Micros for Sale!

      Since I am on vacation this week and technically have extra time in the day (not that it really seems that way...) I decided I would start photographing and listing things for sale. Today's post is all about micros. I have unpainted, painted, started painted, started prepping, pretty much everything. As I have mentioned before, you are welcome to purchase them now, please email me at fieldofdolls@gmail.com, and if they don't sell now they will be in my live sale at the end of March. I am mostly looking to have less stuff, but I am not looking to just give away everything I own. I am however offering some discounts for bulk purchases. Buy 2 micros, get $5 off. Buy 3 micros and get $10 off. But 4 or more and get $10 off and free shipping. Buy a whole bunch more than that and feel free to bundle and haggle. The worst I can say is no. I may have some other micros I decide to let go of, but this is what I have to start. Happy hunting.

Alpheratz and Matar 2021 subscriber exclusive. $100 for the pair. I likely have the stand for Matar somewhere. I have all the cards. 

Upbitty, prepped (maybe even well), with a gold base coat started in pan pastels. $60 (sold)

Jewel painted by me. $60

Sixjay painted by Kenzie Williams $125

Maelzela painted by Sarah Hampson $100 SOLD

 Ember painted by ? $60 (sold)

Bitty Barnaby painted by Kristen Cermele. He apparently lost an ear, I have no idea when, that hurts a lot. He is a gorgeous little horse and has such tiny ears you don't even see his boo-boo unless you take him out to take photos (or show. Don't do that). Sadly this guy is just a shelf piece unless he gets repaired. Selling for way less than I paid, $100 (sold)

Maple Stirrup painted by me. This guy doesn't look as bad in person as he does in these photos. Still, I am not a fantastic painter and had not learned the pasteling tricks I have now. $75 and I won't be offended is someone was to paint over him. SOLD

Tennytoo, prepped and base coated. Might be glued onto the stand, might be stuck. $50

Rhedyn $30

Micro Juggernaught gold base coat started. $60 SOLD

Chaos Mode $30

Ember, pewter. Prepping started $40

Escape Foot Callie $30

Castanea, no card $30

Annie $35

Poppyseed $35

Kranig $35

Armstrong $30

Rhino $35

Weatherwax $35

 

All Kinds of Art

     There is an endless variety of art in the world. And there are endless varieties of artists. Part of my job at school these days is to make art. Some of the pieces we are working on are longer term projects. This picture is the first stage of a multi-media project we are working on. The below picture is one I helped one of our kids do. 

     The next stage was to crumple, smooth out, crumple, and smooth out brown paper, over and over. This was surprisingly therapeutic and all of the adults in the room really enjoyed it. The goal was to crumple it over and over enough that it was soft. Then, ovals and lines were added in brown marker, since we were going to turn it into trees. I don't have a picture of the owls that were added, but there were also owls. And googly eyes!

     Since Valentine's day was this week, we were also working on Valentine's themed art. This was also a lesson on symmetry. We only put paint on one side of the paper, then folded. I love the way the paint dripped in the center. The dots above the heart were accidental, since the paint was very thin and kind of messy. 

    Another project we did, were these pictures that got sent home to parents. I also sent this photo to my husband. The kids needed to rip the tissue paper into pieces and then glue it onto the heart shape. This project was pretty fun to do. 

    I am on vacation this coming week and I definitely need it. I have been super tired lately. Maybe that means the seasons are changing early, but I have no idea really. I am definitely still loving my job these days. Not only do I get to help kids learn, but I get to do art, dance, and I randomly sing. A lot. Sometimes in the middle of the cafeteria. It's so loud in there I don't think anyone can hear me, but I get to do it. And I sing in music, randomly throughout the day, it's a good time. But I am also really ready for a break. I have all these grand plans of getting things done this week. That's funny, isn't it?

    I know I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, but my order books are officially closed. Part of my tiredness is the stress of custom orders. I know that most people say they don't have a specific date they need the doll by (usually) and I should take my time, but people who know me, or are regular readers, know that I can't have an order hanging around for long. It starts to feel like it's looming over me and I feel like I am slacking on things. So my solution for that currently is no more custom orders. It's possible I will offer some doll slots sometime in the future, and if I do, you will hear about them here. I will still make dolls, just whatever I feel like making, when I feel like making them. And as always, they will be showcased and offered here first. I will also have them at my live sales. The next live sale is going to be somewhere around my birthday (the end of March) and I will have the dolls that have not been previously snapped up as well as a bunch of stuff from my personal collection. At least this time around. I have decided to scale way back on what I have. I want to have a lot less stuff. So likely there will be horses, OF, CM, likely ARs. There will most likely be traditional scale horses, minis, and micros (some painted and a lot of unpainted). I will have tack, dolls (new and potentially from my personal collection), props and who knows what else. I am thinking of possibly offering some performance sets, which would include the tack and doll, as well as any accessories that might go with it. I will potentially have things from my 1:9 scale dollhouse collection as well. I may start to list some batches of things ahead of time, just because I am likely letting go of a whole lot, but I haven't settled on anything for sure yet. Other than I will be having a live sale. Well, semi-live. Likely I will also miss some things that I mean to put in the sale and I will have to offer them later. There are things just everywhere!

