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That would be excellent! If there’s no touch up paint, it would be wonderful to know at least which colors were mixed together to achieve that particular shade 🙂 Thanks for the advice on the interference paint; I noticed that the thicker it gets, the lighter it appears, so will keep that in mind next go-round.
And I remember reading about your being “incommunicado”, Melody, as your daughter posted a thread letting us know. I hope everything is going well (better?) for you, and you know you have *all* our bestest wishes!Hi Melody (and Welcome Back!),
Pretty much every one of my 10+-yr-old peacock dragons has at least one fleabite or chip I’d like to touch up. I’ve already painted a black primer base on them. I’ve tried using the Golden blue interference paints on the blue areas of one dragon, but the color is too light. Maybe Golden has changed the formula or shade since they were manufactured…
Anyway, I’d love any suggestions as to how to approximate the blue, green, and *especially* the champagne violet color on the peacock dragon line – what colors do we mix? Better yet, can we get touch up paint from the WE factory?? I have asked around the forum, and only one person seemed to have any touch up paint; they had very little, and when I asked about it a couple weeks ago I didn’t receive a reply 🙁 Can I/we at least get the champagne color? Only need a little, and would be happy to pay for the paint and shipping of course!You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the help. I could only wish we had access to the Hydrocote that Melody mentioned – but of course, 5 gallon tubs are a bit much to store 😀 I will try out the Krylon when I’m lucky enough to get my first PYO painted. And thanks for the clarification, Jennifer, on the MSA topcoats – I was a little confused about those and wondered if they’d be ok, it’s good to know in advance that they’re NOT!
Again, thanks for all the help! :hi:
Thank you! I went on the dragcave forum and got some info there too. Wish I’d thought of it sooner – I lost my first two hatchlings 😥
But I managed to pull the last one through with 7 hours left to live, and he’s *gorgeous*! Plus he’s my first adult EVER, so I get to post him here!!!!! Meet Scintal:
I totally do the marshmallow-cereal thing too! I love how the outside of them gets all spongy, and I suck the outside off before I crunch the dry middle part in my front teeth! (Hmm, maybe that was *too* obsessive..)
I also prefer to keep my different foods separate. And I tend to eat all of one thing, before moving on to the next. The glass of milk goes down last!
I eat the egg white first, then eat the entire egg yolk in one bite! That way, none of the runny yolk escapes. But I try to hide doing it in restaurants because it’s probably pretty rude to do.
I love eating sushi like california rolls with the smelt roe in it, because I like popping the little eggs all by themselves in my teeth.
And I love sunflower seeds, I can pack a half bag of those babies down in one sitting. My parrot loves them too and she always pesters me for them, whenever she sees me take a bag out.
I love eating shellfish too. I think I have some leftover hunter-gatherer type thing going on, because I like to work for my meals! 😆*Deep inhale*
I sank $90 into a custom-made bedskirt from ebay, bought from a no-returns seller. Got it, and it’s a piece of crap (See Silly Bedskirt poll). I filed a dispute with eBay and hate waiting all 7 days to escalate it and have eBay just make a darn decision.
I caught a cold from my daughter. Doesn’t seem right to have a cold when it’s 108 degrees out or more, every day.
I have always wanted to sing professionally, majored in singing in college, spent hundreds/thousands of dollars on voice lessons throughout my life. I’m 36 and have tried doing paid solo work for the past 3 years or so. Every time I’m scheduled to debut somewhere, something goes physically wrong! I’ll catch a cold, get fluid in one ear so I can’t hear well, one time it was even MRSE and I had to go to the emergency room later that day! Feels like the whole universe is telling me to give it up. And I’ve literally had gunk in my throat for the past 8 months nonstop – caught a doozy of a cold last winter and there’s been phlegm in my throat, every day, ever since.
And now it looks like my very first Dragon Cave hatchling is going to die before she matures.
WAAAAH 🙄 :shout: 😥I have a hatchling, old enough to have wings and its gender listed, but it’s only got 2 hours left to become an adult 🙁 This is my first time with the whole thing, so I don’t know if that’s typical. My other 2 hatchlings also have less than 14 hours left to mature each, and I’m wondering – is this just a keep-you-on-your-seat-edge tactic, or am I doing it wrong? Thanks for any help!
The biggest difference I’ve ever noticed, having grown up in Minnesota, is that *EVERYWHERE* else, people play this game called “Duck, Duck, Goose”. In Minnesota, it’s “Duck Duck Gray Duck”, as in “red duck, blue duck, green duck, yellow duck GRAY duck!!! *tag*”
When I first went to Oregon to work at a summer camp, people kept saying they were gonna go to “Fred Meyer’s”. Who is this popular Fred Meyers?? Fred Meyers is a large chain store like Target, except with produce, groceries, and their own fine jewelry.
And everywhere I’ve been, they call it a couch, mostly. “Sofa” seems to be reserved for more formal seating, which has more to do with the room it’s in than the shape of the seating itself. If it’s in the family room in front of a TV, it’s a couch. In the living room where hardly anybody ever goes, it’s a sofa.
This is fun 😀
Hi Wolfenmachine,
I didn’t want to ask them to make another one because 1)the color of the whole bedskirt is too dark (darker than the swatch they sent me) and 2) there are actually a lot of other craftmanship issues in the bedskirt. At this point I’ve decided to simply make my own, and I have the fabric on order, long enough to keep the seams out!
