~ 'SkahllyBir Yarn Tails ~

[Bir]

So far for the most part we've been safe... as in it didn't touch down till it passed over where I live.
Basically the whole thing so far has been since a few days ago.. the night Joplin got hit or the night before but it was like 11 when I got home and when I did I turned on the news and it was still going about the storms rolling through. My part of the Midwest has a knack for after dark tornadoes which doesn't help matters. That night the storm was going straight west and had a warning that would have crossed into our county and probably have been on point to directly hit us but we got lucky and the warning expired just as it went over state line. (I live like 10 minutes from the border of Kansas)
So we got lucky with that. Then last night stuff rolled through again and it was supposed to be bad but it was more just a bunch of hail rather than the tornadoes. Those had all hit in Oklahoma rather than here.
Today however.. I don't know how to explain today.. we weren't supposed to have anything after 9am. I got in the shower around 10:30 and after I got out and dressed I sat down at my desk to tell my boyfriend I was going to go find lunch before he came to get me. I turned on the tv at that point to see that the whole viewing area had been put under a tornado watch and then the upper portion of our county where I live was under a tornado warning. The sirens weren't going or anything.. so I looked outside and it was completely fine. Then the sirens went off about 5 minutes after that while I was asking my boyfriend what the heck was going on.
Course the dang cats don't cooperate about going downstairs when the sirens are going off so I was down there alone. Hail etc.
While sitting in my corner of the basement I had the phone and couldn't get a hold of my mom because they had to take cover at her work 40 minutes away. Then I could hear how bad the rain was and started to here it filling the window well since we have a problem with the basement leaking.... then the water started coming in... then it poured in... So I got to sit there watching the puddle slowly come towards my corner. In the end I got flooded out of the basement right about when it was supposed to be done with our area. It sadly hit the town just north of us.. like not even 5 minutes away.

My whole complaint with the whole thing other than being flooded out of the basement was the fact that the sirens out here weren't constant.. so they would go off for a few minutes only to start blaring again. In my opinion that is a danger since people might have thought it ok to go back upstairs or something only to have them come back on because it wasn't safe.

It's a zoo out here weather wise. After the storm got done here the east of us had at least 15 counties under tornado warnings.


After all this.. I'm soooo glad it's not going to rain tomorrow.

Me to. Sadly that last bit all happened this morning before I could escape to my boyfriends. Which was a good thing with the tornadoes later on. My basement would have been an electrical hazard had a tornado actually hit and destroyed stuff.

I came home just recently since Jordan was going to bed early. Been hard to sleep around here the last few days. I just feel bad for the people in Joplin seeing as all this went through today with a 3rd of the town just gone.. where would you take cover when everything is destroyed?

But ya.. I just got home and started brushing floofs.. just calm the mind since I haven't slept well either. Tonight however.. no thunder, hail.. lighting striking houses nearby.. just quiet. So I can sleep in peace.
Now we just have the aftermath of basement flooding to deal with so I'll be sick the next 2 weeks while we deal with the mold issues. That however is manageable lol.

Nice to know that tail making can relax you and give you something to do when your brain just can't handle doing anything else.

Hopefully everyone else that lives in the Midwest is doing ok out there to... it's been a bad year tornado wise. I miss last year.. we like had none anywhere out here last year..

I need to remember next time that when I take a break from making tails.. when I got back at it it's like starting all over with my back hurting. Good thing I don't do this full time like you guys. I think once I get my license finished.. and then take care of the people on my waiting list and the two people in person that want tails.. I might not do commissions for them very often if at all. Just do them when I feel like it.
Seems I'm going epically slow with my mini tail but it's 1/3 of the way done.

Holy crap, Blossom. Of all the things that happen to you, tornadoes and floods? Jeez. x.x;

As for the tails: I don't do it full time. In fact, I find it really hard to just sit down and brush them nowadays. I always have a full plate of many different things to do commission and non commission wise, and as of late it's easier to get the not messy ones done. So not tails. XP

I have a load of SPN to watch tonight though, so I'll be brushing like a madwoman throughout that. : D And I'll be trying to brush like a crazyface to get that leopard tail done before my sisters get out of school, which I think is in about a week and half... I dunno. Maybe less? -shrugs-

As for me, I practically felt like I was dying at Shewana's. It started off with light cramps, a headache, and slight dizzyness. The day goes on and my cramps get worse as usual, I have to go outside the barn every few minutes feeling like I'm going to puke, and I couldn't even hold a broom or shovel by noon. Cari told me to put them down and go call my mother because I looked as white as a ghost and that I should be checked for anemia and ovarian cysts. Well I've had practically every sign of anemia for three years now, but I don't know about the cyst thing. I have almost all of the symptoms of that too, but they only occur one day a month. XP So I doubt it's anything but severe crampage.