January Miniatures Club

     I know I have been somewhat MIA when it comes to posting. I think the last post was from February 5th or 6th. Sorry about that. Some of it is I didn't have a lot of doll anything to talk about. Some of it is I was extra busy. This week the motor in our furnace stopped working and Ethan stayed home from work for a few days (one was already his day off, but still) to get that all taken care of. I already liked that we have had unseasonably warm weather, because I do not like being cold, but I was very grateful for it when we had no heat for 3 days. We have space heaters, but we don't leave them on overnight. So by morning it got pretty chilly in here. I'd get up and turn on the heaters and get ready for work. This morning I woke up in a nice warm house. It feels very luxurious to not shiver while getting dressed. And for anyone concerned, it was nowhere near dangerously cold in here. Just not anywhere near warm, lol.

     Anyway, time to talk about the miniatures club. Since I sent out the packages weeks ago, I figure it is safe. I almost missed my deadline to ship by the end of January because of the usual unforeseen circumstances. This time around I think it was chasing payment information all over the place and trying to figure things out. I have been keeping a running list (after the last time I ended up shipping things to two people who were no longer in the club and hadn't been for months) of who is paid and so on. But I have one person whose payments come in... and then they disappear. Something about e-checks. So it was very confusing to figure out. And yeah, I don't have time to find their email, if I have their email, to ask them to check on it. So every month I get an e-check, which apparently bounces at least once, before it goes through. At least, I think they are going through. Honestly, I was hoping this club would be a fun thing, not just extra work for me. And mostly it is a fun thing. Let's talk about the fun stuff. 

     January's level one miniatures are a set of actual tiny crayons. They are not dollhouse scale, could maybe be 1:9 scale if you consider them to be big chunky crayons, but are likely best for 1:6 scale. But they are actual tiny crayons and I get a big kick out of that!

     The level 2 miniature is this tin of cookies. Now I bet some people are wondering about the level 2 miniatures a bit. The club levels are pretty simple, level one is one miniature and level 2 is two miniatures OR an extra cool OR handmade miniature. I have no time for handmade miniatures so that hasn't happened at all (other than the ones I bought from Legacy). The October level 2 miniature was a box of Ritz crackers (I think that was October). So why is level 2 not getting 2 miniatures most of the time? What does extra cool even mean???

     Well in this case, extra cool means more expensive. I have spent a lot of time searching for excellent deals on miniatures for the club. Sometimes I can find some pretty cool things for fairly small money. And sometimes I think the things are so cool that I spend more than I probably should on them because I want people to have them. The cookies in the tin are one of those more costly items. And shipping... well, we won't talk about shipping much because it's not fun at all. I do have to mention though that if USPS raises their rates much more I will either need to raise the cost of the levels a bit or end the club. Because, as I have said, this was a fun way to get a bit of income for doing the blog (which I was so much better about keeping up with it when I started the club) and I liked the idea of a monthly subscription club. But if I am spending every penny on miniatures and shipping, then all the time it takes to do the things, I can't sustain that. I already don't have enough time for my life. 

     But this is not a whining blog (I know, I could have fooled you all!) just some facts. The sad fact is, the cost of everything has gone up exponentially. It has been an incredibly warm winter in Massachusetts and our gas bill has nearly doubled. Makes no sense. 

     So for anyone new, anyone that has forgotten, or anyone that likes to see the same information repeated over and over, the miniatures club is done through ko-fi. Which is an interesting service where you can "buy coffee" for people to help support their work. Ko-fi has different tiers, the first one on my page being $3, which buys me a coffee (the theory being a coffee is around $3) and that comes with a wholehearted thank you for helping to support my blog. The second tier is level one of the miniatures club, is $6 a month, and gets you a miniature shipped to you every 3 months; January, April, July, and October. Tier 3 is level 2 of the miniatures club (confused yet? Sorry about that) gets you two miniatures, OR an extra cool (more expensive) miniature, OR a handmade miniature. Tier 4 is level 3 of the miniatures club and is basically the FOMO (fear of missing out) level of the club which gets you all of the miniatures from the first two levels. And all of the levels come with my wholehearted appreciation. 

     So that's about it for the updates on the January miniatures club items. I hope that everyone in the club is still enjoying it. I hope that everyone who is a regular, or just occasional reader of my blog is enjoying it. Even though I post on average only once a week these days. I can't even imagine trying to post daily with how everything is going! I do have some dolls to write about coming up, and some changes in the studio in general. I am still planning on having a live sale at the end of March, some dolls, maybe miniature things (big maybe on those) and some items from my personal collection. I also may just start posting different things for sale (from my personal collection) and do a first come, first served thing. But I want to have at least some things for the live sale. Because maybe someone wants some of the really awesome things I am letting go of, but really loves the idea of combined shipping. I know I am a big fan of combined shipping. Anyway, more info on all the things I am vaguely talking about will be coming soon.