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Rules:

The first ten (10) people who reply to this journal and tell me that they want a spot, will have me go through their gallery and pick three deviations, which in turn will be featured in this journal.

The catch is that to qualify, you MUST post a similar journal.
This gives us an opportunity to really appreciate and support this artistic global community we've got going on here.

Well, you heard me, first ten to comment get a feature! Oh, and ya gotta post a similar journal to get said feature.

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]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/28591670/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/28591670/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:47:55 PST Here I was wanting to avoid everything Twilight and now I see myself compelled to see the new fantastic werewolf transformations etc.

Then again I don't think I could face watching the whole Bella/Edward romance (yes Ihave watched the previews and yes I did want to throttle both Edward and Bella).

What's a girl to do? >_<'

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/28365655/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/28365655/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:15:55 PST Yesterday I did my first 9 til 6 shift (having gone to bed at 2AM the night before, silly me) and I was shattered when I got off.

I called my partner and he had broke the hob so I decided we could go out for dinner to Pizza Hut. The Pizza Hut near us turned out to be full so we had to walk a fair way to get to another Pizza Hut where they were letting people que for tables.

After this exhausting day unavoidable and important situations demanded that I go out again to help a very good friend. I don't regret this at all but it meant that I didn't get back home again until 2AM; my friend sensed Zombie for sure .

Convinced that if I went to sleep at 2 and got up at 8-30 I'd be fine I fell asleep. And then woke up again at 5: I've been worried about some essay deadlines due in recently and for some reason these worries decided to pop into my head at 5AM, wake me up and keep me awake with the near auto-planning of ideas for the essays. I just wanted to sleep!

I finally got back to sleep at 6 and then woke up at 8-30. Now that I'm awake I realise that all those ideas for the essay that were spinning throuh my head 5 til 6 were not even related at all to the essay, and that dream logic is evil.

I'm tired and burnt out.
Work today will be fun =_='

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27957340/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27957340/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:29:39 PDT
'Question Time' aside I've been reading the BNP webpage and all their talk of ethnic cleansing and 'ethnic middle-calls liberals' (to put it in the nicest way that they did) makes me wonder how we let this party slip through our line of vision for so long.

Nick Griffin says homosexuals kissing are really creepy; I say him and the BNP are the creepy ones.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27934100/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27934100/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:53:05 PDT [link]

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car)
Lady Corsa
(We actually don't have a car, so chose a old car in the past)

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe)
Chocolate Odessa

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal)
Red Dog

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born)
Patricia Colchester

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name)
AmyRo

6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
Black Relentless

7. NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandparents)
Patricia Dorothy

8. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your 5th grade teacher’s name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Erm....

9. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Autum Orchid

10. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now)
Fig Shirt

11. HIPPIE NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Relentless Oak



1 . YOUR REAL NAME:
Amy

2 . YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Amyizzle (This isn't as fun when your first name is literally three letters long.)

3 . YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal)
Red Dog (this seems familiar)


6. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name)
Ambpa

8. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Jade

9. NINJA NAME: (First two letters of your first name added with Ruto)
Amruto

10. PIRATE NAME: (Your middle name after the word Captain)
Captain Patricia

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27916762/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27916762/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:58:32 PDT [link]

"10 Reasons Why "Gay Marriage is Wrong"

1) Being gay is not natural.


And real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicone breasts.


2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay.


In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.


3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior.


People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. Lamps are next.


4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all.


Hence why women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.


5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed.


And we can't let the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage be destroyed.


6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children.


So therefore, gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our population isn't out of control, our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.


7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children.


Since, of course, straight parents only raise straight child​ren.


8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion.


In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

(Did I miss the lesson where Jesus says He hates gays?)


9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home.


Which is exactly why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.



10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms.


Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.


Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage.

I am a human for human rights. What's so wrong with wanting equal rights for everyone?

