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Got mine today. He is photo 5 , first row, 2nd from the left.
He is way more colorful & pretty in person. Metallic lavender eyes, amethyst gem in the claws & like periwinkle blue gem in the forehead. His coloration is pastel, mainly silver & pink with blue. small touches of soft yellow & green on the wings & very edges of the back jaw;soft, almost silver colored Gold accents on claws, horns, back, tail tip.
What’s really cool is hes antiqued in a soft silvery blue, so overall all the colors blend into to this gorgeous, soft silvery mix of easter/spring colors.
Wasn’t really wanting a pastel, but in person hes amazing, so it would take a lot before I’d trade him I think. 😀
96037 – Yep! Looks like a great example to me of a spring theme!
I suggested a theme for this swap just because when you think spring & may day you think flowers, easter, & other bright & cheery type things that make you smile & feel good right? Spring to me kind of represents new beginnings & hopeful things, so I figured it would be a real feel good type thing to paint…
But it looks like DM is high jacking my swap idea & she said “no theme” when someone asked a few comments ago, despite my starting suggestion. So I guess if she’s taking the swap over she can run it however she wants again & So it seems you will be free to paint whatever. *shrug, oh well* still looking forward to it…
I received my fledge awhile ago, sorry for not posting earlier about him. 🙁 been crazy busy.
He is super cute, painted by melody in a scheme she called “blue ice”. So he is all cool, silver shaded blues with silver accents & details, perfect for winter! He looks amazing displayed with my two dragon families (whites & lavender).
I’d be more than willing to share photos…i just dont have a way to post them on the forum quite yet.
So side question (not to ‘jack’ Dragon’s thread, but thought this question went hand in hand): for anyone else that has the original white dragons and that has also bought the ‘new’ ones like these spectrals, new baby dragon, or new hatching version 2 – how well do your new white dragons match your originals?
My baby dragon only matches the original hatching white dragon that I have. It looks like they used the gray antique with the original hatching dragons to bring out the cracks in the egg. Otherwise, the baby looks much duller than the other whites I have because of the gray antique. The gold nose is also different from the original whites as well. I’ve kind of held off buying any of the new white spectrals (which I’ve wanted for a while) because of this. I’m curious to know how they are painted.
Agreed! That was my concern too with the spectrals so glad I’m not alone. Dull is a very good description when you compare his color against the original whites and I did notice the nose gold was a bit different as well but thought that may be just my particular guy. My very first thought when I pulled the new baby out of his box before I even held him next to my other whites was “gray?”…
BUT I LOVE the baby dragon pose, its probably my all time favorite dragon, and by himself the little guy is super cute. My original whites do all match very well so this one little grayish guy really stands out and does not look good when displayed next them. However, since Susie says the new baby white batch is lighter and will match a lot better, and since these guys are an affordable price (one of my favorite sculpts) and a really nice display size, I’ll just pick up a second one to display with my white family and then move my current baby so he is with some of my other windstones.
So no issues, I was just curious if it was just me or my particular baby or not that was so mis-matched. 🙂
Agreed! 🙂 I’m so thrilled they did some more. I really love this pose with those lighter eyes! Don’t care for the dark eyes the rising spectral in white has, they are just too dark for my taste…
So side question (not to ‘jack’ Dragon’s thread, but thought this question went hand in hand): for anyone else that has the original white dragons and that has also bought the ‘new’ ones like these spectrals, new baby dragon, or new hatching version 2 – how well do your new white dragons match your originals?
My new hatching dragon did not match very well, but the blue egg is distracting enough and he is small enough its not particularly noticeable. BUT, the new baby dragon in white REALLY doesn’t match my original whites at all. 🙁 And when I put both new poses side by side near the old whites it really shows that the hatching guy doesn’t match very well either…but its really the baby dragon that is way off. My old whites, the white parts have this soft luminescence to it that softens the white to look more like an actual pearl (actual oyster pearl, where the color is this rich and creamy looking white instead of a stark white). The new baby dragon in white is a far harsher silvery white, he looks more like a light silver almost gray shade, especially when he sits next to my other white dragons. I think its because the new baby was antiqued in gray so it changes the shade of that pearl white towards that end of the spectrum too much…so he is really cute and I love the new baby pose, he just really doesn’t match my white family like I’d hoped.
