nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)

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botmaker, jeweler, queer, kobold, glass wizard, husband haver, capitalism hater. they/them ze/hir https://nora.jewelry/ https://nora.zone/ @nora@blob.love on fedi. see @infinitescream.bsky.social if you want to see my posts (rude). shop is closed

i only need the contraption help if it is fun for you 💜💜
the cover of "freud: a very short introduction" in audiobook form. its the same colors as the bi pride flag but out of order
a signal message from me that says "hi do you want me to play baldurs gate while petting me gently in 5-10 minutes". it has been thumbs up emojied
a cow who is also a private detective. i mean i assume that it is private and not a fucking cow cop. could be some kind of pinkerton, i suppose. fuck it. lets just make burgers
kiln shelf with 6 pieces of glass with frit on top in orange, 2x green 2x yellow and a white one with purple and blue frit.
emoji kitchen combination of cherries and heartbreak
they are laid out on the table and they have pretty intense speckles going on
everything melted and the sheets are speckled now. most of them also dogboned a bit
kiln shelf with 4 sheets of glass covered in frit. 1 is yellow and the other 3 are blues
purple and red teardrop pendant with a tangled ribbon pattern in the red and 4 sticky out squircles with flowers on them
blue pendant with scattered blue "growth" on top
small round donut shaped pendant in blue with bumpy stuff on top that looks like a growth
purple oval pendant with hole (all these are gonna have holes ok) with swirling patterns and odd squircles on top
oval pendant with hole in swirling pink and speckled blues
all the pendants laid out on a towel, sorted roughly into good ones (left) and wonky ones (right) which will be Processed. there's a lot more successes than failures this time but i have not done a final quality check yet
they mostly unified into good finished pieces. also i totally forgot to decorate one last night and only just noticed
kiln shelf with pendant with hole molds for 12x big circles, 6x small circles, 2x teardrops, and 8x ovals + 4 cabochon molds with experiments. they all have what looks like finished fully fused pieces in them with various other glass bits just sort of glued on top, because that is what they are
red playground ball of prophecy
pendant in a shape im calling "bottom heavy donut", its a torus with the gold slightly above center to give it a natural bottom. this one's got a bunch of blues stretching from the way they melted, they look frozen in an aborted movement
red circle pendant (about 2 inches across with a hole for a cord) with a mix of speckle, swirling and oddly organic shapes
a walgreens box for "sleep 2" which is their generic name for diphenhydramine hcl 25mg
everything melted. its pretty good
kiln shelf with molds producing 12 large (2 inch) circles, 6 small (1.5 inch) circles, 10 ovals and two teardrop pendants with holes (the molds have sticky up bits for the holes to form around). there's also 2 non-hole round molds that are actually tiny saucers for putting under tiny plants. i am mostly working with reds, blues, purples and greens
ok all these except the last one are small circles with holes, about an inch and a half across, with a slightly thinner top part and more weight on the bottom. this one is layers of yellows and speckled pinks
teardrop shaped pendant with a mix of yellows with accents of orange, red white and clear. its got a lot of movement in it, you can tell it's an ex-liquid.