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27830105/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27830105/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:38:19 PDT
[x] You know how to make a cup of coffee/Tea
[x] You keep track of dates using a calendar
[x] You own a credit card
[x] You know how to change the oil in a car
[x] You've done your own laundry
[x] You can vote in an election
[x] You can cook for yourself
[x] You think politics are interesting
TOTAL SO FAR: 8

[ ] You show up for school late a lot
[x] You always carry a pen/pencil in your bag/purse/pocket
[ ] You've never gotten a detention
[ ] You have forgotten your own birthday
[x] You like to take walks by yourself
[x] You know what credibility means, without looking it up
[x] You drink caffeine at least once a week
TOTAL SO FAR: 12

[x] You know how to do the dishes
[x] You can count to 10 in another language
[x] When you say you're going to do something you do it
[x] You can mow the lawn
[x] You study even when you don't have to
[x] You have hand washed a car before
TOTAL SO FAR: 18

[x] You can spell experience, without looking it up
[ ] The people at Starbucks know your usual
[ ] Your favorite kind of food is take out
[ ] You can go to the store without getting something you don't need
[x] You understand political jokes the first time they are said
[x] You can type pretty quickly

TOTAL SO FAR: 21

[ ] Your only friends are from your place of employment
[x] You have been to a Tupperware party
[ ] You have realized that practically no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job
[ ] You have more bills than you can pay
[x] You have been to the beach
[x] You use the internet every day
[x] You make your bed in the morning

TOTAL AGE: 25

Wow....that's five years older then I actually am...rockin'!

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27740267/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27740267/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:04:31 PDT
For the past two days it's been very hard to wake up in the mornings, and I'm more inclined to drift in and out of consciousness without even thinking about it, let alone thinknig about getting up.

Today in my lecture I got a really hot flash and I just felt so dizzy and light stomached while, at the same time, feeling so heavy in my head. Poor Liz (otherwise known as the talented deviant [link] )got all worried about me; sorry dear.

I had to go home after the lecture instead of go to my museum internship which really sucks; but I've got my lovely Lecturer to take notes for me and I will be meeting up with her for a tutorial to recap. I hate being behind in anything, if I can I usually avoid sick days so I'm feeling kind of crestfallen at the moment.

I'm home now and kind of in between flashes of heat and dizzy spells but I don't want to waste the day.
Plans for the rest of the day include sorting out my laptop (putting everything from my old laptop onto the new one) and perhaps drawing. If I do feel like I need to collapse or take a rest at least I have a comfy bed handy right behind me (hooray for student accomodations!).

I've ommited red at from my diet lately (I've been in a pasta/ravioli mood for like two weeks) so I'm not ruling this out for a reason. As such a juicy fillet steak awaits me for dinner to night. I hoping it's nothing too serious as my doctors is loacted 1hr 30mins away ;_;

Wish me luck on a speedy recovery!

DLF.
x

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27558824/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27558824/ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:59:10 PDT
Trying to draw the background werewolf for my WoD;WtF character is driving me crazy and draining me of all artistic talent e_e

Any werewolf refs you would reccommend?
I know there are loads of fantastic ones on DA but I want to hear YOUR opinions instead of relying on my one-minded searching.

I look foward to seeing some great drawings of werewolves and discovering some fantastic new artists. ^_^

DLF.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27440020/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27440020/ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:26:36 PDT
I've been spending a little while getting used to the tablet (which I'm currently using with the adobe it came with) and I think y'all being seeing alot more digital art from me; no more crappy-scanner-middle-man yay!

As such I'm toying with the idea of re-doing the art trades that I'm doing currently and replacing them with digital art; Senny, in particular, are you comfortable with this?

For those curious I brought a Wacom Bamboo tablet, and I went for the smaller one simply because I couldn't afford to go larger, expensive but pure love. <3

Of course I'll probably still post up traditional art as well from time-to-time; the traditional doodles and drawings need love too.

DLF

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27386646/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/27386646/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:44:12 PDT
Recent gaining of a job means that I haven't currently got a scanner; this sadly means no updating of my drawings for about a week or so (until I get my loan and get myself a scanner basically).