Uggghghhhghghghghhghgghghh. I feel like crap. Total, complete crap. Stinkier than my poop boots.

But to make up for the half hour of work Cari did without me, I'm going in early on my next day at work to get things done and make her day a little shorter too!

I'm off to get down a line drawing of a german shepherd, and the line drawing for my dad's commission, drink some coffee, go back to sleep, and wake up tomorrow. Night everyone.

[TwiSteDCBloSsoM]

Oh ya I forgot. tifreak8x sent you a message on one of your accounts about Sai. That was what I meant about getting you help with sai if you needed it. He's my buddy lol.

But ya.. it's just crap weather wise here. Middle of the USA so what else is there to expect? I plan on brushing floofs tomorrow to get my tail finished. After my mom drags me all over town that is. Usual Saturday crap... I dislike being dragged around.

As for the cramps thing.. even if it's one day a month is could also be endometriosis rather than ovarian cysts. Mine went from one day a month to two weeks every three months since I was on a 3 months set of pills. Was not pleasant.

On other random notes things I've found out in the last month psychology wise. Supposedly I have ADD which explains why I can't read without complete silence. I can't pay attention otherwise and I get distracted easily. Other than that I was diagnosed with depression. One that affects my self confidence and just kinda makes me keep things to myself. A lot of it though is situational so they aren't putting me on meds thankfully. Regardless of if I had meds to make me happy it wouldn't change the fact that I'm overweight and unhappy about it and that I'm allergic to everything outside and unhappy about that.
The diagnosis has at least led to my mother actually being more supportive and understanding. A lot of the times she blows up because I haven't done certain things. Things that if she were to think about, she would know I can't do because I can't go outside to really do them.

I've been put on some heavy immuno-suppressant medications to try and make the visible light allergy more tolerable so I could at least get a normal job.. go to school. Though school wise I have no idea because the one thing that would make me happy to go do I can't do career wise. Since almost all horticulture careers kinda involve you being outside.

So I guess that's more what my break has been so far other than working on the license getting. Me dealing with my depression and medical conditions to try and find that happy medium. I'm just glad to have hobbies that keep me happy that I've accomplished something.

Though if the tornadoes come and take all my hobby materials I might turn into and angry monster and go about a rampage of the midwest as justice.

[Cloudy]

I hope everything ends up working out well for both you guys. Such issues suck. : /

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Have a premade for sale for $60. I think it turned out really pretty, the colors are so warm and natural.

Waiting for color confirmation from takesu; have bits of his tail in all different stages of the tailing process.

[Bir]

That's a pretty tail, Cloudy. I made one similar, but nobody wanted it. Yours is much warmer looking though, and is really awesome x3

As for me: Been brushing away on Catamountsnow's tail, and will be posting pictures within the next couple of days. : 3 Hoping to get it done by the end of the week. Actually, /needing/ to get it done within the week.

[Cloudy]

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(I know, I'm so lazy I couldn't even arrange it nice, it's just all BLEH on my kitchen table)

About halfway done with takesu's tail, as long as no more changes need to be made. This tail... I love the way it moves so far XD I think that's my favorite part about long tails, just holding them by the keyring and making them swish swish swish. -is ridiculous-

SO YEAH. Posting an image, as proof that yes, I have been working XP I actually have been working on tails pretty reasonably, but there have been a lot of second thoughts on colors for this tail so it's been a lot of taking off, putting back on, brushing tons of one color and having to switch to a different one. I guess the plus side is, I have a lot of Rusty Vanna all ready for a tail XP Might sneak in a plain fox tail with that while waiting on commission 'okay's and such.

