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Ordered the custom frames and such for my cels. Might get them as soon as the end of next week, but promised two weeks at the most. That'll give me something to put on the walls in my home office... as in the time since I repainted, I have put up nothing except a calendar.

Also on my to-do list...

Figure out where to get a frame for the ginormous poster promoting the "Gargoyles" comic that I came home with from the Gathering 2007.

Put up shelving for my ever-growing collection of dolls by Vox Mortuum ([info]shes_not_there ).

This room will look like a "Gargoyles" geek-gasm by the time I'm done.

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So I pulled apart that framed Goliath / Elisa cel eBay to see what was what.  Sadly... after however long they've spent sandwiched together, the cel layers are stuck to each other and to the background sheet.  So there's nothing I can safely do but put the whole thing into a new frame with new glass and a new backing.  I won't make that same mistake with my other pieces that have yet to ever be put in frames.

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What's the point of gluing brown paper to the backside of a wooden picture frame?  It must be just to mess with my head.  I want to open up this framed cel I bought off eBay two years ago so I can move the art, mats and all, to a new frame that's not all scratched to hell... but it feels so weird to contemplate attacking it with a razor blade or ripping it open with my bare hands like gift wrap on Christmas morning.  It's like that paper being glued down is saying "No, this is sealed never to be touched again!" :P

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Will I ruin the value of animation cel if I break the seal on the cardboard portfolio that it came in from Disney and have it framed with archival quality materials? Does having Marina Sirtis' autograph on the portfolio change the answer?

I've been reading up on how to preserve and display cels, and all the sources say that intermediate mats should be used so that cels never touch the background and multiple cels (such as when there are two or more characters) never touch each other. Yet... all the layers are touching in the packages that Disney puts together to sell them originally.

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My crochet doll commission of Jezebella arrived from from Vox Mortuum today!  OMG she looks so awesome...

Here there be pictures! )

I am totally going to bring her along to The Gathering of the Gargoyles in August. :)

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I typed up a nice long LJ post this morning, hit the button, and LJ ate it, coughed up an error message, and then gave me nothin' when I hit the back button.  So this is some abbreviated randomness...

Big thunderstorm that hadn't been in the forecast woke me up early this morning.  Temperatures reached close to 90 today.  Supposed to be 70s and 80s through the weekend, too, then go back to the 60s for next wek.  Last weekend it was in the 40s and 50s.  WTF seasons? 

I'm officially addicted to ATCs and [info]y2hecate , [info]karine , and [info]mangagirl  have been my enablers.  Between the trading cards and a few other pieces, I'm pretty sure I've commissioned more stuff in the past month than all of last year.

I could sit on YouTube and watch Pablo Francisco videos all night.  The man is hilarious.

If good fences make good neighbors, I should be getting along with mine better soon because they just put up 6' privacy fence around their entire back yard.  Unfortunately, they're still opening the side door to let the dog out to do his business... and his favorite spot is still my side yard.  So I want to get another 15' of fence to close the gap.

I have a new screen door on order to replace the one ravaged by the windstorm a while back.  After downloading the instructions and reading about all the things I'd have to cut and drill just right to avoid making a call to their "oops" part replacement number, I decided to have Home Depot install it. 

And in other goings on... the planning for The Gathering of the Gargoyles continues.  We've got one more week left before the pre-registration price goes up, so I hope a few more people take advantage of it and register early.

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Watercolor art of Jezebella that arrived in my inbox this morning...


Commission - Jezabella
by *AliWildgoose on deviantART

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I received a package of art today from [info]y2hecate containing prints of some recent commissions, my three ATC card commissions, and some surprise art inside a belated Christmas card.  It's Andrea from my Gargoyles fanfic, proving that she's an angel...



(click the pic to see it bigger)

So awesome... thanks, Nikki!

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A commission of Andrea, from my Gargoyles fanfic, that was just finished just the other day:  link to DeviantArt

This turned out really well.  Fandom crossover cosplay for the win. :)

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Nope, not the 1980s TV show staring Fred Dryer.   [info]slai sent me an awesome present for my birthday.

Image behind the cut... )


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