Spaice Marines!

So, as many other fanboys, I preordered The new SpaceMarine videogame. The thing was that the lame store I preordered it, didnt recived em yet! So here I am calling em waiting to get my copy.

BTW as soon i get it, ill be looking for people to play online!

If that worked for something, at least made me write something :D

Medicinal French Toast

I spent last weekend sick with a stubborn flu. Oka and I went out one day and we got trapped in the worst rain we've had in years, it was a very fun adventure but we both came back completely soaked, and I managed to catch a flu. Well just my luck.

One day when I was feeling particularly ill, I opened the door early in the morning and Oka was holding bread for French toast. That was enough to lift up my spirit! A few minutes later I was eating some "medicinal French toast" he made for me, and it was delicious!

I liked it so much I had to take a photo. Heaven in every bite!

Our medicinal French toasts started one day when I had a huge headache (note: I get migraines xD lots of them). I usually do all the cooking for both of us because I love cooking, but that particular morning I couldn't do anything but hold my head and complain. Oka offered to cook us breakfast, and I suggested French toast because it was easy enough, so after giving him some instructions he gave his best and made us some delicious French toast. A few minutes later my headache was gone and Oka proudly announced that it was because he had made "medicinal French toasts".

Since, every time I'm sick or in any kind of pain, he prepares medicinal French toast for me and I love it! It makes me feel immediately better. If I were that kind of cheesy girl I would say it's the ~*LOVE*~, but it's probably just the sugar and that I love being pampered by Oka xD but whatever it is, it works!

So back to last week, Oka made me some medicinal French toast that I happily devoured with cinnamon and sugar, my favorite topping. He also made me some delicious black coffee and to top it all, he bought me my favorite chocolate milk! He made me feel like a princess!!

Black coffee in my Gir mug that Oka got me and chocolate milk with Transformers xD my perfect morning!

The chocolate milk even came with a little transformers toy. Bliss!! I had fun assembling it, but I think I needed a second one to play properly whatever game it was made for, so I donated it to my cats. Jackie enjoyed it for 5 full minutes until he lost it under the sofa. Gotta love cats xD

Bumblebee I will rescue you from under the sofa one day, I promise!

Well that's the story of my medicinal French toast. I think that it's such a cute and thoughtful idea to share with your loved one, so feel free to borrow it for whatever food you choose xD In case you want to try French toast, I made a tutorial for that: http://talty.deviantart.com/art/French-Toast-Tutorial-127865854

Talty

Jack's first anniversary

Hey! It's been a long time since the last time we wrote a blog entry. I somehow knew this would happen... I blame Oka, he said he would write things with me but he left me! Well, whatever, I'll scold him later..

I want to share a very important date.  One year ago, on July 28th, my mom found one of our cats, Jack. I'm usually not big on dates, I even forget my anniversary with Oka... but Jack's first anniversary means a lot to me, and I really want to share a bit of his story. It's been a very important issue to me this last year, it's also a beautiful story of love and hope.

A year ago, when my mom found Jackie he was in a very poor condition. We don't know what happened to him, I HAVE to believe he had an accident, because the alternative is too painful. Anyway, whatever accident he had caused him a lot of injuries, the most important of them, the lost of his left eye.

He was very young, weak, thin, and injured. No one allowed me to see him, they said it was too much for me... maybe they were right. He was rushed the the vet, and he performed the surgery to save his young life. The vet even made sure to make him look as normal and pretty as possible, he's awesome (he said he had studied some techniques with a (human's) plastic surgeon, I wish all vets would care so much about animals as he does).

After the surgery we brought him back and started to look after him. It was a slow process, and I went through most of it in tears. He was so tiny and thin that everyone was afraid to pick him up, he was so very fragile... I would gently pick him up and let him sleep in my arms all day, he was very weak so he slept a lot back then. I felt that the best thing I could do was keep him warm and let him know I was there.

He went through a lot those first weeks. One day he was weaker than usual and he wouldn't move, after another rushed visit to the vet it turned out that he had a huge headache caused by whatever little optical nerve he had left; one shot later he was better. A few days later we discovered he had fleas, but that one was easy to control. Some deworming later he was also clean of worms and other nasty things. After a while we discovered he was lactose intolerant... I know, all cats are lactose intolerant, but he was REALLY intolerant. You should have seen it to understand.

But one wonderful day, he woke up and he was better. All better. He started to jump around, run, and he was a perfectly normal kitty. The first time I saw him play, after all those hard weeks, I cried.

 Jackie, 3 months old. Some minor scars left.

He never knew he was different. He learned how to move, jump and do everything like any regular kitty, but with just one eye. I admit it was difficult at first, he bumped into some things, but he learned. He played with the other cats, he fought with them, he was a perfect kitty. I thought he would never be able to hunt or catch anything, but he's just as good as any other cat! But that's something I'm not particularly happy with, I'm always shoo'ing away the birds...

Jackie, 9 months old. No scarring left!

He also started to grow a LOT. He's the largest cat we have. He has a very strong personality, and he soon became the boss. But to me...? He's a little cuddly baby.

When he was 9 months old, we feared for him again. He had a fight with one of our cats (we never saw which one) that resulted in a big scratch in his eye. When we saw him crying blood we worried a lot, we didn't know what it was, but the vet said he would be fine, he wasn't going to loose his other eye. He prescribed some eye drops, and believe me, it was a challenge!! That's a story on its own.

He still has a tiny scar in his eye, but that's it. He's fine. He's perfectly fine. He's healthy, strong, and pretty much crazy. He doesn't remember anything that happened, he doesn't know he's different, now all he has to worry about is dinner time and finding a cozy spot to sleep. He's very happy, and every time I see him, I feel very happy too. He's our little miracle.

