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    Bluestem
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      Hi all! My name is Katie and I’ve been in love with Melody’s sculptures since I was a 10-year-old in the mid 90’s. I remember walking through a mall with my friends and seeing a display of beautifully lit emerald, peacock, and white dragons and was hooked. Every year, I’d save up my 2$/week allowance and buy myself one dragon for my birthday. I’ve always been an artist, nature nut, and armchair biologist/ornithologist, so even as I a kid I appreciated how anatomically sound Windstone Editions dragons were. They looked (and still do) like a real living animal that could spring to life at any moment. My adhd brain would spend hours studying the gradation of scales from small to large, how the dragons looked from different angles, and in different lights.

      Over the years, I went to Columbus College of Art and Design, where I greatly enjoyed sculpting reptiles, dragons, birds, and dinosaurs. To this day, Melody’s sculptures continue to inspire me.

      In my mid thirties (during the Covid pandemic) I went out to the middle-of-nowhere Missouri and lived in an ecovillage for a year. It was a great experience and I got to live as close to nature as I’d always wanted (swimming among crawfish and snapping turtles under the canvas of the Milky Way, milking goats, studying prairie forbs, living in a straw bale cabin, mixing earth plasters, catching brown snakes and prairie kingsnakes). However, before the move and in a fit of Marie Kondo-esque minimalism, I sold almost all of my dragons. The only ones I kept were my emerald Male and the dragon-in-hand wall sconce. Now that I’m back in my home state and in what I intend to be my forever home, the urge to collect Windstone Editions has come back full force! I’m so mad at myself for selling my old peacock scratching dragon, ruby mother dragon, ruby young dragon, circle of dragons candle holder, hatching emerald dragon, and emerald coiled dragon. Ah well! Live and learn.

      Now closing in on my 40’s, I’ve picked up a brown Male dragon, peacock baby dragon, and copper coiled mother dragon. I look forward to collecting and studying these beautiful sculptures for the rest of my life. 🙂 Other things I enjoy/am obsessed with are: regional native plant gardening, birding, permaculture, nature-style fish keeping, raising cacti, taking care of my kitties and dog, playing D&D, writing, and being a big ol’ nerd. I am currently trying my best to clean my peacock baby dragon from cigarette smoke grime and trying not to lose my mind lol.

      Happy to be here, finally!

      "Ferdinand was content to just sit and smell the flowers."

      ~* Grails *~
      Anything in Mystic Jade, especially the Old Warrior, Fledgling, Mini Keeper, Royal Hatchlings
      Anything in Desert Sunrise, especially the Bantam, Mini Keeper, Fledgling, and Hearth Dragon
      Ivory Moss Bantam and Curly
      Anything in Winter Sunset
      Woodland Fledgling
      Freckled Jade Curly
      Terra Cotta Mini Keeper
      Calypso Oriental Dragon
      Brown Secret Keeper, Baby, Fledgling, Lap, Old Warrior

      #1684613
      Bodine
      Participant

        Welcome!! Sounds like you will fit right in😁

        Every act matters.No matter how small💞
        (Wanted......Toaster Dragon)
        Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.

        #1684622
        etruscan
        Participant

          Welcome!

          #1684624
          Melody
          Keymaster

            Welcome! You will enjoy the folks here, you will fit right in!

            #1685291
            Bluestem
            Participant

              Thanks, Melody! I’m very happy to be here! 😀

              "Ferdinand was content to just sit and smell the flowers."

              ~* Grails *~
              Anything in Mystic Jade, especially the Old Warrior, Fledgling, Mini Keeper, Royal Hatchlings
              Anything in Desert Sunrise, especially the Bantam, Mini Keeper, Fledgling, and Hearth Dragon
              Ivory Moss Bantam and Curly
              Anything in Winter Sunset
              Woodland Fledgling
              Freckled Jade Curly
              Terra Cotta Mini Keeper
              Calypso Oriental Dragon
              Brown Secret Keeper, Baby, Fledgling, Lap, Old Warrior

              #1685292
              Bluestem
              Participant

                Thank you, Etruscan! Happy to be here. 🙂

                "Ferdinand was content to just sit and smell the flowers."

                ~* Grails *~
                Anything in Mystic Jade, especially the Old Warrior, Fledgling, Mini Keeper, Royal Hatchlings
                Anything in Desert Sunrise, especially the Bantam, Mini Keeper, Fledgling, and Hearth Dragon
                Ivory Moss Bantam and Curly
                Anything in Winter Sunset
                Woodland Fledgling
                Freckled Jade Curly
                Terra Cotta Mini Keeper
                Calypso Oriental Dragon
                Brown Secret Keeper, Baby, Fledgling, Lap, Old Warrior

                #1685293
                Bluestem
                Participant

                  Welcome!! Sounds like you will fit right in😁

                  Thank you for the welcome, Bodine! I am happy to be here!

                  "Ferdinand was content to just sit and smell the flowers."

                  ~* Grails *~
                  Anything in Mystic Jade, especially the Old Warrior, Fledgling, Mini Keeper, Royal Hatchlings
                  Anything in Desert Sunrise, especially the Bantam, Mini Keeper, Fledgling, and Hearth Dragon
                  Ivory Moss Bantam and Curly
                  Anything in Winter Sunset
                  Woodland Fledgling
                  Freckled Jade Curly
                  Terra Cotta Mini Keeper
                  Calypso Oriental Dragon
                  Brown Secret Keeper, Baby, Fledgling, Lap, Old Warrior

                  #1692766
                  Bluestem
                  Participant

                    Thank you, Bodine! 🙂

                    "Ferdinand was content to just sit and smell the flowers."

                    ~* Grails *~
                    Anything in Mystic Jade, especially the Old Warrior, Fledgling, Mini Keeper, Royal Hatchlings
                    Anything in Desert Sunrise, especially the Bantam, Mini Keeper, Fledgling, and Hearth Dragon
                    Ivory Moss Bantam and Curly
                    Anything in Winter Sunset
                    Woodland Fledgling
                    Freckled Jade Curly
                    Terra Cotta Mini Keeper
                    Calypso Oriental Dragon
                    Brown Secret Keeper, Baby, Fledgling, Lap, Old Warrior

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