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I went to one of the two local stores that carry Windstones in my city today. I’m waiting on my mother wolf griffin and I was hoping maybe to see the colours in person (all the photos of the colours look drastically different- I was shocked at the colours of my crouching chick, although much pleasantly) to satiate me till she arrived. They had two square glass shelves stuffed to the brim to older Windstones, including Peacock Mother and Father dragons and the claw brochure holder, but no griffins.
The lady at the front actually turned out to be really fun to talk to, so I got the courage to ask if they had any griffins in the back. She seemed to be under the impression that they’re something you can only order direct from here (the website) and not sell retail. Also, unfortunately, they’re having trouble moving what they have since they’ve moved- they haven’t even ordered any EmPeas yet. I wish I can help them move some of their stuff through here, but I bet everyone here has a peacock Male and Mother dragon, or can get it much cheaper on eBay. : (The claw brochure holder is $35 if anyone is looking for one, though.)
I was kinda miffed. They seemed to have moved the store, which was a great store for collectibles, to a cruddy area of town when it comes to attracting people who want high-end stuff and they also seemed to be greatly misunderstanding what’s up here at the Windstone website. Maybe I can email one of the Windstone staff to have them call them and straighten the facts out? But then I worry nobody would buy. 🙁 Stupid Columbia. This IS the same city in which in another store a Peacock O. Sun dragon sat for at least 5 years without anybody buying him.
Thoughts, advice, and general replies appreciated.
I’m late in this thread…but THANK GOODNESS I’m not the only one who thinks birds smell like…well, bird feed! My whole family love to just hold our lovebird close to us and just breathe in their musty aroma, but my parents just never believe my claim that they smell like sunflower seeds.
My first lovebird that I got when I lived out in Southern California was a stray eating from our bird feeders. I wasn’t around when my parents caught her, I was at summer camp (this was a LONG time ago, *sigh*) but apparently Rhoda was following my mother around as she gardened in our tiny yard until my mom caught her in the feeder. She was feral at first, scared to death of us, but when nobody claimed her, we set forth taming her and she became the biggest sweetie ever. <3
She died after a long illness that we nursed her through and took many long trips to Kansas City for her to her vet in 2005.
We did get another lovebird shortly before she died, so while we mourned heavily, taking care of the new baby softened the blow even if just by a smidge.
I hope you catch the beautiful little budgie! The photo of him with the mourning dove made me LAUGH. So funny. The spray millet advice is a very good one. Birds love spray millet. <3
EDIT: I forgot, but SQUEE! I love your baby budgie, Melody! Poor little thing is too young to be flying around lost. 🙁
Oh fudge. I looked around here and the main forum for a thread but must’ve missed it. Mea culpa.
I paid around $160 for mine last year. He had some minor flaws since he must’ve been sitting in the local store he was at for a while. (Two or three chipped claws, flaking paint.) Thanks to epoxy putty, DecoArt paint pens, and replacement paint Frank is getting close to looking just like new.
The very pretty light blue O. peacock colour.
But the first bid already smarts. D: *hugs Frank*
Awww, man, I am re-reading my post and MAN my grammar is horrible! It looks like I was dropping whole words and inserting random commas! English is my first language, really!
Man, the Jerry coyote is getting so much love. X) Thanks, you guys. Usually she’s a much more happier critter.
TserGryph was a challenge; she’s a tall gawky bird combined with a stout stocky cat! That and I’ve never really done any leopard spots before. 😳 Always learning something, I guess.
Your comments are very much <3'ed.
Mmmm….red and gold…
I’m not a fan of rubies, but I am a MAJOR fan of Olymipia’s red/gold test paint. 😀
I wonder if Frank (my peacock sun dragon) wants company….they’d look good together…
I haven’t posted here in…forever. So I decided to rectify that situation with some more fantasy oriented arts by me!
I did an art trade with the amazing artist Kalamu (that’s her name on DeviantArt if you want to check her out) and this was the result. I am SO happy with this! I learned so much while doing it; I can’t wait to use these skills on other pieces!
Character design concept. Not fantasy, but I’s likes him. 🙂 (Based off an actual bird species.)
Another trade with, this time for Tser, the admin of another board I go to, and her really, really cool gryphon form. She’s a Great Blue Heron/ blue Clouded Leopard combo!I didn’t plan to do a background, but I ended up doing one anyway. I really, really like how it turned out, myself. X)
Proving I do more than birdies. 🙂 My coyote self, the same critter in my avatar. She’s sad. 🙁 There’s nothing like doing something with only your pencil and eraser to get you through!I am open for commission-type things, by the way! I just finished a major job and right now I’m just puttering around. 🙂 My prices are here and I have a special deal going on for openCanvas portraits in the same style as the first image. You can find the details here in my silly old LiveJournal. I do hope maybe to work with some of you! Although I’m really quiet, I really enjoy you guy’s company. 🙂 You guys are helping my injury recovery bearable.
