Trade(s) wanted in July

Hi guys!
Important: I have two trades yet to finish (one from last year, and one from this year. Thank you both for being so lovely and patient) so I cannot possibly work on THIS trade item until middle-late July 2009 at the earliest. As I said, I have two trades to finish yet, plus a convention to plan, and I also need to plan my wedding ceremony (also in July). Eek!

Some of you know this but I’ll repeat it here so that everyone does! 😀 As a Windstone official artist, I’ve agreed not to sell any PYOs I do or take commissions for them. This works out really well for both Windstone and I, and you collectors! Windstone keeps the value of my work, I usually don’t have time to do ‘extras’, and due to the fact that my stuff is only sold through Windstone that keeps the value high for those of you that have my work. Yaaaay!
Anyhow, I did get special permission to occasionally trade my PYOs for Windstones I want. I rarely if ever can afford Windstones, so trading has helped me to collect them a little!

This is kinda neat, because there is no other way for folks to get custom PYOs from me 😀

Here’s the deal. I really want a new Red Fire Old Warrior, because he looks like one of my dear characters. I am willing to paint a custom PYO (everything except the keeper dragon PYO) in trade. In the past, the way this works is that someone that wanted to trade with me sent the Windstone I wanted and the blank PYO, then I painted it and sent it back. My PYOs average around $450 on eBay so it’s a pretty good deal, I hope?

In the event that there might be more than one person that would want to trade– what I will do is this. Since I can’t start until later in July anyhow, anyone that is interested just drop a comment here and I’ll draw a name from a hat once Mid-July rolls around. Do you think that’s fair? You don’t have to have the trade on hand until we both say ‘yes, let’s do this!’. Gosh I hope I am making sense.
Alternatively, if anyone has a ‘special’ Red Fire Old Warrior (they were on eBay only) that they wanted to trade, they’d ‘win’ automatically. Since there weren’t a bunch of these and I doubt people will want to part with them, I suspect this won’t be a factor. XD
Anyhow, if you want your name on the list for me to draw randomly from in July, comment here! Don’t PM me.

Also, I’d be willing to do a Keeper PYO (so far they’ve ranged in price from $480-960) in trade (once they have more blanks!) for any of the following. If you have one of the following and want to trade it, PM me.

One of the three original Prototype Emerald Peacock Old Warriors (these guys http://ravnheart.com/windstone/index.php?act=details&id=39 — I have a ‘normal’ empea OW but like the original 3 much better!)
One of the Red Gold OR Spring Green Secret Keepers (prefer red gold). I’d be willing to do several PYOs. I know this is just fancy dreaming. 😉

(I’d also love these guys, but I know who the owners are and I know they’d never give ’em up XD So this is only a fantasy list: Ocean Blue Old Warrior, original Autumn Leaf Old Warrior, Spring Green Rising Spectral, Gold Wine Male griffin (don’t laugh Tyrrlin!).

For the record, no, I cannot trade any of my custom paint jobs on anything other than PYOs. Windstone owns those sculpts, they are never ‘mine’ and thus I cannot trade them even if I wanted to. Also, I cannot replicate an exact coloration that already exists, sorry! e.g. I can’t paint a PYO to look like an Emerald Peacock dragon, or in ‘my’ Labradorite colors, etc. Thanks for understanding!

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