Eggbert’s House Of Furbs

also i used to live probably 45 minutes away from you and i thought it was so cool when i would sometimes see pictures of your furbs in places i went too often, especially since furby fans are so rare to find in person (i still haven’t seen many even though i’ve been in the community a while)

anyway yeah thank you for having this blog ig? idk :)

I am so happy that you’ve enjoyed this blog, it’s been a real treat to have a place to share my weird hobbies at. I think this is one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me about all this.

Hey there!! Thanks for checking in! The house is actually extremely sturdy lol. Everything is held together with pocket screws, wood pegs, and wood glue. The thing is actually pretty heavy and annoying to move sometimes. Because of all the effort put in to building it soundly, and because furbies weigh like nothing, I am pretty certain it should be totally fine. If not, you’re welcome to tell me “told ya so!!”. Also I’m pretty confident I could fix it if necessary! And if I can’t, I got pals who can.

Peach and Skywalker got some work done! I dyed Peach with red and pink paints, so they’re now this kind of pretty mottled peachy coral, and I painted their face and lashes to match. They are a very pretty baby!

Skywalker got his face painted! I took a really long time to try to paint the sparkle stars on his lids lol. But next I plan to swap out his eyes for some custom ones I’m planning that will have nebula or something in ‘em.

I renovated the craft room in the furby house, because I was tired of how beige-y the room was. So here’s Jam and Goose chillin. I still need to hang stuff up on the walls in there but:

I have a much larger renovation planned! I’m going to knock out the walls seen here marked with red Xs. The kitchen will be expanded, and the living room will be too. Besides making these rooms larger, this will also make a little bit more space available for the furbies to hang out in. I am also debating changing the patio space and the rooftop lounge again. And Eggbert is probably gonna get new wallpaper, or perhaps he’ll move his office to the room above the living room.

ITS TIME FOR: disheveled lil guys I found on ebay:

So I was given an owl furby by a friend who happened to have one in their basement (???)!!I’ve named them Jam! Jammy Berry!!!

I also decided to try a couple things-

Cutie beaks! I see yall doing it a lot and it’s so cute!! I also got a dremel tool for my bday last December and I am now unstoppable. And I decided it was time to give it a go. Jam got his first, and then Red in the last photo got hers the following day (today lol). They aren’t perfect but that’s okay with me!

I dyed Jam with rit dye synthetic! Peacock green, I used the entire bottle. Furby fur is either polyester or acrylic, the prior is especially difficult to dye. To prevent burning or melting, I got the dye bath boiling, turned off the heat, and stirred in Jam’s pelt. Let it sit for a while, removed his skin and started again. Worked pretty okay! Not as dark as expected but I am very keen on this jade green. The faceplate was also dyed, which is excellent.

Meeting of the minds at my desk. I am currently trying to finish my thesis and wrapping up my research for my masters degree. The gang are all still doing their thing, and this silly group keeps me company while I work. Also, the ladybug furby here isn’t Strawberry!! My bff gave me this lil guy after I presented a seminar discussing some of my research!!! I haven’t thought of a name yet.

I am hoping that I can spend more time on this stuff in the spring/early summer this upcoming year. I know for sure that I’ll need something positive to work on and think about with all this bullshit happening right now. Ugh.

I guess on a positive note I’ve been invited to do a PhD at another university so that’s cool.

lol.

I’ve been super busy with grad school because I graduate this fall, which means I have to be done with all of my research and thesis and everything by November. So, the furbyhouse has just been sittin like this for a while now. The orange room is about to be renovated AGAIN because I’ve decided it needs a back wall plus the fireplace needs to be installed, and I want to reposition where it’ll go.

As some as you know, I have this wonderful partner who is low key obsessed with the fact that I am so obsessed with furbies. Prior to this I was engaged to someone who at best tolerated this hobby - which at the time I thought was the best level of support I could get for something so frivolous (lol go to therapy). So here’s the thing: a good partner will be supportive of your hobby no matter how weird/how little they may understand it, simply because they value you. They see how much that hobby means to you, and get excited with you about it. They value your hobby by proxy because they see how happy it makes you. This should be a bare minimum kinda thing. And obviously this is a reciprocal kinda thing too.

You don’t have to have a partner, you don’t need to have a partner. But should you choose to seek one out, find a partner who celebrates your weird self and your hobbies. They don’t have to understand it, but they should at the very least respect it.

Glad you asked! Or well I’m sure most people weren’t asking but TOO BAD this is my blog and now you have to LOOK AT THIS FURBY.

Noble lives at my partners shop, and is currently modeling glass pendants. He also can be found elsewhere sometimes, but he is enjoying his most recent gig. I keep telling him he can move home to the furby house at any time, but he is happy where he is.

It’s a pink kitchen, guys!

After a lot of consideration I scrapped the old tiles, replaced em with these orange ones, did a warm tone wash over the pink because it was too cool a shade (plus now it really looks like lime wash or something), and I ripped out the kitchen counters and rebuilt em so they’re L-shaped and built out of wood.