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Laurie wrote:
What do they say? Champagne taste and a beer pocketbook?
That’s so me! 😆
WindstoneCollector wrote:I did however have a last minute bid I put in on corset/bustier/coat and won! I was so excited I grabbed Scott’s arm and shook him and he died playing his video game. I got it for $22.09 including shipping!!!
I’m so happy for you! Your costume idea sounds so neat, I wonder if you’ll post about it and show us how it turns out. Oh, and just for fun, I was searching for images of cakes and cookies for my “Cakes!” thread under food and I came across some pictures of corset-shaped cookies. Now there’s something you don’t see everyday…
Who makes the best-tasting chocolate?
Which brand/brands do you think taste the best? We can discuss everything from everyday comfort foods, to high-end and more obscure products. I would love to hear your opinions. I’ve always enjoyed Godiva, but since they’re kind of commercial in some respects, I was wondering if anyone here might know of some gourmet, all-natural brands that are just as good or even better. Let me know what you think.
pegasi1978 wrote:That’s a product (Bitter Apple) I haven’t heard of in years. I had a friend in 1992 who’s family got two boxer puppies after having to put their old boxer down. They used the Bitter Apple to try and keep them from chewing on things. It worked fairly well. I haven’t thought about Pfennig and Jasmine in a long time.
Perhaps it isn’t made anymore, but there are plenty of other brands of deterrent spray to choose from.
LadyFirebird wrote:Of course it came to my mind where exactly they can ‘stick’ that pin!!! 👿
You said it! 😆 👿
🙂 Feel better drag0nfeathers! :yes:
pipsxlch wrote:I agree with the waiting to accumulate a larger batch, as opposed to semi frequent dribbles.
DragOn made that costume in her avatar, isn’t it too cool? Though I think she’s feeling that way about her job.Wow, that’s amazing! I do hope things get better for her.
@ Blackdesertwind
Susie can put you on a waiting list for out-of-stock items, but I don’t think that there is currently any way to receive e-mail notifications for updates to the Windstone store. I agree, it is very frustrating. Items seem to show up in the store in small amounts and at random intervals, and I usually don’t find out until it’s too late.
Perhaps I should begin a new thread about hippogriffs. Who wouldn’t want a zorse or a quagga hippogriff? I loved Melody’s hippogriff sculpt. Maybe one day she’ll pursue the production of a hippogriff family based on this sculpt after the Windstone staff has finished the preparations necessary to make her phoenix either a PYO or a production piece. I don’t know where they currently are in the process, can anyone fill me in? Is the phoenix going to be exclusively a PYO?
Here is Melody’s anthro wolf lady alongside Christy’s artwork that reminded me of it:
(Sculpture by Melody Peña)
“Hear My Plea” by *Goldenwolf at deviantart.com
Quote:At 2:30PM the vet called. Good news (in a way) He’s blocked and can’t make his stools pass. So that means no tumour or something like that, to me it’s good news but at the same time it’s not. He got an Xray and it didn’t show anything abnormal but it did show that he has alot of stools packed in there. That explain why I thought he couldn’t urinate. Every time he would strain to pass the stools what little urine was in him would come out. There was alot of hair in his stools and vomit that I collected for the vet. That he explained would cause blockage.
He did say with what he’s been eating (plastic plants, coconut fibers) really irritated him and the fact that he’s blocked alone could cause him to through up blood and have some in his stools.
So now we wait to see if he passes them or not tonight. They said that the laxative they gave him should work and that on the way home or not to long after he should pass them.This actually happened to one my cats a few years ago, and it was very scary. 😮 My orange tabby Milo is may not have long fur like your Raven, but if his thick double coat isn’t brushed constantly, he winds up ingesting too much hair. I had been giving him high-fiber dry food because he gains weight easily, but I think that all that roughage, combined with the excess hair is what finally caused it. It began with him having a distended tummy and vomiting after eating, which is very unusual for him. I was afraid at first that he might be having kidney problems because vomiting can be a warning sign. Not to get too personal, but I suffer from various chronic gastrointestional illnesses, (including IBS with constipation) and so you can imagine my distress at seeing my cat hunched into a ball under the table in the middle of the night with the same type of cramping, making these terrible noises and vomiting during the whole thing. I described what I had seen to my parents, and we rushed him over to the vet first thing the next morning. An x-ray and blood test revealed only a build-up of stool as the cause, so the vet administered an enema and then sent our cat home after he had an initial bowel movement. The smell in that crate was unbelievable as he continued to leak stool, (that’s apparently what happens when you give cats enemas) but he appeared quite relaxed and was purring gratefully as we cleaned him up. After a bath and a few weeks on wet food he was completely fine. I make sure to brush him a lot more now and provide wet food on occasion. I think that this is just a problem that some cats with thicker coats can have due to regularly ingesting so much of their own hair while grooming. If I recall correctly, our vet prescribed a liquid laxative for Milo that we could mix in his food, but he wouldn’t take it. Fortunately, it turned out not to necessary. I’m pretty sure though that their are natural, over-the-counter, oil solutions sold in pet supply stores such as Petsmart, which can be stirred in dry food to relieve constipation in cats. Our cat’s been ok, so I haven’t had any reason to research it, but I can try doing an online search for you. Also, I sometimes spray citrus-scented Windex on artificial plants and plastic bags to keep my cats from chewing on them. Some people use a product called Bitter Apple. I wonder if that would help. If it’s kidney stones, perhaps low-magnesium wet food would prevent the problem from coming back. I know that there are a few brands which sell canned cat food formulated for urinary tract health.
