Ghastly

Gaah, sorry for the grainy pic... but have you seen this one yet? Her name is Ghastly. She's bein' a witch for Halloween. I love her haaaaat. XD

Happy Nearly-Halloween! Are any of you guys going trick-or-treating? What are you dressing up as? I'm gonna be a dragon, methinks. Now that I have the wings and everything. *excited squee* Wingses!

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TEEN TITANS! (My starbolts are furry!)
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G'ranna

Figured it was about time for another dragon. :D Good Day, by the way, and happy sixty-degree weather to y'all. This rather horsey-lookin' creature is G'ranna, my seeing dragon, who used to be in my room in a box-frame but is now adorning our fireplace mantel downstairs, along with another family favorite, Willie the Strong Guy. The Sculpey I used to make G'ranna had a bunch of fine glitter mixed in, hence the shiny effect. And the reason she has the bowl of icefire and the funnee ears is because she is a very compassionate dragon and she can influence my dreams on occasion (say, if I'm having a nightmare or something. Very helpful.) Apparently, all listening dragons have big funny ears, but I kinda think they made her look like a horse, oops. Ah well. Isn't she a pretty color?

Made a LONG time ago (right after Char and before Guppy, I think) with sparkly Sculpey and lotsa love. I hadn't yet discovered the wire mesh until recently, so there's no framework in this one.

Commander Kip the oh no, all the double-enter spaces went away again! Gaah, stupid format!
Spare Farid!
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Oh my. Kipin's doggie is making funny noises...

Dragon Nativity

Dooy Gad... I mean, Good Day, or good evening, or lo que sea... too busy to care...

Kipin is off to her biannual choir lock-in tomorrow, which means... packing. And everybody knows how bad Kipin is when it comes to packing. Right, Lady Arin? *sheepish grin* Kipin has to pack her entire closet and most of her books and almost everything in her room and pretend she's moving in for a week. Right? So that's going on right now. At least it should be. Instead, Kipin is sitting on her lazy duff in front of her computer, too lackadaisical to move. (We did contact sparring in taekwondo class earlier this evening. Explains everything, doesn't it, preciousss?)

Oh yeah, the pics. These liddle beauties were my madre's Christmas present - a Nativity made out of dragons. Smart, huh? 'Twas me padre's idea, and a good one too. The red one with the shepard's stick - what's it called? - o ya, a crook, is Joseph, the blue one with the big brown eyes is Mary, and the mini white one coming out of the eggshell is the widdle babee Jesus. D'aww! Ain' 'e a sweet'eart? I luvz his cute liddle face. Notice the family pic: Mary is taller than Joseph. Why? Because Kipin was too lazy to go get Joseph, who was already done, as a size ref. So we have an exceptionally big-boned Mary. I can explain! Female dragons, I have decided, are generally bigger than the males. It could happen, y'know! *defensive pout* Most female spiders are bigger than male spiders, right? So there, I rest my case.

Gotta go pack! *dashes off in a mad rush

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*chants* SPARE FARID! SPARE FARID! SPARE FARID!

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Azurion and Amethyst

Yes, yes, Kipin is aware that she already posted today... but gaah! Aren't they CUTE?! *dies*

I luvz these two to death (Lady Arin and her sidekick have them now.) The blue one is Azurion and the purple one is Amethyst. Lady Arin, I suppose your sidekick could call Amethyst, Amy if she wanted. Anyway, I had to paint the boxes with acrylic paint before gluing the dragons to them, and mi luvverly madre used her awe-inspiring supergluing madskillz to fix the dragons to the lids. Dragons made out of wire mesh and Sculpey III, as usual... although Kipin did get a bunch of cool new Sculpey stuff for Christmas and her birthday that she hasn't had a chance to try out yet, like... GLAZE! Yes, you heard right - GLAZE! Kipin totally freaked out when she got it (didn't she, Lady Arin?) Ah, happy day! Anyhoo, I am now in possession of: Studio Glossy Glaze and Satin Glaze, by Sculpey; Sculpey Bake & Bend; and Sculpey Premo. The Premo and the Bake & Bend are supposed to stay flexible after kilning - ahem - baking, but I haven't had the time to test that theory out as of yet.