For anyone I'm art trading with I apologise and am trying my hardest to get a scanner ASAP. For those who just watch me...well I'm not exaclty an uploading machine anyway so

Thank you for everyone's patience,
DLF.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26952539/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26952539/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:45:50 PDT
On the first night we got alot of hospitality from the Hiraph-ni (May have spelt that wrong) mercenary camp, and by hospitality I mean booze. We sat in a huge circle around a wood fire and took turns at swigging whatever came around the circle: There was mead, samboca, Mickey Finn, Amaretto, Vodka, Schnapps, Smirnoff, Ginger Wine and an assortment of other things that garanteed that I exceeded my weekly intake in one night. Lots of food was also shared around the circle including yummy yummy stew. My sweetheart couldn't handle his drink, he's now know as "The Vomit Mage".

Next day there were alot of I.C. attacks but our camp was well defended and any threat genreally got smaked down. I was invited into the Hiraph-ni war temple and given more hospitality (Red Bull...well Red Llama). They showed me their battle Llama and I got to see a fight for a powerful item that would make a vampire that was pissed at the Hiraph-ni powerless. Everyone was pretty hyped about the vampire, they prepared for hours. When he eventually came he took all of 30 seconds to die XD Needless to same some people were somewhat slighted.

There were also a bunch of orbs in the area that had to broke or the world would end (same old same old, but when they broke gribbly things came out of them (again same old). As a healer I was recruted to be there when they broke the last orb, as we were expecting gribbly monsters of doom to come along. When it finally broke the monster was so gribbly and so unprepared that all I ended up doing was running away. XP
Enjoyed some more hospitality from the Hiraph-ni then went to bed early that night as it was freezing and I had been up late last night drinking the hospitality and taking care of The Vomit Mage X3

Next day we were in one of two big battles (the smaller one thank god). The way it works is half the group go into battle one day while the other half pay the monsters and then visa versa. I went in as a healer for the Collage of magic, it was my first big battle. There was lots of running around, lots of falling back and pushing fowards, lots of being flanked and lots of dodging incoming arrows. I didn't get jobbed once, some of my employers and group members did but I healed them and all was good. Not a single mercenary died and it was a fantastic battle, lots of running around, lots of fighting to watch.

Later that day the Hiraph-ni Ogres (Known as the Iron Leigon) made up a game called Ogre ball which, Out of character, was a good excuse for using the severed head model that they had brought the other day. The game was played with daggers and the severed head. The objective was to get the ogre ball to a goal by picking it up and running like fuck. The way you stopped people was to knock them out with a dagger and take the ball. My character spent alot of time running, screaming and getting knocked out XD

It could be played as a group or as individuals, we had a match going on with a faction called the Fir Crugen and we were winning before taking a break and playing individually. Individually we just had to get the ogre ball into the Hiraph-ni command tent...which is easier said then done when there are a bunch of shock troop ogres running after you. Eventually we ended up leaving the ogre ball on the road, asking passers by to pick up the ball for us then shouting "OGRE BALL!" and dive bombing them when they did. Hilarious good fun. At one point I managed to sneak the ball into my robes and went to make a break for the command tent. Unfortunatly I didn't know where it was and had to ask for directions, by the time I did that they realised I had it and dashed after me. I got knocked out about 20cm from the command tent....so near yet so far T_T

Later the ogres disappeared and we didn't think anything of it until we heard shouting from the ritual circle that sounded something like "OGRE BALL!". Now the ritual circle is a big gribbly area of doom that you're not meant to enter unless you're a ritualist and that is extremely dangerous...and they were playing ogre ball there XD
Thier boss went to tell them off only to find out that the Ritual cirlcle had asked to see a game of ogre ball, bloodly hilarious! Words really can't describe how fun the whole Ogre ball saga have been. At one point the ogre ball also got stolen by the Fir Crugen and we had to go and reclaim it, in generally it was alot of fun. I got more hospitality (both good food and great drinks) and sat next to a roaring fire with some good friends.