Quote:Raven is bringing up is food again and some blood comes out too. I’ll have to bring him back to the vet.
He’s been sick last week and again this morning. He hasn’t eaten anything he shouldn’t so I don’t know what to think.
Did anyone ever had a problem with “helicobacter pylori”?
I got a feeling that may be the cause of Raven being sick and my son.
Symptoms are the same. But in Michel’s case he doesn’t have any blood yet.
I’ve been trying to contact his doctor about that for a blood test.If I’m not mistaken, I believe that I was tested for this many years ago during an endoscopy because my acid reflux was so bad, but it came back negative. I do hope that your cat recovers that your son stays well. :yes:
Quote:Yesterday my dad’s cat needed to be put down his kidneys had shut down and there was more problems. It made me real sad, I loved that cat! He was a male birman
He will be missed. Pics of my dad’s cat.
I’m very sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you and your dad. I lost my siamese Marcello five years ago due to kidney failure. He was nineteen and a half. 🙁
I just read about what might be another design inspiration for the Rankin/Bass studio. In this case, for the studio’s first production, The Hobbit (1977).
From http://brer-powerofbabel.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html:
Rankin/Bass Bilbo Design Inspiration
Quote:Arthur Rankin, Jr. always asserted that they looked to the work of Arthur Rackham for inspiration on the design of The Hobbit (1977), and here is the proof. Here in a detail from Rackham’s early illustrations of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle we see the inspiration for their original design for Bilbo, with unmistakeable snub nose and buck teeth. The “little men” on either side of this proto-Baggins easily contain elements used in the Rankin/Bass conceptions of Thorin, Balin, and Gandalf as well. The design for Bilbo as actually animated was modified, making his features rounder and younger looking; this look for “THE” hobbit has descended on to Sierra Entertainment’s The Hobbit video game, right down to his rusty red-brown hair.
Neat eh?
Adorable pics twindragonsmum! 😀
Thrippa wrote:Very cute! Although, I think I’d rather have a hatching griffy chick – rump in a shell and a fragment for a hat?
A Flion™ cub might be easier to curl up (hint, hint!).We’re all very good at telling her what she should sculpt, aren’t we?
I love your hatching idea Thrippa! 🙂 I lot of people are crazy for dragoncats as well, I wonder if Melody has ever considered designing and sculpting one? You know, a hybrid with horns and either fur or scales. (It wouldn’t resemble a bat-winged Flap Cat or Gargoyle)
Like this:(Commission by *shadow-wolf for *kcravenyote on deviantart.com)
(Commission by *kasame for *kcravenyote on deviantart.com)
(Commission by *Goldenwolf for *kcravenyote on deviantart.com)
I think that Melody knows Christy Grandjean (a.k.a. *Goldenwolf) and has exchanged art with her, no? Melody once sculpted an anthro wolf lady that reminded me a lot of Christy’s artwork.
pegasi1978 wrote:Did you know that Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) wrote the screenplay for the animated version of The Lord of the Rings and was paid next to nothing for it?
Yes, come to think of it, I do remember hearing about that. I also remember coming across the mentioned page several years ago and reading about the situation he’s been in regarding The Last Unicorn film royalties, etc. 🙁 (I think I first saw the page before the 25th anniversary DVD came out though) I’ve also seen a lot of what is probably unofficial Last Unicorn merchandise on eBay as well. A live-action film adaptation was in the works I believe, but to my knowledge the project has since fallen apart.
That was surprisingly well done. :yes: Vivid, immediately affecting, highly memorable imagery — I mean if you were to describe the concept to someone it would sound corny, but the way in which the scene was executed… Thanks for sharing!
Wow! It conceals the old tattoo perfectly and completely! The new one is so beautiful, you must be proud. 🙂 I was thinking that I might get a tattoo one day…
I thought that this would make for a most interesting post…
Ya gotta love Rankin/Bass! XD I’m sure that most of you guys have seen The Last Unicorn, but what about their other hand-drawn works such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Return of the King? The bulbous noses and weathered faces kind of remind me Brian Froud’s art for Jim Henson, and I know that the designs for The Flight of Dragons took inspiration from illustrator Wayne Anderson. (My avatar is a Wayne Anderson illustration by the way) Did anyone here grow up on this trippy stuff, and if so, how did it inspire you? I know that many people from my generation were first exposed to the fantasy classics through these sorts of cartoons. What do you think of the Rankin/Bass vocal and design interpretation of Gollum?
Here’s the famous Gollum/Smeagol schizophrenic scene performed by Andy Serkis from Peter Jackson’s trilogy for comparison.