I think all my original whites are pretty much first releases because I started collecting them back in the mid to late 1980s, and we all know windstones can vary with the painters…so I was wondering if anyone else has noticed any mis-matches in the old whites compared to the new?
OMG!!! Those reviews are freakin hilarious!
I’ve had tears running down my face and been laughing like a loon for the last 30 minutes reading through just the first few pages!
Oh the evil, evil plans my brain has started hatching after reading…
It won’t let me edit my last post to correct where it cut it off before I got all the card locations added correctly. See the corrected location list below. 🙂
1. Melody’s dragon curled around the kitty, (Row 2, Card 1)
2. Melody’s rearing kirin, (Row 5, Card 3)
3. Bodine’s happy halloween pumpkin (Row 6, Card 4)
4. 96037’s turtle (Row 7, Card 6)
5. Laundry2011’s under the surface card that looks like a lava flow (Row 13, Card 1)
6. Harriet’s (kitty’s) (Row 13, Card 7)Thank you 96037 for the photo posting offer! 😀
I love seeing the smaller shots of who got what to both see who got what, and because a lot of the cards I got at least have all these little details and colors that just don’t show in the larger class photos and they are sooo cool up close and in person! So I’d love for people to be able to see them up close. 🙂
96037 if you have pictures of the ones you sent me please post them! I’m horrible at posting photos still.
I forgot to say so when they came…but I got my cards quite some time ago, within like 3 days of them being mailed. They’ve been on display on my coffee table for like a month now so I can look at them every day. 🙂
I love all of mine!!
I got the following cards;
1. Melody’s dragon curled around the kitty, (Row 2, card 1 at top of the row in class photo)
2. Melody’s rearing kirin, (Row 5, card 3 down in class photo)
3. Bodine’s happy halloween pumpkin (Row 6, card 4 from the top of row)
4. Laundry2011’s under the surface card that looks like a lava flow (Row 13, card 1)
5. One of Harriet’s kitty cat ones (Row 13 card 5)
6. 96037’s turtleMy first Windstone Christmas card. I was jumping up and down with joy when I got it in the mail and got to open it! Its so gorgeous I’m going to frame it and hang it by my other prints from Melody!
Thank you so much for doing this Melody!
OMG OMG OMG! I so can’t believe this!
WHOOT! What a wonderful way to start the year!
THANK YOU!
wheee :party:
PS – sent the email with my information, please PM me if you can’t find it. 😉
Wow! Beautiful job Bodine! He’s a gorgeous griffin. Love those blue shades and the way you did the mountain line and clouds!
I have had similar issues at times with my cats. Some of my lessons learned after years of struggling and research are:
**Talk to you vet about the cost concerns and payment options! My vet offers payment plans for one, two, they offer a type of PetCare payment plan that’s a bit like a short-term loan where you charge it to your pre-approved account and then have like 6 months to pay off the big vet bills at no interest, then a small interest applies after that, three, they offer a type of Pet insurance too that helps split up costs especially with multiple animals, and four, they do a certain amount of pro bono or greatly reduced charged services every year for foster cats and people that are taking in strays like you did.**
1. You should try to have litter boxes at a 2:1 ratio – so I know its crazy difficult, but with three cats ideally you’d want 6-7 litter boxes, which clearly isn’t possible in a small place (I’m in the same boat with my two and a small apt. so I understand this one), but having at least 2, or 3 boxes if you can manage it, and then keeping them VERY VERY clean will really help, especially if she is marking outside the box as a territorial thing at having to share 1 box with 2 other cats (and she is the new kitty trying to set her place), or just is REALLY picky about wanting clean litter. Mine tend to rotate between their two boxes; and then I have one that doesn’t care and isn’t a fussy box user, and one that is super picky about having a clean and UNcovered box – if the box was covered, not clean, or just ‘smelled’ in general because I was over due for a complete change of litter and full cleaning she too used to defecate just outside or ‘on the edge’ of the box a lot.
