Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
2000 Collector’s club pair: Baross (membership piece) & Nakatch (redemption piece)
asking price: $50 each, or $90 for the pairIn 1998 Enchantica started making paired Collector’s club pieces so you’d get one upon joining the club/annual renewal and the other upon redeeming a members’ only certificate. The pieces are designed to fit together as a scene, but can be displayed individually just as well.
I am so disappointed right now. The one I got is pretty but 100% opposite of anything and everything I’d want out of a gb (wrong colors, wrong scheme, just bleh).
Please PM me if you’re interested. Will consider direct and blind trades, thanks!
Thanks everyone! I feel so blessed to be able to have them.
@Lisa Z I feel they give off a comfortably mellow vibe too. Susie probably didn’t think they were very soothing though, lol! She had to work with my box off and on for a long time while I waited for new batches of beans to be painted until I found ones with colors that were *just* right! You too have a fabulous rainbow of beans, and your green one aboves makes me think Slimer has been reincarnated as a poad…@Landipan That Podge in a Pot is adorable. And lily of the valley is one of my favorite flowers. Love it!
I’m late to the party, but this is my clutter. Since the specials and the beans were unique to the Kickstarter, that’s where my monies went. I even had to cut back on what I’d originally wanted and sell a few pieces I hadn’t wanted to just to get these pretties.
My pics are terrible especially of the minis–by the time I get home from work most of the light is gone this time of the year–so I also am posting their pre-shipping pic too. It shows the minis’ patterns a lot better though the colors are a little washed out due to the fluorescent lights (my pics are outside and darker than their actual colors). I loooooove my blue/purple/silver butterfly bean the most, and I am stoked about my special adults! I like my special baby and she matches the clutter well, but I might be open to potentially trading for a different special baby that is more appealing to me (a slim chance, I know, since most people picked their favorites directly, but you never know!).
Wow. I assumed the minis would be difficult to paint due to being small; that’s pretty impressive that they’re light enough to be blown across the table. I can just imagine Melody trying to airbrush the base colors, minis rolling, “dang it”s and “sunova”s and expletetives resounding…
Super excited for the upcoming baby unis. Can’t wait!
I’m so, so sorry for your loss pony-up. My heart aches for you. Such swift, brutal losses are the ones that leave us most scarred–there’s no preparing for it, and you’re left feeling empty and guilty. I’ve been there, as I’m sure many others have–no matter what anyone else tells you, you still feel guilty and sometimes you just can’t let it go. So many what ifs plaguing you…it’s absolutely the worst. All you can do is bolster yourself with the good memories and remind yourself that she loved you whole-heartedly.
I’m pretty sure that in the original dialogue when Melody was first sculpting them there was a strong possibility for the bean poads to be a PYO. Then they became a KS exclusive. I don’t know if they intend to make it PYO-only after the KS or not; if so, sweet, if not, not a problem.
Some people will likely strongly disagree with me on this next bit but…I do think that, since they are meant to be exclusive (at least ones painted by Melody), they should stick to their guns on that point. It was already extremely generous of them to open up the backer store for the Kickstarter poads, giving us backers the opportunity to save up a little more money and add additional ones to our clutters. But it’s not something that was ever meant to be permanent. As adorable as the beans are and as versatile as the schemes could be, there eventually has to be a limit to what can and should be done with them. Especially if the intention was to keep them as unique, one-of-a-kind event pieces.
Don’t get me wrong: I love the beans. I have a handful of them coming with my clutter. But things are only special if they’re limited. Additionally, Melody has a ton of things on her workbench that could use the extra time. Off the top of my head, the upright baby/young oriental dragon, new flion, possible female flion, possible hoarder dragon release/kickstarter idea, long list of requests for various gb releases in the future, possible LP runs for the both new pebble dragons, so on as so forth. Not to mention trying to keep up with Rue Day pages! I’m not saying the beans have to stop “right now”, but it should taper off in the future.
Also, as cute as Halloween beans could be, that scheme really doesn’t have anything to do with The Veligent themes, i.e. doesn’t really have anything to do with the Kickstarter…which is what the beans are all about.
I think three batches of fantasy, natural and autumn/lichen is a great idea. Of course I am sure it is more work though. The natural ones may be less work instensive than fantasy so priced differently, thinking like the hatching Pegasus. The people buying them will know for sure they will get something they like and will cut down on trading expenses for those out of state. I dont care for autumn/lichen pattern ones as much so if they were put with fantasy it would be a gamble.
Dividing them up into types is sometimes hard, like which batch would a fantasy colored zebra with autumn leaves go?
In general, this is how I see it breaking down:
Naturals – normal horse or other animal (safari) colors
Fantasy – anything not Natural
Autumn Leaf – when the primary design revolves around a leaf motiffYou do tend to make “standout” pieces in the grab bags that overlap categories, which you might just want to throw up your hands and roll them into the Fantasy category. Such as in the example you provided: I would toss it into Fantasy because it’s not a regular natural and it would be too vibrant to classify as an Autumn Leaf. Traditionally the Autumn Leaf ones have been more low-key, using a black base rather than something fancy. (Although that’s an idea, eh? Doing autumn leaf silhouettes where autumn colors are the base and the designs are black silhouettes/negative space of leafy designs. Might be interesting.)
Another example are the Naturals that have flower saddles or swirls. Again, I’d put it into Fantasy, if only because it’s not plain. Naturals are just as they are–natural in the wild, whether that’s a horse, a tiger, or a snow leopard.
Grats on pulling one of your top pics Kim! That’s a beauty! Most of my favorites so far are actually non-colorshift ones (I’m kind of colorshifted-out lol); the brighter ones remind me of soapstone for some reason, especially in the class pic.
I was happy to get a non-colorshift one I don’t dislike but she will be up for trade. By the time I got home yesterday it was too dark to take outside/natural light photos and today it started storming. T_T Her eyes are NOT pink; the light in the room is yellow and made the wrapping paper + her eyes have a peachy tint to them (and softened her body coloring too). Her eyes are very light metallic silver/blue/periwinkle that matches the color of her berries/spots. Her body is a grassy-emerald green that phases to deep sky blue then to a royal blue on her bum/lower belly. The pics with the flash are most like her given colors though the flash washes out the royal blue and makes it look more of a cobalt hue.
His description is awful but he does say he used a Windstone piece. Not unlike a repaint, only in this case he used part of a frog to make a different sculpture. At the least, he’s not denying that it was originally a Windstone.
Wow, some of these dragons are crazy. The batch is a little bigger than I expected and alternates between a few with extreme colors and a bunch that look super similar; I might wait this out until people start getting pieces in and hope for a direct trade. I did mark ones that kind of caught my eye–not really favorites, but things that got my attention–yellow circles being primary and pink circles being ones that I’m interested in but need to see better pics. Especially the brighter ones or, for example, that one on the way bottom left…I can’t tell if I like it or dislike it lol; the pattern is so weird in a cool way…almost like a headdress and cloak of feathers/wisps. I’m really curious to see better pics of the bright blues I’ve circled near the top and bottom of the pic; I just can’t stop looking at them!
Pearl-ex powders are the best! They blend both easily and beautifully on polymer clay; my sister used to make polymer clay ornaments with the powder–it might be something to think of with Christmas in a few months (ugh, so soon already?!). You can also mix them into acrylic paints or get something like Jacquard’s pearl-ex varnish, which you mix the powder into it to make a “paint” matching the powder exactly (super fun for making your own metallic paint). Looooove pearl-ex powders!
By the way, some of those celestial pieces are adorable and that blended squid is just amaaaaazing! Keep up the great work!
