| Selling Large Dragon |
[05 May 2012|07:30pm] |
I know this isn't very active anymore and we're all on Facebook now, I just wanted to try selling here first.
I have a large dragon who I took a lot of interest in, but we never really connected. She is very lovely and I wanted to make a lot of changes to her, but she's really pretty the way she is. It just didn't feel right to give her a complete makeover when her fur was so pretty. I decided to get a different dragon in the future and see if anyone would like to give this dragon a new home. We would both really appreciate it. I'm asking $120 for her plus shipping. I already have a box and packing supplies.
Let me know if you're interested!!! I'm moving in 9 days and I would like her to find a new home before then!
SOLD! Will remove post once buyer has confirmed the package has been received. Thanks for everybody's interest!
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[23 Feb 2012|08:03pm] |
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Hello all! I am new to this so please forgive me if Im doing this wrong :) But I just wanted to introduce myself, My name is Christian and I just adopted my 1st wood baby last Monday and I loved him from the moment I saw him ;) I had wanted one for a long time but didnt have te money and I hadnt gone to the Ren Fest. for a long time, But Im so glad I have one now! and I absolutly adore him! :D I do want to adopt more eventually so he has company and because they bring me so much joy :)
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| Hello All! :) |
[20 Feb 2012|06:03pm] |
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I've been wanting to join this community for a while, and I just created a livejournal account just for that purpose :) I have 3 beautiful woodbaby's of my own and I hope I will have pictures up very soon :) My little one's are Arianna, Jaren, and Illyrian <3 I absolutely adore woodbaby's; I get one every year I go to the faire (Just saw them at the faire about 4 yers ago and didn't go one year). I can't seem to have enough! I really really want a costom one, but that will have to wait a while becaus of my limited funds :( So, in short, I just wanted to introduce myself!
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| A couple of babies for sale! |
[19 Nov 2011|12:11am] |
Hey guys, I just wanted to post this here so you guys have a chance at these two lovelies before I decide to list them on an auction site (which will probably be in a day or so, just wanted you guys to have the first shot!). :D
These two are older models, but have been lovingly looked after and are in great condition. The heads both move just fine and the fur is plush and gorgeous still.
The first one is a Jhari's Cat.
( Big fuzz under here! )
And the second one is a Bosom Buddy Caitshidhe.
( Baby fuzz under here )
I'm willing to entertain (reasonable!) offers! I would love to see these two go to loving homes. :3
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| Range of head motion? |
[09 Oct 2011|04:53am] |
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I got a red hatchling gryphon this weekend, and I'm curious about whether his range of motion is quite right. His head has fantastic, smooth up-and-down motion, but it takes a lot of twisting effort to get any left-right movements. Even twisting the cap 360° only get just a bit of a head turn, and it just wants to turn left, not right. I didn't play with other hatchling gryphons, only other models, but I suspect this isn't the full range of motion I should be expecting?
Thoughts? I'm having trouble getting the sort of birdlike natural movement that I was hoping for due to this limited movement. I'll be back at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in a couple of weeks before it ends, so I figure I could talk to the MSKD folks then, but I thought I'd check with LJ to see what you guys think!
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| New Baby |
[24 Aug 2011|01:49am] |
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Considering getting a new baby for my family. I don't know what to go with though!
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| small bird woodbaby? |
[21 May 2011|12:19pm] |
I'm thinking about getting another baby for my collection! I haven't gotten a new one in about 5 years! I currently have three dragons: Phantom, Spook, and Specter. They're all black/grey/silvery. I want something a little different, but I'm also interested in having something modeled after a real creature. I don't want another shoulder-draper, so I was looking into the ones that sit upright. That's about when I fell in love with the birds! :P I've always loved the look of the phoenixes, but I'm not sure I can afford the $265 pricetag right now! Then I saw that they made a smaller bird... not the handheld size, but a small parrot for around $100. I was wondering if anyone had any pics of that model, since I really wanna know what they look like on your shoulder.
It would be really fun to have a pair of ravens named Huginn and Muninn! (Or at least one of the pair!) But I don't want yet another all-black baby, since I have so much of that going on already. I think if I got a bird it would be a bird of prey: maybe a red-tailed hawk or a ferruginous hawk! Or even a kestrel.
