Latest artistic endeavor.

I actually did quite a bit of sewing this afternoon, so I took a bit of this evening to paint! I did my first PYO wolf, and I really like how he came out. Photos are kinda so-so, it's really hard to get him properly lit, in focus,and showing all the detail there, but this should give some idea, at least. (Thanks to JJ for making them as good as they are, my first photos were horrific and washed out, which he managed to fix.

http://bladespark.topcities.com/wolf1.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/wolf2.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/wolf3.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/wolf4.jpg
http://bladespark.topcities.com/wolf5.jpg

I'll be putting him up on ebay, probably tomorrow.

O.o

Well, I thought my quiz about poads would remain purely an academic issue for quite some time.

But I just found out that they have already cast a batch of poads, and are painting them right now! Of course painting something with a complex marking pattern like that takes time, so they're not ready for sale yet. But there will be poads!

I don't know what the price will be. The $50 I used in my quiz was the minimum I thought they might sell for, but the actual price is probably going to be more like $100, dunno, nobody's given any pricing information on them yet.

However, for those of you who were all "must have!" about the poads, I thought I'd give you an update, and I shall continue to post poad information here as I get it. When they come out for sale, I'll see what I can do to hook you folks up, as the first batches are probably going to be available only to those in the know. (And the eary batches are likely to be limited edition colors, or at least what Windstone calls "limited production" which means they'll always make them a few at a time, and sell them direct, and won't sell them in bulk to retailers.)

Wolf!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290091660095

He's up for sale.

OCD

I recently realized that I have a little snippet of OCD. Or rather, I should say I have a little bit of obsessive compulsive nature. It's not OCD unless it's a disorder, and of course to be a disorder it has to affect your quality of life in some significant way. Which this doesn't.

I just like to sort things. Particularly candy, although also books, fabrics, art supplies, and just about anything else,really. I always sorted my candy as a child. I'd get a bunch of candy that was in some way varied, like runts flavors, or jelly belly flavors, and I'd sort them out into little piles of the same flavor. Then I'd go through and make groupings, taking one of each kind. Then I'd eat all the ones there were left overs of first, because they were extra. And then I'd go through and eat the ones left in a specific order, ending with the last group of one of each kind, eating those in reverse order of how much I like them, so that the very best one was the last one I ate.

It's not a compulsion, exactly. I don't have to eat them this way, and if, for example, I'm given a handful of jelly bellies in public, I'll just eat them normally. But sorting them and eating them in the "correct" order is ridiculously satisfying.

Well, right now I have a whole bag of jelly bellies that need sorting, bye.

Cute!

I just saw this photo of a whole batch of Windstone griffin chicks all lined up, and had to share.

Edit - foo, for some reason the link no longer points to the right image.

They're not quite as cute as live kittens, but they're still rather disgustingly cute! I just ordered one. They're $60 to pre-order the limited production pearl ones that they're doing right now. Some time in the next month or so one should be able to get the regular production ones (which will be in a muted realistic brown color) in stores for something like $40-$50.