John

    Gender: Male
    Location: Sheffield UK
    Relationship: Single
    Orientation: Straight
    Body Type: Average
    Height: 5'10"
    Ethnicity: Undead
    About Me: I run a Fantasy figurine reference website for collectors called www.thesorcererslibrary.com that showcases certain fantasy ranges of dragons, wizards and faeries. I also run the official website for Andrew Bill (www.andrewbill.com) who is a fantasy sculptor, plus i run a website for a pirate re-enactment group called the Sea Thieves (www.sea-thieves.com) and just to keep me busy i also have another site for my photography of Gothic architecture etc... called www.decadence.me.uk but i'm way behind with updating it :(
    Music: all sorts, but mainly trad goth, i draw the line at boy bands though!
    Movies: Absolutely anything
    Books: The usual fantasy stuff, Tolkien, Pratchett, Eddings etc...
    Likes: animals, apes, art, audrey hepburn, autumn, black, black and white photography, black and white stripes, black hair, black nail polish, bondage, books, boots, calvin and hobbes, candles, cartoons, castles, cats, cemetaries, chocolate, comedy, computers, conservation, corsetry, corsets, Highland cows, decadence, digital photography, dragons, eddie izzard, edinburgh, erotica, faeries, fairies, fantasy, fantasy art, fetish, fetish photography, films, fire, folklore, forests, glasgow, goth, goth clothing, goth music, goth women, gothic, gothic architecture, graveyards, West highlands, historical costume, history, j.r.r. tolkien, jane goodall, kinky boots, kittens, knee length boots, knives, leather, lenore, lightning, long hair, lord of the rings, masks, mist, moonlight, movies, mythology, nature, nightmare before christmas, paganism, photography, pirates, planets, primates, rain, reading, red hair, romance, ruins, scotland, squirrels, stars, stripes, stripey things, sunsets, swords, thigh high boots, thunder storms, tim burton, trad goth, trees, vampires, velvet, victorian clothing, victorian gothic, wedding dresses, wings, winona ryder, witchcraft, woodlands, woods.
    Dislikes: Being lied to, being cheated on, being ignored
    Hobbies: Photography, Dragon collecting, web building
    Vices: I'm a good boy I am...
    Virtues: Erm...
    Heroes: Jim Cronin (all primates), Jane Goodall (chimps), Dian Fossey (Gorillas), Biruté Galdikas (Orangutan) and various names for Wolves on both sides of the Atlantic (Mainly, Lucyan David Mech).

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    Dragonsite to Fairysite

    Monday, August 25, 2008, 11:10 PM GMT [General]

    It's good to see that at long last Munro/Fantasy Gifts Ltd the owners of the Dragonsite fantasy figures have started to split up the Fairy figurines from the Dragon figurines! The Dragons will remain as Dragonsite and the Fairies are at long last going to go under the Fairysite banner :) it's a tacky name i admit, but they always get people asking why the fairies are being released by Dragonsite, why not Fairysite? well now they can't say that :)

    The first releases are four pieces based on Jessica Galbreths art, Silver Moon, Mask of Autumn, White Magick and Spread your Wings

    I must admit that it's been a nightmare working out the best way to add them to my site! either as a complete seperate section or as part of the Dragonsite section! it's a tough call when at the end of the day it's the same company just a different product banner! I think i've come to a reasonable compromise though, and when more pieces get released under the fairysite banner and the name gets better known in the market place i'll be able to seperate them a little more :)

    http://www.thesorcererslibrary.com/TSL/Dragonsite/jessica_galbreth/ds_jessicagalbreth_catalogue.htm#jg_fairysite_bookmark

     

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    Definitely never understood that name

    Meredith
    August 26, 2008
    12:25 AM GMT

    i'm still here

    Saturday, August 16, 2008, 09:56 PM GMT [General]

    I can't believe it was May when i last posted! So sorry for being quiet :( i've just had a lot going off in my head and everytime i think i'm getting sorted out, something else goes wrong to make me question everything i trusted :(

    I've just not really wanted to talk about it anywhere and i've just been pretending everything is ok...

     

    One thing that's been good is that the hunt for the creator of the pixie picture i've been trying to find for ages is now over :) it's by digital artist Sebastian Schoellhammer, no wonder i couldn't find it, i thought it was a sculpture on a digital background!!!

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    He sure is a cool looking; I can see why you searched him out so diligently. How on earth could a photographer manipulate an image to look like this? Wouldn't the artist need some sort of model? Now I'm going to have to research the artists' work as you have me completely perplexed!

