[Espy]

Originally Posted by trystan830

yeah, we were still on the other side of PA until we moved.
and in that case, yeah, wtf are you doing in Seattle? XD {{hugs}}

Lol the actual answer is new job

[trystan830]

Originally Posted by Espy

Lol the actual answer is new job

i mean, yes. :D

[Espy]

So it turns out, I do not like driving in snow.

[trystan830]

i'm not a fan of driving in the snow either. everyone around here forgets how to every year.

[Den]

working on dolls, what else is new? lol

[Alpha]

*peaks in*
Well, glad to see at least some people still showing up on this site even after so many years away

[KittyBeary]

It doesn't snow where I live, but man has it been warm. I miss the cold. :(

Haven't been making anything lately, but gonna order headbands for Minnie ears so I can finally make some lol.

[Den]

I'm working on my dolls between writing sprints for Game of Tomes' April Tourney of Tales. I do one 15 minute sprint an hour, then rest my wrists and stretch, then I work on the dolls. I've been able to get over 600 words written every hour this way.

[Kaderin Triste]

*flops in*

Haven't been working on projects very much, though I have been working on buying more jumprings from pretty much every brand possible for color comparisons and getting increasingly frustrated that the darkest red is only slighly darker than a standard primary red color. But I also don't know how difficult it is to consistently produce certain colors when anodizing aluminum that's possibly also a factor.

*minor rant*
My biggest frustration so far is that one brand, which advertises a proper dark red...well...it isn't. It's basically identical to their other red even though in their product photos it looks vastly different.
Seriously, I had to add a small colored ring to one of them just so I could keep the swatches straight for which color is which. And maybe I got a bad batch or something, but I swear they're the exact same color and it's just wrong that they look so different online if they're not actually different.
I think I have maybe 3 different shades of red while I think I have 5+ shades of all the other colors. Is red really that hard to make different shades of? (And yeah, I know that it probably is, but how come we can get very dark purples, blues, and greens, but not dark red?)
*rant over*

ANYWAY...I'm down to just filling in the silver parts on my charmander inlay now and maybe adding a row to one of the border sides and have gotten color swatches made of my jumprings so far for color matching for future projects. And have a dragon pattern for a little wearable dragon that I want to make soon as well. And have the next small inlay project ready to go.
Also, I should look into buying some graph paper to sort of re-make the pattern for the bigger inlay I want to attempt so I can get the colors down better because I'm for sure going to have to get rid of a lot of the lighting and shading from the original pattern and kind of go with flat color as much as possible.
Basically, I have a ton of chainmail projects I want to work on and not enough time, lol.

[Den]

The color thing sounds super annoying. I'm sorry the company is misleading with its listings.

[Kaderin Triste]

Yeah, it's definitely frustrating but I mean, realistically I don't know what all goes into anodizing aluminum. I imagine, much like other dye/tinting related things, some colors are probably much more difficult to consistently produce.

Might buy another of each of the supposedly different reds just to see if it was a batch issue.
I should lay out my swatches this weekend and get my current color list figured out as well, though it may change as I fill out the rest of the colors I still need to buy.