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Dan, you're great.
Does the review actually exist anymore, or did he delete that too? lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tieri
No, the review is here on mernetwork!
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Originally Posted by Merman Dan
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Dan, you are wonderful. :)
Ugh, we have a Wasp in my work room and a bunch more outside the door... and my husband doesn't get off work until 5 today >_< looks like I'm not getting any sculpting done today.
Would it be possible to change the design on one of your costumes so that it isn't your signature look anymore? like changing some of the feather colors or adding a different fabric or painting on the corset or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Freyja
That's a possibility :) Thanks WaterDragon! Not sure why I didn't think of that before. Chalk it up to a stressful day at work; it does nothing good for the right half of my brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterDragon
There are some things I'd want to add and fix on it anyway before listing it.
I've made the occasional burlesque costume for other performers, and that was different. I was designing for someone else, so I would just keep that in mind when I make changes to this one; it's a new design ;)
The review was posted here on MN, and it's actually horrifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Freyja
When you're a "professional" tailmaker and have to resort to getting your mom to reply to a customer's concerns to defend your mess of a product, you dun fucked up, son.
Dan, why do I get the feeling that no one is ever bored at your house?Quote:
Originally Posted by Merman Dan
Its all about tricking your brain into thinking its a new outfit ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Freyja
I love youQuote:
Originally Posted by Tieri
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I'm starting to realize a lot of the good we've seen from him actually wasn't him but was his ex boyfriend. The lobster tail, extravagant paint jobs ( like christomer) unique sculpts...
I thought as much.Quote:
Originally Posted by AniaR
I seem to remember MVD praising Matt's sculpting abilities and reaching out to do a collaboration with him. He talked about it on the FlipTails website awhile back.
matt was the coolest when it came to sculpting and painting
Did he credit him at all? Like if my boyfriend was super good at something I'd be all like "yesh. Dis is my boyfriend. He's amazingful at (whatever the thing is)" I'm not saying that my boyfriend isn't super good at stuff... Cuz he is, but y'all know what I mean.
Agreed. I noticed that right after they broke up. His posts were more...historic...than current work.Quote:
Originally Posted by AniaR
Matt is a talented sculptor.
Wow that is quite a review! You know he sure has been posting positive sounding things on facebook but it sounds like it is just a façade to lure people in thinking that he will be pleasant to deal with and will work more closely with you to create your dream.
You know something valuable that an artist, or really any person should learn, is how to take critique. Eric isn't the best at making tails, and neither are all the other tail makers. Art is a continuous process of creating something good and then using that experience to create something better and then it keeps going. You should never really feel like you have arrived and you are the best and then give up and not wish to improve. If I were Eric I would take these bad reviews and instead of denying the cruddy work I would work to improve on the things people are complaining about.
Of course I have never met Eric nor do I really know him and I have not bought from him. I don't hate him but I think he needs to sit down and re-evaluate what his goal for his business is and what the basis is for his customer service. On his facebook he likes putting motivational images up so maybe he needs a motivational poster up in his studio that enthusiastically states his *NEW* customer service guidelines. Even if he has a bunch of people working for him to do paint jobs and sculpting, etc he can do like what they do on the show Face Off for the finalists where each finalist is in charge of some of the others who lost that season and they oversee their work and give them help and tips when needed or even take over a bit if the person they are watching is having trouble. So even if he has others doing some things, that still isn't an excuse for bad work.
Okay I will get off of my soap box. My complaint is that our cute dog keeps trying to kill my new bird - which happens to be the chick of an endangered bird species! I wish our dog was good around birds but she isn't. :( Don't worry I keep the bird somewhere safe, but it cries for me soo much that I have to take it out and that is when the dog tries to squeeze in and grab the bird. She is pushing up against me as I type and the bird is hiding in my hair.
