For the last few months I've been wanting to use Lucky 13 Lacquers to make nail polish pendants and with my recent "vacation" I finally had the time to gather some supplies and make it happen!

Each pendant is handmade with love using Lucky 13 Lacquers, real glass tiles, silver plated trays, and 16" organza ribbon necklaces with a 2" extender. These items are limited edition and may not be available ever again! There was a lot more time involved than I'd anticipated for some of these so these coming back or not will depend on how much interest there is and how heavy my workload is.

Please note: Each polish is made by hand and as such may have minor variation from the image shown.

If you have a specific currently-available Lucky 13 Lacquer that you'd like a pendant made with please shop as usual and add the "Custom 1 color" or "Custom 2 color" item to your cart. When you've completed your order, please email me your preferred color(s). Currently the only available options for custom necklaces are heart-shaped pendants with wine red necklaces.

As an added bonus, if you order a one- or two-polish pendant and a bottle of the polish(es) it's made with you will get a discount! Please first add the pendant to your cart and then add the discounted polish item from the drop-down list into your cart. Do not purchase the discounted polish if you have not also purchased the necklace made with the same polish(es). These would be perfect for Valentine's day gifts, especially Life is Short and You are Hot!

Available designs

• Heart-shaped rainbow striped using colors from the Sailor Senshi collection with wine red necklace. Not available with discounted polish. This design will almost certainly not be available ever again due to the time and intricacy involved.
  
• Heart-shaped Life is Short and You are Hot with wine red necklace. 3 versions of this are available: backed with white (A), backed with black (B), and backed with ruby red (for opacity) (C).
  
• Round Stick Them with the Pointy End with red necklace.
  
• Square Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey with navy blue necklace.
• Round A Leaf on the Wind topped with Always with spring green necklace.

During the Inventory Incident of 2013 (which is what my "vacation" from mid-December through January has been named) I came across quite a few discontinued or shortie polishes that are in need of loving homes. To ensure that every polish finds a new home I have created the Polish Orphanage! Discontinued and flop polishes will live happily together in the Orphanage until they find their new family and new flops/discontinued polishes will continue to be added to the Orphanage as needed.

For the first batch of discontinued Orphans I thought it would be helpful to let you all know how many of each polish and what sizes will be available when Lucky 13 opens back up on the 6th! When the Orphanage opens up please be careful to read the name and the size shown in parentheses. Discontinued Orphans will be the usual price ($6 for 10ml, $8.50 for 15ml) and failed prototypes/incorrect formulations of released colors will be $7 unless otherwise noted).

Below is the stock information for the first group of Orphans! Names are listed by row from left to right.

Group 1

• Hawaiian Shirt
  
• Green ($3)
  
• A Little Less Sonic
  
• ...And One Slow (matte)
  
• A Little Coffee with my Cream
  
• Dreamsicle
  
• Glitter Litter ($5)
  
• Hiding in Shadows
  
• Hot Pink Hot Pants
  

Group 2

• It Could Have Been Your Timing
  
• Numbah One
  
• TEAL Me Lies, TEAL Me Sweet Little Lies (10ml)
  
• TEAL Me Lies, TEAL Me Sweet Little Lies (15ml)
  
• Misty Mountains Cold
  
• Jeepers!
  
• Mhysa
  
• Roads Go Ever On
  
• Mysterious Girl
  

Group 3

• Shooting Stars
  
• Night Sky
  
• Water Reborn
  
• Romulan Warbird
  
• We Won't Be Silent
  

More information on all of the colors above can be found here.

Group 4

• You Can't Take the Sky From Me (10ml) (1 in stock)
• A Man of Many Hawaiian Shirts (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Be sTEAL My Heart (15ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• A Little More Sonic (10ml) (2 in stock)
  
• Life is Short and You are Hot (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Bowties are Cool (15ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Bowties are Cool (10ml) (2 in stock)
  
• Serenade of Water (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Accio Lacquer (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Always (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Great Ambition (15ml) (4 in stock)
  
• Great Ambition (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Avada Kedavra (15ml) (3 in stock)
  
• Sharp of Mind (15ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Sharp of Mind (10ml) (4 in stock)
  
• No Man Can Kill Me (10ml) (1 in stock)
  
• Don't Cry Over Spilled Glitter (15ml) (3 in stock)
  

While USPS has recently made International shipping easier by allowing me to pay for and print International postage from home and schedule home pickups, some countries still are not allowing online postage purchases. Therefore I must brave inclement weather on my motorcycle to make it to the post office which, understandably, I don't wish to do very often! Because of this, shipping costs for some countries (most notably: Russia) will increase slightly in the new year and may have a slightly longer time between ordering and shipping than before. Canada, on the other hand, has slightly lower shipping costs and those costs have been lowered slightly to be more accurate.

Please contact me with any questions before ordering; if your question is asked during a special promotion I will honor it, if possible, if it takes too long to get you an answer.

Also, please remember that I do everything in my power to ensure that packages make it safely through customs but once it's out of my hands, it's out of my hands!

When Lucky 13 was born I first ordered my jelly pigments (which come in suspension base) by the 1/2 oz. Later on I graduated to 4 oz bottles. Now I go through those 4 oz bottles fast enough, sometimes in less than 2 weeks, that I've graduated once again to the next largest size....

I'm now buying jelly pigments by the pint! This is very exciting to me and I couldn't pass up an opportunity to post one of my top 5 Merry/Pippin exchanges :-D

When Lucky 13 was born a year and a half ago (wow, my baby is already 18 months!!) I honestly never dreamed it would be more than a small hobby where I'd make gifts for friends and perhaps make a sale or two. I truly never dreamed it would grow into what it is today! I won't get all mushy with you guys (again) but suffice to say I wake up every day thankful that I can do something I love and that I have so many amazing friends because of it.

However, with great growth comes great responsibility. Wait, that's not the right quote, I'm not Spiderman. Whatever! For months Lucky 13's growth was very slow but steady but in the last few months growth has jumped enormously, enough so that my usual business model just doesn't fit Lucky 13 anymore and it's time to change things up. Previously I had so few orders that I could easily mix things on demand and still get orders shipped within 2 to 3 days. I've always wanted to make sure that if there was a color and size someone wanted, they could get it. I most certainly can not do that any more, however.

Let's take Black Friday weekend for example. From Friday 11/29 through Monday 12/2 I received 88 orders totalling 461 bottles. I can't even tell you how much more that is than what I'd anticipated, it's just ridiculous! And with the Lord of the Rings releases in September I received more orders in a single day than I had previously gotten in my best month. These were huge signs that it was time to change how I was doing things.

Even before the Lord of the Rings releases I'd been wanting to switch from mixing on-demand and instead mix stock in bulk and do restocks (you know, like normal indies often do!) but I never found the time where I was both caught up on orders and I had enough free time to begin mixing in bulk. With the Christmas/Yule/winter-y holidays coming up (and my birthday!) I've decided that now is the time to switch over.

So, as much as I loathe doing this, Lucky 13 will not be accepting any orders beginning December 10th (sometime soon after midnight the morning of the 10th, PST as always) until January 5th (again, sometime soon after midnight the morning of). When I come back what's in stock on the site will be what's available and when it's gone it's gone until the next restock. I'll try to keep things stocked as well as I can but it will take some time to get into the swing of things so I hope you'll all bear with me. With this change there should be a much better turnaround time between ordering and shipment.

Additionally, I'll be phasing out shorties in order to further streamline mixing and shipment. I don't anticipate any price changes but I will give ample warning beforehand if things do change.

Because I hate posts without pictures please enjoy this gravity-defying stoat!

As always I'd love to hear your comments, questions, concerns, criticisms, whatever!

It's almost time, friends! Time for the craziest shopping day of the year. To be honest, I don't even know if I had a sale last Black Friday, I didn't have much interest back then! This year I'm thankful for all the friends I've made and all the love and kindness that people have shown me while striving to improve Lucky 13.

To show my gratitude I've decided to go BIG this year. I had planned to have 4 different sales, starting Friday and ending Monday, but due to popular demand I've decided to smoosh them into one giant sale all weekend!!

