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I do so love your dragons! i must think of some new, strange critter for you to make!
Keeper of the Fledgings
Unfinished Dragons
$10 for Dragon plus eyes and collar (certain extras would be a little more, i.e. wands, etc.)
Patchwork
Hippy
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Jewelry-all silver or gold metals I will take best offers on any of these
Amethyst annd Marcasite silver earrings
Silver and purple swavorski crystal bracelet
3/4th carat diamond and 14k gold ring-size 10 (This retailed for 1000)
Handmade braided silver wire cuff bracelet
Silver “Sister” charm bracelet
Silver Trinity knot bracelt)-SOLD
Charm bracelet (this is not silver or name brand beads)
Black Opal mosaic and gold earrings
1 1/4th carat diamond and gold earrings
1 Real Emerald (not created) and gold earring
Necklace Pendants
Silver and Blue Topaz Butterfly-Sold
Opal, crystal and silver oval
Created Emerald and 14k gold slid pendant
Amber and silver oval
Silver and Rainbow Moonstone necklace
Rings (not sure all the sizes any more)
Silver and Opal
Amethyst and Silver
Silver and Star Sapphire
Damaged Amber and silver necklace. Missing one stone. Someone clever might be able to repair this.
Keeper of the Fledgings
He is is awesome, but I admit, I like the sand tiger one better.
I’d also love to see some pink/blue fledgies, like the little pink and blue curlie that’s up right now. I think that they’re really pretty!
Keeper of the Fledgings
If it was an ABJD worth 2000 it almost certainly had to be a Volks.
I used to have about 15 ball jointed dolls, including a very rare Dollshe Bermann.The culture surrounding them eventually turned me off to it, so I sold them all.
I actually recently tried to start learning about BJD’s but when I attempted to join in on a forum conversation I was snubbed and told it was invite only.
Ooooookay.. done with that! lol
It was changed to invite only because there were so many people joining, and a lot of them were just trolls and spammers. The main doll forum, DOA, has something like 15,000+ members now. And the doll community is not what it used to be. But the snotty people aside, the dolls are gorgeous, and neat because they are fully customizable. And Hannah, if you are still interested, let me know. I’ve been a member since 2005.
Keeper of the Fledgings
Hmm,
I collect rocks, shiny ones, pretty ones, weird ones, big ones, etc. Whenever someone I know goes to another state/country/etc, I ask them to bring me back a rock, so I’ve got rocks from all over the world.
Windstones, of course.
Ball Jointed Dolls-had over thirty at one point, but am down to about 15.
Dragon plushies-lots and lots of them!
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That’s what I’m afraid of. That the cancer will kill them all. I do hope that our smart scientists and doctors can save them.
Keeper of the Fledgings
Part of the reason why it is so expensive to stay at any hospitals, especially not for profits is because you are paying for people who do not have insurance, and you are paying because the insurace companies won’t. Ex. You need an Mri. The cost of a scan is $3000. But each insurance company has a different contract with the hospital. BCBS will only pay 600 towards the MRI. UHC will pay 500. Aetna will pay 700, etc. The hospital overcharges, because if they charged the actual cost of the mri, the insurance companies would pay even less. And out of the 600, part of it goes to the machine use/electricity/pay the doctor/the tech/ but most of goes to offset costs in other parts of the hospital, that don’t make money. (Imaging is the only truly profitable part of a hospital by the way.) And much of the costs of a not for profit hospital is bills for people who do not have insurance, and never pay their bills, so those who do have insurance are charged more, so the hospital can try to break even. For profit hospitals are a different story, of course.
I work directly with doctors/patients/fight with the insurance companies on behalf of my patients/and take x-rays, so I can tell you furstrations from every angle. I know my doctors need the imaging studies. I know the patients, even those with insurace can’t afford them, and I know the insurance companies don’t want to pay for them.
Keeper of the Fledgings
Depends on the type of fantasy you like. (i’ve read a thousand…literally.) Sprawling epics? Popcorn fantasy? Wordy and intricate? Easy reads? Good characters vs. Good worlds vs. neat magic?
Name of the Wind is good, and new, but qas yet unfinished.
Fortress in the Eye of Time is my favorite, but very intricate/wordy.
Black Jewels trilogy is lovely, but dark and very adult.
The Black Prism is good, with an interesting magic system.
Carol Berg’s recent books are awesome. The Soul Lens? is a great fantasy mystery story.Keeper of the Fledgings
I would like to go to australia to see a tasmanian devil. Did you know that there are no zoos that have them outside of australia, so you have to go there?
Keeper of the Fledgings
Yeah there are a lot of stories like that, and they are sad. However, please do not beleive that most of the people in the healthcare field are like this, and try to understand that it’s just as frustrating for us as it is for the patients. Even people with insurance cannot afford the care they need due to high co=pay/deductibles and out of pocket costs, not to mention the fact that many procedures, even basic ones like MRI’s require the “approval” of insurance companies, who can deny approval if they think that the patient doesn’t need it. And we who were in the field, many go into the field very idealistic and “just wanting to help people.” Learning that you are stuck between the demands of insurance companies, the need of the patients, and what the doctor orders sours many of us. And unfortunetly, at some point you have to “turn off” a degree of compassion in order to stay sane.
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