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Interesting – I get the Republic of Tea catalogs and order a variety of things, but I have avoided the red tea. In fact, they included a free red tea sample with a catalog and I threw it away without trying it (the only sample that I have tossed). Perhaps I will be brave and try the next one. 🙂
Well … I haven’t yet found a red tea that I like. It tastes too sweet, in my opinion. WolfenMachine mentioned Teavana. There is a store in a mall near me and I enjoy going in there, but the only thing I buy is their “Lavender Dreams” (white tea with lavender). That stuff is GOOD. 😀
Yep, it couldn’t be easier – the tracks run right through town! (I grew up in Carbondale and my parents are still there.) Giant City park is nice. You should do it! 🙂
According to the Windstone “Retired Pieces” list, Rainbow Fledgies were made from 1997 – 2006. If you want to see a picture, take a look at the ebay Completed Auctions. One sold on August 5 for $41.00, and one sold on August 6, also for $41.00. An Emerald Peacock sold on July 31 for $74.00, so they are out there too.
These should be her “Bones” and “Reverse Bones” designs. Yesterday (August 12) Grayfire Artz posted a “Bones Kirin Anyone” message in the Flea Market. I believe she said she has three PYO kirins and is looking for commissions, so here’s your chance to get one! 🙂
I am “puppy-sitting” my son’s two dogs while he and his family are out of the country. I have had the dogs for six months now and I can testify that dog walking does help with weight (some) and attitude (a lot). I don’t know if the improved attitude is due to getting more sunshine or to seeing people outside the house, but something has made a difference. If you don’t want to own a dog, does a neighbor have a dog that needs to be walked during the day?
Enjoy your upcoming classes! You may find that mental exercise breaks the inertia cycle just as effectively as physical exercise does. 🙂
It looks like they showed up about 5 minutes after I turned off my computer for the night (sigh). I notice that the order of the unicorns has changed with Baby Unicorns (Silver and Slate) and Male Unicorns (Silver and Slate) coming before the mothers. Have I also missed baby and male unicorns, or were things simply rearranged?
Jennifer wrote:Pam Thompson wrote:Quote:At what point are ‘special’ pieces less special and devalued because there are so many?
Well, Windstone DEFINITELY cares.
Unfortunately we do have to make a living, so we have to try keeping things in high demand.Oh I never meant to imply that Windstone does not care. By anyone I meant the collectors that buy these! I know that you guys do care! And I know all about having to make a living.. trust me.
Hopefully casting can be resolved sometime.. soonish, so that you guys can make regular production pieces… well.. regularly! And won’t need to depend on special pieces so much.I was just asking the collectors, is all.
Is casting still a problem? I read an earlier thread about how the problem is not the water, and is not the supplier, and then I thought the casting problems were resolved, or at least better. If the problem is continuing, could it be mechanical? Maybe a new mixer that is a bit faster – or “controller creep” on an old mixer. Tiny air bubbles in the sculpts (which I gathered is the problem) sounds like air being incorporated during mixing to me. 😕
For what it’s worth, there are no Ruby Coiled or Curled dragons on the Windstone list of Retired Pieces (Windstone Home – Website & Dealer Catalog – Retired Pieces is under Collectors Information).
Kachina wrote:Kachina wrote:Kujacker wrote:It might even give people a chance to get a special piece without paying a ton of money. Lots of us can’t afford the ebay prices, so maybe this could get us a chance 🙂
I like the idea of grab bags, but I just have a hunch that they’ll go for insane amounts on ebay putting them out of reach of most of us. I just look lovingly at the ebay pieces, sigh, and close the window. It’s great for Windstone to get such big money, but I’d really like to see some special stuff that those of us who can’t afford regular ebay pieces and aren’t lucky enough to win drawings can get our hands on. Why does someone have to have a ton of disposable cash to get special stuff? Maybe put these lots in the store one per customer?
As far as differentiating them from the rest of the specials, couldn’t the felt pads or pieces be marked in some way so that if they do switch hands collectors would still know where they came from?
I suspect you are right that the “grab bags” would bring high prices on ebay. I am also dubious about putting the seconds in the store, even one per customer, because these days things appear so randomly. If the problems of identifying them as seconds were solved, perhaps there could be some sort of “Saturday Night Special” arrangement (assuming the website could handle it). If everybody knew that 30 “seconds” Windstones would be put up at 6 pm Pacific Time on Saturday nights – one per customer, first come first served – there would still be angst. However, it wouldn’t be “Darn, they came and went before I even knew they were in the store”.
Or, the days could be random (to accommodate different work schedules) and an announcement put on the Forum three days in advance. That would cut down on website traffic and reward loyal Forum members. 😀 Or you could have “Dumpster Day” once a year. There are lots of possibilities!
NicoleH wrote:Are those replacement eyes or did i miss something in the store? :scratch: Either way I agree those eyes look very nice with the patina 🙂
Susie announced them on July 22, something like “Copper Patina available in Teal” in the Windstone Store section. It looks like there are some Baby Orientals in stock at the moment.
Melody wrote:etruscan wrote:If the sequence for the Pegasus is Male Pegasus – Mother Pegasus – Baby Pegasus, wouldn’t the corresponding dragon sequence be Male Dragon – Mother Dragon – Fledgling Dragon? Not that I object to having Hatching Dragons (though a case probably COULD be made for live birth).
Then there is the question of a Hatching Griffin … (sorry) 😳 I intended to do a baby dragon for the “family” and never did. I am doing one now. The fledgling isn’t really in scale with the family, he ( and the “Hatching Royalty” dragons ) were actually intended to be the Secret Keeper’s babies.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this. I am also glad to know how the Hatching Pegasus fits into the Pegasus Family, as explained in your earlier post. Collecting families, or creating “families” out of different elements, seems to be important to a lot of people. I guess I’m one of them – I collected “families” as a child, and I’m doing it again now! 🙂
