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I’m curious how folks began their collections and why.
For my part, I was introduced to a series of books back in the 80’s that had dragons and their riders as the main characters: The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery. I was given a couple of books to begin with, and I found myself totally immersed in that world. And I wholeheartedly wished that the dragons could be real. I read–A LOT! and to get lost in a book on a rainy weekend is like being in heaven for me. 😀
But shortly after finding those books, I came across the original brown and green dragons. When the peacocks came out, my husband, knowing my fondness for anything blue, bought my first 2 dragons for me. And that was it; I was hooked. And now here I am. 🙂I was actually playing a Pern-themed online game when someone mentioned that they collected Windstones. I went to the website and was mesmerized. I bought my first on ebay (winged spirit wolf), and now I have over 30 pieces. 😀
My husband actually got his first piece, a gardian dragon, at the Medival Times in Cali. Then I got him a peacock emperor, and slowly got more and more, now we have 60 pieces of windstone.
Ever since I was a kid I’d always loved griffins, unicorns, and dragons. When I was in high school I went to a spiritual store and found M. Pena’s Male Dragon in Peacock and Emerald. I thought they were gorgeous and wanted them immediately. Fortunately they had layaway, as that was how I bought all of my dragons from that store. I started with those two and now have a collection of over 20! I also got my mom into them! She has eight, two of which I bought for her!
I popped out of the womb loving dragons- no honestly, I can’t remember a time before I started loving them. Then later in life discovered gryphons and other fantasy critters and fell in love with them too.
When I was about 5, a small local gift shop started carrying Windstones. I remember seeing the first lines in there (old browns, greens… peacocks, the original griffins, kirins..). As a child I never had an allowance and my family, though very loving, couldn’t afford such things, so I’d go to the small local mall and stare at them. It wasn’t until I was 18 or 19 did I purchase my first Windstone (and the only Windstone I’ve ever bought for myself, actually!) which was a griffin candlelamp. I’ve since been gifted a few Windstones by wonderful friends and have been able to trade for my others. 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comI started selling them. And I had a phone conversation with my hubby and John one evening about maybe having Windstones take on the producing of my husband’s Fairy Fossils (they ended up declining, btw… too complicated to paint with an airbrush). He told us about the forum being started, so I joined this forum! I went from 3 pieces to over 100 in a year and a half. 😳
I read the Pern books back in High School and tired to imagine what those dragons would look like then one day I was in a shop in SF and saw the Windstone Brown Male Dragon and was hooked, as I walked over to it I saw the Female now Mother dragon and was kooked for life
I have always been a cat person and near as I can remember, I started with the small flap cats, just ’cause they were beautifully made sculptures. Then came the large flap cats, griffins and flions. I have the original peacock male, mama and hatchling and those dragons were it for a while. There were no dragon books when I was coming up 25 years ago (that I knew about anyway). lol I tried reading the Pern books in the 90’s, but the names got on my nerves. I mean to try them again, though. 10+ years might make a difference in my tolerance. 😀
The Pern books played a pretty central role for me too, as they were hands-down the best darned dragon stories I’d ever read . . . and still are. I started reading those in junior high, so by high school I was pretty solidly locked into dragons. Freshman year, our marching band was invited to compete at the Fiesta Bowl Competition of Bands in Arizona. This led to a nine-bus caravan snorting its way down the freeway, loaded to the gills with bored kids and harried chaperones. It was nearly a twelve-hour drive in those slow things. As a reward of sorts for not hijacking the buses 😉 we were turned loose in the Scottsdale Mall for a few hours. There I ran across a shop that had these incredible brown and green dragons in its front window. I don’t think I moved from that window for half an hour. I didn’t have twenty bucks to spare, so even the Hatcher was out of my reach, but I went from dragon to dragon anyway trying to decide which one I would buy if I could. (I eventually decided I liked the browns a little bit better.)
Leaving those dragons behind was extremely hard, and I moped about it for months. Then, a few years later, I discovered an Old Green Mother in our local Wicks’n’Sticks. It was nearly Christmas, and I only had enough cash left for half of her price. Mom, however, let herself be convinced that if she paid half and I paid half, then this dragon could be her Christmas present to me. I think Mom was happy to get off so easily, and there was little question that I liked the gift! 😆 That dragon followed me throughout my penniless college years. It wasn’t until I’d been out and working for over five years that it even occurred to me that I could start collecting these in earnest. I found an Old Brown family on eBay, bid like a frenzied mongoose, and have been building the collection ever since. Although I have learned to not do the mongoose bidding thing most of the time. 🙄
Barrdwing wrote:I found an Old Brown family on eBay, bid like a frenzied mongoose, and have been building the collection ever since. Although I have learned to not do the mongoose bidding thing most of the time. 🙄
😆 Oh, can I *EVER*relate to the frenzied mongoose thing! 😆 I’ve found that lately I go into “Over My Dead Body (and empty bank account) bidding mode. Not good for the bloodpressure, OR the bank account! 🙄
I got the two my brother had. You know…come to think of it, he has a prototype OW. I think I will try to weasel that one away from him too…
I’ve loved fantasy creatures as long as I can remember… though truth be told, I leaned more towards unicorns and pegasi when I was young. Heck, two of my coolest possessions when really little were my purple unicorn banana-seat bike and my temperature-changing snow boots (when they got cold & wet, the unicorns showed up). As I’ve grown older, my preferences have changed more towards griffins and dragons. I attribute that somewhat to the books I’ve read… not many Hoofers in ’em. But then, I much prefer wolves to bunnies now too. 😎
When I first saw Windstones 18 yrs or so ago, I thought they were awesome (still do). So after drooling for a decade, I got one as soon as I could afford one myself. After that, my then-boyfriend indulged me and bought me Windstones every gift-giving occasion that came up. Now I can usually afford what I want, so I take advantage of it. 😈
Maebnus3 wrote:two of my coolest possessions when really little were my purple unicorn banana-seat bike and my temperature-changing snow boots (when they got cold & wet, the unicorns showed up).
Okay, listen, I’ll admit it. I had both of these things. 😆 It was a purple banana seat bike, the seat was white with a unicorn on it, and heaven help me I think it had rainbow tassels. The handlebar grips were white too. My temperature changing boots were rubber and purple too.
I don’t even like purple. 😆
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