Dispatches From Tanganyika

I'm no longer mirroring my Livejournal here because that is just one too many things to deal with. Please visit me at http://docbrite.livejournal.com/ , where I've been trying to resume making some entries of substance instead of just sale stuff.

PZBART sale this week: 25% off signed books. Lots of titles available, and many rarities.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PZBART

We've had a lot of scary and unexpected medical expenses recently, so I am having Night Owl/Early Bird Sale: 3 AM today (3-31-14) through the stroke of midnight, 50% off all Nola Jewels (my handmade jewelry) and paintings on canvas. The jewelry ships free worldwide with purchase of any other item in shop.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/PZBART

March Madness sale: 30% off signed books (which can be personalized); 20% off original paintings. I'm still offering copies of the post-LOST SOULS Steve & Ghost story, "Stay Awake."

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PZBART

Grey and I have had a hell of a time getting over this flu, but we soldier on, and PZBART is open again with a bunch of new voodoo products including wormwood, sweet gum seed balls, alum, saltpeter, cloves, hot peppers, cinnamon bark, and powdered selenite, all in decorative glass bottles with tiny adorable skull beads.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PZBART


Wormwood

I also listed an iolite & pyrite skull choker with a wire-wrapped pyrite pendant. I haven't been able to make much jewelry lately because of tendonitis in my right arm that's aggravated by beading, but I'd been looking for the right thing to do with this pendant, and when I found these pyrite skulls, I knew they had to go together.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/179752125/iolite-pyrite-skull-choker-by-poppy-z?ref=shop_home_feat_4

And we send a get-well shout-out to Chris, who had knee replacement surgery yesterday morning.

I've had to put PZBART (my Etsy shop) on vacation mode because I've come down with a bad case of the flu. I will endeavor to get all outstanding orders shipped in a timely fashion, and will be back soon with new products and artwork.

"It Costs $10,000 To Be A Man," mixed media shadowbox sculpture, $100 or best offer.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/174717197/poppy-z-brite-original-shadowbox?ref=shop_home_feat

WOW! The response to my STAY AWAKE chapbook offer was incredibly gratifying. All the copies are sold -- my apologies to anyone who missed out. If I find any more squirreled away, I will certainly list them. I didn't want to say so yesterday because I feel like I'm always begging for something lately, but I received the city tax bill for my mother's house yesterday and I had no idea how we were going to pay it. This record-breaking Etsy sales day puts us within $200 of the total, and she should be able to make up the rest. I have to hand it to Steve and Ghost; I wasn't able to write as many stories about them as people would have liked, and toward the end of my writing career I got a little testy about people asking when I was going to bring them back, but they certainly have bailed me out of a lot of tight spots over the years.

My NOLA Jewels designs are gradually making their way back to PZBART, their original home, but with a few new features. Since PZBART seems to be taking on a definite voodoo/metaphysical/healing bent, I decided to research the properties of the stones and other materials I use in my handmade jewelry, and to include some of that information in my descriptions. As I say in the listings, any piece of jewelry can be worn simply as a beautiful ornament, but it may also be interesting to know that your necklace is made with black veined jasper, a form of chalcedony associated with healing, reducing stress, and prolonging sexual pleasure.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/PZBART?section_id=14724845

So far, I have spent this winter solstice making a selection of essential voodoo oils I hope to add to PZBART in the coming year, including a batch of New Orleans' own Van Van Oil to which I plan to add flecks of pyrite, as suggested by Cat Yronwode of LuckyMojo.com. If the oils turn out well, they should be available in February. We don't do Christmas presents anymore, but today I must brave Metairie traffic anyway to get tiny bottles for herbs, etc. at David Art Supply, since the ones I ordered wholesale won't come for another couple of weeks.