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Thanks Kiya!
LIH I am taking a year off of school starting in may so should have a lot of time to work on commissions and things like that then! 🙂
I feel like I haven’t added to this thread in ages! I blame school, it’s taking up all my time, rawr. I have for you several cool and interesting things!
First off is a commission I finally finished. The person contacted me at the beginning of august and I added them to the list, but they couldn’t pay until the end of august when I closed commissions so she got started right around the time I started school. Anyway so needless to say I was super slow in getting her done! More than 3 months, yeesh. She was, fortunately, the last thing on my commission list.
ALSO I took a video of the hairing process for her. I am trying to do more with video. Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llcMHoLcrfg
Photos of the commission:
And then, I have new photos of these two guys. I made them sometime last year (December or january 2011) and have had them in my etsy store but they remain unsold. My dad came to kingston a few weekends ago so I took them out for some random photos. I also took a video of them, because I had just bought this little digital camera and wanted to videotape everything 😛 So here are those photos. Both these guys are still for sale, they’re super cheap. Soooo check ’em out if you’re interested: http://www.etsy.com/shop/scenceable
First is cynosure:
And then there’s Chryssipus…
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The video of them is here: http://youtu.be/uBasM_QScB8 it shows how their bases work and about how big they are.
I kind of want them out of my house which is why I listed them cheap, so following that, I'd definitely be willing to trade them for windstones.
ALSOOOO I have a few weeks off during the holidays (Dec 15-Jan 9) and am debating on either doing a few commission slots or trades or something. I can't wait!
Thanks for looking!
Edit: ohh I forgot to mention, I went on a social media joining rampage a few weeks ago, I'm now active in a whole bunch of random places. I have this list of places you can find me. Honestly everything is on the facebook page, but it's fun to chat elsewhere too 😛 Especially tumblr, I don't have very many friends on there, if you have a tumblr let me know so I can follow you! 😀
Website: http://quequinoxart.com/
Deviantart: http://scenceable.deviantart.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/quequinoxart
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/scenceable
Ebay: http://myworld.ebay.ca/quequinox_art
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/scenceable
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/QuequinoxArt
Tumblr: http://quequinoxart.tumblr.com/
FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/scenceable/Oh man, it feels like we THROW money at people in MA. When Shaun lost his job last year I was REALLY considering asking for food stamps. I felt “low” even thinking about it, but when we called (in hindsight I wish we had this on tape! I would have a FIELD DAY with the media)
My boyfriend explained he had lost his job suddenly and we needed assistance. Before she would even hear any of what he had to say, she asked his race to which he responded “well, I’m white” and then she asked if I was pregnant to which he responded. “Umm… no” and then she said Sorry, we can’t help you and hung up on his face! So yea… I guess it all depends on who you are in MA. *shrug*
Now I’m not saying people shouldn’t get assistance if they need it… but in MA, you can be on Welfare an entire fiscal year… and get a TAX RETURN?! On what income???? They didn’t have a job for not a day of that year! THAT drives me crazy! >_< Sounds like Canada has it together a lot more then the US these days. They should give monetary incentive for WORKING!
When my mom was asking the lady at ODSP about why they haven’t done anything in months to help my sister, her response was just as rude. They got my sister a placement at this recycling plant, and expected her to stay on her feet for 8 hours and mop floors, which she refused to do, so they deemed her “unemployable” and left it at that. So then my mom calls and the lady first asks why she doesn’t just go apply at mcdonalds, then says it sounds like my mom is forcing her to get a job, and then says “All I hear from you is “I, I , I”, what about what SHE wants?” umm yeah, the only reason my mom had to call and get so angry was because they’d left it for months. That’s months of my sister sitting around watching tv all day, depressed because she thinks she’s a bum for not working.
As far as the child thing goes, my brother’s friend got his girlfriend pregant when they were both 15. So she has a baby at 16, her parents are both crackheads who’ve long kicked her out and she’s living with the boyfriend’s mom. She goes through this phase of “well I’m pregnant buy me stuff!” with everyone, but after she has the baby things actually get better. She was on welfare while she was pregnant and for some time after, but since she’s so young CPA was really on her to make sure the baby was cared for. So they gave her a lot of money to get a place, and then found her a place to work and cut her off. Now she’s working full time, supporting her boyfriend who doesn’t work, and the baby, with no help from any parents or anyone. And for a while I’m sure everyone’s opinion was that she was lazy, stupid for getting pregnant, and mooching off the system. But it actually really kicked her life in the right direction. From everything I’ve heard she’s been doing great for the baby, not doing drugs or drinking or anything, which is impressive considering the childhood she had.
I guess the point of my ramblings is sometimes people DO use the system to actually improve their life.