Ahh crud the dog almost killed my bird!! What the heck that is it I am about to research how to train a dog not to hurt a pet bird because this is obviously a big issue. I thought I was about to see my cute little peachick be killed in front of my eyes but luckily I was able to quickly grab it before the dog got a good hold on it. The bird flew down from my lap and the dog was eagerly waiting for something like that to happen so she quickly made a grab for the peachick and it cried out and I was so worried it got hurt. I don't think it was hurt at all but I think the dog did get a bit of fluffy chick feathers in her mouth. I love our dog but now it is really hard to love her when she wants to kill a bird that I have been waiting years to get.:cry:
I don't mean to sound rude but I work with animals and the only solution that I can offer right now is not letting the two be in the same room together. If your dog really wants to kill that bird then you can't keep them together. It's just not going to work out well.
Yep you are right. I just felt bad because the dog was getting jealous of all the attention I was giving the bird so I was trying to give them both attention. Then I was confused because I had two very opposite opinions from my parents. My Mom was saying the dog would be fine around the bird and my Dad was saying to hit the dog with a newspaper anytime she got near the bird. I don't know why I was being so stupid letting the dog be around the bird. I guess I was trying to compare our dog with other bird owner's livestock guardian dogs that look after their birds instead of eat them. Our dog is not a livestock guardian dog so there is no reason why she would be nice to a bird so that was bad reasoning.
Luckily once this bird is a little bigger it will go in the outside peachick pen and I will have less issues. I think I made the mistake of thinking of our dog as a sweet, cute little dog who wouldn't dare hurt a cute little birdie but obviously I was very blind. Safety precautions will definitely be upped here and either the bird and I will go outside when I take it out or the dog will be closed in the other half of the house while I take out the bird. Then once the peachick is a fully grown peacock she will be terrified of it.
So I just got my first "actual" job two-three weeks ago. I have to lift and change out full soup .....pot/vat/terrines and make sure they're always full, to do this you have to curl your fingers under the rim of the metal terrine and lift it out, take it to a small back room, lift another full terrine out of a steam table, pour it over a certain fill line then go replace it on the hot bar. Its been really taxing on me, part of the job involved wearing some gloves and reaching into literally boiling vats of water to pull out bags of soup and the gloves had a tear in them the first week of me being there and noone told me, so the first time I tried to use them I burned myself pretty badly. My hands started to be stiff when I woke up and I was sore constantly.
I wouldve been able to make myself continue enduring this, because whenever I complained about something I was just told to 'suck it up' or 'ha ha this is how the working world is' by whoever I happened to say anything to. Last week, after working mon-fri I woke up Saturday unable to move my right hand. What I mean to say is, I can curl my hand into a fist after sometime in the morning especially but my right index finger physically cannot move past ...a small curl. It was swollen, there was a pronounced bump on the side of my knuckle and goes between being oddly numb and painful if I try to manipulate it. When I went back to work on Monday I was dreading my shift - I thought surely noone would believe me or theyd tell me to "take it easy" and make me work anyhow. Lucky for me they just called some line which resulted in being sent home so I could go to an urgent care facility.
I was given some pills for pain and told to take them along with aspirin, and scheduled for two weeks of physical therapy three times a week. My mothers been sarcastic and aggro over the entire thing even though Ive tried to just find the humor in it "24, first job, two weeks in.... already on workmans comp. Doin' good" When my mom called my dad and told him what happened I could hear him making mocking statements and laughing. When we got home and she made me show him the papers he scoffed and dropped them on the table in disgust saying " I cant BELIEVE you filed for workmans comp" and walked away. Well gee sorry, but I dont have full dexterity of my hand ._____. Its not like Im frigging making this up. I dont know, its just been really frustrating to deal with. Like Im the one thats in pain and cant move my right hand properly.... why the hell are you all so angry over it?
... a hand injury does not sound normal... um...
