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I’ve never seen a spectral in person as I haven’t been to a store that carries Windstones in a long time. From the photos though I would have to say no, but that could change if I ever saw one in person. So I’m not going to vote until I see one ‘live’.
And there’s another one selling ambien this time
http://www.windstoneeditions.com/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=214
We had a family tradition of opening one gift on Christmas eve that my husband and I will probably continue with our two year old son. The rest of the presents were opened on Christmas Day. I’ll also carry on my MIL tradition of giving a package of new socks and underwear.
“We got UNDERWEAR?” my husband and his brother would say. 😆
This year my husband is home for Christmas (he came home from year long deplyment Iraq the day after last year) and we are planning on taking leave to visit both our families so we aren’t putting up the Christmas tree, which is probably a good thing with a 2 year old about who loves to climb anything.
Some of the ornaments are breakable, non-replaceable since they are decorated eggs my grandmother made when she was still alive. I’d be sad to see those break now even though I know we lost lots of them over the years.
CherylKaufman wrote:mimitrek wrote:OMG — you actually still have a…record player? 😯
Garage sales! And yes, they still work 😀
My dad still has his record player and lots of records. Only thing that needs replacing from time to time is the drive belt – looks like a giant rubber band and has a bad problem with drying/stretching out and breaking.
Aw man! I wish I had known sooner that Apple Barrel paints were acrylics (the bottles I have don’t say it). They are a lot cheaper per bottle than the liquitex and don’t require thinning at all, plus I don’t have to drive to the arts and crafts store an hour away to get more. Now I have to decide on returning the liquitex or give it a try.
Testors does have an acrylics line as well, you just have to look at the packaging carefully. I considered the Testors at first, but they didn’t have the color I wanted in a bottle by itself so I didn’t go with those.
Thanks to both of you for replying. I’ve never worked with acrylic paints before (only craft paints like the Apple Barrel brand and watching my father use Testors on model cars) so when the tutorial mentioned a mixing medium I was confused.
I still haven’t decided which one to get when I go back, but I think I understand them a little better now. I’ll definately be doing some contemplating/debating before I pick one to use on my PYO wolf that’s for sure.
I recently made a trip to AC Moore (an arts and crafts store) to get supplies for painting my PYO wolf. I managed to find Liquitex paints Basic Matt(http://www.liquitex.com/Products/paintbasicsmatt.cfm) and brushes to use as well.
But I got confused when it came to the mediums. They had three different types http://www.liquitex.com/Products/fluidmediums.cfm: Slo Dri Blending Medium, Gloss Medium and Vanrish, and Matte Medium.
What’s the difference between these and which one do/should I use as a mixing medium? I’d like to know so I can return soon and use a 50% off coupon they gave me for whichever I need because they run about $7/bottle.
I’m planning on testing things out on something other than my PYO wolf – probably use an old plaster mold I have of a unicorn on a cloud with a rainbow and make it for practice using the materials.
SPark wrote:Nye said it better than I could.
You or I may love these peculiar color names, and think that they’re beautiful. But the only color I see on there that would make a normal person think of something that’s ANYTHING like how these actually look is Turquoise. So that’s what I voted for.
Only thing is when I think turquoise I think of a ring my grandmother had with a chunk of turquoise that was as big as the first part of her ring finger (above the joint) and it’s a pale/sky blue with some brow tracing on it. Nothing like the paint job of the HEP.
I’m staring to like ddvm’s idea of Blue Green, nice and simple like Black Gold is.
Nambroth wrote:Dragon Master wrote:Aurora Borealis is much more trnsparent then these colors though and I thimk it would be too long just like the hybrid name
Oh but they can be very vibrant indeed! 😀
http://www.borealis2000.com/homepix/aurora.jpg
http://www.northpolegallery.com/photo.aspx?gallery_id=18&photo=85
http://www.northpolegallery.com/photo.aspx?gallery_id=18&photo=42
http://www.northpolegallery.com/photo.aspx?gallery_id=18&photo=41Beautiful pictures. I say Aurora as well. Leave off Borealis though because there is also an Aurora Australis.
My collection seems puny compared to some of the numbers I’ve seen thrown out.
I don’t remember exactly what I spent on some of my pieces so I just looked at issue prices and added that up. It came to $414. I know I spent more than that (probably closer to $500+) since I had to get my black unicorn family (minus the mother) off eBay after they were retired. I tried to pay close to original price, but some pieces got closer to almost twice the price.
I look on eBay right now and see all the retired pieces out and it makes me sick because when I was hunting for them they were scarce and always seemed to show up when we were short on cash.
ladybrooklyn wrote:Ooooooh I like the blue jay one! Nice!!! 😀
I showed my husband print outs of the possibilities when he came home from work and he liked that one as well. It’s called “Autumn Jester” and according to the artist is a Blue Jay/Fox hybrid, but it does have a wolfy look to me. It doesn’t look too hard to paint, which is good for me because I haven’t really done a lot of paiting before other than walls, doors and room trim.
I did a sunset over an ocean once on a section of a tree log for council scouts at Girl Scout camp, but that was almost 12 years ago! The most recent thing I painted was a Welcome Home banner for my husband’s unit when they returned from a deployment to Iraq last december and that wasn’t even freehand. I used a projector to trace the image and then painted over the lines.
I definately plan on posting progress pictures when I get started. Have to finish assembling a pillow for my Mother-In-Law’s Christmas present first. Oh and get paints and maybe brushes since I don’t remember what I have stashed under the kitchen sink.
I only got my straw eyed wolf on Tuesday and am broke until payday so can’t buy paints for it so I’ve been scouting out different ways to paint it.
One option I’ve concidered is: http://www.goldenwolfen.com/galleries/2005/autumnjester.jpg
The other options being something similar to one of the three winged wolves that Amber Hill has posted in the Windstone Staff Gallery: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/displayimage.php?album=19&pos=12 or http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/displayimage.php?album=19&pos=17
I was actually considering a black wolf before remembering that there was a winged black wolf in the staff gallery.
Any prefernces? It’s going to be for my 2 year old son.
I collect Windstones for many of the same reasons that the other members have mentione. The attention to detail and the reality of the pieces.
When I look into the eyes of the Windstones I find it hard to believe that the creatures aren’t breathing. To me when I first got my Black Unicorn Mother her eyes seemed so sad until she was surrounded by the rest of her family. Now they seem to be filled with joy.
I’m also very picky as to how my unicorns and pegasi look and Melody got them right! There are so many figurines of unicorns, pegasi, dragons out there that I can’t stand and some of them even offend me when I look at them and think “That’s not right. They don’t look like that at all!”
Only thing I wish was different was if the unicorns and pegasi came in a few more horse-like colors than white and black, but there’s always dreaming!
skigod377 wrote:I think they were just talking about shipping costs, Nam.
If you follow the link (http://www.aristocraticpet.com/4m6.html) you would find the Web site selling the peacock mouse wizard for $29.95 which is much lower than the price of $55 listed at Astral Castle (http://www.ccgs.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AC&Product_Code=WSs403-P&Category_Code=1201).
