These convertible Aynia fairy wings have my digitally hand painted electric rainbow color pattern applied to the clear Diamond Fire iridescent film and black veining.
I may have a few repeat single color wings offered as well in this flash sale, tomorrow, Sept 13 at 9pm PDT.
A reminder that I haven't been able to get a hold of the clear elastic I used to include for straps, so they are now sold without them.
I usually ship within 3 business days of the sale, however, there's a small chance there may be delays due to the fire and smoke issues affecting California and the whole west coast.
I'm incredibly grateful that I'm still in my home and able to stay in business, even if I am very depressed and anxious about being trapped in here because the air outside is toxic, and covid is still a problem that keeps me from safely being able to do anything fun indoors anywhere else.
That's why I felt a need to make something bright and colorful, and maybe you need something bright and colorful too.
If you need it, the shop link is https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/
Accessories Flash Sale Tomorrow, Friday Sept. 4 at 8am Pacific!
Surprise!
Well if you are a Patreon patron it’s not so much a surprise, but usually I like to announce things more ahead of time.
Tomorrow, Friday 9/4 at 8am Pacific Daylight Time, I’ll be listing all of the pieces below - 2 crowns, 3 hair combs and 3 each of the dark and light crystal Nightshade necklaces.
I’m never sure if any of these accessory pieces will be repeated because sometimes the specific settings & findings are unavailable after I’ve used a small batch, but I can tell you now I won’t repeat those tiaras exactly. That brass stamping was torture to solder to the metal band and although some of that was my own inexperience with soldering these types of things together, much of it was that type of stamping with no flat areas in back of it is just plain difficult to solder especially for a piece that needs to flex to be worn.
If it weren’t for an opportunity that unexpectedly came up, i would have jumped ahead by now to getting my own crown design cut from metal and am still moving forward with that.
Next time I offer crowns, they should be completely original pieces with a few added commercially available embellishments like jewels and their settings.
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3 Faerie Crowns in Search of Their Queens
Faerie crowns for queens of their own kingdoms, the Aynia Lilac, the Aphrodite Azure, and the Vivienne Rainbow Faerie Queen crowns will be listing this Thursday morning, May 28 at 8:30am Pacific Daylight Time.
The metal crown portion of all of these is designed by Alessio Benetti of The Original Atelier.
They've been popular among fantasy designers, who often cut them up to rearrange into crowns and accessories.
I'd only done 2 that way a few years ago before I knew the artist behind them, and thought I would embellish these with my original wings in mini form, along with all the bling, to get out of my creative rut in this pandemic anxiety mode .
First, the Aynia Lilac Queen Crown - my favorite!
This crown has a color theme of wine, lavender and burgundy.
The 5 inch Aynia wings (side) and 1 & a half sets of smaller wings in front and accenting the side top (Salome and Vivienne designs) are all painted in the same color family with touches of bright blue. Wine colored glass jewels decorate the base of the wings, with iridescent Swarovski crystals on the wings and front of the crown.
Brass and clear glass chains hang from each side with pale lavender iridescent crystal drops and purple iridescent beads. This crown will be $479 USD
Next, the Vivienne Rainbow Queen crown.
The metal on this one is a slightly deeper brass color and it has a bit of a tarnish to it, FYI. Gives it a more antique look.
The mini Vivienne wings are painted in the Electric Rainbow Palette, they practically glow! Clear AB oval cabachons decorate the center and each side. A bright, almost neon tangerine AB Swarovski crystal accents the bottom front while clear AB crystal drops hang from brass chains on either side.
This crown will be $300 USD
Finally, the Aphrodite Azure Queen crown.
A silver colored crown (unlike the brass crowns this silver was painted on as that is how I received it) features the 5 inch Aphrodite wings on the sides and the smaller version on front painted in teal and deep blues.
Swarovski crystals are scattered on the wings and decorate the front of the crown, with a giant iridescent magenta and blue cabachon in the center.
It would be perfect for a dry land mermaid.
Silver and iridescent blue beaded chains hang from each side, ending with blue crystal drops.
This crown will be $425 USD
Each comes with ribbon at each side that can tie behind your head. They are removable as well in case you want to try your own attachment methods.
I’m still figuring the pricing, as these took a lot of time and love, and I won’t be making these exact crowns again.
I talked to Alessio Benetti after completing them and showing him the finished crowns, and he informed me that the ones I purchased were actually copies of his work by counterfeit companies!! o.O
Naturally, that is upsetting , as you all know how I feel about infringement.
