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Amanda Bryana
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🔞 (They/Them - Nonbinary, Pan, Autistic, Living that Chronic Illness Life) Writer of m/m erotic romance. Give me my HEA... will settle for HFN if I must. 🌈 🌈 🔞

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Folksy Store: https://folksy.com/find/shop/OakLeafCrafting
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I know it's a bit of a rubbish toy, but this children's tea set is one of the things we found earlier. It's 1950s, and it is perfect in every detail, solid, just child sized. And I listed this 19780s book of fairytales last week. That's the inside cover. The detail work just gets me.
Image is of a boxed vintage tea set from the 1950s Image shows the inside cover of a 1970s fairytale book, showing a detailed landscape scene with fairytale shadow images in the swirling clouds.
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 is a simple bracelet, with some of my favourite beads of the year. Both the howlite and the frosted glass beads are matt finish, but the central layer in the frosted glass makes the beads glow pink on one side, and yellow-hued rainbows on the other.
Image is a bracelet on a grey fabric background. Bracelet is made from white-grey marbled matt howlite beads and frosted glass beads with a central reflective layer that makes them glow bright pink on one side with yellow-hued rainbows on the other. It it finished with a silver-plated barrel clasp (at top of image).
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18. I've been showing pieces that play with light for this tag. This bracelet doesn't play with the light, it throws it around. Hematite cubes with a mirror shine, and honestly the shiniest chunky pink glass beads I've ever seen. An antidote to the grey, dark, days.
The image is a shiny bracelet against a grey fabric background. The bracelet is made with hematite cube beads and chunky pink glass beads, with a silvered swirl that makes them extra shiny. Every surface is reflective. The bracelet is strung on elastic, so no clasp.
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. Last of the light playing necklaces today. This one is made with oval tiger's eye beads and tiny peach toned glass crystals. The tiger's eye has such a depth to the shine, with the tiny crystals for a little added sparkle.

Bracelets from tomorrow. Shop link in bio.
Image is a necklace draped over a piece of amethyst, set on a grey fabric background. Necklace is made from oval tiger's eye crystal beads, separated with tiny pale peach crystal bicones and cubes. It is finished with a silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16. This is one of my favourite pieces, because the blue glass tube beads are just beautiful. The shine they have makes them look almost liquid filled. The black/clear crackle glass beads and tiny blue glass crystals complement them, and play with the light in different ways.
Image is a necklace on a grey fabric background. Necklace is made from black and clear crackle glass beads, with tiny faceted blue glass crystals, and five glass tube feature beads. The tube beads are incredibly shiny, with a liquid like effect to the shine. It is finished with a silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15. For stones that play with the light, you can't beat labradorite. The stones are an interesting colour, understated. They remind me a little of river water... in a good way. Then the light hits them differently and they're rainbows and icy blue shine. Truly beautiful beads.
Image is a necklace draped over a piece of amethyst, on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made from oval labradorite beads, and tiny opaque soft-pink glass pearls. It is finished with a gold-plated toggle clasp.
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Join the dark (literally) side!! Or don't if it's not good for you. It works so much better for me. My days are mostly 2pm-6.30am.

Ooh, I promised you pictures of Christmas tree 'chaos style' and you can't send pics by dm here
Chaotically decorated christmas tree with a golden angel on the top. Chaotically decorated christmas tree with golden angel on top from different angle.
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Sending out orders right up until last posting, if you're still looking for last minute Christmas gifts.

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Bracelet on a grey background. Bracelet is made from opalite chip and red bamboo coral chip, arranged in half and half formation. Available from Oak Leaf Crafting on Folksy.com Bracelet on a grey background. Bracelet is made with opalite beads, blue glass beads, and silver plated beads, with a silver-plated barrel clasp. Necklace draped over a chunk of amethyst, on a grey background. Necklace is made with blue goldstone and pink magatama beads. Christmas wine glass charms, set on a grey background with the bottom of a wine glass in the middle, around which one of the charms is placed. The wine glass charms are gold-plated rings holding Christmas charms with red, white, and green beads either side. There is a wreath, a stocking, a tree (around the glass) a reindeer, a candy cane, and a wrapped present.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 is another necklace that plays with the light. Blue goldstone has a coppery sparkle, and the frosted glass beads were one of my finds of the year. They have a central layer that makes them glow pink on one side, with a yellow-hued rainbow sheen on the other.
Image is a necklace draped over a chunk of amethyst, on a grey background. Necklace is made from flat oblong blue goldstone beads, with a not quite polished but not quite matt finish, and the beautiful coppery goldstone sparkles, alternating with frosted glass beads with a central layer that makes them shine pink on one side and yellow-hued rainbows on the other. It is finished with a bronze-toned toggle clasp.
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13. I love working with hematite. It's cool, smooth, shiny, weighty, and very tactile. In this piece it's paired with the sparkliest half-coated glass crystals that shine with yellow and purple hues in the light.
Image is a necklace draped over a piece of amethyst on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made from groups of three round half-coated faceted glass crystals, separated by smooth, shiny, hematite bicones. It is finished with a silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12. Crackle glass beads aren't the most expensive beads, but they're so pretty and the way they play with light is wonderful. To enhance the shine and reflective qualities, they're pairs with smooth, weighty, chunky, hematite swirl beads.

