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December 14, 2009 at 10:03 am #565348
I don’t feel like a “senior citizen” even though I will be 67 in March. I saw my first Windstone in about 1986 in a gift shop in Old Sacramento. He was a peacock male and I thought “That one!! I want THAT ONE!!!” I took my best friend down there to see it just to admire it. Well, he bought it for me for Christmas!! I bought a Ki-rin family-male, female, and baby soon after that and then stopped for about 20 years, then came back about 3 years ago. Due to ebay, shops, even yard sales, and this forum, I now have at least 370 Windstones in 10 display cases in my office (I haven’t counted lately). I am so proud of the collection and to be a Windstone collector! I carry some pictures around with me to show off to anyone who will stand still long enough to listen and look!! It is so much fun!! I think it is also wonderful to have a group/forum to talk to about Windstones that understands and shares the distinctive language that collectors develop among themselves and teach others about. Hurrah for us!!!
January 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm #565349I’m 23 now (Turn 24 in May) and have been collecting Windstones since maybe 2006? If not 06 then 07 for sure. I first saw a peacock male at Ashley Avery’s at my local mall. I fell in love with him and the ruby scratcher. Every year I asked for the Ruby Scratcher for Christmas but never got him (I’m still missing that crazy guy!) I figured I’d never get a Windstone, so I asked my (then) friend the artist (http://www.elfwood.com/~rajidae) to draw me one. Actually the picture she drew is in her elfwood gallery. Its called “I’m not a Windstone” lol
But anyway, yea. For a while I didn’t have but 1 small bill a month, so I bought LOTS of Windstones….and then my car went crunch and I had to get another one, and well, car payments put a damper on dragons! Im going back to school and going into the medical tech program, so in 2.5 years, WATCH OUT! heheh
January 17, 2010 at 5:06 pm #56535022 here! I bought my first windstone when I was somewhere around 15-6. Hopefully some day I’ll finally be out of various educational systems (heading into grad school soon) and actually have a job and the money to get a decent collection! XD
January 17, 2010 at 9:04 pm #565351Hello. I’m 38, but I started collecting Windstones when I was about 21, in the brief space between college and vet school. By the time I graduated, Wicks N’ Sticks had all gone out of business, and those are the only stores I ever saw Windstones in. Now, in the 2 weeks since researching wolf colors and accidently finding that my black griffin Navarre had a (wolf-colored) family, I’ve literally doubled my collection! I now have 7 old, 7 new (to me, at least; one is the brown dragon that was sold by the time I’d saved enough for him), and 1 in transit. I think I’m temporarily done, 4 pieces every week is a bit beyond my budget.
And I think there’s a typo in the poll, I’m in two of the categories.
January 17, 2010 at 9:18 pm #565352Hey wait….When I posted my vote, I was in the 25-35 range…Now I am going to be 2 years past that soon! 😮 🙄 😈
January 18, 2010 at 2:22 pm #565353WindstoneCollector wrote:Hey wait….When I posted my vote, I was in the 25-35 range…Now I am going to be 2 years past that soon! 😮 🙄 😈
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.February 7, 2010 at 10:21 pm #565354My first windstone was a pyo fledgie (fledgeling) or whatevar those small pyo dragons are called. Mom painted it for me for my twelfth birthday. Now i just bought myself a blacksunset croucher. hes just a beauty. 😉 8) 8) 😀 🙂 🙂 😮 hes the best. Now im 14.
February 17, 2010 at 5:32 am #565355I don’t know how I missed this thread all this time……
I got my first Windstone back in the mid 80’s–a Peacock young. Then my husband bought me the Peacock male, and I believe they both came from Wicks N Sticks; I *loved* store! I remember seeing the Browns and Greens. I was really into the Anne McCaffery books at the time.
That was all I had……until I found this forum! Talk about “aiding and abetting”? 😆 Now I’m up to 23, (not counting my PYO’s) with my last one being the Blue Ribbon Curlie. Most are either Peacock or EmPea’s. I do have a couple eBay pieces, but by far the culprit to blame for the empty bank account and full shelves would be the online store here and the forum. 😉
And as for age, I’m old enough to know better, and young enough to still not care. 😀April 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm #565356I`m turning 22 this year…
August 2, 2010 at 7:06 am #565357I’m 42…..but I don’t feel 42. 😀
-- Angie
August 2, 2010 at 11:41 pm #565358In November I will be celebrating the first anniversary of my 29th Birthday!! (turning 30 😆 )
Ten years ago I bought a small spirit wolf in a Nature’s Habitat (now closed 🙁 ). It came with an advertisement for the Grimalkin. I loved it and had to get one! The Grimalkin came with an advertisement for something else that I loved and just had to get……10 years later I have a room full of pretties!!August 6, 2010 at 5:01 am #565359I’m 20 years old, myself. Got my first Windstone, a peacock Scratcher, when I was 15. He was something like $200 when I got him, so needless to say my parents weren’t thrilled.
I love my “Scratch” and have taken very good care of him. It’s always funny to see a friend’s expression when they walk into my room and I am petting him, praising him for his beautiful, colorful scales.
“Who’s a pretty boy? You’re a pretty boy! Yes!“
September 14, 2010 at 8:21 pm #565360LOL Kayami you’re too funny! 😆 😆
September 14, 2010 at 11:08 pm #565361Well, I looked at the poll and tried to pick something…do I go real date time, how I feel today time, or pick something with my eyes closed? Real time won out and do I have the whole category to myself? Yes, I’m in the 60+ XD group and will be more so next year on my birthday. You youngsters. 😀 have a way to go but you all are doing well despite challenges with jobs and boyfriends.
September 20, 2010 at 1:56 am #565362I’m 24, and I have loved Windstone (the dragons especially!) since I was 10. At that age, one doesn’t really have $200-$400 just laying around, so I waited … and waited … a decade and a half later, and I finally have my first one! A PYO Secret Keeper!
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