He was not bothered by it, and it sounds like he’s been dealing with it for quite some time, years in fact, but since he is based in Italy and the counterfeit company is in the US, there isn’t much he can do - unless they ever go back to Italy, where authorities would be waiting for them.
Alessio even suggested I just buy more from the copycats if I like them, because of the expense and difficulty of selling wholesale to America - which he also offered anyway - but I will not be buying any of the copies. I refuse to support art theft, no matter how pretty or cheap it is for me.
Below is what the crowns looked like before I altered and embellished them.
What I will be doing instead, is finally put my original crown project into motion with my own original designs.
I started the project a couple years ago but lost momentum when a life event killed a lot of my motivation, but I now have quite a few designs drawn out and I will be picking a few - maybe 2 to start with - and finalizing the cut files.
This will allow me to build attachment points into the design itself, removing a lot of the headache that’s induced from trying to attach my own work to existing pieces that were meant to be as-is.
That’s the scoop!
If you want to see more behind the scenes and work-in-progress content, you can join my Patreon - my Patrons there also get the earliest peeks at new projects as well as early notification of the next flash sale dates: https://www.patreon.com/faeryangela
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Aquatica Wings Also Listing Tomorrow
There will be 2 of the Aquatica fairy wings in iridescent Absinthe film with silver veining for sale tomorrow at 12pm Pacific Daylight Time, in addition to the Datura wings.
I think they are prettier in person, TBH I finished them too late in the day and the lighting was not ideal, but this film is much like the Aquamarine except with a bit more green in it. Slightly thicker too, I really like it!
I always intended these to be for the water fae, sirens and mer folk but realized I had yet to actually make some in any kind of ocean color, so here they are 😊 there will be 2 of these as well.
Here’s a direct link to the shop: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/
Flash Sale - Datura Fairy Wings in Dark Crystal with Copper Veins!
I’ll have 2 of these wings, plus a couple others tbd, Thursday April 30 at noon Pacific Daylight Time.
Remember to be ready early, and be aware that with these, due to the lockdown issues around the pandemic the processing & shipping time may be a little longer than normal.
Some Brightly Colored Cheer in the Form of Fairy Wings
I’ve slowly gotten back to wings, starting with this set, Elvina, in a new color I’m calling Spiked Punch.
Spiked punch is a sort of neon peachy pink, that shines with bright orange, yellow and some green. I tried to get pics of lots of different angles so you can see the color variations. The veins are copper and there will be 2 sets.
I’ll also have a couple sets of the Ivy fairy wings.
Sorry it’s such a tiny sale! Doing the best I can over here. Also please give the processing and shipping a little more time, as I’m trying to avoid having to into any place with people as much as possible and.. well, whatever other urgent matters could pop up during these uncertain times, but they’ll go out at some point this week.
The sale will be tonight at 7pm Pacific Daylight Time, in just over an hour from now.
'Blue Moon' Colette Pix Fairy Wings
It’s been a long wait but they’re finally done!
From my Pixish fairy wing series, the Colette fairy wings have been painted in color palette I’m calling ‘Blue Moon’ with the new Opal film base.
The tiniest veins are painted, but they still include quite a lot of them in the actual aluminum frame! Which is part of why it took me so long to get them finished. A lot of vector drawing as well as a lot of hand pressing during lamination.
Inspired by the Carnival Row series, they take inspiration from dragonflies as well.
I don’t yet have a sale date for them, but I will soon - and am working on an un-painted version 2 of this design that I want to include in the same flash sale so stay tuned!
Wings From The Unseelie Court
I've done these Elvina wings in a palette that reminds me of green faeries, absinthe, and the ‘Paris Green’ that actually was toxic and killed people in the Victorian era - it was in their wallpaper, their clothing, everywhere.
It was in fashion due to its bright emerald green that previously was not possible to achieve.
Absinthe & Arsenic - Elvina fairy wings with flocking and AB crystals
It also makes me think of the green wildfire in Game of Thrones, as well as the green flames from Maleficent’s dragon form.
I don’t suggest wearing these in rain, since there is no way to really coat or preserve the flock without ruining the appearance.
There is yet another set of wings available today, also on the unseelie side - the Draconia II wings in Dark Crystal with black veining.
Draconia II wings in Dark Crystal film with black veins
These also give off a Maleficent vibe don’t they? But they were originally inspired by the crystal bats in the original Dark Crystal movie! Not the same design but a slightly similar style.
I’m working on listing them as we speak, so get on over to the shop!
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/