#hand-made

These three characters are now available in my shop.

Metallic watercolors time!

I am way too easily tempted into new art forms, and I recently found some amazingly fun color-shift and metallic watercolors (from Iuile) that I love but I cannot afford the "real" sets, I just got some tiny samples.

But I have lots of mica pigments left over from my silicone sex toys that I no longer sell because everywhere is fucking prudish now. But hey, mica pigments + a very simple method where I only had to buy some gum arabic and a glass muller = easy sparkly watercolor paints.

This first attempt is, as you might be able to tell, a nice light pink with a golden color-shift shimmer that shows up more or less depending on the angle you view it from.

A test-swatch from the paint batch looks good, but the final test will be how it behaves when re-wetted after the pans dry.

Also I have learned things about batch size, lol. I made a lot more than I needed for a half-pan.

🎃Tricks can be fun, but why not treat yourself instead?🎃

Every year, I feel like Christmas encroaches onto other holidays more and more, including one of my favorites, Halloween. 

So now the tables have turned!! Mwahaha! 🕷

I'm starting off with these two pumpkin themed Bloom Bags from my Halloween collection.(NOW IN THE SHOP) LIMITED EDITION: Only one of each available.

Great for those folks for whom the spooky season is never over. 🕸

These bags are two of five new blooms coming to the shop in the next 48 hours. 

Keep an eye out for our carnivorous plant, cauldron, and spider themed bags coming up next. :) 👁

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive

Wishing you all the best. 🧡

JACK O' LANTERN: FOR SALE

Hillside.

Hillside came in stages but was never planned to be the behemoth that occupies almost the entirety of the west face as it does today. Originally a small clinic, research center and hostel of sorts, it was meant to serve as a rest area for those rugged enough to survey and explore the slopes in the years leading up to the tower system expansion. While state-of-the-art, the original building was small and kept to the essentials providing beds, food, a direct link to the network, research facilities and some emergency services. The port was added quickly as the terrain and wildlife provided ample opportunities for injury and illness and visitors regularly required evacuation for care, not to mention bringing simplicity and convenience to delivering supplies and transporting employees after their shift had expired, replacing an arduous week-long traverse of canyons, hills and valleys. The hangar originally housed a fleet of ambulances, rescue vehicles, and transports but quickly began allowing private ships as the region opened to politics and, eventually, tourism. As more visitors came Hillside expanded. First the hospital and research labs, then luxury accommodations and entertainment brought an influx of investment and private business opportunities. Convention centers, performance halls, atriums, gathering spaces, and living quarters followed, essentially becoming a city unto itself, nestled in the treetops of the west face.