In the late hours of Thursday evening two evil engineers toiled over a plan for microcosm domination and thus was a brilliant object of long reaching, epic proportions devised.

Introducing the SMURF IN CARBONITE!!!

Not long after, a smurf version of Luke Skywalker sneaked into our lair and tried to free Han Smurflo. We were forced to tie up the would be assassin.

Thus concludes our story…for now!

Mwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaa!

Last Project Saturday I made a fairy trapped in a jar. I made it to look a bit disturbing in so much as the fairy looked partially dessicated. I had gone with Jean to the park and collected a few leaves and things to put in the jar with the fairy like a child would do with a moth in a jar. I had left said jar on my table out of sight with the lid closed for over a week. Just now, I was clearing the table after having started on another jarred specimen when I saw the fairy trap. Holy, awesome, what the…?

I forgot to take into account the general nature of freshly picked things and, voila! Thanks to some disgusting, yet cool looking, mold the fairy skeleton is even more disturbing and it appears trapped in ghostly white webbing for eternity. Yummy.

That said, I think I’ll seal this one off so it can’t accidently be opened. I’m keeping it. Unless, someone wants to pay $500 for it, I’d consider that.

A couple days ago it rained so hard here in NYC that the window sills in all the outward facing widows were drenched. This caused the paint and plasterboard to bubble and peel all over the place. The building manager, Kenny, takes way too long to get anything done and I didn’t want to wait until mold had a permanent foothold before it got fixed. So, I took Monday (my first day off in weeks) to strip out all the grossness, patch it (using waterproof cement patching), plaster it, and repaint. Not the smoothest job ever, but I was rushed and without a belt sander. Granted, I didn’t have any white paint, so the bathroom now has blue storm clouds on the walls and the kitchen casts a soft earthen tone over the tiles.

Anyhow, that it is to blame for the lack of timely posting Monday night.

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So, Tuesday, what happened to Tuesday besides wasting my life with work meetings… Oh, Yeah! Taxes… death and taxes. Oh, and speaking of death my predator skull kit came in from Thailand on Tuesday afternoon.

I’ll show off mine after assembly and painting (a little more realistic than the example shot). This one was cheaper than making it myself… the Alien skull sculpt is still on the books, however. I have to start collecting the “Trophies” for my “Big Game Room” in the future. Yes, Jean is aware of my intentions, although she is likely hoping I’ll grow up before it becomes a reality. Hope all you want, Mwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaa!

Anyhow, I did some sculpting prep work at night. Trying to prep the oil based clay for a large project is a pain when attempting to be frugal. Most of the this NSP was used for making “Billy” and acouple other projects last summer and it is still hard from oxidation, making it difficult to mold back into usable pieces per Alexander G. Weyers specifications. BTW if anyone wants a copy of Billy (AKA “Life in Death”) for Halloween or something (Jean wants to put one at the bottom of a Coi pond… creepy) let me know in the comments. I’ll be playing with some lighter materials this summer and if it’s financially feasible will be willing to sell copies of the piece at a materials based price.

Tonight was sculpting night. I didn’t have any real ideas, so I just started playing around with the soft NSP that I usually use for the cast making process. This is what popped out.

I don’t know if I really consider it sculpting, but it’s what happened in the 30 minutes I gave myself for sculpting tonight. Oh, and I started practicing the piano again this morning. You guessed it, another thirty minutes.

Within this month the Products page will have many interesting items going up for sale. It’s been in the works for quite some time now and the preview pictures will be multiplying exponentially over the next few days. Keep in mind that, as these are all hand produced, any large orders will have to be given extra time for production. I’m currently accepting pre-signups for the already posted preview items, and will have the Unicorn Horn up for sale within the week, hopefully.

Also coming soon is a line of specimen jar curiosities, perfect for the Mad Scientist or Miskatonic University laboratory. There are three distinct sizes so far each containing a different creature suspended in semi-clear fluid, labeled according to family-genus-species, and sealed in with aged wax. These will be available as both singles and sets. More info coming soon.

Future plans include a line of alien artifacts, ancient technology artifacts, and garden gnomes (yup ?).