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Well then! It’s mandatory you come for a visit sometime. We already know who can keep Justin occupied!
I checked the pictures again. The griffins’ legs pose the same way as a sitting Spectral’s. That much surface area and space in a sculpt is probably about as much as Melody can offer without making casting impossible.
I don’t know about my brothers, but personally I usually like waiting for something better than having it. The fun’s all over then. Besides, wh’d want to go aerate once everybody’s got a dozen gifts calling for use now that we know what they are? The only person who always begs two weeks in advance to open his gifts is my 7-year-old brother. I don’t know how old Justin is, but I can imagine he’s the same way, so it makes sense why you let him open his right away. 🙂
You know, the way the dragons sit on their tails, the way the claws of the lying-down ones fold over each other in such a cramped way. There’s a better word but I can’t think of it. The critters have to be sculpted that way for the casting, but it’s not natural, so Mom doesn’t really like it.
sunhawk wrote:starbreeze wrote:They do seem to all end up in the gutter eventually…
That’s easy when you live there in the first place :X
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My little brothers admire my dragons very much. My older ones are like, “Aren’t you saving for a rifle?” (So? That’s the rest of the money. :)) My Dad doesn’t say anything but I’m pretty sure he thinks it’s a stupid thing to spend money on, and Mom keeps reminding me to watch my budget. She does love the colors, but she doesn’t like the squished-ness of the sculpts.
Our Christmases are always special in a couple ways. For one, we are religious, so we have Advent services and church on Christmas Eve, Christmas, and St. Stephen’s Day (the 26th, which is a holiday around here). Then we’ve got European traditions. On the 6th is St. Nicholas Day, when Samichlaus goes around, sometimes with a Schmutzli who carries switches for the bad kids, and tells everybody how they’ve been the past year and what to do better next year. It’s still fun for my youngest brother; for the rest of us it’s just cool for all the chocolate and candy.
In Europe Christmas is Heiligabend, so they open their gifts and all that on the 24th. We open our stockings then after church.
On the 25th we celebrate the real Christmas with a service, and then – every single year for the past 5 – we head out for the daily aerating.
Explanation: The family business involves building apartment complexes. Come winter, the new buildings are heated. So all the plaster and fixatives don’t get weak and damaged, the warm air needs to be let out, together with all the dampness and humidity. So every day we head out to building site and basically open and close windows. (Btw, it pays grandly.) This year the site has 520 apartments, so we’ll be at it for about 5 hours a day. Gah.
With that job out of the way, we all come home tired and happy, have a grand meal that Mom prepared while we were gone, and finally, when that’s all done – ideally around mid-afternoon, then we get to open our presents.
All in all there’s no rush, you feel excited all day, and I find it a very good system.I want one of every dragon and griffin and gargoyle sculpt in every color it was ever produced in. (Yes, I’m greedy, I know. I don’t even dare to call it ambition anymore.)For me, Ski has the ideal collection, especially with her circle of OWs. I’d love to have collection with as many limited and special editions as possible, but I’m not setting my sights that high.
Realistically speaking, I’m concentrating on retired pieces right now.Good point, Nytetyger. However, I think that hardly anybody will buy or say yes or no to something without looking at it first, and I also think it would be standard for the person who mentions Viridian – or whatever fancy name – to follow up with a few explanatory notes. I did that when telling Mom about HEP or my little brother about Black Gold. No time wasted there. It’s natural to follow up with an elaboration, even when the color notion itself makes sense.
littleironhorse wrote:Not really, and I didn’t want to pry, but he did say that he already sold one of the 2 emerald-peacock SKs… Right after he bought it actually, to a woman who apparently desperately wanted it for her children…
Yikes. I read that and thought of a pair of 6-year-olds clambering over the poor dragon like it’s a cheap stuffed animal…
Yeah, I kind of like ddvm’s idea. The only problem I see with it are the item numbers. 504-BG, for example, if the ID of the black gold young dragon. What would it be for blue green, which also is a “BG”? Maybe 504-BL…
