yiddlenet

if a couple more people like my smaug pic at colors! gallery i might make the most liked of the week! http://tinyurl.com/smaug

so this week i didn’t wait until last minute, yay! someone picked “Middle Earth” as the theme for this week’s challenge over in the Colors! gallery forums, so i decided to paint Smaug the Magnificent. Here he is, sitting atop his hoarded treasure, along with the goblet he stole from me. That’s my name in elvish on the goblet. I was getting pretty lazy by the time I put the treasure in, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. May re-do this one in Painter at some point.

Smaug stole my goblet

Visit this picture on the Colors! website to view a movie of how it was painted.

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today’s cheapo bento buys:

• 4 sheets of pretty paper to use as photo backgrounds for my bento (pikko’s idea)  8/$1 at Michael’s on clearance
• 12 silicone baking cups to use as food dividers: 12/$3.50 at Walmart (these are usually $10)
• 1 Dynobytes sandwich cutter: $1.98 at Walmart

i usually avoid Walmart, i know in some places Walmarts are nice and clean and well-lit and friendly…here they just aren’t.  but i had a strange feeling today that it might be worth the 50% chance that nigel would get a new ding in the parking lot (speaking from past experience) and it paid off.  i’ve been wanting those silicone cups for a while but was too cheap to buy any and i didn’t notice any new dents in the car

silicone cups and dynobyte

just realized what a nerd i am. watching movies on my wii while i paint on my DS Lite. i wish i could get the xbox to clean the kitchen.

think i may go see if i can get hulu on the wii browser