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I can’t get into my Shopify admin to make labels for the wings purchased this weekend!
I apologize for the delay, I went to their support page and it looks like they’re already working on the problem.
If you ordered wings and are on any kind of time constraint to receive them, please email me.
It’s not as complete as we originally planned in 2016, but anyone with experience in soldering and electronics should be able to make a set using this or get someone like that to help you.
The guide is now available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/flapping-fairy-45413944
Happy wing making!
I want to help the effort to ensure voting rights and getting folks registered in Georgia for the January Senate runoff elections, so this is my contribution - digital iridescent Luna Moth fairy wing overlays in return for a $3 donation to either Fair Fight or The New Georgia Project.
You can purchase them here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/luna-moth-iridescent-fairy-wings-overlays-png-files-for-photo-edit
From now until the election, 100% of the proceeds from these wing overlays will go to either The New Georgia Project or Fair Fight by default, non-profit organizations fighting voter suppression and registering new voters in Georgia.
You probably already know how important those 2 senate seats are, they mean the difference between Biden’s presidency being able to reverse all the harmful Trump era policies, or being hampered by a GOP senate with Mitch McConnell still blocking nearly every important bill.
After the election, depending on how well I am or am not doing, I may change the percentage to 50% or I may leave them as wings solely for donation to one of the handful of non-profit organizations I’ve chosen, such as Transgender Law Center, Black Lives Matter, Bail Project or the Sogorea Te Land Trust.
My other overlays of my original designs are set so that $1 from each is donated, as well as 5% of any of my hand made wing or accessory pieces I make here myself - the print-on-demand items are excluded since I already made only a very small profit on those but still have to pay sales tax on the full value.
Below is one example of how they look edited into an Adobe Stock photo by kharchenkoirina.
Of course, that copyright watermark on the wings won’t be there in the ones you download.
I’ve edited the wings in and adjusted the colors a little darker as well as adding some blur to them to look more like they’re in the shot. They’re from photos I took of the extra giant Luna moth wings I made a few years back, with an added back panel, so they are a fantasy version of luna moth wings rather than exact from nature.
There are 9 files included in total, 3 wing images that each have 3 perspectives created using a 3D perspective warp so you should have the perfect wing for most poses. One file for each wing version, you’ll have to mirror them and it’s assumed you already would know how to do that and some basic editing in order to make them look as natural as possible. There is already a transparency mask on them for you but you can always edit them to be even more transparent.
And that’s that! Please spread the word if you know people who would like to edit portraits or selfies with iridescent wings and help win the Senate back at the same time so we can get that mountain of bills on Mitch’s desk finally passed and get covid relief to all the many people who need it.
Ellette Fairy Wing Wrap Skirt produced by Art of Where
Happy Saturday fairies!
I've got some updates for you.
My Art of Where collection featuring my fairy wing art printed on apparel and accessories has been moved now to my Shopify store.
You can find the collection here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/art-of-where-collection
The skirt shown above is just one of the items you’ll find there, made to order.
There's more I want to add to it soon, like cotton face masks among other things!
This should hopefully encourage more sales as well as prevent theft of my product images from scammers.
As you know I already have a huge problem with IP theft, and having no control over the product images in the Art of Where store made me nervous, as I couldn't put a watermark on anything and the scarves were shown in pretty much full view.
The downside is that having them sold thru my site means I'll have to pay sales tax on the full amount of the sale rather than only on the commission I get, so I did have to increase the commission percentage a bit.
Since the POD items are now on my site and there are no issues now fulfilling those orders, I’ve added gift cards!
They can be used to purchase any of my items, but due to the hand made wings so quickly selling out and my switch to no longer regularly taking custom orders I didn’t comfortable offering them before. You can find them at the link below:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/fancy-fairy-wings-things-gift-card
The other update, is I've set up my Shopify store with auto donations from purchases of any of my original hand made and digital items to the Transgender Law Center, or The Bail Project.
5% of all physical items (excluding the print-on-demand items) and $1 from each digital purchase will go to either of those organizations.
Right now, Transgender Law is the default charity but you can click on the prompt if you want to change it to The Bail Project.
I chose Transgender Law Center as the current default donation because Black trans people face the worst of discrimination, and helping the least of us always benefits all of us and I know they do good work.
The Bail Project is also helping people who desperately need it, having been jailed unfairly by more conservative enforcement branches that are attempting to silence protest against police brutality.
There may be times I change it so that The Bail Project is the default and you can change it to go to Transgender Law when checking out.
The Art of Where and any future print on demand items I add will be excluded from the auto donations because I am already going to have to eat the cost of sales taxes based on the full sale price for those items I have to pay much more for.
That's pretty much it for today. Unfortunately we now have more fires happening not too far away from us so we are again going to be dealing with long stretches of time without clean air, living with taped up windows. Not how I wanted to spend the first part of autumn, as I now have to wait longer to be able to sand more wing frames :/
Or I'll have to sand with the windows shut, and leave that room empty for the rest of the day so all the metall dust can settle and then get wiped and vacuumed but that makes me nervous. Maybe I'll get lucky with a day or two of good air if the wind shifts!
I only have 2 more wing frames that are powder coated and everything else needs sanding.
Maybe it's a good time for more mini wings and hair things, I'll figure something out.
My interview podcast about wing making with SheProp’s Beverly Downen is out!
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.
Need a link to the shop? Bookmark it so you won’t be late! https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/
I’ve tried a new thing with my mini wings!
I started on this project last year around the time The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance came out and these necklaces are very much inspired by the movie and series.
But, life got complicated and so like many of my developing projects they got put on the back burner for a while.
This is the Nightshade wing design, which sprung from my older Kira design. The wings are iridescent film and acetate that's been embossed with foil for the veins, and coated in clear resin, then attached to metal jewelry findings and further embellished with iridescent crystals.
I made one dark version with the Dark Crystal film & copper accents, and one light version with the Lilac film & silver accents, and will find out this week if they are something I can make a batch easily enough to offer to you all!
Yes there will be a flash sale soon with these necklaces and other winged accessories.
If you want a sneak peek behind the scenes of what I’ve been working on, you can join my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/faeryangela
I had been planning to create digital overlay files of my Clarion fairy wings for a while now, for various reasons - some of those reasons are unhappy ones, but I am glad I finally did it!
Photo used is ©kharchenkoirina - stock.adobe.com
This is the first time I’ve made digital overlay wings that are light up! And frankly it’s been a while since we made real ones too but that’s another story - we’re working out how to make them with my new attachments.
There are 3 other color variations of these in the pack.
Now you may be thinking, gee these look familiar! If you are, I bet I know why - an artist on Renderosity had made 3D mesh wings she’s selling there, and I’m about 99.9999% sure she referenced my own light up Clarion wing photo to make hers since these are not based off any particular butterfly design.
Below is the comparison.
My wings on the left, the Renderosity wings by Fabiana on the right. Image posted in fair use, to comment on a newsworthy situation.
Yes there are some differences, a few veins were removed from the upper panel but the ones that are there are so specifically shaped and curved as mine - and the fact that she made the lights look as though they are fiber optic, like how my real life ones are made, is telling.
I did try to contact her, and never got a response. I wanted to ask more changes to differentiate hers from mine since I had already planned on making my own, and this kinda cuts into my profitability.
I even filed a DMCA with Renderosity, however they denied my takedown notice and made the judgement in her favor.
I guess not surprisingly, as she is a top seller and no doubt they make a nice profit from her content.
Didn’t think the platform was supposed to make a judgement on what constitutes as infringement but they did.
The only other thing I can do, is go ahead and make mine anyway.
And they’re available here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/digital-file-products/products/clarion-light-up-fairy-wings-transparency-stock-png-files
Oh but that’s not all! I’ve also made overlay files for the painted versions!
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/digital-file-products/products/clarion-painted-fairy-wings-transparency-stock-png-files
Photo used is from ©kharchenkoirina - stock.adobe.com
Do these look familiar too?
If you’re thinking they look like Winx wings, I’ve thought the same thing. I created mine in real life in 2011, well before Winx came out with their Dreamix line and Stella appeared with some very similar looking wings.
If you look closely, rather than remove veins as the Renderosity wings, they’ve added more, but I can see some of the same veins in mine in their design.
Perhaps this one can be filed under the ‘inspired by’ category too, and since they’re in Italy I’m just going to keep putting my own design out there and if people have love for Winx, they can now turn themselves into one of their fairies with my overlays.
I haven’t even gone into the infringement hell that was my life the last couple weeks, as Twitter went absolutely nuts with what someone started calling the ‘fairy challenge’, posting pics of people side-by-side next to pics of wings usually with the caption ‘Did it work?’ - and yup you guessed it, the majority of wings they uploaded have been mine, and most often without credit as some of the Tweets and posts gained upward of 500K likes.
I think Stephen Colbert started this whole thing! Or at least that’s the first person I saw who did it.
Of course when I made my own to tweet, it got a fraction of that. Such is life!
I may consider bringing back the real life Clarion wings too. What do you think?
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