[TwiSteDCBloSsoM]

I know what you mean. I haven't made one in a while but I love how the long tails move... so swishy!
I started straightening more this morning.. just had an appointment yesterday, then my boyfriends brother got married today so I couldn't finish. Had just been working while I waiting to find out when we were leaving.
Tomorrow I should only have to go to the bank.. and so after that I should have all the time tomorrow to finish straightening and such and then sew the rest of the tail and finally have my mini tail done.

[Deo]

Blossom you are in Joplin?!?!
I've been here since May 9th, why have we not met up? I mean everyone's busy with clean up, and I've been putting windows in cars and welding new roofs on tornado damaged vehicles, but we should meet up!

[TwiSteDCBloSsoM]

I haven't been able to go down to Joplin for the clean up.. I'm allergic to the sun.. and everything else green and growing outside.. T.T
I live up in Belton what is it like 50 miles North of Joplin?


Anyway tail wise.. should be done today.. just been slow.. power was out for a while this morning. I hate to say this.. but I'm considering selling it to add to the weight watcher funds. Just means I'll have to make myself another one lol...

[Cloudy]

That's cool that you've been helping out, Deo. I'm sure a lot of people are grateful : 3 Hopefully all this crazy weather stuff can take a rest, which, knock on wood, it seems like it may be starting to. So many areas have taken a hard beating, the last thing they or anyone else needs is a repeat bashing.

@Blossom: At least the plus side to selling your tail is that you know how to make them so you can make another XP The only thing is finding time. At some point I'd like to make a Cyber Skahlly tail for myself, I just need to work it in. XP

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Finished takesu's tail, as long as no additional changes are needed. I really like it, the colors are just really pleasant. Hopefully he likes it as much^^

My next tail is catokat's realistic fox tail. That should be fun : 3

[TwiSteDCBloSsoM]

True.. I would just like to have one on me for when people in person are interested. Like I know two of my friends are but they are never around when I have a tail done before it ships.
Like I said though.. the life change is more important.. I'm close to the main goal.. I needed about 80 to order the kit set. Just the extra 20 I hopefully don't need to save for. That's more in case the kit is missing the start guide which from what I've read online it is sadly.

Anyway taily that I posted for sale. Dunno if it's visible but it's mainly a light silvery grey then the black ring and then a darker grey before the white tip.

[Sting Soular]

Hey Cloudy / Bur I need another tail I love the tail you all made me before so I need a 23 inch tail white large wide wolf tail

its for a friend

[Cloudy]

Hey Cloudy / Bur I need another tail I love the tail you all made me before so I need a 23 inch tail white large wide wolf tail

its for a friend

Hey Sting! I'm glad to hear you are loving your tail, and I can definitely give you a quote on that tail!

For 23 inches at large wide, it would be $115 + $10 for shipping and a brush, so $125 total. Does that sound alright? Either Bir or I can do it, unless Bir doesn't want to. I don't know what her projected start-date would be; I assume I'd be starting on it mid-August, maybe a bit earlier or a bit later. I try to make good estimates, but the truth is that I never really know XP

Also, would you like the tail to be completely pure white? Or would you like grays/blacks added in for realism?

[Bir]

Hey Sting! I'm glad to hear you are loving your tail, and I can definitely give you a quote on that tail!

For 23 inches at large wide, it would be $115 + $10 for shipping and a brush, so $125 total. Does that sound alright? Either Bir or I can do it, unless Bir doesn't want to. I don't know what her projected start-date would be; I assume I'd be starting on it mid-August, maybe a bit earlier or a bit later. I try to make good estimates, but the truth is that I never really know XP

Also, would you like the tail to be completely pure white? Or would you like grays/blacks added in for realism?

Truthfully, I said this. I said it through her fingers. I'm not bad at checking up on my own thread, no I'm not. I just use her eyes because they're blue and mine are brown. Blue is easier to see through than brown. /end BS

xD

Anyway. Haven't gotten a reply back from Catamount, so I'm off to work on Luthien's tail! This will be fun. : 3 Also bought some wool yarn the other day and decided to make myself an itsy bitsy tail and play with TRIMMING!! I love it so much. I'll post a picture in a few minutes. I love working with wool because it just looks so much more realistic, although less silky. Though I don't care about the silkyness in all honesty, I just like that wool is fluffy and realistic. xD

[Sting Soular]

I needs to be pure white cloudy

[Bir]

I needs to be pure white cloudy

Okay. : 3

Now it is up to you who you'd like to work on it! ^^

Also: Since this month is nothing but preparing for my birthday by working on trade tails and such, I started off with a little gift to myself. As I mentioned before, I bought some wool yarn and played with length with trimming. I think I did a pretty good job. : 3



I will now offer trimming to shape tails. Yay.

