So when last we left our intrepid adventurers they were on the highest mountain of the world, and Merle had just become queen of the good dragons, of which we have about 1,000, in Gold, Silver and Bronze… plus Masarrah the Copper, and about 4,000 Eladrin that sprouted out of a seed given to us by the elves…
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With some of my Christmas money, I made some orders for Pukifee clothing for Kenzie, and most of them are in now, so I thought I’d give props where they are due. As per ususal click over to my Flickr via the images above, for the greatest detail in reviewing.
First up is Etsy Crafter Latiyellow who clearly specializes in one size of doll, although she does appear to have some Littlefee/YoSD sized clothing and a suprising amount of PukiPuki clothes. From her I ordered a lovely little Yukata Kimono for Kenzie. I missed out on an earlier one that I absoloutly loved, but her works are pretty much one of a kind, so if she’s got one in you like, jump on it ASAP!!! The construction is great, the fit is great and she tossed in a little fleecy sleeveless dress that is also a wonderful construction and fit, and unlike many free gifts, is really appropriate to Kenzie’s character.
I picked up another two pair of jeans from DollB, whom I’ve reviewed before. They did not disappoint. I’m really pleased with them.
There was a disappointing shoe purchase from color4 in that the shoelaces were fused shut, making it impossible to get the shoes on my Pukifee without ruining the laces. I’ll need to replace the laces, but the shoes themselves are a good fit (without socks) and design.
Lastly we have a trio of adorable outfits from Naiko, on Etsy. All are well sewn, and fit well. They have adorable little unobtrusive tags sewn into them, and the pieces are all separate, allowing for great mix and match. Naiko makes some really cute socks with little bows on them too, which are just darling.
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When last we left our Cadre of Heretics they had just escaped from the Orc city of Ur Garok where Grimm and Silas had been held captive for a quite long time in the Arena, where Alexander died… and we forgot to loot him, and where we picked up Eden Raid, an Elf with an attitude problem.
So we escaped via a sewer… ran down the banks of the river of crap pouring out the sewer grate we Air Walked out of, and camped as far from the city as possible… and now… GAME ON!!!
So I mentioned when I started reviewing Etsy purchases, that I was going to go back and give proper credit to some of my favorite old purchases… most of them I’ve sorted into some categories, and are awaiting a few more purchases that fit those categories before the reviews will be written, but today we’re going to go thru some of the outlayers… little indulgences I didn’t get because of gaming, or a certain geek motif I was looking to fill or any such thing…. things which are just plain awesome.
So first up is a Christmas gift I got, which is apparently from the same crafter as a gift I GAVE someone else! We’ve got Fused Elegance, run by the same crafter as Lin’s Geekery, and also selling Fused Glass creations like the awesome Metriod pendant I gave to my friend, only… not geeky. I have to say this wing isn’t even done justice by the photos. I strung it on my favorite chain, around my neck at the moment, though it’s still going to have to share that chain with several other pendants that I happen to own.
I’ll stop for a moment to pimp the Amazon Universal Wishlist function… that’s how I got this glorious little slice of butterfly love. You can in fact put items on your Amazon Wishlist from Etsy.
The next Etsy purchase I’d like to highlight is my dragonhide gauntlets from Crystalsidyll. I actually have two pair of these, the ones pictured are my “House Gauntlets.” They’re custom in black with blue details and black knit, and they are contrary to appearances extremely COZY. The knit is thick and warm and hugs the hands, and the weight of the scales adds a little extra illusory warmth to them, like a thick cozy blanket… while still leaving the palms thin enough to easily use a keyboard or perform other detailed tasks. I’m wearing mine now!
So I’m spending my Martin Luther King holiday clearing out the MayoWare orders queue, and working on the blog.
I got myself quite a little backlog here due to the lack of packing and shipping materials products on Saturday, and the fact that I said “aw screw it” on Sunday since… no Monday mail. I’ll be packing up and addressing everything that’s waiting, to go tomorrow morning when mail service resumes, and hopefully still have time to do some of the improved photography I want to do on some of the older designs before making any newer designs to photograph.
I’ve got in these new Industrial Barbells for expanding the product line, but unfortunately it seems that I may have bought them too long. I’ve put up a poll on the Facebook page and I’d really appreciate any input I can get on what the most common Industrial Barbell lengths are because I may need to re-order those before it becomes plausible to expand into industrials. This is what I get for moving into an area where I do not have the requisite piercing, and therefore the existing knowledge of what findings I’ll need. So if you have an industrial, please head over to the Facebook Page and weigh in on the poll.
Blogwise I’ve managed to install a menu at the top that I’m kind of pleased with in lieu of the categories cloud that used to be on the bottom by the tags cloud. I’ve also embedded the Litterbox ICG font, which gives me more latitude with my stylistic choices, but I haven’t managed to figure out how to center the Widget Titles, or get the Tag Cloud to display in Litterbox. It’s getting frustrating so I’ll come back to that later. I’m re-arranging some of the tags into sub-categories instead of tags for a little ease of navigation, particularly as relates to the Liveblogging the Tabletop Games project, because… it’s really a frequent cause of posting.
Also I’ve removed the old plugin I was using for Facebook, Goggle+ and Twitter, because it required me to leave in annoying buttons for Reddit and Digg and StumbleUpon, and replaced it with a much sleeker code, and, just to sweeten the pot, installed some meta-data which should force the Facebook “Like” button to use an image other than the top banner which comes out screwy on Facebook… I won’t know if it worked till I try and like this myself!!!
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