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Okay, I opened a store on Cafe’ press. It is called “Windstone stuff”. So far this morning I have gotten ONE coffee mug design uploaded. I hope it will go quicker when I learn how to do this..took me all morning to sort it out!
I’ll need to get, or take, larger, better photos of the sculptures to do a calendar, poster (they have those?) or shirts with them. Most of the images we have are sized for web gallery use or Ebay, so the res. and size need to be greater. I spent all morning trying to get an image cut out of a photo to make a mug wihtout the square format. It looks good, however is a great big pain-in-the-butt to do, so I think we gotta just enjoy the square block images on the coffee mugs! Most of the Metallic dragons look best against black anyway. I wish there was a black mug! There are black tee shirts, but again, the design needs to be messed with to get them to look right. I’ll be working on this in the future, unless I can get someone else to do it for meeee.. Chessie.emerald212 wrote:Women’s tees – v-neck, tank, t-shirt
Probably men’s too, to make it fair
Coffee mugs and travel mugs
Sweatshirts
Calendars
Large, unframed prints (like posters)
unframed tiles, like coastersThey have all that stuff??
Zelda wrote:Hello! Just this morning I decided to do a little dusting, and ran my Windstones under a quick sprinkle of water to get them clean. I was darn near horrified to find that the eggshell paint on my gargolingus started to blister and flake off! I quickly patted it dry, but as it has dried, more paint has started to peel away from the piece. Help!
Have you ever run across this problem with your other gargolingi or egg pieces, and do you have any repair ideas? Thanks in advance!
NO! I’ve never had this happen to an indoor piece. From all the tests weve done, the paint is water resistant. The gypsum underneath is suseptable to acids however, such as acid rain, and I suppose acid tap water, but it should not happen that fast! Did you buy this piece new? -or was it “used”?
I could send you some of the stain we use and some finish, but it may be tricky to repair the damage invisibly. Fortunately he is a gargoyle, and they aren’t too picky about their appearance, being kinda weathered looking anyway.SPark wrote:I don’t suppose you could let us know what color of Secret Keeper we’re going to see next? I know you’d mentioned there being another batch of ten… those aren’t going to be all the same color, I assume, so what colors will there be?
I’ve got about eight that are already painted black.. so I’ve gotta paint them a metallic color. I haven’t decided. Gold? Autumn leaf? or a plain old retired color, like Rainbow or Peacock?…or maybe Black Rainbow? (that’s like the Black Emerald, but rainbow colors)
Quote:(btw, it is not my intention to harrass the Windstone people at all, nor do I believe I have any say whatsoever in what gets produced and what retired – Melody has every right to put the orientals to rest if that is her choice, most especially if they are not making her money. This is just to state that I would LOVE to give her money for more orientals, would be extremely sad to see them disappear, and to give other people the chance to voice their opinion….Go!)
I like being harassed,
Thanks for this!emerald212 wrote:Melody,
Have you ever thought of offering your Windstone designs on t-shirts or greeting cards or posters? Like a picture of “the BEP SK in a setting of caverns, gems all around it” on a sweatshirt? That would be awesome! I would buy my favorite dragons and griffins on shirts and tote bags and postcards. Cafe Press has an easy way to do this, and I’m sure there are other places that do too.Just wondering.Okay, I’ll do it. What things do you’all want? I just checked the items available to do and there are so many, I don’t know which to choose… which sort of t shirts should I choose, if any? What else?
Nambroth wrote:I was very disappointed with Cafepress’ quality, but this was about two years ago. Has it improved? There are actually a lot of other companies that do this these days! And some that don’t take such a huge cut of the profit. It’s best to research. 🙂
Come to think of it, it was you who had the experience with the badly cropped calendar(s),right? Was that just one, or did you get a bunch that were bad?
foxfeather wrote:Is there any chance that there will be any new garden statues made/released? Maybe some of the Production pieces already being produced? I love how real they look and would much rather fill my garden with gorgeous statuary than stuff everyone else has!!
I have a couple garden dragons that are intended to be stone finish, and are shaped like my normal dragons (not the rock-dragon type). We haven’t produced them yet,however, and I don’t know if we will.
We aren’t going to produce the regular line as outdoor things, because we don’t want people to be confused about whether a sculpture can be outdoors or not. The cement line will be different sculptures… not that anyone puts them outside anyway.AdaraSky wrote:Hi, I was wondering if the Scratchings, OW’s, Laps, and Spectrals were going to be made in Emerald Peacock. I need these pieces and I have picked out the colors I want for them but if they are going to come out in emerald peacock I might wait. All the colors I want are retired anyways. 8)
I plan to do all the dragons in Em. Pea. eventually. The only exception would be the Orientals. We may discontionue those.Oh, and I can’t do the Secret Keeper in that color because we did those as a limited edition.
emerald212 wrote:copper83 wrote:Emerald, I think you were reading my mind. I was thinking about bring up the same thing.
It would be nice if we could just buy transfers that we could put on our own shirts. Cafe Press is okay, but all they sell is white (last time I looked). A calendar would be great too.
They have black, grey, and a bunch of other colors too. I have a store on Cafe Press selling Fairy Fossil tees (my husband’s art), so I get item updates sometimes.Are you happy with the quality? From my experience , the quality is great.. but I’ve heard opinions to the contrary, also..
emerald212 wrote:Melody,
Have you ever thought of offering your Windstone designs on t-shirts or greeting cards or posters? Like a picture of “the BEP SK in a setting of caverns, gems all around it” on a sweatshirt? That would be awesome! I would buy my favorite dragons and griffins on shirts and tote bags and postcards. Cafe Press has an easy way to do this, and I’m sure there are other places that do too.Just wondering. I think about that all the time! I’ve been tempted to do something, like a calendar, or thong undies, on Cafe’ press, just for forum members. We did some t shirts once, but that was a long time ago. I need the time to do it, we just don’t have enough of that!
dragonessjade wrote:I was just wondering what made you come up with the idea of the Grimalkin Candlelamp and if there is a story behind it.
Well, as sometimes happens, I came up with the idea for the sculpture first, and then found out what it was later! (Like the Kirin) I wanted to do a shell- shaped sconce, something with a swirling cape that could light up behind the head to make a dark silhouette with glowng eyes. Originally, it was a human devil/demon-like thing, but since cats fit in the line better , it became a sort-of pixie/spirit/demon cat, which as it turned out, is called a “Grimalkin”. Perfect.
drag0nfeathers wrote:I don’t know if anyone asked this yet, but is there some sort of safe way to re-gloss a Windstone? I have a brown mother and father I got and also a green mother. All of them are VERY dull, but the Male green and young green are vibrant and shiny. It’s weird. The worn ones must just be alot older. The brown ones don’t even have felt pads so they must be ancient.
The older dragons were finished with a different type of coating . It wasn’t as glossy. I am afraid that putting a different , more glossy finish on them would affect their value, since the dull finish is the way they are supposed to be, and a way of telling the old ones from the newer ones.But I think any spray gloss acrylic should work as a finish, be sure to clean them well first.
DragonsCavern wrote:WOW same seller, same thing but with Father Dragon: Green Father Dragon Just looks really strange to me.
He’s real too!