We chatted, mostly out of character with a few in character jokes and conversations. We saw a parrot get magnetised to the ground and stayed around the fire until time out. Then we waited for the fire to die while talking about recent movies and politics.

On... ]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26590353/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26590353/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:22:01 PDT
Turns out it was a kind of modern group interview thing. We got paired into twos, had to learn about our partner and then tell the group about said partner. We then got grouped into fives and asked to assemble a puzzle as a group: Our group got no-where near to completing the puzzle, but apparently it's our effort to work as a team that mattered.

Then we got grouped into groups of two again, with different partners, and were told to pick a product and try to sell it to the rest of the group. Me and my partner picked breast pads, for soothing engroged breasts after breast feeding; They're reusable, drug-free, fit easily into any maternity bra and can be used either warm or cool- What more could a mother want?
After we finished the manager said "Well I'm sold!" which she did not say to any other group so I'm cautiously hopeful.

That was pretty much the end of it: We filled in the necessary forms, I told her I had two holidays coming up, she said she didn't mind as Mother Care honoured holidays and that I did well.

She'll be getting back to everyone after 2 weeks and I will be either employed, up for a one-on-one interview or getting the "Thank you for your applications, however...." note.

No matter what I actually had fun today, though getting the job would be fantastic; Is it weird that I'm totally sold on the Mother Care products?

Hehe, I guess we'll just have to see.

P.s. I'm selling off a canvas piece of Ex-Veemon and Fairymon.
Yet another P.S. The food festival was in my city today, I have eaten waaaay to much. It was awesome.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26519487/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/26519487/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:10:19 PDT
Now onto the random junk that is my journal post.

Well I may not be dead but my bank balance is, poor thing is holding on to the side of a slippery cliff with only its little finger. Job hunting has therefore been one of my main priorities over the university holidays, only to find that there really is a job shortage. Damn you credit crunch and closing of Wollworths!!!

Anyways I've been job hnting unsuccessfully for a month or so now, a few good jobs came up-

One at Ann Summers- the position was filled before I got my CV in (3 whole days, it took 3 days for them to employ someone, bloody roadrunners).


One at Mother Care- I could do this, it was a sales Advisor post, and it was in the weekdays (which is a must for me), unfortunatly they never got back to me about this position.

One weekend position at the Co-op near my parent's house- This is why I'm so pro-weekdays, I go home to see my parents, get my washing done and take care of my mini-zoo of animals every weekend. The weekend Co-op job would have been good, I could still live where I live, yet still go home for the weekends, and my best friend works there too which was a plus. I got on the short list but no cigar.

I applied for a load of other jobs as well but recieved no follow up on any of them, I suppose they decided I wasn't suited, that or they went for one of the many other aplicants. The amount of people applying for jobs in this area is staggering; you know that Co-op job I mentioned? For the little local corner shop Co-op? Over 100 applicants. Crazy!

Any way after all this time spent job hunting I had baically given up and accepted that my overdraft would soon get it's first use, then yesterday my phone rings-

Mothercare?
Do I want a weekend job?
Sure, yeah I'll come to the meeting on Friday.
Have a nice day.
-hang up-
Oh crap.

Serious second thoughts. Stupid, idiotic, downright dumb second thoughts.

God I need the money, I need a job. If it's this hard to try and get a job at 19 with no previous job experience then I can't imagine how hard it will be when I'm middle 20's, just out of uni and trying to get a job. Besides I've been wanting a job for so long, working so hard to try to get one and handing out more CVs then is justifably healthy for the environment (poor poor trees); turning down the only job I've got offered to me, it just sounds so stupid.

But on the other hand I love going home on the weekends. I love seeing all my pets, that could sadly not tag along with me in my studio flat, they depend on me to take care of them. ust thinking of not seeing my puppy dog makes me so depressed and he'll wonder where i've gone; he already spends half the week looking for me after I go home on the sunday, what will he think If I just don't come back full stop? Then there's my hamster, rabbit and stick insect. Beyond that I'll miss my parents, my mother I see quite alot as she's a stay-at-home wife but I hardly see my dad as it is, if I cut out my weekend visits then I'll probably only see him a couple of hours a month, which is crazy.

