Oh nooo it's so cute!! And I am smitten with the green/bronze kelp top @3@
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Oh nooo it's so cute!! And I am smitten with the green/bronze kelp top @3@
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Woof. I have spent the last week or so moving into my new place, in the middle of a !$@#$%^&&^%$#@!#$%^&%$#@$% heat wave. In case you don't know, I live in Seattle and grew up in this area and do NOT handle the heat well (probably even worse than your average Seattleite) and we're having record-smashing temperatures here. When it gets this hot in Seattle, everyone pretty much just...dies. So, this is my ghost writing here :P
Anyway, considering how miserable and useless I get in the heat, moving and unpacking and organizing and all that shite has taken me way longer than it should, but I have my workshop room mostly set up now, and I managed to finish painting these guys to send out:
Anyway, so yeah...working on stuff, just...being kinda slow because bleahhhh. Also, it's been getting so hot in my workshop room the silicone I was using to paint the nudies was curing way too fast, it actually seized up before I could finish the second orange-spotted one I was working on. *grumble* So I've been taping foil over all the windows and I had to go out and buy an a/c unit yesterday, which I've never had to do before. I'm pretty sure it was the last one in any of the stores in Seattle. Target and the hardware stores were all sold out, and I found mine at QFC of all places. I think the only reason they still had one in stock was because no one thinks to shop at a grocery store for an a/c unit.
So, erm, yeah. Oh, and the other thing I wanted to mention is that I will still hopefully list kelp tops on my Etsy soon, I just need to figure out what bras I can get easily that come in a wide variety of sizes and aren't too expensive but that are still good quality. I want to be able to offer them in any size, but I need to at least take into account the larger or more unusual bra sizes that might cost significantly more, and figure out how to charge for that difference.
Here's a quick pic of two new sharkies I made for my husband's co-worker. They're for her two young nephews and she asked if I could do blue on one and orange on the other (those are their favorite colors). I had a few moments of BUT BAMBOO SHARKS ARE NOT BLUE AND ORANGE until I realized that nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum)....come in blue and orange. And red and purple and yellow :P I used to work at an aquarium where we had 10 of them. And they're the same basic body shape as bamboo sharks, barbels and all. So I painted them to look like baby nurse sharks (the babies have spots!) and just made the colors a little more intense (especially on the blue one) but stayed pretty true to life other than that. Fun times.
That orange nurse is so beautiful! I want to huggles it forever!
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Here's their undersides:
They're so cute without being like cutesy
Originally Posted by Merenneito Nerissa
Ohmygodh that blue one, it's just the sweetest thing ever, want to kiss it like crazyyy lil sharky-sharkie<3 <3 <3 ( you make me go lil bit lunatic with these things... XD )
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Beware, she might crash in your house in the middle of the night and snatch all these pretty little pets from you LOL
Omg these are adorable!ever thought of making sea horses? ❤️
Bahaha! Thanks you guys, it makes me so happy to hear all your nice comments!
Merenneito Nerissa, I tried to message you back yesterday but your inbox was full!
Ariel Starfish, yes I have! Everyone has been requesting seahorses! I'll definitely make one at some point, but I have to finish the cuttlefish first, and I also need to get some work done on my own tailmaking project, which I haven't had much time to work on lately. But I will definitely have some new animal molds hopefully in the near future!
CUTTLEFISH <3 omg this is exciting
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Those sharks are so freakin cool! I am excited to see the seahorses and cuttlefish.
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Morning, lovely merfolk! Got a quick question for you guys (while I work on a lil sharky-sharkie for a certain someone...)
I have these four stingrays that I made a while back, just kind of sitting around. The two bluespotted ones are some of the first ones I made last year, and they're imperfect so I haven't sold them or anything, just kept them around. I kind of messed up their tails when I tried pouring some silicone that had already gotten a little too thick (I had tried to use a silicone thinner so I could paint with it, but I didn't like how it worked and I didn't want to waste the blue silicone I'd mixed so I quickly poured it into the tails of the stingray molds, but it had already gotten kinda gloppy). As a result, their tails look a bit lumpy, and the silicone is a lot softer and stretchier than the normal silicone, even though it's fully cured. Also, I made the clear coat on the body parts a little too thick and it's noticeable if you look closely. If anyone is interested, though, I was thinking I might sell them for half price ($10 instead of $20). As long as you don't care that their tails are a bit weird, you could have a cheap stingray that's ready to ship right away. If anyone is interested I can put up an Etsy listing.
The two greenish-gold ones aren't defective in any way, they're just a weird color. I made them when I was casting my first kelp piece and accidentally mixed up way too much silicone. Didn't want to waste it so I just poured it into the stingray molds. So they're a greenish-gold base color with a bit of a golden wash over them, and eye details. I was thinking of selling these guys for $15 since they're not defective, they just have a boring paint job. Again, let me know if you're interested and I'll put up a listing for them.
Weird...for some reason I haven't been getting a lot of notifications from MN :-/ It normally goes to my email but now I'm only seeing replies if I actually scroll through the forums...apologies to anyone if I haven't responded quickly to messages or anything. *grumble*
Merenneito Nerissa your inbox is full again! Also, fyi for you and everyone else, I should be able to accept Paypal on my Etsy shop now, if that's more useful to anyone (let me know if for any reason it doesn't work).
:: dies of cute :: (*^*) I love all of them...OMG I want a horsehoe crab named
Herman, and a baby octopus named Oliver, and a Skate names Delores, and...I need more money.
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Definitely subscribed!!! These are just too perfect!!
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