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Welcome! You’ll find that one Windstone is never enough, and Windstone addictions are definitely encouraged here! We all love our addictions!
I have to agree with what you all have said! I love the beautiful creatures that I have from Windstone Editions. They are alive, colourful and bring me so much joy! I appreciate all the hard work you all at Windstone do and I thank you for bringing joy into the world and for making my over-active imagination worse!
Oh, and I’m so glad that Melody has an over-active imagination too! We wouldn’t have Windstones without her!
Merry Christmas everyone, and stay safe!
I know! I feel like I have a family of expensive Ebay griffins, even though I know they are limited production. I love my ocelots so much, they are so interesting to look at. I think they look really alive.
Hang in there everyone who is in danger of Sandy. It looks absolutely terrifying! It makes me grateful that I live in southern Australia where we don’t get hurricanes/cyclones. Stay safe guys.
Awww thanks everyone! The big 30 today! I convinced my hubby to buy me a male and female white unicorn for my birthday. They will be my first unis! I’m very excited!
I did this amazing gig back in June with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and now they have made a short film about the day and put it up on youtube! I loved watching this as it is kind of like reliving the experience.
I am one of the flute players with a red top (not the one with the frizzy hair; she is the Principal Flute of the MSO) The tall man sitting next to me in the concert playing piccolo is the Principal Piccolo of the MSO. It was so incredibly amazing to play with musicians of such skill!
OMG! I saw the pic that Pam put up and those things are creepy! We have centipedes in Australia and they are long with lots of short legs and are a dark red colour, but they don’t look nearly as creepy as those things! Centipedes here don’t generally come inside (millipedes do, but I just put them outside. They are quite cute too).
I get the same feeling from your centipedes as I do from big hairy spiders (we get the big hairy ones inside though. I hate huntsman spiders….)
OMG! I didn’t know Anne McCaffrey had passed away until I saw this post! This is so sad! I read through all of the Pern series for the first time starting mid last year and finished mid year this year and I loved the intelligent and benevolent dragons (the dolphins were good too!). I can’t believe she is gone!
Even if the dragon guarding her grave is a fake, we all know who made the original! You must feel so proud Melody, and rightly so! I think Anne would have loved a Windstone dragon watching over her!
You know, when I was immersed in the world of Pern, I just had to look over at my Windstone dragons, and I could see them in Pern, soaring through the skies and fighting thread (I know, I have an overactive imagination….). I was thinking of my gold emperor as Ramoth for a while too!
Tough time you’re going through TDM! I am sending you my best wishes! It will work out right for you in the end. You are not at fault here, and you sound like you have raised your boyohs well and they will cope due to the life skills you’ve given them. They will come to you when they are ready.
Stand up for yourself lady, you have been though so much and it has made you an incredibly strong person. He ain’t got a hope against you! We are all here for you TDM!
Well, the sun did come out for a little while so here are some pics of my gorgeous new ocelot griffin!
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“>I got my new ocelot griffin today and I totally love him! He is so proud and magnificent (and he knows it!). I love his markings, his blue wing spots and the metallic eyes! I will post some photos when the sun shows itself for more then a second in this fickle early spring weather!
I am not going to put him with the other griffs at the moment, as a loose male will cause all sorts of trouble, especially one as handsome as him! He needs a mate to keep him in line as he is as mischievous as he is handsome!
Even when I’ve been practicing.
Hehe, this reminds me of a comment my fellow band member made. He had been to see this concert (he wasn’t playing in it) and he said to me “You know, this concert actually inspired me to practice. You don’t need to worry though, the urge had worn off by the time I got home!” Lol!
Thanks for your kind words everyone! I don’t know what to do with myself I have that much excitement!
In response to Siberakh1, the other pieces at the concert were Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March no 4 (I played picc/3rd flute), Dvorak – Largo from the New World Symphony, and Berlioz – March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique (1st flute). The Berlioz sounded great with 150 people playing too. So much power in the basses and celli! The pieces themselves weren’t a challenge as the flute and picc parts aren’t difficult, but I was being so picky over markings due to it being the MSO! The good part about it being easier music, is that I could devote more attention to how the whole thing sounded, and being in the middle of such a huge orchestra was amazing.
Lol, I hear you about the nerves thing! I am a lot better now then I used to be a few years ago. I did a concerto performance with my community orchestra in March and I was really calm! My 2 little fumbles didn’t even worry me. This is not me at all!!!! Normally I would be a wobbly mess and my brain nowhere to be seen! Hmmm, is this what happens when you get old?? (I am turning 30 this year so yes I feel old right now! Cue the spring chicken comments!!! 🙂 )
The work experience thing with high caliber students is a common thing (the MSO has been doing it for years), but doing it with community musicians whom aren’t studying (most of us don’t work in music) and play in little community orchestras is much rarer if it has been done before at all. It would be interesting to find out if it has been done before though!
Your flute sounds similar to the one I just upgraded from. I had an Armstong 80E with open holes and the gold plated lip, and it served me well for over 10 years and throughout my music degree, but I needed to upgrade a few years ago because I went past what it could give me. It is now my back up flute. Emersons are a good flute. Yours should serve you well for years.
I’m sorry about you mum too. Those kind of comments do worm their way in and undermine you. You are a good player, you gained a place to do a music degree and you have to be pretty good and have lots of potential to do that. You sound like you have gone into sensible damage control here until you can get your own place. Smart move! It will be great when you get back into it again! You will be a bit rusty for a little bit, but the skills come back pretty quickly!
I haven’t really been on here a lot this year. It has been so busy with gigs all over the place. Last year was really quiet so I don’t know what has hit me! I have also been staying away a bit until the picc is paid off so I don’t get tempted by all the pretty Windstones and do something stupid like buy a Secret Keeper!
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