Auction #28: Memory Chain

Upon reading Valentines, I wondered what it would be like to have to carry and write your entire life. I translated that feeling into a charm necklace which can actually serve as a necklace, belt, or even a bracelet depending on how you wrap it. I wanted to make a piece that was functional, beautiful and useful. Something that the new owner would be able to add to with their own story as well as the story of the heroine. One of my favorite parts about this necklace is the message bottles. Ways to carry slips of paper and notes. These bottles can be left as is, or filled with your own memories. A lot of these charms were found objects in and around Hollywood, CA.

Jonaya Kemper

Auction #25: Stray blots of ink, scattered from hasty scribblings

These shell beads I hunted down just for this story — I wanted something paperlike as well as just a nice bead, something that could be written on. The writing, glazed black ink (well-baked and safe for nearly anything you could do to it, this writing will not fade from memory) are excerpts from the story, of the narrator’s own musings: “movements a careful ballet of hot espresso and soup and witty banter” strung around the necklace, and “leather-bound journals with elegant heavy pens” around the wrist. The pendant is for Valentine(s): what image does his name inspire if not a heart? The black beads I chose for their resemblance to stray blots of ink, scattered from hasty scribblings.

Sarah B. Evans

Auction #20: The Moon On A String

I tried to make this bracelet festive, to focus on the party scene at the climax of the story rather than Dunbar’s anxieties. I tried to show the award ceremony as it would seem to others in the story: oh, isn’t it all pretty? Isn’t it fancy? Aren’t we grand? The beads I chose for their color — champagne, of course — and the way their facets reflect light so well, making the strands quite shiny. The locket comes to you empty, to stand for Dunbar at the moment he’d wanted so long. It is also for the buyer, a place to hold their own memories.

Sarah B. Evans

Interfictions Auction 20 – Bracelet Based On “Black Feather” by the author

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Button Down by K Tempest Bradford

Bracelet with interwoven cotton ribbon, buttons, and metal lobster hook clasps. Click the images for hi-res versions.

This bracelet is the creation of K. Tempest Bradford, author of “Black Feather“.

My story is based on three different folktales I read as a teenager: The Six Swans, The Seven Ravens, and The Twelve Brothers. In each of these stories a sister has to save her brothers who were transformed into birds. The conditions set for her in each are slightly different, but one that is common to all stories is that she has to sew shirts for each of her siblings to wear. The Six Swans is probably most memorable of the versions because she doesn’t quite finish the shirt for her youngest brother and he spends the rest of his life with a huge wing for an arm. I always pictured the shirts as the white, button down variety–very clean and crisp and simple.

The bracelet is long enough to wrap around most wrists twice, some three times, and can even be worn as a choker.

K. Tempest Bradford

Interfictions Auction 8 – Jewelry Set Based On “Timothy”

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Timothy Set by Sarah Evans

Earrings: Silver wire and seed beads on stainless steel hooks; Choker and Bracelet: Freshwater pearls, silver wire beaded “whiskers”, and red frosted-glass cats’ tongues sewn onto black velvet ribbons. The bracelet is 7″, the choker is 14.5″ expandable up to 16.5″. Click the images for hi-res versions.

Based on “Timothy” by Colin Greenland

I made this set hoping to tie in a visual image of Timothy himself…the cat, that is. Black velvet ribbon with spots of white–the pearls–are meant to be his coloring, and the curled wire his whiskers. The red beads sewn in there were originally red petals, which seemed appropriate at the time because so much of the story is looking out over the garden. But I like them because, when looked at the right way, they also resemble cats’ tongues. The red charm in the middle of the choker with black lace stretched over it represents all the cloaked passion in this enchanting story. Also, regarding the earrings: I used many colors there instead of just red to reference Timothy’s seeing color for the first time. (The earrings are also whiskers.)

Saran Evans

Interfictions Auction 1 – Bracelet Based On “A Map of the Everywhere”

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A Map of the Everywhere — Boxcar Diner by Sarah Evans

7″ bracelet, abalone, seed beads.

Based on “A Map of the Everywhere” by Matthew Cheney

The boxcar diner from the ending of the story was never really specified, but I had the impression somehow that it really was on train tracks, so I made a train track bracelet with an abalone boxcar and various seed beads and star beads dotting it.

Sarah Evans