Taaa for now!
I’ve moved back to my room downstairs, and I discovered spiders took over! Now, I used to be the type of person who let bugs and spiders outside, but I’m so sick of the feeling that there are cobwebs everywhere and spiders crawling on a carpet that’s a colour that makes them hard to see that I’ve just been smushing the buggars!
I have no idea what they are, they’re so effing generic I wouldn’t know how to start identifying them. Brown, tiny body, looooooooooooooong spindly legs. I take wolf spiders over these guys any day. (I actually usually have no problem with wolf spiders in the house.)
It’s funny that this thread got bumped not only because of my spider infestation but the fact I was talking with someone about one of the ugliest bugs in Southern California- the Jerusalem Cricket aka the potato bug.
Really just kinda freakish.Hmmm.
I’ll bet you $10 my father used the same kind of enamel on a project of his. (If any of you watch Mystery Science Theatre 3000, transparent Candy Apple Red is the exact colour you want for a Tom Servo replica.) I think I’ll ask him what he used to seal his thing for you if no one replies before he gets home…
Oh, and I don’t know crap about enamel, but I’m curious so I’ll ask…is it still water-based like acrylic? I’m concerned if the enamel won’t allow the gypsum stone to “breathe”, so to speak. Latex and other such materials that don’t let the gypsum “sweat” out excess moisture and such can lead to trouble.
I used a “bright gold” iridescence paint on my poor Muse (which never unfogged) because I was wondering the exact same question, and I have to say, it’s a rather pretty effect. It’s extremely glittery, and under natural sunlight, as you turn it just what shade of (in this case) gold an area of the sculpt is changes as you rotate it. Very pretty. The more curves and areas of depth there are in the places you paint with iridescent paint, the better. 😀
Kujacker> Oh dear…just how old are you? I got the chicken pox when I was entering middle school, which is old enough…but then my then-18-year-old brother caught it from me. The reason I ask is…the older you are, the worse the chicken pox is for you. You get flu- like symptoms…including stomach-flu like symptoms. : Not to make you discouraged…but uh…be careful. If you have kids and they bring home the chicken pox and you catch it from them…you may not be able to take care of them that well. 🙁
Y’know what was sad about my contraction of chicken pox? I was in a fun sort of summer school class where we were putting on a play, and I had auditioned and gotten the lead role. The people who coached us, who were the drama teachers for the middle school, all said I was really good and could at least continue on to drama classes through high school and do well.
Then guess what happened a day or two before the show was put on. D: Yep, I got all spotty.
I have bad luck.
Unless I get grave injury- no. No way.
There’s a million things I’d like on my body to be better. I wish I wasn’t so pear-shaped. I wish I didn’t have stretchmarks from a rather sudden gain of weight due to medication. And yeah, I’m one of those who could use a little more symmetry chest-wise. So what?
Imperfections, my folks, are often what make people so appealing. Women want to laser off their moles. Um…what was Marylin Monroe’s face known for? What some people consider a mole others consider a “beauty spot”.
This LiveJournal entry makes me rather happy and sums it up for me, myself:
http://andrea-miccaver.livejournal.com/15074.html
EDIT: ‘Sides, I don’t want surgery for a long, long, LONG time.
pipsxlch wrote:Maybe you could throw an old warrior and payment stub from a secret keeper at the principal’s head and tell her so much for a passing grade? (of course dreams do their won thing, but it would be fun!)
Depends how good you are at lucid dreaming! 😆
travistie wrote:I was actually diagnosed with leukemia after my first year of high school. I was home schooled from my sophomore through senior years… and I did better that way than any other year of school in my life! I guess just the one-on- one teaching made it better! Though surgeries, and getting sick all the time did make it a real pain trying to keep up with the assignments. I know how that is.
When I did have one-on-one teaching it was very, very helpful! Unfortunatly this was only during the most serious of times- the schools I’ve been more likely to decide the nature of your illness and whether or not to put you in front of a computer program where you take automated lessons (in some ways this is easy- but try doing Algebra I and II and Geometrey this way! Only a computer to teach you!) or whether to have you in a special enviroment which, while it may have helped some students, it was heck on me!
Thankfully senior year I had normal classes- but then after weeks of pain, BOOM I had to have emergency surgery and was diagnosed with endometriosis. At least I didn’t have to deal with something all throughout high school like you did! D:
