and completely unintended... wait, I mean, you got the message!

Shake: good for you!

[jess]

NEWS:

I got juried into Fiber Forum (http://www.egausa.org/html/fiiber_forum.html), an artists group for embroiderers.

A jury of my peers have accepted me as one of their own. I am now an official needle artist.

For my shoes (seen in theApril Nontheist Nexus (http://nontheistnexus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=109)) and phoenix.

I have a bottle of sparkling wine/erzatz champagne chilling in the fridge as I type.

Go ME!

[Chris Porter]

Good indeed. Congratulations.