That being said both my parents approve, and assure me we'll be able to work something out. I don't even know what my work hours may be yet or my Uni schedule, I'm freaking out and I may have a large portion of sunday off and no lessons on monday, that'd mean I could still go home. Or some other scheduling may also allow it. Why am I freaking out so much anyway? I don't even know if I've got the job yet. I don't even know what the meeting is about. Besides I could always try it for a while and then just quit if it overwhelms me.

I guess I just hate change, the possibility of my life all falling out of schedule and my secure little plot being turned on its head. I've really got to get used to change, and embrace it; I'm going to have to change alot more things in my future and life won;t always be this secure.

I don't know, I suppose I had to get these thoughts out in the open, just so I could try and figure out what they hell I'm worrying about anyway.

I'm still going to the meeting/induction/whatever-it-is. It's on friday; wish me luck.
x

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/25590550/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/25590550/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:17:24 PDT ).

Would anyone be interested in this?
Serious question as they probably wouldn't be cheap and the quality may vary.

Just curious.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/25410773/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/25410773/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:20:13 PDT
*Re-work my luxray plushie making method using my first attempt as a learning basis.

*Make a plushie of my current Luxray duo; Whips and Chains.

*Get a job so I can pay for all this stuff.

Oh, and I'm now a qualified Helmsman, woot!

Thanks for reading my mostly pointless journal entry.
If you know of any good plushie tutorial sites then please feel free to post them, and if you're a plushie artist willing to do a trade with a newbie pokemon plush artist then...well I love you XP

I kid, I expect nothing.
Thanks for reading.
^_^

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/22485062/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/22485062/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:03:46 PST So this year it isn't one resolution for me, it's many, here goes-

1)START DRAWING BACKGROUNDS- I am serious about this, I really need to work on landscapes so that my dragons aren't just floating on air. If I don't do a background you guys have my personal permission to slap me... or at least give me critique. I really must learn how to do them.

2)LEARN TO COLOUR IN- Yes as you guys can probably guess my skills don't progress much past the biro phase, I really need to learn to colour my pictures better, whether it be with colouring pencils, water colours, anything! Unfotunatly my scanner hates colour so i'm not sure how this will affect my gallery but hopefully we will be seeing more colour.

3)START DRAWING MANGA- This may seem random to most of you but I used to be hugely manga orientated in my art, I drew manga constantly. Over the years I slacked at that and stopped practicing and now I am totally inept at drawing manga and the human form in general. So this year I will be hoping to start a manga folder in my gallery and fill it with coloured, backgrounded, manga pictures.... not too much work then. >_<'

4)WRITE MORE ARTICLES/JOURNALS- This may sound very random but now i'm at university I really need to work on my spelling, grammar and general writing structure (for a start i'm not allowed to say "i'm" now in any essays at uni so I have to get out of the habit). As well as this I would really like to write a book someday and you've gotta start with the baby steps. So hopefully I will be able to get much more writing done this year.

5) WORK WITH DIFFERENT MEDIAS IN ART- Sculpture, fur, paint, canvas, engraving anything that isn't a biro and a piece of A4 paper from WHSmiths. I want to broaden my art, I have a real passion to broaden my art.

6)PASS ART HISTORY THIS YEAR- If I can actually pass this year in art history it would mean the world to me. It's a bit intimidating being in a class filled with people who did A-level art history but I have a real passion for this course. I love learning all these new things about new artists and new literature, I don't wanna stop now, I want to make a life out of this, and this year is a good plase to start.

That's all folks.
Feel free to critique my work if I start slacking...don't be too harsh though ^_~

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/21731914/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/21731914/ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:44:38 PST So just a heads up really to expect more regular art from me.... hopefully.

