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Totally awesome Thursday things!

Today is Thursday, and things are awesome! Like, seriously, seriously awesome. Why are they awesome? Because they are. I will explain.

First awesome: Conjure Oils is doing a line of perfumes inspired by the Toby Daye books. They debuted at OryCon, and they are amazing. Seriously, I squealed, more than a little. There are seven scents in the initial line, and more coming, some of which I am, like, crazy excited about (the idea of January O'Leary perfume makes me giggle way more than is strictly sane). If you're a BPAL fan, or know someone who is, you could do a lot worse than Toby Daye perfumes for the holidays.



Ahem: squee.

Second awesome: My darling Mia, over at Chimera Fancies, is getting ready for her incredibly massively huge holiday sale, and has put up a preview post of pendants. It seems like every batch is better than the batch before, which is probably part of why my pendant collection is beginning to rival my Pony collection for sheer number of pieces. I mean, damn.

The latest sale begins Friday, November 19th, at noon Pacific time, and if you check out her post, you can find out how to get yourself entered in a drawing for possible free awesomeness. I mean, how much better can it get than free awesomeness?

Third awesome: My mailing tubes arrived last night, and I estimated correctly, meaning that the mailing of the new "Wicked Girls" posters has officially begun. Specifically, I've mailed posters to Tara and to our cover model, but that means I now know exactly what I'm dealing with, rather than just making a highly educated guess. Hooray for math!

For details on the posters, and on how you can currently order them, please see yesterday's post on the subject. I'm planning to package and mail all paid orders from this week on Saturday morning, which means you'd have them by the end of the week in the United States, and by the end of the month in Canada. I also now know what it would cost to mail internationally, so please contact me via my website if you'd like to discuss other mailing options.

Tara bet me five dollars and a cupcake that we'd sell fifty in the first twenty-four hours. There's three hours left, and we're at thirty-eight. Free cupcake!

And those are the things which are awesome. What's awesome in the world of you?
Tags: art, conjure oils, fairy tale remix, geekiness, good things, people make things, tara, toby daye
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ZOMG, how perfectly suited are perfumes for these books! Toby's smells like copper and cut grass! So badass!

Who the hell is A.T. Olsen? Ashley Toby Olsen? Did I miss her?
Alex and Terrie, from A Local Habitation.

spectralbovine

6 years ago

The perfumes with the magic scents is such a great idea! :)
I'm totally thrilled.
Watching my newly re-found DVDs of Rome.

sheistheweather

6 years ago

I got both Toby Daye and May Daye and when I put them on and had my hubby smell them, he immediately wanted to drag me to our hotel room. I want to get the others as well. I hope to have a few to sell on my merchant table at Rustycon, also.
Awesome!
Ahhhh, Oregon folks are the best, aren't we? ;o) YAY Conjure Oils! I'll have to pop in next time I'm up in that neighborhood.

As for fabulousness here in my world...I woke to an inch of snow and three (of the 6) cats cuddled close to me!
Awesome.
I decided to get myself an early birthday present -- Toby, Tybalt, and Rose Goblin.
Omg looove the idea...want one!!, but it's so expensive for one 5ml bottle >.
It's about normal, really, for this sort of perfume oil. I have a lot of perfume of this type, and a bottle lasts a long time.

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SO NICE.
oh wow, that's way tempting... oils and perfumes... just the thing for me.
*not even trying to resist*

what's awesome around here...
I'll hop over the border to Germany on Saturday for a one-day-trip and a bit of strolling around in the historical part of the city of Konstanz near the Bodensee lake. Beautiful and fun there. :)
Oh, lovely! Hope you're having fun!

naurwen

6 years ago

WOW!!!

even though it's been months and months, i'm still jumping up and down that my book is an itunes/iphone/ipod app. LOL
Hee!
Thanks to you and markbernstein, we're now watching Tower Prep. 8-)
Awesome. It's worth watching.
YOU HAVE A PERFUME LINE. FOR YOUR BOOKS. OMIGOD. *is insanely happy for you*
I DO IT IS INCREDIBLE!!!!

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Oh, wow. That is BUCKETS OF HAPPY.
What's awesome is I may have a non-medical way to stop the greater part of my insomnia, which is primarily caused by not being able to shut my thinking brain down for the night. Meditation seldom works, the usual OTC/folk methods never work, and I have an idiosyncratic reaction to benzodiazepines, the primary family of prescription sleep meds.

I snuggle down into my bed, on my side (I sleep that way), and play Bejeweled2 on my iPhone. In less than 15 min, not the usual hour or so, I am dropping off. This works better than running a piece of music through my head--much faster. I need to get my brain focused on something for which I have no words. This game seems to do it.

I still have to work on the sleeping through sinus issues, coughing, extraneous noise (snoring husband, e. g.), and more heat than is comfortable. Oh, and deeper sleep, so I actually wake up refreshed.

It's still a major development for a lifelong insomniac!
That's fabulous. I'm so pleased for you.

saffronrose

6 years ago

The perfume line is brilliant. I only wish I could by an assortment of all the scents as samples. I'd spring for that in a heartbeat, but I'm so bad at matching my body chemistry with scents without testing them that there's no way I can risk a 5 ml bottle of something I may not be able to use at all.
And that said, if anyone here is interested in starting a decant circle, or has started one with spots open, please let me know.

celticdragonfly

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

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jane_dark

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seanan_mcguire

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jane_dark

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

Oooh! That is really cool about the perfumes. I usually am not into that sort of thing, but it does tempt me this time.

Makes me think about what the scents would be for my family. selenite would be... apple and something. Pine maybe. fordprfct would be bluebonnets and ozone. I'd be... vanilla and ... something. Not sure what.
Hee.

Awesome.