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pegasus4240, yours is my favorite of all these colts so far. Very beautiful, thank you for posting his pictures!
I got a black colt with lots of orange, crystal jewels and wonderful orange eyes…but then he has…dinosaurs on him? I think they are dinosaurs, they have no wings, so not dragons.
And one dinosaur is mean and chasing the other one and he’s probably going to get eaten, and it’s sad. I have a sad dinosaur unicorn colt and would very much like to trade.
Pangolin…it’s totally Sandshrew!
New Guinea Singing Dog
Maned Wolf
Hyrax, a relative of the elephant
WOOT they are in stock, but feel bad for those east coast people who go to bed early. We should implement a Windstone phone tree for these sorts of emergencies…
This was great, lots of fun. I did have quite a few I had to think about and a handful I had to search down. But it was fun to have something to play with on the train to work to help me wake up. Thank you Kiya and everyone at Windstone! And the prizes, pebble foxes? Awesome, can’t wait to see the little beauties!
You drove all the way along the coast? Big Sur? Amazing you were able to leave! I always feel like channeling a three-year-old in the tantrum throwing department when it’s time to come home from Big Sur.
I already entered just based on Melody’s description because he sounds like Sedgewick, an older raffle prize that was amazing.
Looks like a fake sculpt, see the green felt. And the paint likes similar but really heavy-handed? I don’t think it’s just really old, it’s…chunky looking.
Very awesome entries, wish I would have made time to catch my Windstones kicking back with some of my craft brews because somebody in the house is drinking them =P
I do love entry 13 because it is the PERFECT excuse. What, another Windstone box from the post person? Don’t look at me so accusingly significant other. Nope, I didn’t order another one…. Who ordered it then, you ask? It was the poads of course.
I know the agreed upon term is clutter, but I sure like the sound of a conspiracy of poads!
I have a decent-sized collection, but I think it has to due more with the fact that I have few bills and expenses instead of my paycheck size. I work in the CA state library now, but not as a librarian even though I have the degree. Still trying to get up there… But I love my new job and hope when I do manage to find a librarian position it will be in the same department I am in now. I am a recent college graduate, so I certainly know something about the will to collect these guys conflicting with the paycheck. I try to make the important stuff come first, like student loans, but with a regular paycheck I am offering myself the option of one new small to medium wWndstone a month or the option to save up for special stuff. After the GB dragons, I am now trying to save up for a few months for a big dragon that has my eye. Can be tricky though, with Melody always busting out new and exciting things to drool over. My rule I am trying to impose on myself is not to splurge on production pieces, they will stick around and come back. Harder to stay reasonable when something special is in the store or on ebay!
Some of my pieces were real finds though, like a baby unicorn for $5 at a thrift store, the male unicorn and pegasus from the goodwill auction site for somewhere around $40 combined including shipping. Sometimes you see deals with collectors buying lots to get at a specific piece or two and they sell the others discounted. Damaged pieces you can try to fix yourself can be great finds if you aren’t obsessed with perfect pieces. I did manage to get a jade oriental dragon cheap because of some chips, but then there was some trouble with nail polish…and he looks fine now but I’m still traumatized that an ebay seller nail-polished my dragon! Urgh
The best advice I can offer about money and collections is to not collect for the sake of collecting, these guys are expensive and if you collect just because you want more than so and so or whatever, you will be short on funds when a piece that really speaks to you shows up. Be picky, bide your time, and build a collection that leaves you with no regrets. Then when people walk into your library or studio or whatever and see your collection, they gasp and say “so amazing!” instead of “so many!”