I'm also debaiting whether or not to post up some of my more informative art history articles.... but that will be more of a yay or nay thing.... maybe i'll put a poll up for that or something.

Another side note is that recently i've been doing alot of experimental art with "Dragonslorefury" and putting myself (or 'her' however you want to spin it) into different forms in my drawings in order to try and figure myself out a bit better. I'm thinking this is coming from the fact that I could draw other dragons and my partner better than I could myself. Anyway I will be posting that up soon as well.... maybe in a folder of its own.
Anyway keep your eyes peeled

Dragonslorefury

P.s. Click on ma egg?
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]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17972600/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17972600/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:37:43 PDT
Khrushchev is a Neohirasea Maeren and this type of stick insect is originally from Vietnam. I am currently offering 10 ova per bunch only to avoid having too many/too little insects come the end of their incubation. I'm only dealing with the U.K. at the moment and live in the Devon area.

There is more information on my page for anyone who is interested in owning these amazing creatures. On my site there is aso some personal info on my three stick insects and a tiny bit about me *is embarassed*. So here's the link and I hope that I can send a few of Khrushchev's babies off to good homes [link]

Here is the mother-to-be [link] she would be the big fat one on the top of the tank. But I'm sure Stalin will soon follow suit.

Happy Browsing!

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17778423/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17778423/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:32:04 PDT [link]

So far there are only three, little cuty pies, but I bet they'll be loads more to come! They also came as quite a shock- Annas pretty small so I was expecting her to go through a shed or two more before she laid any eggs, I guess she had different plan. Now i'm all skitty and hyper and not quite sure what to do with myself.

I decided to call one of them Lenkiewicz if it hatches and survives a few sheds. They'll also be the first i've ever dealt with so i'm quite nervous- Anna has been a great pet and companion to me so i'm really eager to successfully carry on her DNA. But I've already read sooo much about them going mouldy, just not hatching or dying straight after hatching. Regardless my main emotion right now is happy/excited/thrilled.

She laid these all on her own, no guy involved (you go girl!) so the eggs might take up to nine months to hatch- could be a new year or christmas batch. I must admit I like the concept but i'm worried about heat at that crucial point.
So anyway YAY!!!
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As for the Robert Lenkiewicz part there was an auction of a hell of a lot of his paintings, drawings and personal items and my father took me to see them before they became privatly owned and never seen again.

Having only really experienced the art scene from a gallery stance before the first thing that totally blew me away is that you could touch all the sketches, small paintings and his items (e.g. books, clothes, beds, chairs). It felt really good to actually touch the sketches.

I was also pleased by the fact that he had done alot of sketches using blue and black biro, much like myself except his were a heck of a lot better. I loved most of his paintings and sketch work. I really was skipping around like a jack russel on a sugar rush.

A photographer from a local newspaper also stopped me and asked if I could pose for a picture for him. So yeah i'm gunna be in a local paper although I forgot to ask which one, so i'll be buying all the local and auction newspapers for about a week XD

Anyway I got totally carried away and bid on three things there- one of his sketches, a blank sketch book some human bones (because they were cheap and the subject of quite alot of his work). I did also want to buy some books he had on the occult and freud but they were withdrawn. My dad bid quite alot on a sketch as well- I'm hoping we win something it would mean a heck of alot to me.