[Cloudy]

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About halfway done with Catokat's tail! It's a little bit slower going as I'm using a large variety of different color blends in it, but I think it's totally worth it. I'm going for a realism look, though it's actually a little more vibrant... That, and, real red fox tails are surprisingly not all that poofy in my experience.

I like the tail you made for yourself, Bir. : 3 I've never worked with wool yarn. Does it brush quicker? Vanna's the coarsest yarn I've used.
I already kind of trim all the time, so I can't really offer anything new XP Although I don't typically shape them that way unless the tip or a design needs trimwork.

Seconding Bir, Sting, either of us are more than happy to make your tail, you're free to pick either of us : 3

[Sting Soular]

Y are you making me choose O_O .......I feel like im having to tell two good friends that one isn't as good as the other T.T

cloudy did my last one so I guess ide like cloudy to do it........(god these decisions are hard -_-)

[Cloudy]

Y are you making me choose O_O .......I feel like im having to tell two good friends that one isn't as good as the other T.T

cloudy did my last one so I guess ide like cloudy to do it........(god these decisions are hard -_-)

XP Yeah, I figure it's always a hard decision. No matter which of us you choose you should be getting something awesome. Sometimes people know right away just because they've seen one of us do something that the other hasn't tried yet or something (though since this tail doesn't have a pattern that's less relevant), or because of the number of people in our slots.
So sorry for putting you on the spot XP (Maybe we should flip a coin for tails? XD ) But I'll happily take on this tail for you. I'll go ahead and add you to my slots right away, and notify you when I begin (though like I said I presume it'll be a bit yet).

[Sting Soular]

XD ROFL. flip a coin for tails ...... But what if I get heads I buy ears next time? XP

and Don't worry im a pasiant person XD

seeing as hpw its not for me O_- (look ive got a monicle)

[Bir]

XD ROFL. flip a coin for tails ...... But what if I get heads I buy ears next time? XP

and Don't worry im a pasiant person XD

seeing as hpw its not for me O_- (look ive got a monicle)

Lol. XD And sometimes, someone will buy one tail from one of us, and another from the other one of us. Collect them all! xD Not like there are many to collect from, but hey.

Preparing the Fen calico tail for shipping that Fen isn't buying because Fen never got back to me. : C So someone else bought it! Yay. : D Was going to dissect and kill it, but I'm glad it found a home. xD

[Cloudy]

Haha XP Speaking of that, I need to get working on ears again sometime. I occasionally still get comments on the one ear that I made using yarn on a wire grid. Tails are just more fun XP Still, it'd be nice if people could buy both from us, so that they match right.

@Bir: Also, you still need to add the comment I sent you. Because I think it's awesome X3 -just reminding-

Annnnnnd! Update! :





Finished tail for Catokat, unless any changes are needed! This was me trying to do realism. I think I was relatively successful. Hopefully others think so too XP I had fun with it, once I really got to working on it I had a hard time stopping XD

Next up on my list is Warpony. I have a pretty orangey Maine Coon tail to make for her : 3

[Sting Soular]

hey cloudy change in plan Im going to need a little bit of black and silver in the tail I ordered but just a little bit

thanks alot in advance XD

[Cloudy]

hey cloudy change in plan Im going to need a little bit of black and silver in the tail I ordered but just a little bit

thanks alot in advance XD

Okay. Just a little bit of occasional mottling, no specific pattern? No issue, just want to make sure I have the right info down for when I start on it.

[Sting Soular]

ya sounds about write

[Goddard]

hallo i rly need a tail for my costume i have an idea of what i want it to look like but i need it bigger then an average wolf tail round bout 73cm or juzt under 29inch da link below haz a pic of what me wan it to look lyk plz contact bk soon ^^

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...w=1024&bih=640