The Velvet Zebra

Author: The Velvet Zebra

  • Byzantine in Green

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    This set of Anodized Aluminum is made up in hues of greens in a Byzantine pattern, with matching earrings. Just added to the store, along with many other new sets sure to delight.

  • Taste the Rainbow

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    Taste the rainbow with this Anodized Aluminum necklace and earrings, just added to the store.  Measures 18″ with a magnetic clasp.

  • Weekend show

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    Come see The Velvet Zebra at the Port Ordhard Fathom’s o’Fun show, on the waterfront this Friday, Saturday and Sunday!

  • New styles

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    This is one of two new styles we’ve added in our Lapidary section – store inclusion pending.  This is a glass bottle filled with chips of polished stone, accented with more polished beach rocks and stone beads, along a length of copper chain.   Look for this style and more coming soon to our store, and…

  • New Fiction title

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    New in the eBook and Paperback store: Captain Neal Bishop hasn’t been having very good luck.  While recovering from injuries, he had the misfortune of catching his Commander spending quality time with a superior’s wife. That landed him a rather dull rehab assignment body-guarding a group of scientists at an archeological site. But this site…

  • Planting a garden

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    I made this necklace for my sister – green Byzantine in Anodized Aluminum, with pink flowers of Aluminum and Enameled Copper.  The possibilities in color are endless and incredibly fun to play with !

  • It’s a Blue Day

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    And a lovely shade of blue in this Anodized Aluminum flower earring paired with a Full Persian blue and silver necklace.

  • It feels weird

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    So last weekend we finished all (almost all) of our painting. We started with the bathroom, changing the shade of the color we already had, so we went from dark milk chocolate to an even darker-still chocolate brown, accenting with a sort of sea-foam color. Then it was on to the dining room. We took…

  • Geeking out

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    I dunno if you use databases in your work or play – but I do. At work, I use Microsoft’s Access to create and use databases that store, sort and organize all of my data. And it’s a lot of data. So when I realized I could really use a database at home, for The…

  • The Snowball Effect

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    You know how it happens – you’re looking around your house, or your yard, or maybe even just your room or office, and you notice something that needs changing. But as you ponder it, you realize if you change THAT, then this other thing won’t look right, so you’ll need to change it as well…