Let me see your birds! I need inspiration. How well do they stay on your shoulder?
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| My first woodbaby |
[19 May 2011|04:30pm] |
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Hey! I've gotten a few drabbits before from the PA Ren faire, then I happened to stumble across woodbabies online. I heard a lot of things about how the woodbabies are much better than drabbits and I also heard some bad things about Albert Alfaro. Anyway, I got very intrested in woodbabies so emailed Bob like 1000 questions and now I finally ordered a baby phoenix! :) I can't wait for my new baby to come and I'm still trying to think of a name. So I just wanted to post this story here for whatever reason :)
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| Woodbaby YouTube Videos |
[27 Apr 2011|11:31am] |
For your viewing pleasure I posted videos of my 7 woodbaby puppets on YouTube. The quality of my videos are slightly fuzzy due to my cell phone camera but does show what I woodbabies that I have in my collection. Which does expand from time to time. My channel is Maureens Merryments .
Link: www.youtube.com/user/faerydustcollector
Give them a look and check you Zorain's page love the videos girl, keep up the good work :-)
http://www.youtube.com/user/XxMidSummerGirlxX
Thanks,
butterfly164
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| I have a new woodbaby youtube chanel |
[19 Apr 2011|09:49pm] |
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For all those woodparents out there with questions about there woodbabies they can come and see my videos on youtube starring my dragons Gallion and Zorain (And coming soon, Andre) These videos are witty and humorous for all ages. Please check out my profile on youtube. Comment, Rate, and Subscribe. My woodbabies and i will adore you for it! And please ask questions and request more videos!!!
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/XxMidSummerGirlxX
THNX!
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| Baby Unicorn for sale |
[18 Apr 2011|06:51pm] |
Hi,
As part of an upcoming move, I am cleaning out some of my things. I would like to rehome this lovely baby unicorn:
I purchased him at Amethyst Cottage originally, and he arrived with a slightly malfunctioning head (does not move up very far). I've called the shop and they said this would be included in the manufacturer's warranty, so you can ship him back to be fixed at any time.
Asking $50.
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| Dragon |
[18 Apr 2011|10:55am] |
The dragon has been sold. Thank you so much! <3
Hello fellow woodbaby owners.
I'm in a bit of a predicament and thought I might make a post here. To make a long story short, I recently purchased an expensive OOAK poseable dragon plush on eBay. Unfortunately, only a few days later, after taking my cat into the vet we found out he has cancer. Because he's only 2 years old, and I also own his brother, I would like to seek treatment for him. However, it's not going to be cheap. So I'm trying to sell the dragon I bought, along with a lot of other things. I'm going to try to hold onto my woodbabies, but because this dragon is brand new, I really feel I can't keep it anymore.
This dragon was going to be displayed along with my woodbabies. The face and feet are made out of clay, and the body is plush with wiring. It takes the sculpter, who goes by the name of WoodSplitterLee on deviantART, 58 hours to make one plush. I purchased it for $112 total, and am hoping to sell it for $95+10 shipping.
You can see the original ebay auction, as well as a lot of pictures, here.
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| Inspiration |
[31 Mar 2011|11:05am] |
Just wanting to know what folks use for inspiration for names. For me its like the woodbaby will tell you what their name is once you first handle them. I use places, gemstones, and latin meanings of words for the names of my woodbaby family. Just curious to see what everyone else is inspired by, to name a new woodbaby friend.
Maureen
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| Thessur's Birthday |
[21 Mar 2011|06:53pm] |
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Hello my friend...long time no talk...hoping you are having a wonderous birthday!!! :)
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| Brand new to LJ and to this group. Thought I'd introduce my friend. |
[12 Mar 2011|04:59am] |
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I found out about Woodbabies via a video I found starring one Samuel Conway AKA Uncle Kage, a storyteller of sorts in the furry fandom, who demonstrated a lovely shoulder-sitting gryphon. This would have been in 1999, on a sort of early web TV program called the Funday Pawpet Show, which normally involves puppets. The motion was realistic, and showed well on camera. He named his gryphon "Real", the intent being that the common question of 'Is it real?' could be answered with "Yes, it's Real!". Kage claimed that it was, he found, easy to accept one of these as a pet or a friend rather than a puppet. I knew what I wanted to buy for Christmas, found the web site, and went over the options. I wanted a dragon, and at first I chose a red body, but red was out of stock so I went with brown; what a wise decision that turned out to be.