I have asked about 3 other custom-satin-bedskirt makers. 1 of them said, no seams. 1 of them said, sometimes seams depending on the width of fabric we’re using, but we hide them in the pleats. 1 of them said, always seams and would charge an extra 30% if I specifically don’t want seams. Gah! So I’m getting mixed results on that front. But, that still doesn’t cover the fact that the hems are messy, the shade is off from the swatch, and the corners look terrible (One corner is fully split, because that’s where they started/ended the fabric of my 4 sided ruffle. The other three corners just have pie slices of fabric cut out of them to create a wedge of space, thus creating the “corner”. I don’t get why they didn’t just do a full split at each corner, and avoid the seams in the drops. Nrrrg.)
Anyway, I’m just going to go ahead with my dispute through eBay and abide by whatever eBay decides. Worst case I’ll end up where I started – out $90 with a bedskirt I wouldn’t feel good about trying to pawn off on some poor unsuspecting eBay buyer. The whole idea was, pay a professional who will do a better job than I could. At least this experience gives me confidence that I *can* actually make something just as good if not better 😛 Now I’ll just wait to see how the case comes out – wish me luck for getting my $90 back….Your art is amazing – there are qualities that I have always been astonished by, when the artist can pull them off (like the one of the coastal waves – getting the luminosity of the sunlight through the cresting wave, too cool).
The most recently posted pair of swimming ducks is gorgeous. The level of detail is excellent, the proportions and artistic realism are outstanding too. I have one thing to point out. Having spent hours on sites like “photoshop disasters” for fun and amusement, I couldn’t help but noticing that the reflection of the foreground duck is upside down! The stripes on the back should be furthest away from his body in the reflection, instead of closer in, and the reflection has a white spot on the reflected back, that isn’t on the duck himself. Just sayin’.Thank you for the replies. I’m guessing I will just have to gather as much info as I can, present it to eBay, and let eBay make a decision. The seller is demonstrably uninterested in acknowledging or fixing the weird seams. If the fabric were thinner, or the seams flattened (ironed, steamed, or stitched in), they wouldn’t show so bad. But it’s very thick satin so at each seam, the shininess (that gets darker going into the seam) and thickness (that make a little hill on each side of the seams) make the seams stand out like little vertical abysses.
I could post pictures at least so you guys can let me know if you think I’m being unreasonably picky… I guess given I spent $90 on the thing, I was assuming (and literally banking on it!) they would do a better job as pros than I could do by hand at home. Looking at what they sent me, I can do at least as well, if not better. (And I’m not a sewer. I hate sewing. I just know how to do it, a little.)
I’ve contacted three other online bedskirt stores that sell satin ruffled bedskirts that are custom made per order. So far, one says they don’t have any seams except one at each corner of the footboard, and the other says in most cases there are no seams but if there is a seam because of fabric width, they hide it in the pleats so it’s never visible from the outside. Waiting for the third to come in. Either way, these seam issues are only one problem – there are other workmanship problems too. I just want my money back 🙁
My cats are indoor only. And they are leery of anything bigger than a bug. They’ve been around rats, chinchillas, cockatoos – you’d think they’d make at least one kill attempt. but no, the feral-born one just hides under the bed, and the b*tchy one just shies away. No half eaten presents for me… (that’s ok, really 😀 )
Ok, you guys know what a bedskirt or dust ruffle is, right? It’s that decorative thing you put on top of your boxspring, under your mattress, so the boxspring doesn’t show.
I have an issue. I bought an expensive ($90) custom-made bedskirt from an ebay seller, with a no return policy. It’s a queen size ruffle style. (instead of tailored, or flat, the fabric is bunched or ruffled). When I got it, two of the sides had weird seams in them. Like, they didn’t have enough fabric to run the whole length of the side, so they sewed another piece on to finish the length. On one side it’s near the middle, but on the other it’s like 5 inches from the end seam. I’ve told the seller I want a refund (I will return the item of course). They told me I obviously don’t know how bedskirts are made, that **all ruffled bedskirts** have these weird seams in them, and they are blowing off my issue.So, MY QUESTION IS:
Have YOU ever bought a bedskirt that has a joining seam anywhere *within* the length of the sides? (I’m not including homemade bedskirts here, just manufactured ones. The seller sent me a how-to homemade dust ruffle tutorial from eHow.com, to explain their “acceptable industry standards”.)Also, this skirt is satin. Would it make any difference at all to the “hang” of the fabric (for all you seamsters out there) whether you use the fabric lengthwise or widthwise? They are claiming that since bolts come in 45″ or 54″ widths, they are forced to sew the widths together to create the long sides. I contend that they should be able to cut the fabric down the middle lengthwise, leaving two 22″ strips, and pull as much length from a 10 yard or more bolt as you please, thus creating seamless drops. I’ve already measured, the longest sides take 5 yards of fabric each. (Plus I need to know for myself because that is how I plan to make the bedskirt I want, as it seems purchasing one is *impossible* 🙄 )
Anybody willing to waste their time posting thoughts? Thanks!
ps – please pardon the tone of this post. I’m a bit ticked off 😡
My best friend in jr. high and I went to see that movie in theaters at least 8 times. IN THEATERS. We were totally addicted. And it has a pretty awesome soundtrack too! I had it on vinyl 8)
I’m with foxfeather. 10 am to 2 am would be a great schedule. But I have kids in school so nowadays my body has habituated waking up around 7am. (Yet still tries to stay up until midnight or later, 🙄 ). I have worked the literal graveyard shift (midnight to 8am) and it did not go over as well as one might think. It’s crazy hard to sleep during bright daylight even if you black out all yer windows, and there were some nights around 6am I literally started having tiny little hallucinations, like thinking I’m hearing someone call my name, or seeing occasional little random flashes of light. Thank God I only had to work there 2 months to earn money for a college choir tour to Europe and then I could quit! (Plus, it was a factory job. Menial work for eight hours in the dead of night. Nargggggg)
