I want to make a poseable figure! Is that too much to ask? To be able to make any type of figure I want poseable? Just having them jointed isn't enough anymore! They have to be able to hold a position. I'm trying out wire right now. Wire and clay. It's getting on my nerves. The clay always gets finger-printy before I stick it in the oven. I think I'm just too used to using basswood. With basswood, they only way you'll make an impression is if you gouge it with a knife. But then it tak
There was this one person on ebay who I bought something from... or at least tried to. It turned out that he didn't have the item that I purchased... that he'd put it up by mistake. I mean, he gave me a full refund, and I guess I believe that it was an honest mistake, but I'm still upset that I didn't get to have the item I wanted.
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Oh the wonderful things I put in my blog during my limited time of blogging privilages!
I GOT A PAIR OF CARGO PANTS YESTERDAY!!! They're REALLY nice!
Why is this something I want to blog about? Because I've been wanting cargo pants for FOREVER but could never find a pair that fit me that cost a reasonable ammount.
I absolutely love pockets in things. It's practically an obsession. I bought a hat one time just because it had a pocket in it. So I guess it's no wonder why I've wanted cargo pants so badly.
I'm telling you, though. I'm totally hooked. I'm now on a cargo-
My how time flies! (Thanks for the tip, Toa Achilles! I probably would have missed this anniversary if you hadn't said anything)
So I now have blogging privilages... what to talk about...?
I've just finished watching the last of the Gargoyle episodes... you know the Gargoyles show, right? It's from Disney, and it's about a bunch of creatures that turn to stone during the day but come alive at night and fight crime, but everyone's scared of them because they look strange? I think they
We went to blockbuster today and got, among other movies, Howl's Moving Castle. It is one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen.
Howl, during the short duration of his blonde period in the movie, reminded me strongly of Setzer in Kingdom Hearts II, with his too-big multicolored coat slung nonchalantly over his shoulders.
Who has read the book Capt. Hook, by J. V. Hart? It's interesting. And very weird. It details the life of Captain Hook before he became Captain Hook. It's kind of weird, because, on the one hand, he's the villian. On the other hook, while you're reading the book Capt. Hook, you kind of see a fair(ish) side to him. Compaired to most of the other characters in the book, he's the hero.
When the story ended, I got the impression that Hart intends to make a sequel to it, for there is a serious
My family and I are moving. We have bought a house and sold the one we are in now and will move into the new one sometime next month. Bon voyage house-which-I-have-spent-the-majority-of-my-life-living-in! Hello, new home! See you, my upstairs-room-which-is-always-hot-and-stuffy-and-only-has-a-window-and-celling-fan-to-keep-it-cool-in-the-summer! Hello new room with Central Air!
My room is my studio, you know. All of the pendants, carvings, and other things you have seen posted on these
I recently got a watch. Yes, that is enough to make some news. I have never, until recently, been a watch person. All the watches I had were worn maybe twice and then the watch would get stuffed into a dresser drawer and forgotten about until it died.
I am very picky about my watches. I like digital watches. I don't really like huge watches (at least for me) even though the bigger the watch, the more special features are probably on it. Simple and elegant. That's what I like.
My watch
THE SMALLEST BOOKS (OF THEIR KIND) IN THE WORLD!
I know. They aren't painted super well. But I never was very good at painting pictures, small or otherwise.
~GM~
I am carving books. Tiny books. Coin size replicas of some of my favorite fantasy novels I have ever read (I prefer fantasy). So far, I have made a miniature of Peter and the Starcatchers Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo and Eragon. I am also in the process of making Raising Dragons, the first book in the Dragons in our Midst series by Bryan Davis, and possibly a few others as well. Hopefully I will be able to put the pictures up in my blog in time. If not, you'll just have to wait unti
You are never going to persuade me to do it. Not in a thousand years! Not in a million years! Not in a billion years! Not in a googleplex! I am simply not going to do it and that is final.
I just saw a Neverland book at Walmart! I bought it! It's really good so far. I like Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's way of writing. They're funny and serious all at once.
The last Neverland book focused on the rescue of a mermaid from a carnival. This one focuses on a forbidden cave the Lost Boys explore in the hope of finding a treasure (to impress Peter). In both books, the Lost Boys are helped by the natives of Never Land (mainly the chief's daugters).
WalMart no longer carries the kind of wood I use for carving. All the wood they carry now is little flat wooden slabs and wooden dowels of various widths. I have to go to a certain craft store in the next city over from mine to get my wood. Most annoying.
Isn't it weird? I've found that a lot of the stuff I buy often, a store stops stocking. You'd think that the more a certain product was selling, the more they'd want to keep it in stock.
Dragons in Our Midst, by Bryan Davis, is an awesome series. The story centers mainly around a boy named Billy Bannister and a girl named Bonnie Silver. They are the son and daughter of dragons turned human. Billy has the ability to breath fire, and Bonnie has a magnificent pair of dragon wings she hides inside a large backpack. Together, along with their friends and family, Billy and Bonnie embark on several quests to fulfill thier rolls in several prophesies given by the prophet Merlin of o
