The Purple Fantastic News
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Toolie Bird Landscape progress
Applying paper clay now on top of the lumpy Activa Celluclay. I used that to bulk up areas that were too flat from the cardboard understructure. The goal is to confuse the…
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November 2025 Thoughts: Archive
Life can get so busy at times. The election results were encouraging. Hopefully it’s a sign of how the midterms next year will go. Please plan on voting whenever you have the…
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Toolie Bird Landscape
Sometime back I started work on a diorama for the Toolie Bird cereal toys from 1969/1970. My Camel Train diorama turned out well, and it has been a fun side project to…
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A busy couple of months
Wow. October already. I have no idea if anyone actually visits this website, but if you do, you may have noticed that it hasn’t been updated since July. It has been a…
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July 2025 Thoughts Archive
Life is about practice. It’s about spending time with those activities that I most want to excel at. Often these pursuits are subjects that I love. But often I don’t take the…
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Bloomchasers… a simple, yet rather challenging game
So I still need more practice playing Bloomchasers, but the fun-quotient definitely increases with each play. I chose to paint the treebase a modeled green. Leaving it brown seemed a little boring.…
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Adventures in the Wild West with a Gay Spin
There are quite a few western themed novels with a gay theme. Here are three that I enjoyed. According to Hoyle by Abigail Roux starts off slow but builds up to a…
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In Other Lands is a delightful read.
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan is a heartfelt spin on the Harry Potter trope and had me laughing out loud in the airport shuttle while on a trip to visit…
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How the Orc and Fae chess pieces turned out
I painted these pieces relatively recently. I’d said no more, but then last November I saw these on Etsy and they looked so fun to paint that I added these two sets…
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Tiles for chess board finally arrived.
I invested in a Kickstarter some years back. These are tiles designed for RPG games. They come with assorted trees, rocks, monuments, etc. but my primary interest was to use them for…
