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(chants) ocean blue… ocean blue…
You know you want to, don’t deny your impulses, Melody. If you don’t release this one as a production color, you might end up with random accidents at the factory from all the outraged hexes thrown at you from disappointed pagan collectors.
Wow shopheadlines has some nice retired pieces… they even have an emerald wind wizard, a little pricy though…
When I was in school I had the exact same problem, I was really sharp but constantly bored, and even acted out in very bad ways. Now that I’m a parent I’m trying to avoid the same problems with my own children. Karate and books as previously mentioned, are very good ideas.
Also however, you might want to consider encouraging direct creative activities. Reading a book is somewhat interesting, WRITING a book even more so. Listening to music can be interesting, COMPOSING music even more so. The nice thing about deeply creative activities is that they stimulate the part of the brain that gets neglected in school, as well as the intellectual side. And they are never too young to start, I started my first novel when I was in second grade, it was about a cat living in ancient Egypt named Sabrina.
There are a ton of different creative activities to choose from as well, to custom suit the individual. In just the area of writing, there is free-form poetry, structured rhyming poetry, essay, short-story, novel and technical writing. If you like music, you can write lyrics, or actual musical scores, or both, in any genre. If you prefer hands on creativity, there is everything from sewing to aromatherapy, to massage, to woodworking, to wood-carving or burning, to scrapbooking, to sketching, to painting (in everything from acrilic to watercolor). And that’s only the stuff that came to the top of my mind while I was typing!
Trust me, this is the only way I stay sane…. art is incredibly thereputic as well as distracting.
I hate to ask but, are you planning on adding any more designs that have cute little comments, like the “mighty dragon” or “princess” on the hatching empress, or brown fledge. I was just thinking of Melody’s infamous griffin chick pic in the gallery… the, “quick everyone look innocent!” one =)
I could think of a number of one liners to put on shirts, and I know the rest of the forum crew could as well….
I’d love an OW or lap dragon with the caption, “Laziness is an artform,” or a scratching dragon with “…And you thought dragons couldn’t get fleas.”
Curlies could have a million captions, like “Just when you thought dragons couldn’t get any cuter…” or “Cat nap.”
Anyone else have any ideas?
This is a beautiful horse breed, American Cream, the only draft horse to originate in the US. It is a lovely medium cream coat with light cream/white mane and tail, and amber eyes. Very very simple colors to paint, also subtle and lovely.
http://www.horsemanshiphorsetrainingtips.com/articles/181/1/American-Cream-Draft-Horse
I wish I had a pic, but my digital camera is on the fritz, I might get one up if I can get the darn thing to work… but I’m in the middle of law school finals so I won’t be fiddling with the thing for at least the next week, sorry.
I have the hatching dragon and the mother dragon in orange eyed emerald. I REALLY don’t want to part with them, but I’m kinda in a bind for cash, so if someone offered enough, I’d sell. Mother is mint, and I mean mint. Baby has two fleabites so small you would miss them if you weren’t an obsessive compulsive like I am, one on the ridge of his eye, and the other on the rock base. I know I have momma’s box, I don’t know if I have baby’s.
Orange eyed emerald if you don’t know, are very rare, and they were discontinued for the red eyed emerald early in production. Not even Windstone knows how many there are of them.
Message me if interested, serious offers only, please (ie willing to cough up at least $100).
While there are those dedicated collectors out there who are more than willing to pay $1000+ for a one of a kind or limited production piece, the market is currently driving prices down. It’s the China effect previously mentioned, and the lack of disposable income for many Americans.
What does this mean for Windstone? I honestly NEVER want to see them lower the quality of their work just to attempt to compete with cheap cheesy China-made plastic dragons. However, I think you will see a tendancy of the consumer to buy the lower priced Windstones rather than the high priced ones. They act as a kind of advertising, the first Windstone I ever bought weighed in at around $30, but I later bought much more expensive pieces.
I think this is the reason why the Curlies are so popular, besides the fact that they are cute, they only cost $50, which is a significant price sensitivity inflection point. My two cents, is that Windstone needs to develop a couple sculpts that are easy to mold and paint and that could sell at a low price. I’m not advocating that they produce something that is cheap or would devalue the line, just that as prices have moved up, its negatively affected the turnover rate of Windstones in brick and mortar stores.
Ideally, you would have a really small sculpt weighing in at around $30, and another slightly higher at around $40-45. The curly rounds out the trio.
Any thoughts?
Seems kinda silly to me to bid on it just to see what it ends at, I mean, all you have to do is put the auction on your watch list and you can see what it ended at… that’s how I’ve been tracing the Windstones on ebay for the last 10 months.
Sorry to totally hijack your thread, but, would either of you have any interest in reading the book I’m writing and give me some feedback before I try to publish it? I’m working on it right now and have it about 2/3 done, the first 11 chapters are pretty much complete. But writing a book, and publishing a book are two different things…
I always am on the lookout for creative criticism from experts in the field 😉
Welcome welcome! I am also new to the forum but an old collector!
It sounds like you’ve got a pretty nice collection, do you have any limited edition or artist’s edition pieces?
Sometimes ebay auctions get bid up, especially if two people both REALLY want the item, and both put in a high bid in the last 30 seconds.
For example, I have seen over the last 10 months Mother Pegasus go for as high as $240, or sell for less than $60. It really depends on a number of things:
-Day the auction ends, auctions that end on a weekend go higher.
-Starting price, the lower the starting price, the higher the auction goes.
-Pictures, more generally mean higher price.
-Seller, high feedback with close to 100% obviously go for more.
-Concentration, if two or more identical items are available for auction at the same time, the price depresses.
-Shipping, high cost will disuade bids.
-Availablity of insurance, if available, price goes up.
-Available methods of payment, if cashiers checks or money orders are not accepted, the price goes down.By following these basic rules, I managed to snag an emerald hatchling with ORANGE eyes for less than that guy paid for a red eyed one. I only paid $50 including shipping.
OMG Dracomancer, you got an emp for stalking a store??? This may be the answer to my neverending windstone obsession and corresponding neverending lack of funds….
Hmm…. I think I’m going to need to start examining the current situation in the state of kansas, existing windstone dealers and noticable gaps in sales coverage…
(goes off to plot)