Commander Kip the Should be Doing Her Spanish Homework

Team Farid!

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Gaia

Alaphia, fellow Homosapiens!
Look at that cute face. And that cute harp. This is Gaia, and she has KNEES! Huzzah! I is vewwy proud of those knees, yuss I is.

Mistakes... hmm... her tail didn't come out quite like I wanted, because the wire in it kept poking out the end... same with the wings. Eventually, after ruining the wings like three times, I took those wires out. That sculpting mesh must hate me! It's called Activ-Wire Mesh, and it really only works for vases and masks and model volcanoes and so on. Buuuut my well-meaning madre bought a ton of it last year, and it would be a waste not to use it, so I kinda just wad it up and pretend it's aluminum foil and stuff it in the middle. Used the wire mesh and some kind of beading wire for the frame and harpstrings, and Sculpey III on the outside.

Hmm, Kipin is not very happy with how the pics arranged themselves in this post. Rawr.

Ooh, Kipin just thought of a fragment she wanted to post...
Commander Kip
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Spark and Dragon's Milk

Good Day and Salutations!

Check out the cuteness! This liddle beauty just had his first birthday on Halloween, so as a birthday present, I changed his name. He is now called Spark, and he is most adorable indeed. Originally, I had named him Squirt, which fit him perfectly when he was a dracling, but now that he's grown a bit, I decided he needed a more dignified name. Hee!

On a similar note, has anyone read the Dragon Chronicals by Susan Fletcher? They used to be my all-time favorite books. The first one, Dragon's Milk, is about a girl named Kaeldra (the coolest name EVER) who can communicate with dragons. Her foster-sister, Lyf, has some rare uncurable disease, Vermillion Fever, I think. Kaeldra goes up into the mountains to find a dragon and get some of its milk, the mythical cure for Vermillion Fever. The dragon, whose name is Flagra, agrees to give Kaeldra milk in exchange for some babysitting. Flagra has a new litter of draclings and cannot leave her cave to hunt, for fear of the draclings getting into trouble, so Kaeldra watches the draclings while Flagra goes out hunting in exchange for a month's worth of milk. Of course, the draclings are not easy to watch, especially when they start learning how to fly. The villagers are angry because their livestock is disappearing, and they kill Flagra, forcing Kaeldra to flee the village with the three draclings. She is pursued by a wannabe dragon-slayer who is after the draclings, and she must find a way to outwit him, escape the seething village, and return the baby dragons to their kyn. The other two books in the trilogy are Flight of the Dragon Kyn and The Sign of the Dove. Highly recommended!

Commander Kip

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Truffles and Rosie

Good Day, CreativityIncarnate!

Today, I was in a draconic mood. Rawr! So I give you... more dragons! These two have a story as well. The green one with the cake and the chef's hat is Truffles, and although you can't see it in the pic, he has little blobs of frosting all over him and is quite adorable. The story behind him is that my grandpa is a raw-foods chef, and he makes the most delicious little raw truffles, and he lets me mold them into coolio shapes. Two years ago, around Christmastime, we made partridges and pears, and we had sooo much fun and got sooo sticky... but of course it was worth it! Stickiness is always fun.

The pink one with the half-knitted scarf is for my grandma. Her name is Rosie, and she's holding a ball of yarn in her tail. My grandma is very handy with all that needlepoint and crotcheting and knitting business... in fact, she helped me knit my first scarf. Much luv to ya, Gramma dear.

Commander Kip, over and out.

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Scribbler

Good day, CreativityIncarnate! *firstpostdance*

For my first trick, I would like to introduce Scribbler, my inspirational dragon. I made him with my own two handses, I did. Is he not special? His job is to provide me with inspiration when I write (names, ideas, concepts, plot twists, etc.) He does his duty well. Yay for him!

I have made and will be making a lot of dragons, so expect more in the future.

Commander Kip, over and out. *bleep*