I’m certainly not old enough to have a proper opinion on this. My mom was complaining when me and my sister were babies she stayed at home and my dad worked full time and they made less than their neighbour who got $1000/ month on welfare with one child.
Although my mom did mention that she gets a huge tax return (I forget what the specific thing is called) because technically she would make more money on welfare than she does by income, so the government added money to her tax return as like, a thank you incentive for actually working.
My sister has downsyndrome and is only 22 and really wants to either work or volunteer full time. Right now ODSP is giving her $1000/ month on disability which is fine I guess, but she wants to work. So her and my mom have been calling in trying to get her a placement. She needs a lot more training than someone else would for whatever job she would be placed in, so ODSP would have to help her. She couldn’t just drop off a resume and get a job normally. But ODSP is being totally unhelpful, because they simply aren’t used to people on disability actually wanting to work. They technically have payment systems set up for people who have issues and want to work, for example paying for a voice command computer for someone who is blind. But I guess most people would rather sit at home and get the same amount of money, right?
Anyway the ODSP people, after my mom complaining about their total lack of help with my sister, basically accused my mom of trying to “force” my sister to work against her will.
Personally, on one hand it irritates me reading stuff on facebook about how people on welfare should have to take drug tests, and people who get free meals from salvation army should have to prove their income, but at the same time welfare should not be more money than a minimum wage job (I don’t think it is anymore though), and disability should be for people who actually can’t work. I’m not sure how the laws differ between canada and the states here though, I’ve heard canada is way more lenient on giving out money than the states, but after reading all your comments I don’t know.
Due to space constraints, Ive become much pickier myself. Im not content to keep something in a box. I have to display it. I have about seven barrister bookcases chock full of windstones, and some very special pieces on my bedroom dresser. So recently I have not gone after something unless I REALLY love it. Blue Ice Emp? HAD to have it. ‘Burgundy Autumn Leaf’? Eh, the color didnt translate well from the male to the emp, so I didnt even try.
Do you have you collection all set up now? You should post pictures!
GBP used to be about 2.4 USD so that is really good! Remember also that the exchange that ebay quotes is NOT the same as the exchange paypal charges! They take money off from every exchange don’t they?
I’m sure she’ll put more dolls up for sale in the next while 🙂 It’s cool to see how many windstone users bid!
Also if you don’t have windows movie maker or imovie or anything, I’m not sure if there are any good free softwares for editing but “onetruemedia” is something like $4 a month and it’s really easy to use.
I might have a few suggestions, I shall gather them and send a pm.
Sooo I just read the terms again. For some reason when I read the prize list, I assumed that the winner could pick an emperor from the store, or a male from the store, out of what is currently in stock. But the prize is essentially a commission by Melody (or PS?) which is amazing.
It’s kind of funny because people were just talking a few days ago about changing the raffles to be like, windstone trivia or something, this is sort of like that I guess.
Lots of people collect windstones but don’t do PYOs (like me!) but there are some forum members who don’t buy many windstones and just do PYOs, isn’t there? I mean the calendar contest excluded people who don’t have a camera, didn’t it? There’s always something, at least with the quests they’ve said there will be more in the future, and I doubt all of them will be for PYO artists only.
I’m pretty excited to see what people come up with! I was thinking of doing a hilarious satirical video of me dumping paint on the floor then rolling the windstone through it or something, ha, we’ll see XD
I like the sunset and copper gold <3
Noooottt such a fan of the kiwi kirin and especially not the black violet lion. He's super weird!
Omg, they all look so beautiful, huge congrats! I love that colouration, it’s so nice to see the whole set! Maybe you’ll get a grand unicorn sometime too! 🙂
WHO CAN ENTER:
Anyone in the US, Canada (excluding Quebec), and the United Kingdom.A few notes:
1. I wasn’t planning to enter as I don’t think I’m really qualified for this.
2. Notwithstanting my time away, I’ve been a member and collector for a long time and I’m pretty sure that my posting history can show that I’m not the kind to make a scene, throw a tantrum or get angry easily.
3. I want to believe that there has to be a very good reason for that exclusion.
However, at the moment I must say that I am more angry and offended than I have ever been reading this forum!
Sylvie (in QUEBEC)
I’ve always wondered why this is as well, since pretty much ALL contests in the states or Canada I’ve entered or read about exclude Quebec. It’s definitely not just windstone doing that! I figured they had some weird law on contests that was hard to get around and Kiya’s explanation makes sense.
If you DID want to enter could we set something up where the entry is under my name? So then if it won, I would have won, but I could send the prize to you? (You live pretty close to me for shipping), or would that be a gross violation of some law or rule? (I know you said you didn’t want to enter, but for future contests…)
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