most of what was in the kiln (both triangles failed and are missing) lined up in columns with the good ones on the left and the ones that need second drafts on the right
most of them melted fairly nicely, some are underfilled as always. i took out the mold for the big circle without a hole that was there before because it went weird when the kiln closed
the molds from the previous post are now filled with chopped up pieces of colorful glass
kiln shelf with a bunch of empty molds. here is all the shapes of pendants they are making: 2 teardrops 2 fat triangles 1 large circle without a hole (all the other ones have holes for cord) 2 small circle without holes 8 large (about 2 inches across) circles (we're back to holes all the rest have holes) 4 ovals 12 small weighted donuts (i don't know what to call these but they are rounded on the bottom when the others are flat, so its less obvious in a finished piece which side is the top, and the hole is offset in a way that makes them bottom heavy)
a screenshot of the finch app featuring my bird, Drugs, sitting on its bed with a slime. its outfit and bedroom have that look of too much you get with customizable characters. the text reads "798th Adventure completed! Drugs discovered Ope today"
a google maps app screenshot on the business tab that indicates my business, PRAIRIE DOGS on Eubank, is suspended and not publicly visible
emoji kitchen yellow emoji face winking and pointing to the side. it kind of sucks honestly but the "ai" thing makes stuff that sucks that you're pretty sure actually got an artist paid feel almost nostalgic, which is worse
the cover of chulip for PlayStation 4. a friendly young man (?) waves at the viewer. in the background there are many weirdos
they're basically different colors of cream the same as before but all the frit melted and combined into cohesive pieces
kiln shelf with 4 pieces of white and cream sheet glass with more white and cream frit on top
its me. i have a t shirt on that says fuck ice but its cropped so u only see fck
its the logo from the simpsons introduction except instead of "the simpsons" it says "the shrimpcourse". if you grew up with the simpsons probably makes the end of the simpsons theme song play in your head
an iconic little vector of my kiln. i am not including alt on the rest of these because its just that over and over again
blue and periwinkle pd.da t sign swirling color and a floating murrine pattern in the flush part of the glass and the same pattern of "growths" as my others
swirling clear and cream colored pendant with big pokey out murrine dots
purple, white and green pendant with the additional glass that looks like it is growing
all these are 2 inch circular glass pendants with holes for wearing; they have smooth backs and bumpy additional details. this one is orange and yellow with swirling yellow dots that stick out a lot
ok so everything melted nicely. the frit melted just enough to start rounding but not fully get there. they all are super texturally weird
i have taken all of the pendants that failed in some way and either added additional glass frit or tiny murrine dots. they are in molds on a kiln shelf along with some of the long narrow molds with frit in them + some tiny dot molds with murrini in them. the murrini is mostly in shapes like flowers and squares because im not firing hot enough to melt all the way so they will keep their shape
kiln shelf with a green sheet with purple frit on it and its melted just enough to have rounded all the edges but not enough for the final pattern to emerge. so it's in this weird state for now where it's like if precious gems caught an eldrich disease, with some real weird pustule looking texture. oh also everything else tack fused together but nothing else looks different they're just a bit rounded
pendant with a streaky cranberry and green pattern underneath a pattern of white "cells"
kiln shelf with 5 of the boat molds that are long rectangles full of stringer and frit, 2 strips of clear with frit on top and clear on top of that, and a 10 inch square green sheet with clear on top and a bunch of frit on top. its mostly clear but you can tell ive got some pink and purple stuff going on
dark blue and purple piece of glass
my hand holding a red, orange and yellow sheet of glass
they all fused and its pretty cool looking speckle patterns but also they spilled off the edges of the shelf oops lol
pride flag made from 4 horizontal stripes in gross colors of green color selected from a photo i stole of the presidents shame pond
kiln shelf with kiln paper and 4 sheets of glass, one 10x10 inch white covered in yellow and orange frit and 2 small blue and 1 small green sheet, all covered in front of coordinating colors. that yellow one is gonna turn orange or maybe red btw
trans pride pendant thats very smudgy about the colors
purple and teal design with white and clear accents
chaotic purple and green pendant with white accents and a lot of layered effects
a mostly opaque blue pendant with dots and lines and a couple pockets of transparent that do not go all the way through, looking a bit like a pit
this one has sort of chaotic stuff going on with a lot of purples and aquas and white and yellow sort of all over the place
circular pendant with hole (these are all going to be that shape, they're about 2 inches across but are not calibrated and so vary in thickness) in swirling opalescent yellows, rivers of amber and garnet intersected with translucent whites, and a cluster of odd alien blobs at the bottom in opalescent white
all the glass has finished but some of the pieces did not fully fill out the mold. the fire color rod did turn colors though it looks like lava
kiln shelf with 3 long boat molds in yellows, purples, and a mix of white and light aventurine which looks way less like nori in person but which does really look like nori in photos. and then there are dot molds and pendant molds for 16 circle pendants with pieces you might recognize from previous findings. that yellow rod in the boat is gonna turn bright orange and red around the edges btw but most people don't read the alt text so you can watch them be surprised later