Haha! No, no tattoos...I'm too easily bored for any kind of *permanent* body art. Hence why I dye my hair a different colour almost every time...I've only lately started sticking to Ultraviolet Black (which is really a VERY dark purple-brown.)
Tengwar...er...does this mean you've read The Silmarillion? Because I've always loved the Sil even more than I love LotR. And though I have no tat, I have always yearned for my own signature stamp similar to Tolkien's symbol printed in gold on the front of the centennial hardcover version (illustrated by Alan Lee) of LotR...the one with his initials overlapping in sharp, sharp tipped font, so that the whole looks like a very complex Kanji. The T and the J blend and the R's stick out to either side...wait, here it is: http://www.valaquenta.com/sigil-large.php I want one of those so bad! WAAAHHH I can't draw. :(
But...you make jewellery. This is mildly creepy. I make jewellery too. (My favourite stuff is Celtic in metal, and anything that looks 'fairyish' or like a dryad or fairy would wear it...big leaves and things.) I don't think I'm as good as you...I stick mainly to hairsticks. Let's see...
Told you...hundreds of pics in my LJ scrapbook, lol.
I want to try doing wooden jewellery next, I think, I've got a tentative idea for a necklace. And you know what's weird? I love that 'charm' look of the 'ringing in your ears'...and I THINK I used similar beads to some of those in there in one of my hairsticks, here: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/000kaz47/g16
I swear, this is very odd. It's like you've got a piece of my brain...or perhaps I have a piece of yours? Whichever of us is dumber must have donated the extra bit, lol.
Weird, weird. I'm going to go back and look at your stuff a bit more...
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Tengwar...er...does this mean you've read The Silmarillion? Because I've always loved the Sil even more than I love LotR. And though I have no tat, I have always yearned for my own signature stamp similar to Tolkien's symbol printed in gold on the front of the centennial hardcover version (illustrated by Alan Lee) of LotR...the one with his initials overlapping in sharp, sharp tipped font, so that the whole looks like a very complex Kanji. The T and the J blend and the R's stick out to either side...wait, here it is: http://www.valaquenta.com/sigil-large.php I want one of those so bad! WAAAHHH I can't draw. :(
But...you make jewellery. This is mildly creepy. I make jewellery too. (My favourite stuff is Celtic in metal, and anything that looks 'fairyish' or like a dryad or fairy would wear it...big leaves and things.) I don't think I'm as good as you...I stick mainly to hairsticks. Let's see...
Here's a necklace: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/0001dha4/g12
and another: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/00026d53/g12
That one only looks good on people with prominent collar bones and straight shoulders like mine, but I'm just not as good as you, if the few pics I saw are any indication.
And what I'm better at, hairsticks (This is the first one I ever made): http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/00028ft1/g17
And I occasionally try experiments like this: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/000b04d5/g12
Told you...hundreds of pics in my LJ scrapbook, lol.
I want to try doing wooden jewellery next, I think, I've got a tentative idea for a necklace. And you know what's weird? I love that 'charm' look of the 'ringing in your ears'...and I THINK I used similar beads to some of those in there in one of my hairsticks, here: http://pics.livejournal.com/golden_meliades/pic/000kaz47/g16
I swear, this is very odd. It's like you've got a piece of my brain...or perhaps I have a piece of yours? Whichever of us is dumber must have donated the extra bit, lol.
Weird, weird. I'm going to go back and look at your stuff a bit more...