Welcome!
This is the homepage for The Siren’s Serenade, formerly The Shoppe That Sings to Itself. The Siren’s Serenade became a brick & mortar shop located at the Pecan Park Flea Market in June of 2023. You can also find us when we show up at various Renaissance Festivals, craft fairs, sci-fi/fantasy conventions, or at the Pecan Park Flea Market outside of Yulee, Florida.
The main purpose of the shop is to sell my artwork, which can be anything from a carved drinking horn to a poster print of something I painted. However, we also have or plan to have other items that reflect my husband’s and my life interests such as Viking re-enactment, Norse pagan, Native American, Larping and other items.
- Art, including but not limited to posters, clay figurines, painted glass
- Painted instruments – although this one kind of goes under the art section
- handmade soap, milk baths, beard care and similar items relating to our shop’s theme
- Books published by my tiny publishing house or relating to our shop’s theme (mermaids, heathenry, Vikings, mead making, Native American subject, etc.)
- Filk music (and some celtic music until I run out), faire music (bardcore, etc) and Viking folk (when we can get it)
- Re-enactment supplies (coming!) with a focus on the Viking Age
- Larping supplies (coming!) such as potion bottle weapons, foam weapons, costumes, and dice.
- Gifts such as fairy light bottles (including potion bottles), hand painted glass gifts (soap dispensers), figurines, and antiques
THE STORY
The shop began as an extension to promote my comic book, Akashik, and my artwork and was called The Shoppe that Sings to Itselfe. When I started carrying CDs to help promote my good friend and mentor, Leslie Fish, I soon found myself becoming a full-fledged filk CD distributor. (You can find out more about my CDs by visiting www.woksprint.com.) Then came the day I bought myself my first ukulele, and the rest is sordid history.
When my parents passed away, I chose to rename the shop to honor my watery heritage.
These days, the shop concentrates on my artwork (and sometimes LARP supplies) while I play my music and entertain you (badly). At renaissance faires and conventions, my table will at least partially be dedicated to promoted CDs by filk and faire artists, most of whom are independent and will appreciate your attention. The dolls and horses shown here remain a hobby. I love working with them, but I don’t exactly have the time to devote myself 24/7… and probably wouldn’t be able to pay my bills from it either. When I remake a doll or horse, they most likely will be for sale though. How else can I pay for the stuff to remake the next one?
The clay sculptures turned into full blown artwork. Iwas always an artist, and my peeps assure me that they like my stuff from time to time. Therefore when it comes to working in clay – polymer clay – I follow what comes to mind. I may make a furmaid. I may create a diorama (or deadorama) and place it in glass. I don’t usually take commissions.
If you wish to purchase one of my CDs, please visit the woksprint website at www.woksprint.com. If you’re here to contact me about my artwork or to see if I have an item you wanted to buy in person but didn’t make it back to my booth, please visit the contact form blow.
The Fashion Doll Witness Protection Program:
Around 2003 I was introduced to remaking Barbie dolls into new creations through a friend, and I have loved the art ever since. It helps that I already liked dolls. I started ‘The Doll Witness Protection Program’ because many of my dolls were rescued from deplorable conditions and remodeled into new and wonderful beings. They have all been given new names, identities, and given safe haven from those that would harm them.
Usually with OOAK dolls I only give a faceup, but sometimes I will sew an entire outfit or even remold them to have new features. Not all dolls are originally meant to be in the protection program, but in the interest of not letting old dolls suffer horrendous fates I keep it going.
I haven’t posted all of my dolls at this website (yet). If you’re curious you can get a peek at my fashion doll history past thanks to the wayback machine. Sadly the wayback machine didn’t capture any of the pictures.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20040801000000*/http://ooak-dolls.tripod.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fashionrepaint.tripod.com
About the Horses:
I don’t do things with my model horses as much as I do my dolls. There’s no reason for it. Life is just funny that way. You will see I prefer to paint horses that are of more “Earth” colors rather than go fantastical. And I’m fond of spots.
- All breedings are free! I can email a pedigree as a .doc.
- All horses are aging. I’ll breed a mare as young as 4 but no older than 16. Stallions I don’t breed over age 25.
- Mares: limit 1 foal per year. Available years will be on the mare’s listing.
- I allow ageless get.
- Stallions: limit 2 foals per year. Available years will be on the stallion’s listing.
- I prefer to breed logically: a black pony born of two white parents won’t work. So if you have a question about color, you never can fail by picking a parent with the same color or pattern. (Especially since I’m not very knowledgeable about this part.)
How to inquire:
Post a message on the horse or doll’s page to inquire. We can go from there. I will tell you in advance that with horses I will need:
- foal’s name
- Year you want
- color, breed, sex
- parents you want
- make (breyer, stone, custom)
- Model #
- If it’s original or a custom piece
- If one parent is not in my stable, I also need the pedigree of the other parent for my records.
- Where to send your paper
For Sale
If you are wanting to see if any of my dolls are for sale, contact me using the contact form. I typically will put a doll or horse that’s for sale here under the category tag “for sale” to make it easier for you..
Addendum:
My acting/music page is: voiceswhisper.10confessions.com or voicestellme.10confessions.com
My publishing venture is: www.apocalypsewriters.com
One of my comics is at www.akashikonline.com – and has a patreon if you’d like to support the story going forward. (Or want to see a youtube channel when I sing badly online.)
Some of my creations have pictures. Most I currently own. If I have sold something, I retain photo rights and rights to the years I owned the horse (for pedigree purposes). You only have permission to use my photos for personal use such as showing a potential sire or dam match what the mate looks like, talking in your blog. You cannot claim credit to my photos or do anything that suggests you’re a jerk. I do things to jerks like filing formal complaints to their internet providers. So please don’t be a jerk.