My friend had a brown body, black secondary, black fur and wings, and plain blue eyes. His control cable sheath was bright yellow. My shoulders droop and I couldn't keep him on; not thinking of a 'saddle', I attached him to the shoulder of my trenchcoat with a loop of thick wire. I cut a small hole in the back of the coat, passed his cable in and down my sleeve, and I could tuck it up into my sleeve when he was 'sleeping'. Since he was a Christmas gift, he became "December", and I've never doubted that that's his proper name. I had no local, easy-to-get-to Ren Faires near Seattle, and I wasn't much of a Renaissance type anyway, so December went everywhere. In the first few years he saw NorwesCon (a large sci-fi/fantasy con), the San Diego Comic Con, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and countless nightclubs and raves. He was always a huge hit, and I would run out of MKD business cards quickly.
In, oh, 2002 or 2003, December's eyes had slowly turned neon pink from sun exposure. His pen cap fell apart once or twice and I repaired it. Then one of his wings came off (ouch) so I sent him back for the fluff'n'buff. He came back with beautiful new leather wings, and fiber-optic blue eyes, as well as a new pen cap and a new brown cable sheath. This time, I put him on a leather jacket, with the same set-up, except that I wrapped more of his sheath with black fir, then made a free-hanging 'tail', so that his tail seemed to hang further down my back than where the cable entered my coat.
I came to prefer the pen cap, since like Kage I use both hands to operate the control; Kage said, "I'm very nervous, I fidget with my pen. Makes for an easy misdirection". Also like Kage, I wasn't taking him to Faires where fantasy reigns; from the moment I saw him in his dark colors, I decided he'd be passed off as a living creature, and I found some people believed it. I always told them the truth in the end. (As Kage said, "I don't want them to be laughed at when they return home and say, 'I saw a live gryphon today!'") Kids usually figured him out easily but loved him anyway; adults were always the ones I could convince. Like Kage's spiel based on the bird-of-prey lecturers at zoos, I developed a little spiel about his official species and where in the world he was from, which I'd pull out when I thought I had someone potentially convinced. I started putting my full name and his on the back of all the cards I gave out. In 05 or 06, I sent him back for another fluff'n'buff, as he'd developed a case of head-flop. I guess the marked cards helped; he was sent back with a huge pack of cards and a chrome-plated business card holder with a little flip cover, a really sweet gesture. This only holds nine cards, so I keep the rest in my other pocket and refill it as it runs low. This time, I had his teeth painted white.
December's paint began to wear on his horns and front feet, showing white. As well, the white teeth didn't look as good as I had thought, and seemed to detract slightly from the possibly-alive look I was after. So I sent December back for another fluff'n'buff late last year. His eyes and wings have lasted well, and he came with a new pen-cap. As with all the pen cap controls, I glue foam-rubber pencil grips around the cap and around the sheath just below it, giving moth hands more grip. It comes down my left sleeve, usually; my right hand controls up/down and turns, while left hand holds the cap between twists so it doesn't spring back. Whether I give him smooth motion or jerky birdlike motion depends on what sort of crowd I'm in; I find that, for me at least, the former is good for up-close interaction, while the latter works in sparsely-populated places where he needs to be spotted at a distance. I had him fitted with a manetic saddle, but it doesn't hold as well as I'd hoped, again because my shoulders droop steeply - I'll likely put him back on my leather coat again, he seems comfortable there.
Having had him for eleven years, there's one thing I haven't done yet: decorate him. Some friends have Woodbabies they've decorated. I want to put a ring on one of his horns and maybe give him a simple necklace or collar. Either way, I'm a one-Woodbaby parent, and planning to stay that way; while I love seeing and meeting others, none can sway me personally like December. He really does seem to have a personality of a sort, and he'll continue to appear at NorwesCon, furry cons, and vacation spots like Las Vegas. I'll try to have a photo soon, probably once I get him decorated a bit. His home base is the general Seattle area, and local friends Asha and Silver have their own lovely friends. Asha may be here on Woodparents somewhere, probably as 'Asha Art Dragon'.
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