shop link in bio for the full range.
Image is a necklace draped over a chunk of amethyst, set on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made from pairs of purple crackle glass beads separated by chunky hematite swirl beads. It is finished with a sliver-plated heart-shaped toggle clasp.
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A very grainy video of the galaxy light projection on the ceiling. It does different patterns and colours.
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11. I love the contrast between the gentle sheen on the not-quite-matt dark purple stone beads, with their brown/black marbling, and the extremely shiny pearlescent white magnetic hematite barrels beads. I've done a few of this design, but only one in each colour.
Image is a necklace draped over a piece of citrine(?) against a grey fabric background. The necklace is made from purple teardrop shaped flat stone beads, with dark marbling, alternated with pearlescent shiny magnetic white hematite barrel beads. It is finished with a silver-plated heart-shaped toggle clasp.
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I seem to have gone with a 'Necklaces that play with the light' theme for #ArtAdventCalendar, so I'll stick with it for day 10 (some bracelets might show up later, maybe a suncatcher). This one is irregular blue goldstone beads with matt pearlescent pink magatama beads for texture as well as colour.
A necklace draped over a chunk of amethyst, on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made of irregular chunks of navy blue goldstone, with its deep set coppery sparkles inside, and matt pearlescent pink magatama beads, a diagonally slanted slim bead which adds texture to the necklace while complimenting and highlighting the goldstone. It is finished with a heart-shaped silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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If you're still looking for gifts, for others or yourself, please consider checking out my Folksy store. Jewellery for everyone, bag charms, keyrings, cute Christmas decorations, and a Pride section.

Shop link: folksy.com/find/shop/Oa...
Straight to the Pride section: folksy.com/shops/OakLea...
Logo for Oak Leaf Crafting, a small craft business operating on Folksy.com. The background is an intricate pencil drawing from 1800 by a German artist called Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (obtained from The Met as a public domain image, which is kind of a cool thing to be able to do), called Study of Oak Trees. The text reads Oak Leaf Crafting. The shop can be found at: https://folksy.com/find/shop/OakLeafCrafting
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar is another necklace that plays with the light in interesting ways. There's something about these glass tube beads, their shine is almost liquid, and enhanced by the silver coloured faceted glass crystals.

I'm not getting salesy on this tag, but shop link is in my bio.
A necklace draped over a piece of citrine (I think) on a grey background. The necklace is made with pale purple glass tube beads with a liquid looking shine to them, and small silver faceted glass crystals. It is finished with a heart-shaped silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar (even though I only joined in yesterday). It's making me think hard about what to share and why. Most of my work is fairly simple, but I like combinations that play with the light, like these faceted pale pink ovals and the faceted silver glass crystals between them.
The image is a necklace, draped over a piece of amethyst and set on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made with pale pink faceted oval beads alternating with tiny faceted silver glass crystals. The different facets of the stones mean the necklace catches the light in interesting ways, and is reflective from almost any angle. It is finished with a heart shaped silver-plated toggle clasp.
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Ok, I'm going to do my first #ArtAdventCalendar post before bed. I made this necklace a few weeks ago, and it has such a period drama vibe for me. It's glass pearls and half-coated faceted glass crystals.
Necklace draped over a piece of pyrite, sitting on a grey fabric background. The necklace is made with glass pearls and half-coated glass crystals. It is shiny and sparkly, like something a character in a period drama might wear.
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Full picture of the necklace.
A necklace sitting on a grey background, with the bronze-toned clasp draped over a piece of amethyst. It is made from oblong blue goldstone beads and round frosted glass beads with a central layer that makes them shine pink on one side and yellowy rainbow on the other. it's available from https://folksy.com/find/item/8588864-Blue-Goldstone-Oblong-and-Pink-Shimmer-Frosted-Glass-Bead-Necklace
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
Promotional poster for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Season Two.
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I don't share a huge number of products from my shop on here, but I'm really proud of the new Christmas decorations I've been working on, so I wanted to show this one off.

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Christmas decoration made from recycled bangle, glass beads, and a snowflake charm. The beads are wire-wrapped to the frame in clusters of three, with a string of beads flaking the charm near the top. It is available from https://folksy.com/find/item/8576471-Upcycled-Bangle-Christmas-Decoration-Red-and-Pearl-Glass-Beads-with-Snowflake
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Taking part in this over on FB next month. It's in support of a really good cause and, if the last one is any indication, will be crammed full of talented creators. It's free to join as a customer, so please share and pop in if you can.
Flier advertising the November Kindness Market over on Facebook. An online market in support of a small mental health organisation.
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This is definitely me, but I will never stop trying to help if I think I can. Sometimes it gets me my feelings hurt. And sometimes it hurts when I realise I don't always have the support system I try to be. But sometimes I get to help, so it's worth the other stuff.
Screencap of tweet saying: The autistic urge to help anyone and everyone in need to the best of your ability and means, and then to suffer alone when you're the one in need because you find it so incredibly difficult to ask others for help.
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Bag charm featuring pale green and purple/brown glass beads and silver-plated flower charms, hung from a split ring and lanyard clip.
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Picked a pack of these up in the grocery shopping, on offer this week. Can't afford them at full price, sadly, but they're amazing.
Picture of a box of Deliciously Ella brand Apple and Almond Breakfast Bakes.
August 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM