I have no pants!

I scoured the net, and finally found a site with a step by step thingy for drafting the pattern for a pair of pants.

One of the steps? "Lay the hip-length sloper pattern against like AB so that the lower corner touches point C, and trace from the waist line down." So in other words, I need their hip-length sloper pattern. Okay, find, I go to where they show how to make that, and it starts, "Begin with waist-length sloper pattern..." I already have one of those! I just spent ages making one, but it's different and won't line up properly with theirs! And after all that effort I'm not making it over!

I really need a pants drafting pattern that just... drafts pants! No bodice slopers involved, just plain pants! And the sad thing is that last time I went looking for a bodice pattern, I found a pants pattern! But now that I need pants, they are nowhere to be found.

Very irksome.

Keith!

Camera! Change of plans! Contact me before you sell it.

Dilemma

I've thought for some time about leaving topcities.

On the one hand... it's been very reliable, and has plenty of space/bandwidth, etc. There isn't actually anything wrong with it, and I can count the number of times it's been down in the last five years on my fingers and have plenty left over.

On the other, it's not really set up ideally for my costume site. I'd like to have a place with a few more features, things like the ability to host my own forum instead of mooching off of Aurora, for example. And having the costume site have it's own web address. My own e-mail, me@me.com kinda thing. An address that's /really/ me.com and not me.topcities.com. Alll that good stuff.

But the real problem is that moving would break literally thousands of links. Old lj posts, tutorials on people's forums, discussions of fursuits and costumes and Windstones, suddenly they would all no longer have working photos in them! Because for years I've just tossed anything I needed to show up on my site and linked it directly. And I HATE when people have tutorials and discussions with broken pictures. The really old ones wouldn't bug me much, but the sheer pain of going through all my recent project show-off posts and updating with new pictures... ugh.

Maybe, if I find the ideal place to move to, I'll pay for both sites and just mirror instead. Use the topcities for personal stuff and random photo hosting. It's not like I can't afford a second round of $6 a month. That's not exactly going to break the bank here. I already pay more than that in advertising costs, and the benefits of the direct link to the costume site at sparkcostumes.com rather than bladespark.topcities.com/costume would almost be worth it all by itself.

Dunno, I'll have to think on it some more. Maybe after JJ's had his new site up and running for a bit, he can report on how that hosting is. It has all the fetures I really want, and is in the right price range...

Wheeeeeeee!

It's late! I'm looking at minis! Heeeee!

Painting this would be totally awesome. But it's not quite $80 worth of awesome, so unless Dexam decides to take me up on my offer to paint it for him if he'll buy it, probably not.

Funnily enough, the Reaper dragon mini I like best is the one I have, the little dragon I'm painting up as SPark. Even given the budget to buy one of the really big guys, I'd have picked that one. (And heck, it's to scale to be SPark in her standard size. The larger ones are too big. Or to small to be Ssifith SPark.)

At it again...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290024633597

I'm doing another custom paint gryphon. Hopefully this one sells for a decent price. *crosses fingers* We'll see.

Glee!

Ruby lap dragon, you are MINE!

I think I may end up selling the ruby old warrior I just bought. After I've admired it for a suitable length of time, that is. But I have a much cooler prototype old warrior, and now I'll have a superb example of the ruby color in the shape of a ruby lap dragon, and having a ruby old warrior as well seems excessive.

That and I"m not sure how the heck I'll get it into the display cabinet.

But first they have to arrive, so I guess I'll see how I feel about them in person.