This truly was an amazing day.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17577368/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17577368/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:16:43 PDT Well I have three stick insects- one macleay's spectre (Extatosoma tiaratum) called Anasatasia and two Vietnamese stick insects (Neohiasea maerens) called Khrushchev and Stalin. Stalin was in pretty bad condition when I got him so he's missing half of two legs and half of one of his antena but it doesn't stop him being lively.
Anyway they lived in two seperate cages- Anna in her own and Khrushchev and Stalin in a smaller tank together- But not anymore!!! Yup I got my butt in gear and finally got that huge vivarium I had ranted about getting them for ages. They now all live together and have loads of room and some lovely perks-
- There is enough room in the vivarium to put their bramble in a glass of water so it lasts much longer.
- There I enough room to house at least ten stick insects comfortably all to the three of them.
- I brought a shallow water container for them to drink from in addition to their daily sprays (they're getting bigger and need it).
- I brought them a ladder they can climb up.
- All the shedding room they could desire!
Here they are in their new enclosure- [link]
So yeah i'm hoping for Anna to shed soon.... I think it's her final shed or at least one from but she really didn't have enough room to do so in her old cage, now she's a speck in this vivarium! Maybe soon she'll also lay eggs- I think i'd hatch them all, keep a few and give the rest to a responsible pet shop.
The cute thing is despite Khrushchev and Stalin being in a huge area now where they can have all the private space they want they still stick very closely together- It's absolutly adorable and really does reinforce in my mind that my stick insects do have personalities and feelings.
Here they are sticking together- [link]
A happy time to be a stick insect and watching them in their new clean wide vivarium makes me calm and happy as well. Well worth the £45, totally priceless.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17287124/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17287124/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:59:23 PDT
Name: Dragonslorefury
Gender: Female
Type/Species: A western shapeshifting dragon
Eyes: Green, a brilliant emerald green
Description: Well I have a long slender face with almost oriental looking eyes, there are two tiny horns above my eyes. I have horns, they're a mostly grey colour. My scales are a dull gold that shine brilliantly under strong light conditions and I have tufty red hair running from my head all the way down to about halfway down my tail. I'm just taller than the height of a tall shire horse, not including wingspan. Well just look at the reference pictures really ^_~
Accessories: If you want to give them to me.
Preferred environment: Well I lived in a cave on a wooded mountain but I don't really mind ^_~
Personality: I guess solitary but friendly, shy but passionate and self concoius but an over achiever.
Anything else: I have a love of anything shiny or hoardable, even now I love to hoard ^_^

Reference Pictures :
Done by me-
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Done by others (many thanks to the artists)-

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(I'm the soon to be unconcious one in the bottom right)

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]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17220042/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/17220042/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:45:17 PST
I know it's probably not the best thing to be upset about but I really put my all into it and it ended up getting dramatically worst than my first attempt! My teacher is asking for a re-mark but she's said that has never been succesful before and she's recalling my essay.

To be honest I really don't want it recalled but she insists- It's just everyone expects me to be really good, and for once I started to believe I could be good to. But I wasn't, she thinks it's a mistake but I just don't want her to recall it and not only realise herself that i'm a huge disappointment but make me have to accept it as well.

To make it worst I got the results back from my psychology and philosphy and ethics coursework. I was one mark off an A in my psychology coursework. Then I got my philosophy and ethics coursework, which sir predicted as a high B, and I was two marks off of a B. So really I just feel like a complete and utter failure who is just getting worst as she goes along and I really don't see how I can pass these A-levels well.

To top that my exams are all jumbled up so I have to revise a different subject every day instead of getting to revise one subject than the other. I'm having to jump from psychology to hisotry to philosophy to psychology to history to ethics to advance psychology. I just can't cope!!!

I just feel like such a failure! I try my hardest and actually start believing in myself and I just can't do it. I can't even get two lousy marks!!! I'm always 1 or 2 marks away from what I want to achieve and it's just so crippling and upsetting to know that I am that close and yet totally unable to do it!

I just really need a long cry followed by a big hug.

]]> *dragonslorefury http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/16992566/ http://dragonslorefury.deviantart.com/journal/16992566/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:25:01 PST Anyway i'm wide open for art trades so if anyone wants to do an art trade i'm all ears.
Really i'd like to do it with dragons but if you want something else drawn in exchange just ask and i'll see what I can do.
If you do an art trade with me then you'll be drawing..well... me. Yup Dragonslorefury, I have a few pictures up and i'm working on some detail for those drawers out there who are better at me than getting in detail- such as scales, I do have them I just can't seem to draw them right.
Well those are the basics so if you wanna art trade with me just drop in a meassage.
^_~

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