2. Do not use covered litter boxes or scented litter. The best litter is fine textured, unscented, or preferably one that clumps well for quick and easy cleaning – I find they really do like the clay and some of the finer, pine and cedar mix litters by far the best over the silica, pellets, and litters that don’t clump or barely clump. Make sure of course to completely change out all the litter and thoroughly clean the box as frequently as you can manage it too – that encourages them to use the boxes and it helps keep worms, parasites, or other illness from spreading between the cats.
3. Inappropriate urination can be a bladder infection too – I’ve had that trouble a lot with one of mine and its more common it seems in unfixed females and females fixed later in life. The test for that was pretty inexpensive as I recall…but the antibiotics can be a major pain and get spendier…
4. There are lots of websites that can help if its behavioral (peeing on the bed and clothes could just be her trying to mark you as hers as unpleasant as you find it) and your vet should easily be able to recommend a few websites you can look at, books you can check out at a library, and things you can try including simple solutions like feliway that help calm cats and reduce stress, making sure the food and water is located well away from the litterboxes (can be really hard in a small place I know), try to offer them multiple food and water dishes to reduce competition and over-eating which can lead to vomiting, etc.; I’d look at a few of the websites and free books (library) and consider if anything they have to say seems probable – cats can get stressed easily sometimes over very small changes…
5. I know Iams and Purina One are both common and fairly affordable dry foods that my vet and a number of breeders I know recommend for those on a budget. And, they aren’t always easy to find and can be expensive, but cat food (I think it mostly comes as a wet food) with rabbit meat and some of the duck meat foods [I’ve seen Petco carry both] (or even dry kibble designed for sensitive systems) are gentler meats on their tummys and can really help. Some cats are just really senstive to a brand or type of food – mine love most kinds of Royal Canin food, but the one time I tried them on the general adult feed RC carries, they both got awful, messy, smelly diarrhea that they never got with the other RC types I tried. I know folks that do like Blue Buffalo, but it is notorious among the breeders in my state for causing diarrhea so bad they’ve lost kittens to it; so if you try some of the ‘natural’ brand foods or a raw food diet like Jennifer does, they can work really great, you just have to be really careful about the ingredients (cats are true obligate carnivores, not omnivores like us or dogs so you do not want a food with excess grains and vegetables) and nutrition to make sure they get the right proteins and of course, tuarin supplements.
6. If you feed seperately and at set meal times (vs. leaving food out all day for all 3) as Jennifer recommends, you can reserve the spendier or sensitive food for just her too if you need to and that should also allow you to start timing how long it takes after eating to an ‘accident’ (and if it really smells like food, maybe verify it really is diarrhea vs. vomit?); also normally a mix of wet and dry is really good for cats since they are so prone to kidney and bladder infections from dehydration.
The sudden increase in drinking and the increasingly bad bathroom issues really point more towards a medical issue like a kidney or bladder infection or even a nutrition imbalance than behavioral (heart issues can cause it too, but that is an awful awful thing if it is so I certainly pray it isn’t her heart), but making some of the behavioral changes will help all your cats (and will encourage her to proper litter box behavior after the medical issues is treated if it turns out that way – too long not using a box can create a behavioral issue even if it starts out medical, especially if the cat was not a stellar box user to begin with) and it is amazing how bad the wrong food can hurt a cat that is sensitive to it…have you tried maybe locking her in a room by herself for a few days to a week with her own dedicated food, water, and litterbox, and playing with her just one on one without the other cats? If you could try something like that and she still isn’t using the box, then it seems more likely its medical than behavioral, and that setup would allow you to test her on different foods without worries about the other cats (your vet should easily be able to provide you with samples of food too that they can give you to try her on so don’t be afraid to ask!)…