For posterity, I'm keeping the colors grouped by the day they were going to be on sale, but remember that now these will all be on sale from Friday, November 29th at 12:01AM PST and the sale will end 11:59PM PST on December 2nd.

All colors shown below will be 25% off using the code TOFURKEY.

In recent years Black Friday has been extended to include Small Business Saturday. I arbitrarily decided to choose green for this day's theme.

• Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
• No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me
• A Mortal Life
• Do Not Open, Dead Inside
• Fool of a Took
• I Am No Man
• Supreme Thunder Dragon
• Hey, Who Turned Out the Lights? (to be discontinued 12/4)
• Avada Kedavra (to be discontinued 12/4)
• Great Ambition (to be discontinued 12/4)

When planning these sales it felt so silly to have a special name for sales on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, but nothing Sunday. So I made up my own name and decided that blue is the color of the day!

• Mermaid Tail (to be discontinued 12/4)
• A Leaf on the Wind
• Walker Bait
• A :Little More Sonic (to be discontinued 12/4)
• You Sexy Thing
• Sharp of Mind (to be discontinued 12/4)
• Water Bullet
• Sleeping with the Enemy
• Always
• Dragon Rise
• Mystery Machine (to be discontinued 12/4)
• Now Wrath, Now Ruin, and A Red Dawn
• Death Reborn
• Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
• Douche Bag's What I Meant
• Mist and Shadow, Cloud and Shade

And finally, the day that was the first extension of Black Friday--Cyber Monday. For some reason red and orange pop into my head when I think of Cyber Monday, so that's what you get!

• Beyond Darkness, Beyond Desolation
• Life is Short and You are Hot
• Burning Storm
  
• Brave at Heart (to be discontinued 12/4)
• I'd Tell Him to Go to Hell
• Strawberry Girl
• The Hero of Canton, the Man they Call Jayne
• Phoenix Lament(to be discontinued 12/4)
• Jinkies!(to be discontinued 12/4)
• Special Hell
• Pumpkin King(to be discontinued 12/4)
• Crescent Beam

Those of you who follow me on Facebook may notice that Phoenix Lament will be on sale this weekend but I recently announced that I only had enough supplies for one more bottle. Since this color has been in high demand recently I've decided to make one more batch of it before its discontinued!

All orders over $50 (after discounts but before shipping) made Friday through the end of Monday will receive a 15ml bottle of the Limited Edition color No More/Gallifrey Falls. This is only available from Black Friday through Cyber Monday! It will also be available for individual sale on the site.

But wait...what's this? Something's happening!

Yes, my friends, this is the first Lucky 13 thermal polish!! It has a fiery orange base when warm that turns to a smoky brown when cold and it is filled with tiny silver shimmer and slightly larger red shimmer. You can see the shimmer most accurately in the ring finger in the bottom right image.

25% off is the highest percentage off I offer during the year so take advantage of it now if you want it in time for the holidays! And remember to use the code TOFURKEY. It will only apply to items in the Black Friday (etc) deals category, though!

All right everyone, grab your sonic screwdriver, Converse high-tops, and fez and get ready for something very special!

As I'm sure many of you know tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. And in December the Eleventh Doctor will become the Twelfth. Below is a trailer for tomorrow's episode and it has me all kinds of giddy!

I'm so excited about this, you don't even know. I adore David Tennant and I am so glad to see him back on Doctor Who, and if it's possible I love John Hurt even more so it's extra amazing to have these two wonderful men on what is arguably my favorite TV show.

I just had to do something special to mark the occasion. Well, two special somethings, in this case! First, I will be offering Buy One Get One 50% Off on all lacquers from the Last of the Time Lords collection. Simply add the colors you wish from the Last of the Time Lords collection to your cart in pairs and use the code VWORPVWORPVWORP at checkout to receive 25% off (which is the equivalent of BOGO50% off) everything from the LotTL collection only; it will not extend to any other items. This code is active beginning 11:59PM PST today, 11/22, and it will expire at 12:01AM on 11/24.

But that's not enough. Oh no, not for me.

