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It's almost Christmas and the weather is getting colder outside. With all the decorating going on, Dreamfinder wanted to put on his Christmas outfit and have his picture taken.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/My%20Woodbabies/100_6572.jpg
Of course, he loved his Christmas picture so much, he insisted that I make it my icon. :)

Here is one of the sketches of Confucius I gave to Bob:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/101_0650.jpg

As ideas came to me I started to jot them down on the side. I have another sketch that has a more finalized version of Confucius, but unfortunately I don't have it on my computer yet. I do however, have a picture of Bob working on his head with the picture on the desk:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/My%20Woodbabies/ConfuciusbeingmadebyBob.jpg

The little hatchling cat I got for my sister arrived safely. I couldn't wait till Christmas to give it to her, especially after seeing how she was longingly eye-balling my boys. So I wrapped it up real fast and gave it to her yesterday. She's been walking around the house with it ever since. The kitty looks lovely. I'll take some pictures later. She's named her Bliss. Having seen one in person now, I really want one of the hatchling creatures myself. I'll probably wait until I can afford the custom fox-dragon I've been planning though.

Here are the promised pictures of my new woodbabies. Sorry it took me so long but time and the weather haven't been cooperating with me. Neither woodbaby has told me their name yet, but then again I haven't really had time to ask them.

Here's my wonderful crystal Frightmare. The claws on his wings are done in gold and I love that he has a little dark blue patch at the end of his tail:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/101E0205.jpg

The Sabertooth looks so much more awesome in person than he did in the picture. I had no idea that his tail was free of the cable or that he had a scar over his left eye. I think that I might add a wire to his tail and some whiskers to him in the future:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/101_0156.jpg

This is a close-up of the Sabertooth's scarred eye. The eye has pearly white paint ringing the outside edge of the eye so it looks like the eye itself is damaged:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/dream_finder/101E0195.jpg

I found this on the official Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF) site. It has dates of adult BOGO tickets for the Florida city you live in. Looks like I'll be going the weekend of Feb. 13 & 14 to take advantage of it:

2010 Bay Area Renaissance Festival
Presents:
Celebration of Cities

The Bay Area Renaissance Festival has chosen to celebrate your city by giving a festival discount to your residents!

During this celebration we would like to invite the Mayor to come with their staff from the city’s offices and celebrate with us by being honorary Mayor of Fittlesworth for a day. You would enjoy a joust upon the Royal Dias, sit next to the King and Queen during the live action combat chess game and accompany Her Majesty to tea. We have also made arrangements with a local costume company to outfit the Honorary Mayor for the occasion.

On the weekend’s celebration the residents will receive discounts of buy one adult ticket get one free, and children under the age of 12 will have free admission by showing identification of residency. Adult tickets are $17.95 and children’s tickets are $9.95.

To show our appreciation for the hardworking Police and Fire departments of your city, we will also be giving them the same discounts when they show their badge or ID’s at the Box Office on the designated weekend. We have selected two cities for each weekend the festival is open.

Listed below are the dates and cities:

February 13 & 14 – Largo and Sarasota

February 20 & 21 – Gainesville and Lake Wales

February 27 & 28 - Orlando and Ocala

March 6 & 7 – Venice and New Port Richey

March 13 & 14 – St Augustine and Zephyrhills

March 20 & 21 – Fort Meyers and Winter Haven

March 27 & 28 – Bonita Springs and Homosassa Springs

Thank you and please contact us with any ideas you may have. We look forward to honoring your city!


EDIT: I found some more freebies!

Food Drive: Receive a Buy One Get One FREE Admission with a donation of 4 cans of food
Valid February 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 or 28, 2010
Food must be donated on site at the Renaissance Festival. . .

Blood Drive: Receive FREE Admission when you donate blood at the Renaissance Festival
Valid February 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 or 28, 2010
Check with your local blood bank for other discount offers. . .

Military Discount: Get Buy One Get One FREE Admission with your ID!
Valid February 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 or 28, 2010 at the box office.

FREE Vow Renewals: Valid February 13, 14, 27 & 28, 2010

Irish Weekend: Wear Green and receive $3 off Admission!!
Valid March 13 & 14, 2010 at the box office.

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Sorry i have not been on here in recent weeks but life has been kicking me hard. The next show the team will be at will be the Hoggtowne fair in Gainesville FL then after that will be Bay fair in Tampa FL. we are planning on staying local a bit next year and will also be going to as many conventions as we can such as Megacon and maybe Metrocon.

As on my Charms side i have some wicked stuff on the table im working out. I do have some necklaces that will be showing up at hoggtowne as well as some hats that some of you saw me working on during Bay fair of this year. Come Bay fair i will have a new product that will make the babies look awesome and i cant wait to bring it out. i might post a teaser photo soon. i just dont want anyone taking the idea i have away from me so soon since i feel my job has been tested a little bit.

I have gone out there to get amazing pieces for my artwork to where im charging less then what i spent on one pendant so the woodbabies can show off the bling. with the items i will be putting out will range from $5-$10 depending what the item is and what had to go into it. all my necklaces are $5 but for a few that are a little more high class. the other stuff i have coming is still being worked out. Also keep an eye one the web site. Master Bob should be putting some of my stuff up so you can get it through him. keep in mind i rarely make the same thing twice so its all pretty much one of a kind.

thats it for now
Charms Mistress

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I ran across this older Jhari with foam wings on ebay. It has maroon and tan fur with a black body and red eyes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/FAIRY-WINGED-CAT-SHOULDER-PUPPET-UNIQUE-LARP-FAIRE-SCA_W0QQitemZ300376796997QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45efda2f45

On another note my frightmare and sabertooth came home today. :) Yay! I'll try and get pictures of them tomorrow but it may be awhile till I can to post them as the weekends are going to be very busy for me now until Christmas.

c: So we're all settled in now, and my baby's pretty much taken control of my room. It was quite funny as soon as I opened the box I got an exact sound of what his name should be. We started at Turin, and after much fishing around have finally come to a conclusion.

( Pictures behind the cut~ )

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I was reading through Mercutia (Read it here: http://alscye.deviantart.com/art/Mercutia-part-1-82453273) for the first time in a long time and I doodled up some concept art of what the Babies might look like in that world.

I thought you all might like to see them :3

Unicorn:
http://gozen-eika.deviantart.com/art/Class-Doodles-6-145697932

Dragon:
http://gozen-eika.deviantart.com/art/Class-Doodles-7-146084134

Gryphon:
http://gozen-eika.deviantart.com/art/Class-Doodles-8-146084493

Revontulet Bust and Cat Head:
http://gozen-eika.deviantart.com/art/Class-Doodles-9-146084893

I'll do some 'official' art in a bit with all the limbs actually attached XD and fancy things like ink and color. But these will do for now. I hope you enjoyed them! :3

Since my baby wasn't really a custom job, it didn't take them long to put him together.

He came in the mail today. <3 I have to go to work, like, right now though, so I'll take some pictures later! He's happily found a home on top of the TV until I get back~

Yay :DDDD

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