Sale stuff

All items for sale, if you are interested in any of these, drop me an email via www.squinky.co.uk or via Twitter @squink

All items have been displayed and are in excellent condition, packaging is all opened, and not perfect, but not bad (except the biskup egg which was ripped) Packaging only included where pictured.

Tokidoki Tiger

£10 posted in UK, bit more overseas

Mono Ledbetter Sluggonadon with card, which is slightly creased.

£15 posted in UK, bit more overseas.

Vinyl super mario bros mushrooms

£12 posted in uk for the set. Large one has a mark, which may be removable with a magic eraser or something.

Biskup Town Crier 8" Qee with slight nose rub (hardly visible)

£40 posted in UK

Biskup wrecker panda 2.5" Qee

£10 posted in UK

Biskup Polska Egg Qee

Boxed.

£45 posted in UK

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Mini fig clearout

Well, I'm slimming down my collection, and trying to just keep bigger vinyl, so these have to go... If you are interested in any, drop me a message via the e-mail address on www.squinky.co.uk or message me on Twitter @squink for a price. :)

All have been carefully displayed, Cris Rose custom is called Little Nightmare and is around 3" tall. 

Wordpress Blogging

I'm in the process of setting up over on wordpress.com. The new blog address is http://chrissquink.wordpress.com so anyone that has this bookmarked, or follows, note that it probably won't be getting updated after today and all news will now be on wordpress instead. :)

Thanks!

Seishin 2 & Killer Figs

Just finished off the second wave of Seishin custom Dunnys (see pic) Hope you like them, again, really enjoyed doing these! Finding out from @jamesyeah that Games Workshop have stopped making Tentacle Pink was pretty devastating though, my favourite colour of theirs, looks like I'll be mixing my own in future! I'm on a quest to find new bands at the moment, I hate feeling there are amazing bands out there I haven't heard yet! If any of you lot have any suggestions for bands/singers you think i'd like send links/names my way via the comments :) I'm blaupraust on Last.fm if you don't know what kind of music I like. Currently listening to Blue Foundation, who remind me a little of Mew, not bad at all! (Thought I hear one of their songs is on the Twilight soundtrack)

Short blog tonight as I'm not feeling too great (must be something I ate) So for now, here's the new Dunny's they go up tomorrow (Monday) at 7pm BST. :)

Risque Banquet

Wow, It's bank holiday weekend again, which means screaming children are already lining the streets, searching the gutters for grains of sand to create some kid of holiday memory, while their parents wade around a basement full of money they are saving for a rainy day. Yes indeed, these are the very same people that have destroyed the economy and doomed us all, That's if the piggy flu doesn't get us first. Actually, I jest, I'm not really that mean/bitter. However the media do annoy me with their needless scaremongering, so much in fact that not only am I not going to buy a newspaper for the next few weeks, but I'm going to shout abuse at every single newspaper I see for the next few days, so there! Let that be a lesson to those journalists with too much flu ridden time on their hands.

Oh, That's right, I'm writing a blog here, not waging a mini war on bad words by bad people. So... I'm just about finished with the second wave of custom Dunnys, which will be the last set for a while. I'll get pics up once they're all finished, and let you know how to get your hands on them very soon. Really enjoying painting at the moment and a lot

 of love has gone into these, my heart is now fully back in it, and I really hope it shows in my work :) The mini Uglydoll custom I finished on Thursday, complete with single tooth (pretty useless for eating anything other than candy floss/chips can be seen below! Hope you like it!

In my quest to start fresh with my life, after the recent changes I went and ordered a bike (pushbike), which I'm hoping i'll still be able to ride, since I haven't so much as gone within 4 feet of one since I was about 12 (and even then I was constantly falling off it and tearing open parts of my knee, by mistake..of course) So now I'll be hitting the roads, in a silly helmet, possibly with bunny ears attached to add to the level of comedy as I try hard to pedal at high speed, crawling along like a crippled squirrel.

Until next time..!

New stuff and nonsense!

Wow, what's going on? I go to bed late, set my alarm for early, and still somehow wake up at 6:30 for no reason. Something is amiss! Possibly excited about having a cup of Assam, picked it up yesterday after being recommended it by James Yeah in my search for a coffee like alternative to tea (yes really) It's not like coffee, but really what was I expecting?? After my beans mostly failed other than the 4 I put out last week, I tried to 'chit' a few in a small box with damp paper, planted those and every single one has sprouted perfectly! Now I have more growing than I know what to do with! There will be no shortage of runner beans here as long as the frost holds off..