A few months ago my friend Jess came to me with an idea for a Fish Fingers and Custard polish. I love Eleven's whole "fish fingers and custard" bit from his first appearance (though I didn't at the time; I was not ready to let Ten go yet! Heck, I'm still not...) but it didn't find its way to the Last of the Time Lords collection. I worked with Jess and together we created what has been appropriately named Fish Fingers and Custard.

Lovely, isn't it?? Smooth, creamy, custard-y yellow base. Golden brown and delicious bars and tiny squares of fish finger-y goodness. Honestly, I was tempted to give this beauty a nibble more than once during its creation. I won't tell you if I gave in to that temptation or not, though, you just get to wonder... The images above show two coats of this extra-special lacquer.

But just as not everyone can be a companion to The Doctor, not everyone will be able to snag Fish Fingers and Custard. There are only twelve bottles available of this super Limited Edition lacquer, and they've been numbered in a very special manner!

The twelve bottles of Fish Fingers and Custard are only available for those who order $50 or more after discounts and before shipping (well, $48, to allow for those ordering only shorties), which means 11 shorties or 8 full size if you're ordering exclusively from the Last of the Time Lords collection, though the extra-special Fish Fingers and Custard portion of the promotion is open to ordering from more than just the Last of the Time Lords collection. This code is also active beginning 11:59PM PST today, 11/22. You may fill your carts beforehand if you like but the code cannot be applied before 11:59PM and it will expire at 12:01AM on 11/24.

To take advantage of this deal simply add your desired items to your cart ($66 or more of products from LotTL or $50 total from any other collections) and use the code BIGGERONTHEINSIDE. This code has only twelve uses so if you try it and it fails that means all of the codes have been used. Oh, and of course you will still receive the BOGO50% discount as above on the Last of the Time Lords collection!

And before anyone asks, yes, orders made tomorrow will go out before my Thanksgiving vacation officially begins--though I may extend my return date to allow for some actual time off ;-)

OK, enough of my blabbering. Everyone hop into the TARDIS and check out the shop!

Hello again, everyone!

First off I would like to thank everyone again for reading/sharing my previous blog post about my kitty and to those who have helped toward his hospital costs. I am overwhelmed with emotion from all the love everyone has shown!

I heard back from the vet this morning and he's doing much better. His bladder is empty and I should be able to take him home tomorrow or the next day at the latest. He'll likely need a special diet at least in the short term but that's a small inconvenience to have my baby back home safe.

Now, on to even more good news! A wonderful friend of mine has put together a collection of polishes that will be given away in a raffle! For each $1 contributed to my kitty's fund the person will receive 1 raffle entry and there is no limit to the amount of entries you can get. On top of that, those who are able to contribute $5 or more will still get the thank you note from Sagan and I!

What has she put together, you ask? Just an awesome assortment of great stuff!

• Fright Claw Glow in the Dark Polish - swatched 1x
  
• Butter London Fairy Cake - swatched 1x
  
• OPI Super Bass Shatter - swatched 1x
  
• Julep Laura - brand new
  
• Julep Ashley - brand new
  
• Wonder Beauty Products Grammy Girl - brand new
  
• Orly Berry Blast - swatched
  
• Orly So Go-Diva - brand new
  
• Material Girl Psychedelic - brand new
  
• Revlon Smoldering - swatched
  
• Deborah Lippmann I Love The Nightlife - BNIB
  

As you can see above a few of these have been swatched but most are brand new! Personally I'm comfortable with gently loved polishes but it's always nice to know if something is brand new or if it's been swatched before.

This raffle will be retroactive so if you have already contributed, you're already entered! If you've donated anonymously I and I alone am able to see your mailing information so you will still be entered to win. I know some people have been letting me know that no thank you note is necessary...well, you'll likely get a thank you note anyway since I'll have leftover cards and stamps. I am grateful to all of you and I want you to know it! :-) <3

PLEASE NOTE: for the polish prize shown above it is only open to US contributors. Due to shipping restrictions, if the raffle chooses a non-US person as the winner I will redraw for the polish but the non-US person will still get a prize!! I have a wide assortment of solvent-resistant glitters that I will allow the winner to pick from which I will include in their thank you card!

