Weekend Sale at Greyed Out!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to post and let everyone know that this weekend only(June 16th and 17th), I’ve reduced prices on Greyed Out’s drawstring bags to $16/each. That puts them all at $20 *or less* with shipping. Each drawstring bag is handmade by me, so I know that they’re great quality. I have two designs, the standard dice bag and the freestanding bag, which has a 4″ square bottom and stands open on the tabletop for really easy access to your dice.

Check them out at Greyed Out and take a look below:

Per-suede Me.

I recently picked up some suede, and have been making it into dice bags. Let me just say that this fabric is incredible, and I love working with it. I have two colors, a smoky gray and a rich sienna. I think the pictures have come out really well – I took them both on the map I’ve been working on, with dice scattered around.

The smoky gray suede bag is perfect for moodier gaming days. The color is reminiscent of a stormy day, the sky flashing thunder and lightning as the dice roll.

The rich sienna suede dice bag is more of a traditional fantasy bag. It’s easy to imagine this bag hanging from the belt of a warrior or a wizard, holding spell components or a handful of coins for that night’s ale at the tavern.

I’ve also been continuing with my 365 Sketch Project. So far I’ve been getting at least one sketch a day done, which you can see at my Tumblr. It’s a mix of Mouse Guard fan art, pin up girls, and random other sketches. I’m really enjoying it so far, and I can’t wait to have 365 full days of sketching done.

Primal Benefits and Some Rambling

We’ve been primal as a family since early September/late August, and I’m definitely seeing the benefits. I’ve lost 10 pounds since then, by eating well according to the diet, and doing only moderate exercise. The problem is, I’ve lost 10 pounds since then! I’m at the point where my size 34 jeans are slipping off my hips if I’m not careful. I can’t really afford to buy new ones right now, so I thought I would put up a sale in my Greyed Out Etsy shop to celebrate the weight loss. My loss(literally!) is your gain. Use coupon code MOARPANTS to get 20% off, and please spread the word to friends and family as well. I know the holidays are coming up, and at Greyed Out you’ll find a variety of items that might make great gifts. I sew excellent drawstring bags to hold dice, rune stones, jewelry, camera lenses, and much more. I also make art, and have prints available of everything except my ACEOs. My Renaissance shirts have been popular this autumn, and I’ve sold two in the last month – one even went to a wedding!
Speaking of Greyed Out, I’ve also added a “Like” button that leads to the Greyed Out Productions Facebook page. That should make it easier to keep up with what I post there on Facebook.

In Primal news, Mark Sisson’s new book, The 21-Day Total Body Transformation was just released, and I’ve already read through it. Like The Primal Blueprint, it gives great guidelines on following a primal diet and lifestyle. The 21-Day book, though, breaks down the information a bit and makes it easier to absorb, and the back of the book has a long checklist of things to do in order to go through the 21 days. Mark literally walks you through the process, and makes it easy for the reader to follow along simply by checking and following each step. Like I mentioned at the beginning of the post, I found going primal to be wonderful. My wife and I were already largely eating real food, and had already cut out most of the processed stuff that makes up so much of a diet these days, so for us it was easier to switch over completely.

I’ve recently been playing with the idea of possibly doing a Kickstarter campaign for an art idea I had. I want to use Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies as inspiration for a fairy-tale inspired version. Go through the alphabet, and illustrate the demises of various persons via fairy tale means. Lots of trolls, fairies, wolves, witches, and much more will make their appearances. It would draw from classic fairy tales like the Grimm’s and Hans Christian Anderson stories, but also from Norwegian and Swedish fairy tales, as well as others if I can find the research for them. I think that as well as being a wonderful project to illustrate, it would also be fun to research and sketch out the various illustrations. Does anyone have any advice or experience with Kickstarter? I know there are a few other crowd-funding platforms out there… would IndieGoGo be a better choice? I’m not yet 100% sure if I’m doing this project, but I’m really tempted to try. The Kickstarter campaign would allow me to get a small print run made…

Those are tonight’s thoughts… Halloween is coming up, and though we probably won’t dress up, it means spooky movies, candy, maybe a fire, and lots of pumpkin-flavored things. Lattes, anyone?