Finished the customs for my blind boxes set yesterday (see below) Hope you like them :)

Mysterious Quectangle

Hello!

It's been a quiet week here, I apologize for the lack of blogging, had a lot to sort out and it's been quite stressful so I thought it wrong to take my fury out here (I know I usually enjoy a good rant but it seemed better to give it a rest on this occasion) This is the first night for almost a week I haven't had nervous muscle twitches in my face.

Finally got a mouse sorted for the Mac, which meant AT LAST I could put down that Wacom pen and enjoy using a flattened hand to control the screen based small arrow that seems to dictate life to so many at this point in history. I picked up a 2nd hand Pro mouse off Ebay since the new Mighty Mouse seems so problematic, not to mention expensive. It's definitely going to take some getting used to the lack of a 2nd mouse button and scroll wheel, but I tend to adjust to change fairly quickly so it should be fine. :) oh! I also managed to cut caffeine out of my life for a few days while I was trying to kill this nervous stress related twitching, happy to say I had no withdrawal symptoms other than craving the taste of coffee a little on the second day. No headaches, fatigue or anything like that though. See! I'm no addict!! The cup on the 3rd day was probably the best I've ever had though.. Not because I was in need of a hit so badly, just erm...well, just because I love the taste of coffee so much. Which always leads me to wonder why, if I enjoy coffee so much, I hate most coffee based edibles, chocolates, cakes....coffee doesn't work for me in any form except CUP BASED & Good old chocolate coated coffee beans. You know the ones, they leave bits of bean between your teeth for weeks afterwards, regardless of brushing frequency and vigorousness.

The runner beans I've been attempting to grow have pretty much failed except for 4 that grew, the rest of the beans rotted in the soil, pretty disappointing, but should be able to salvage something at least. Of the 4 that are growing, 2 are fairly poor, but 2 have gone crazy and are already up to around 30cm in height. really need to get them planted out now with a cane support before they fall over! Bamboo canes also make great tools for lightsabre battles when their usefulness as supports is over. 

I'll be working on a whole load of new customs over the next couple of weeks, my new website design is also almost done, just need to get some work re-photographed for it before it goes live. I do enjoy doing site designs, unfortunately my knowledge of Dreamweaver remains fairly basic, I see a web design course in my future...

Until next time! Have a great day/evening/night!

Vimto Paradise

Kids, why must you mock me with your youth?

I'm still coming to terms with being single for the first time in 6 years and figuring out where to go with my life, I toyed with the option of going to uni, both to learn a little more and also to meet like minded people from the area who might be possible future collaborators. However the cost of such a venture at this point would be high, and I don't feel like I'm in the right position right now.. So onto the next, which is updating my folio and trying to find an agent of some kind to help me find work, illustration, design, whatever.

Whatever I do, I want to start traveling more, see more of the world, and take in more inspiration from nature, people and places rather than being stuck behind a desk with stale ideas. It's not a great way to progress so I want out. I've been spending a lot of time trying to grow flowers, and runner beans, they've just sprouted and it's quite a nice feeling. It's not something I've ever had any interest in really, but i can see why people get caught up in their allotments, it's really quite relaxing, and the rewards are great. I need to balance this with work, and hopefully it should lead to me feeling fulfilled for the first time in a while.

I'm currently working on an 8" Dunny that was commissioned a while back, to be finished over the next few days, Then i'll be putting together a new blind boxed series of around six 3" Dunnys. As well as this though I'm heading back into graphic design, where I started. I love painting, and it's a great way to get characters out of my head, but I do miss my grids and typography a lot!

I've been clearing out the loft over the past few days and have the first of many e-bay auctions up now, you can find my stuff here: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/blaupraust

Here's a peek at my latest custom so far... Hope you like it! Have a great week, I'll blog as soon as I have interesting news, or I buy branded beans!

Crumpets!!

I've been busy the past couple of nights working on new customs, a pair of Dunnys I'm calling Crumpets! (pictured below) I'm actually enjoying painting again at the moment, probably because I'm getting out in the garden too so it's breaking up the work a little. It is meant to get wet and windy again soon though so I'm hoping my seedlings pull through!

New customs both lovingly sprayed with Montana Gold and painted in acrylics.

Working on a new website soon, which will have a new gmail e-mail address and hopefully will result in an end to the ridiculous issues I've had lately with port blocking by my isp.

Hope you in the UK are enjoying the sunshine while it lasts!