Jackie, just a week ago.

At first, I was afraid I would see him different, or that I would always think of him as a cat with one eye. But I don't. I only see him as Jackie, that's the way he is, and he is perfect. He is gorgeous, and I wouldn't change a thing about him.

Here's a little secret... do you see his left ear? He lost the tip too. That's my favorite thing about him. The tip of my right ear is slightly bent, a birth defect I've always ignored (it's almost always covered by hair, and it's always been part of me). When I realized that our ears were similar, I went crazy with excitement. I remember when the vet said he could make both ears even, I immediately yelled "NO!!!".

That's it. It was nice to finally put my memories and thoughts into words. Jackie taught me that anything is possible and that being different doesn't make you different. He's also a proof of how wonderful cats are, specially when they're rescued from the streets or a shelter. They pay you a million times with happiness and love.

~Talty

Starry Sky Nail Art

The people around me may have already noticed that for the past few months, I've been quite passionate about nail art. It's like doing a work of art in a canvas I can take around! It always gets noticed, so I don't feel like I'm showing off... and in a few days, I can make a new one! It allows me to play, have fun, and be creative.

The only sad part is that I'm very limited to the brands of nail polish I can use. Since December I'm only using cruelty free and vegan products, and the only brand I've found in Mexico that meets these requirements is Wet n Wild's nail polishes. To make matters even worst, I can only buy them in one store!

Anyway, leaving that aside... I haven't posted any photos of the nail arts I've done because I don't think I'm good enough yet, but this one has a really cute story that I wanted to write down and share!

Yesterday I applied this dark blue nail polish and went to show the color to Oka. He saw it and said "you know, I think that would look very pretty with stars, like a starry sky". I loved the idea, and next thing I knew, Oka was softly holding my hand and painting little stars in my nails. He had offered to help me, and I felt like a princess!

That made me fall in love with him all over again. Almost daily he makes something that makes me say "wow, he's really awesome! I love him so much!". The best part is that it's never on purpose, it's always little, thoughtful things.

(is it just me, or that was a bit too cheesy?)

Anyway, here's the final result. It's one of my favorite nail arts.

Used Blue Moon as base coat, white acrylic paint for the little stars, and stamped the big stars with one of  Bundle Monster's discs.

Anyway, I hope you'll like it :)
Talty

SG 2

Hello there!

As you might know, if you have been reading this, las month I've been working on my First Sanguinary Guard Unit, and I've taken it slowly, caring for every lil bit with care and love, its been slow but quite joyfully.

Last time I uploaded just a quick Pic. from em, and the idea was to take a nice picture afterwards, sadly we afronted some technical difficulties, but finally we managed a new pic, with added detain and a nice format, also to be uploaded to DA. Without further addo:


It seems to me that I've managed to get the hang of the golden armor, and I'm almost finishing the rest of the models, so more pics coming soon.

Mica shift experiments

My first polymer clay blog! yay! I've meant to start writing them for a while, but I suppose I was lazy. I will start writing about a new favorite, the mica shift technique! This techniques yields some of the most amazing results I've seen, it's like an optic effect that leaves everyone I've shown it to mesmerized.

Mica shift is this thing when you align the mica particles in polymer clay, then you somehow disturb them again to produce interesting effects. Most people use stamps, because when you press the stamp in the clay and cut the raised parts, the pattern appears to be 3D while also being completely flat! It's a lovely optical effect.

I'm sorry I didn't take photos of the process, I will next time. I used Premo metallic because I read somewhere that Premo has more mica, so the effect is more stunning.  The most difficult part was aligning the mica particles, because I had to use a rolling pin... it wasn't really hard, but time consuming. Sanding down the pendant was very time consuming too because I did it manually using wet/dry sandpaper.

I don't know why, but at the time I got obsessed with making a dark red pendant. I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to make that pendant and trying the new technique, so this was my first experiment:

I think that it was fairly decent for my first time, even with the uneven spot on the left side. It's more amazing in person, but it does look 3D! I somehow had the feeling that the 3D effect could be more noticeable, and I remembered reading that the mica shift effect was usually less bold when using red clay. So I made another try with golden premo:

It's sooooooo much prettier! The "carved" parts look deeper with gold clay than with red, so the 3D effect is so much more stunning. I also did a better job sanding/buffing this piece, so it's completely smooth. This is incredible, I love it so much :D

When I was sanding the clay, I noticed that the effect was bolder when the piece was wet. It somehow got into my mind, and I started to ask myself if it would look "more 3D" with a nice layer of gloss...

It totally does!!!

A side photo, so you can see that the surface is totally flat.

This was a very fun experiment. I already got a couple of requests for more pendants, they're surely fun to make and I love the way they look! I hope you can appreciate it from the photos, I did my best to make the pendants look as they do in real life... but the mica shift effect may be something you must admire in person.

I will post a new tutorial soon :)

Sanguinary Guard #1

So, as you may have seen, I got lots of Blood Angles love last month, and it has been "Osom"! to work with, I'm taking it slowly and carefully, enjoying every aspect of the hobby, from reading and getting inspired, knowing as much as possible from the unit and the warriors I'm bringing to life.

Only after being aware of what and who i am modeling, I do my best to try to make justice to the lovely models, every single lil bit has its background, every insignia or honor is considered and acknowledged when painted. Whit every stroke of the brush, with every layer on the artificer armor, I visualize the thousands of years it represent.

And just like this, after 3 weeks of work, the first two Sanguinary Guardians are completed, ready to bring a rain of blood and doom to the enemies of mankind, and hopefully with the help of these gorgeous models, I was able to project the magnificence of the Golden Saints.