Review: Dark Heir

Dark Heir by Faith Hunter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thought I'd leave a review until I had caught up with the series.....Now I'm caught up.

I loved this series (so far). I found very interesting and entertaining to see the duel consciousness between Jane and Beast, and how their perceptions of the world changed depending on who was playing Alpha at the time. I enjoyed how Faith Hunter adapted her writing style when writing from Beasts perspective; how the short and simple sentence structure communicates to the reader how Beast sees the world in simple animal terms and not the over analytical way that the rest of us as humans think.

Great vampires. Not overly stereotyped and not so different that you feel uncomfortable calling them vampires. They are mean, scheming, power hungry, politically driven, secretive, egotistical monsters that love to make Jane's life hard by not telling her all she needs to know to solve their problems.

This is a series well worth reading.

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Heads or tails?

So yesterday in the Tomb we started photographing some of the new collections. As these contain necklaces (yes we're branching out) we needed a way to display these....I came you with this....You don't really see it in the item pics but it makes me feel better knowing that it looks nice.

Here's a step by step/ in progress / stages ......whatever...Basically I took pics as I went along.

From Polystyrene to Paper Mache 

Paper Mache to white primer

Primer to drawing on a design

Designing...

...Designing

...Still designing

...Designing some more

Designing to Painting the coloured areas

...More coloured areas

...Even more coloured areas

...And even more...

...And some more just for good measure

And this is the finished item!!! Just had to do all the really fine black line detail (yay) and fill in the black areas

More detail...Why did I insist on so much detail?

More detail round the back.... A couple of people have said that it makes them think of Harlequin.....But you can make your own mind up there

...More detail again.....yes I like to make my own life hell...

And one form the top.

Hi, Just passing through

This is just a flying visit because I'm busy busy busy in the +Dead With Tequila Tomb.

Yes there is a lot of exciting stuff happening in the Tomb right now. We're have spent the last few weeks, especially the past two days working really hard on some awesome new stuff. 

I can confirm that within the last hour and a half we have finished the jewelry part of the Edgar Allan Poe collection!!! (does happy dance). There's some wire bracelets, elasticated bracelets, a couple of bag charms, earrings and...(drum roll please..) NECKLACES!!!!! They are totally gorgeous.. I've already finished a couple of poster designs and a tank top. Yes you read that right, a tank top...as in an item of clothing (Oooo!!) I'm working on even more designs for both t-shirts and posters and maybe even tote bags... I'm just gonna leave you to ponder that for a moment.

The Pandaemonium Collection is coming along nicely as well. Lots and lots of really bold colours paired with black. This is the next one that we are going to aim to finish. Hopefully.... we're waiting for some supplies, but they have to come from a supplier in China so are taking awhile to arrive, which is stressing R and myself out a little bit. If we don't get our stuff with in the next week or so we want to move onto the Down The Rabbit Hole collection. 

Down the Rabbit hole has some nice pieces in already. This is going to have clocks, and playing cards, and dice, some florals. It's going to be a very grown up version of the old story. The teacups are being swapped with martini and shot glasses...Make of that what you will.

The past couple of days have been really busy to say the least. We've started to make multiples of the same item (never more than 10 though) 

There's going to be some updates on how we list stuff in the store as well, but I'll tell you more about that another time..


Anyways...Loves you all, but now I have to dive back into the Tomb or maybe bed. Maybe I'll just sleep in the Tomb...Yeah, that sounds like a plan. 

Laters my lovelies.         

True Colours.

So +Dead With Tequila are considering branching out into tshirts and maybe some other stuff. So I was just curious as to what sorts of colours appeal to people.  The image below shows the colour options for the items we are considering. I'd love t know what you think.

Personally I'm leaning towards going with the Vintage Black and the Venetian Grey (potentially adding Purple Rush and Vintage Red into the mix) for the Women's tank top. Ultra Blue and Black for the hoodie. For the men's tank Black and Heather Grey.

Let me know what you think via the comments, on twitter, or by carrier pigeon.

Thanks xx