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I got one from Kayla too, but it was apparently yesterday, even though I got the notification email today. Where is Austra, anyway? (Aside from the all caps HELLO, nonexistent country sort of confirms it’s a spam mail.)
I was looking at dragon cross-stich patterns on Amazon and found href=”https://smile.amazon.com/Amacok-Diamond-Painting-Embroidery-Multicolor/dp/B07GWMGK9B/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&qid=1546617815&sr=8-34&keywords=dragon+cross+stitch”>this . I’m not sure what the actual product is (apparently gluing rhinestones or fake gems on a pattern?) but I know that isn’t their picture.
ETA I don’t know how to fix the link, sorry.
I’ve been having it for at least a week, and finally had to reset the password yesterday to place an order. I did email clay about it, though.
As has been noted, in modern, registry-related parlance, Paints are a stock horse breed that may or may not actually be spotted, while Pintos may be of any breed that happens to be spotted. (A bit oversimplified, but there.) However, in older usage, (and still in fairly common usage among people who don’t know much about horses,) ‘pinto’ was applied primarily to tobianos, or other horses with large, crisp colored spots. Tonto’s horse Scout is a classic pinto. ‘Paint’, or ‘calico paint’ generally referred to the sabinos and frame overos; a paint horse would have complicated edges to its spots and frequently roaning (the sabino influence, and also the reason for the ‘calico’ designator). Paints also appear to be marked with white, while pintos give the impression of being white horses marked with color.
Generally pintos are tobianos or crisp toveros, and paints will be frames or sabinos. Splash whites would probably be counted as pintos, but they’re rare enough not to be referenced often.
I’d like to chime in and agree with the rest – I think these chicks are gorgeous and much improved over the brown version. (Although I’ll be keeping my brown wolf female and sitter!) I do want a male, at least, in the new color as well as the chicks.
Am also very happy to see them as production so I don’t have to ‘grab now!’ like a lot of the ones I’ve liked.
I just got Little Big Planet as part of Sony’s ‘Welcome Back’ deal; I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Mainly my PS3 is a BluRay player though. It’s the Wii and DS’s (DS, DSi and 3DS) that get most of the games and play time. I’ve just cleared Pokemon Black and White, and am eagerly awaiting the 3DS version of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in two weeks. My favorite series is Sonic the Hedgehog, but I’ve got a slew of Super Marios, Zeldas, and Pokemon. Also I love Okami (and Okamiden) and the Endless Ocean titles. On the computer, I do Sims 2, SimLife, and Zoo Tycoon.
I WISH I could find a suitable successor to SimLife, but there doesn’t seem to be one. Set the rules for a world (season temps and lengths, rain variation, percentage of ocean and mountains, gravity and food values), then design plants and animals to (hopefully) live in it. If they manage to survive, you can alter the conditions, or individual creatures, or whole species, and see who adapts and who goes extinct. The problem is, it’s rather old so both the graphics and game are limited compared to modern computers’ abilities. Also there’s no way to locate creatures with a given set of criteria, so when my gerbils mutated to eat my tigers, I had to track them all down individually (all 383 of them!) to smite the 12 that had mutated to carnivores. I’d hoped Spore might be similar, but I found that game as a whole very disappointing.
I got one and she is lovely, but I’m curious – do all of this batch have a colorless beak? It’s not white, and it’s not exactly silver, and it’s definitely pearlized, but it’s not any color I can really name. The male and chicks I got recently have dark yellow beaks, while Maya’s is a sort of pale greyish/taupeish . . . well, actually it’s almost the same color as the walls of this room, which I can’t put a name to either. Her front feet are also relatively pale but more yellow.
At any rate, she’s beautiful, but I was wondering if this was the new style.
I like ‘natural’ blue eyes – paints, appies or others with a lot of white on the face. Other blue eyes depend a lot on the color of the piece. I like odd-eyed pieces along the same criteria. Light brown/amber eyes would look good on lighter colored critters as well. Of course, some of the paler champagne colors have green eyes . . .
As I reported earlier today, I had to empty my previous order out of my cart before placing my current order. Also, for some reason I was informed upon logging into the store that I had two messages. When logging into the forum the last few days, I did not receive notification of these messages. The store seems a strange place to announce mail.
Neither of these caused a problem with placing the order, although I might have ended up with more Windstones than I intended!
I like the dun one on eBay, but the dark tail doesn’t look right to me with the gothic’s body style. I doubt that would stop me from buying one were they available, though. :bigsmile:
I keep missing them. I check email and store before I go to work, and the store several times at work (which is pointless, since I can’t actually ORDER from work) and haven’t seen anything but the ‘click to know when back in stock’. Actually looking at work is probably worse than pointless, since then I’d know exactly when I missed them. Sigh.
Anyway I’m wait-listed again. Perhaps I’ll have to name the fledge Patience when I finally get one.
So do I need to click again to get on the NEXT waiting list? I seem to have gotten the e-mail right after I’d checked my mail, and the shelves were bare by the time I got to the site.
My individual Windstones mostly have names, although I’ve gotten a bit behind. The first ones were part of Ocean Sun Stables, my Breyer collection, so they had to be named just like the horses. So from back in the day, I have Leoran the Flion, Navarre the black griffon (named after the knight from Ladyhawke), Alimra the black unicorn and his family: Shadowdancer, Shadowlord, and Ebony Dancer. (Alimra means Lord Ebony in the language I made up in 9th grade.) The hatching pegasus’ name I fear I’ve forgotten, although she’s probably in my foal file box. Then Wicks N’ Sticks went out of business and I didn’t see or hear of Windstones for over 15 years.
Since last January, I’ve added (yikes!) 22 griffons to keep Navarre company. The ‘old black’ female and croucher I found on eBay (still looking for the sitting chick) are Quiscula (genus of the Grackle), and Skandra (I read Merceded Lackey too :bigsmile: ); Mama and sitting wolf, who I paired off with Navarre, are Zhana and Zhavarre, new black Nava and pearl Yuki are also in the family. The cheetahs are Osiris, Bastet, Horus, Pippa, and (red savannah) Russet. I think the griffs look better in sets of 5. My spotted family has no mom yet but Patrick keeps his eye on Valen and April. Goscip, the first test paint I won, is named for her scarlet eyes, which reminded me of a GOShawk, which is an acCIPitor. My latest acquisition, the Serpentine male, is Phasian, which is the Pheasant genus. The other few I haven’t come up with good names for yet.
My Poads are Twilight (black peacock) Bangle (silver bengal), Iris (sugarplum), Walnut (woodring), and Lemuria (colugo). My at-long-last brown male dragon (the one I was saving for way-back-when was sold within the week before I got enough money, and the color had been discontinued) is Vintath, a hybrid of ‘vintage’ and Pern-style dragon naming. He guards the curlies: Violet (amythyst), Xan (Opoponax), Aki (Autumn Leaf), Natsu(Serpentine), Verdigris(copper patina), and Toast (toasted pearl). Aki and Natsu are Japanese for autumn and summer, respectively, and Aki is also a nod to Akki from the Heart’s Blood books. (Yes, I read a lot of fantasy.)
The candlelamps and the mermaid sconce are not named, mostly because they don’t feel like individuals. Although, being me, the mermaid may acquire one yet. I have a few other hoofers and flapcats that need names – oh, the black male pegasus is Nox Pavonis, Peacock of the Night.
