Been meaning to thank GCA for this PWE he sent me recently.
A few appreciated vintage needs, plus a Sheena Easton card to make a cardart version for him.
Thanks, Greg! I'll get a return your way soon.
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Checking Fergie off my '75 Topps needs reminded me I'm not too far off with that set. After snagging the few remaining commons on Sportlots and COMC, I'm now down to just a few big names:#1 Aaron (Highlight)
80 Fisk
280 Yaz
320 Pete Rose
500 Nolan Ryan
510 Vida Blue
531 Reds (Sparky)
616 (Jim Rice RC)
If anybody has any of those for trade, let me know. I'm thinking it'd be cool to complete the set within its Heritage Year, but I'll have to get serious about it to score all those in the next month.
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Video gaming update.
After playing it regularly for the past year and a half, I've finished Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and have gone backwards to the previous game Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time. It's really frustrating starting over with a weak Link getting my ass handed to me by basic bitch monsters. The sequel really improved gameplay with handy ways to do things, and it's like this first game is a rough draft. But hey, that's on me for playing them out of order, I guess. lol. It's still fun enough to play and I'll try to keep at it. But like, the sequel has rockets to help you quickly blast up into the air when you need to get some elevation, but the first game makes you slowly climb around a lot more instead. There's probably a better way, but I haven't discovered it. I started playing it on Halloween and I'm giving myself a month before I search for help online, but once we hit December, I'm going to have to spend some time watching YouTube tips videos and shrine walkthroughs.
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Excuse the brag, but I had my best financial day as a "cardartist" yesterday, with sales topping $250 on Thanksgiving Eve. Sure would be great if that was a common payday for me, but it was really just a coincidence of a couple outlier big sales (and the Ozzie Smith '90 Donruss tree ornament). The '88 Topps Barry Bonds "Super Rainbow" was made by request after I had made a similar display using Randy Johnson's 1989 Topps rookie. Barry's '87 Topps rookie is a bit too pricey for this concept, but the '88 worked well. I'm not excited about the prospect of making more of these, though, as I kinda get burnt out working on the same card that many times. But it's a cool end result with them all together.
The other big sale was a lot of 36 of my "white border" '91 Fleer mods to a guy who took a liking to the remix of a much maligned baseball card design that dared to lean hard into the color yellow. I think it's the first time I've parted with these things other than as singles. I gave him a good bulk deal. I spent a lot of time of these, but I think it's kinda like a gardener tending to a garden. Caring for them is often a relaxing process, then hopefully your flowers eventually bloom and you can visibly enjoy the fruits of your labor. But yeah, I'll probably try to build up my inventory again with a new crop next summer.
Anyways, I'm glad I had at least that one nice payday. Really it probably just got me out of the red for all the supplies and stuff I've spent money on to see if I could use them to do neat things to cards with. But I feel like I'm in a good place. Don't tell my wife but I'm basically retired from the rat race.. at least for now, but hopefully forever. My top goal in life is to not have to go back to the grind. Sometimes I stress myself out too much just working on my dumb art stuff. Like, I have to have sometime in my life to stress over even when I can basically just play Zelda all day. No but really, let's be honest, my real job these days is "stay at home doggie dad" to an attention-demanding 4.5-year old pit-lab-husky-wolf mutt mix who still acts very much like a crazy puppy. (She even excitedly peed in the house last week for the first time in a long time! I really thought we were over than unfortunate phase. Glad we still have the cleaning enzyme stuff to get rid of the odor.)
I like when I make cardart sales because then I can walk Ruby to the post office, which makes me feel like I'm actually doing something productive for me and my family, not just aimlessly walking around the neighborhood with my dog so she'll eventually chill for a while afterwards.
I took a picture of her this morning just after midnight in low before-bed lighting. I thought it was funny she saved a little bit of kibble from dinner to ring in Thanksgiving by eating just after the stroke of midnight. Like, she goes hard for Thanksgiving. But no, she does have a blast with the whole local family together in one place.
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I found a nicely glowing sheet and had some fun with translucent cards, as you can see from the shadows they left behind. Can you identify which 4 cards were there? One's a Nine Pockets custom.
I'll call the post good here. Thanks for reading and hope you all have/had a great holiday!
Gavin I could finish your 75s if you can look at my lists lmk what you can help on & are we talking minis or Full-Sized lmk
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Your custom cards are great and it's awesome if you can turn them into a bit of a side hustle! I tried Breath of the Wild for a while but for whatever reason I never truly got into it. I should really give it a second go but I have such limited time for video games anymore and I've got a ton of other games that I also want to try yet!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the card sales. That page of Bonds looks fantastic! Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Gavin! And congratulations on your big sales day. Here's hoping that many more will be in your near future :)
ReplyDeleteRuby has the same style of slow feeder as Mischief! At least for mine, it means she takes longer than two minutes to devour her kibble.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the card art sales!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the big pay day! Love your work... and glad others do too. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving with your family.
ReplyDeleteP.S. My brother just gave me his Nintendo Switch games... and a few are Zelda games. Haven't played them yet... but I'm planning to over Christmas break.
Belated congrats on the card sales, and hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the payday. Those 1991Fs remain one of the smartest ideas I've seen on the internet.
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