We plan on this raffle ending in about 2 weeks or when we've reached our goal for Sagan's hospital costs.

Bonus happy Sagan gif from a video I took last week!

Note: This post won't be very wordy as I'm still worried to death about my kitty.

For months I've been looking for a way to take the glitters from You Can't Take the Sky from Me and expanding it into a complete rainbow of bases. For the longest time I was simply at a loss as to what would fit for inspiration, though.

Finally I remembered that a good friend had put the idea for a Sailor Moon collection into my head. There are tons of sailor scouts and they could correlate to a so many lovely colors that would fit perfectly with the silver glitter theme!

Each color below has the same amounts and types of glitters as You Can't Take the Sky from Me in different colored jelly/crelly bases. For Luna and Artemis' polishes they are the same glitters and proportions but in gold and with the addition of gold holo moons.

All swatches below are from Accio Lacquer. Please see her reviews here and here!

This 13 piece collection is available in the shop now!

During the first week after release (from now until 11/14) those who order any 6 colors from this collection will have their choice of freebie, either Lady of the Moon or Lord of the Moon. Those who order the entire collection will get both Lady of the Moon and Lord of the Moon as freebies! See the special product page in the shop to add this freebie to your cart.

This freebie is available in full size only, even if you order the rest of the collection in shorties, in order to keep happy thoughts in mind for my sick kitty.

A lot of you who follow my Facebook page and read my personal/behind the scenes post know that I have a wonderful, handsome little kitty named Sagan. He's often nearby while I'm working and is my resident box inspector...

...quality tester...

...printer warmer...

... and giveaway-winner-picker.

Recently he's been having some urinary issues that's been making him feel very under the weather. They got better for a couple weeks but yesterday they got much, much worse. He wasn't going potty normally at all and when he could go there was blood in it. He didn't finish his breakfast yesterday (and what he did eat came back up--in the litter box, too, how good of a boy do I have??), he refused dinner, and he vomited pure water and bile 4 times in 2 hours late last night.

Of course, at this point I'm terrified. It's 2AM and my kitty is just the unhappiest thing you've ever seen, I'm tired and hungry and trying to keep myself together and failing miserably at it. My best friend/girlfriend suggests she come over to check on Sagan and to console me and of course I don't turn her down. We decide that while he's obviously not doing well, he should be fine for just a few more hours until we can get him to a nearby vet. I eventually am able to get to sleep.

This afternoon I was at the vet the moment their walk-in hours began and they were able to call me in fairly quickly. The doctor looked him over and diagnosed him with urinary crystals and major bladder blockage. For those of you who don't know, in boy cats urinary crystals and blockage can be fatal within just a few days. She said that the best course of action would to be to keep him with them for a night or two, anesthetize him, insert a catheter, and help him drain his bladder and clear out the crystals.

However, it's going to cost $600 to $800 (depending on how long he needs to stay). I'm still paying off the $2000 from my own ER visit back in April, but there's no way I can risk losing my baby if it's at all avoidable. So now I'm back at home, without a kitty to hold and calm me, and worrying to death about if the treatment will work and if I'll be able to pay off my credit card at some point this decade.

I know that many of you have kitties of your own and some of you have even lost kitties to the same troubles Sagan is having. It's very difficult for me to swallow my pride and ask for help but it's unavoidable at this point; I can't do this on my own, even with the income Lucky 13 brings in.

If anyone is interested in donating towards Sagan's vet fees I have started a GoFundMe campaign which will track donations. You can also click Sagan's photo below to contribute.

I will be sending out thank you cards from Sagan and myself for anyone who donates $5 or more ($6 or more for non-US) and leaves their mailing info for me. If you prefer to donate via PayPal my email is Jessica S Owen {at} gmail {dot} com (remove the curly brackets and replace them with the correct symbols). You can send it via Friends/Family if you like or as just a normal payment, up to you. Make sure you include your address if you want a thank you card!

I have the most amazing fans in the world and I'm grateful to anyone who donates or shares this post with anyone. I love you all!