What swam up his cloaca and died? You were injured on the job, your boss told you to file workman's comp, you filed workman's comp. Done. How is this his problem, anyway? You did exactly what you were told to do. Workman's comp can be a pain because you have to go to specific doctors and blah blah blah, but your company is footing the bill. Don't let him get you down, just get the treatment you need to recover and resume working. ^_^
I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not to keep my shop on storenvy or move it to etsy. I like the customized store front that storenvy adds, and that it adds personality to my shop and I also like how listing items are free and I have options for preorders or coming soon. But the one thing storenvy doesn't have is the search features like etsy does. If my shop was on etsy, I would be able to get traffic from searches on etsy and google for items similar to mine and hopefully sell something. What do some of you mers think? should I move to etsy for a bit and see how it works out for me? (here's my shop btw to see what I mean by customized store front)
If I do switch over, I can close my storefront on storenvy and redirect to the etsy one but I'm just worried because I've already posted pictures promoting the products with links to the product on storenvy that are making the rounds on tumblr.
why not have both?
edit: also your site is very cute!!
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaGlass Siren
I can't have both because a lot of my items are one of a kind, so If I have the listing up on both sites and it sells on one and I don't get to the other site in time to take it off and it also sells there, I'll be in a bit of a pickle haha.
the banner i think you can customize so that it's cute. i say try out the etsy. if it doesnt work for you, go back to the website.
@MermaidMomo
I love your art on Instagram. Do you take drawing commissions? :)
If you get your own web site you can redirect from it to Etsy and/or Storenvy so you don't have to worry about posting to tumbler and losing views (just link to your site).
I would Keep your Storenvy and get a Etsy, it can take a while to get traffic on Etsy even with the built in search.
your Items are very cute by the way. I personally am more of a punk Lolita then a sweet but that lavender skirt is beautiful.
Thanks! I do, the info is right here :) http://miss-momo-tan.tumblr.com/post...ill-be-3-slotsQuote:
Originally Posted by Merman Arion
Woops, Looks like I missed this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Momo
is it possible for you to make enough product to separate it onto two sites? you could always put smaller items and art stuff on Etsy to start off with.
Thanks! I'm going to be adding more stuff eventually (first up is a country lolita dress) I was going to make some punk and gothic lolita things but figured since it's warmer, a lot of lolis will be looking for more light things. I will be switching over to etsy to give it a try out once my shipping scale arrives :)Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterDragon
I did think about this too, since I thought about separating lolita and petplay/ lingerie things (like the collars) because I know lolitas are very iffy about lolita being equated to fetish stuff. But I thought managing two different shops would be a hassel, especially with school and such.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterDragon
I don't think managing two shops would be that much harder if they are on different sites but then again I haven't gotten around to opening a 2nd shop anywhere so I don't now for sure >.>Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Momo
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OH MY GOD if I see ONE MORE THING about bindi Irwin I'm going to scream.
I'm hot
I'm a jr zoologist
I'm only a year younger than her
I DONT sign shit with seaworld
my dad is lame but my mom is cool???? (sorry that's what I'm lacking)
literally we are the same person but im cool as hell and she's… Australian????
Hey, what's wrong with being Australian? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by mermaidofthelabyrinth
Bill c-24 just passed. I AM PISSED OFF. LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
So let me get this straight, anyone who has dual citizenship can get kicked out of canada, same with people who WERE born in canada.
OK SO WHAT THE FUCK ABOUT ME AND EVERY OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOUR WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CANADA WHO DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER NATIONALITY? We basically make up 80% of the population. What about the immigrants who YOOUUU brought in? You're just gonna KICK them out?
Bullshit. What happened to true north, strong and free? FREEDOM MY ASS. This so called "bill" is racist. Plain and simple.
Canada is repeating some wacky mentalities only meant to be in the history books... What's next "Government"? Take away people's rights to their property or jobs, education... or lives? If this is what Canada is becoming, maybe I want to get exiled somewhere else. You know who the real terrorists are, the ones we really should be worried about? The people who thought up this bill, and those who voted it in against the people of Canada - a once great country that is now being ruled by unconstitutional mind-frames intending to inspire fear in us, for our support of their insane ideals... huh. Well, sounds like a propaganda machine, making its way into our lives, taking away the freedom of Canadians; taking away Canadian's rights.
Article is down below if you want to read it. I'm FUMING.
https://bccla.org/2015/06/its-offici...s-into-effect/
Holy shit, that's messed up. What the hell was going through these peoples' minds? That's just fucking racism