    Alexandria LaNier
    August 25, 2008
    06:08 PM GMT

    Dragonsite - N. Thomas, J. Galbreth & Linda Biggs

    Monday, May 12, 2008, 08:35 PM GMT [General]

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    It's a real departure to go back to Nene's early work and start making figurines from it - Interesting.
    Have you seen the new Amy Brown Signature Series pieces up close?

    Drew
    May 12, 2008
    08:44 PM GMT

    I am worried about how big this piece in respect to the others. I means aria is big compared to the others in my collection and it does put me off her a a bit but I love her dress.

    Still annoyed about the tattoo...

    Lindsey
    May 13, 2008
    12:25 AM GMT

    Sorcerers Forum

    Monday, May 5, 2008, 06:35 PM GMT [General]

    Since December i've had so much trouble with my forum, it's been running so slow and having lots of down time :( i had it served by Invisionplus who were fantastic to start with but over time they promised the world but gave nothing!

    So! i took the plunge and got a phpbb3 forum that i could host entirely on my own. I've spent over a week preparing it and it's meant that i've finaly got a forum that actually matches my website at long last :D it's gone down really well with the dragon & fairy collectors too!

    It'a funny how something so simple as setting up a new forum can lift your mood :) 

    So if any of you collect fantasy figures and fancy chatting about them, you'd be more than welcome to join in the chat :D http://thesorcererslibrary.com/tslforum there's not much content at the moment because i've left 2 years worth of threads and over 50 thousand posts behind but i'm hoping that this will be a fresh start for the forum and site :)

     

     

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    just saying i'm still around :)

    Monday, April 7, 2008, 06:07 PM GMT [General]

    It's been a little while since i posted anything in here but i keep checking in :) it still feels strange when i log in and see my name in the "Featured Enchanted Folk" list :) i must post more in here!

    I was going to post a picture I drew for another site for a fun Easter Dragon page but it's just not good enough when compared to the high quality stuff on here done by professionals, and since i'm not on here as an artist i thought i'd not embarrass myself :D

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    Your too cute!!!

    Alexandria LaNier
    August 26, 2008
    09:41 AM GMT

    Love your profile shot! You are a very interesting person too. I will have to check out your web sites for some new goodies.

    Super BIG HUGS and a couple shy little kisses.
    Alexandria

    Alexandria LaNier
    August 25, 2008
    05:56 PM GMT

    How can you be so sad?
    Life isn't always so bad
    The fairies surround you
    So please do not be blue!!!

    Have a magical week
    love Liz x

    Liz
    August 18, 2008
    02:13 PM GMT

    Wow....you are a busy one! Thanks for looking into my little dragons, I am newer to this 'blogging' stuff. I just need to find ways to get my Elemental Drgons story out there (and maybe get some sells). This groups seems to one of the nicer ones that I have run into.
    THANKS!!

    Angela
    May 30, 2008
    01:33 PM GMT

    I totally understand what you're saying about the old Amy Brown Signature Series pieces - the inconsistency in quality has caused us no end of difficulties in the past but having said that people do still want to collect them. There is no comparison between the new and the old.
    Since we have collected many dragonsite pieces ourselves and obviously have the new Amy Brown pieces as well, I can honestly say that I think the new pieces are of an extremely high standard in both the quality of the resin used and the paint work. I think the detail is far better than that of the most recent Dragonsite pieces I have seen.

    Drew
    May 13, 2008
    06:45 PM GMT



    Have a lovely day. <3

    Aubrey
    May 06, 2008
    04:04 AM GMT

    Thanks for returning sparkly stuff :)
    I feel much better now!!

    Sarah
    March 16, 2008
    12:57 AM GMT

    Nooooooo all the sparkly stuff has gone!! :(
    Please give it back,i do not think i can go on without it!!
    How ever will i cope??

    Sarah
    March 05, 2008
    06:23 PM GMT

    Thanks for the comment :)
    I will keep at it and see what i manage to produce!
    I did check out your revamped site and there is some lovely stuff on there!
    Take Care
    Sarah :)

    Sarah
    February 17, 2008
    11:52 PM GMT

    Hi John,
    Munro had talked about continuing to add to my range for Dragonsite, and had a few artworks already picked out, but I haven't heard from them for a long time. I am hoping they will, of course!
    From what I've heard about Pacific Trading the stuff they are doing with artists at the moment is pretty good, certainly a lot better than some manufacturers. Maybe not as amazing as Munros, but up there. I haven't seen my samples yet from that range in person, so I'll know more then.
    Thanks for your interest!

    Selina
    January 29, 2008
    10:32 PM GMT

    John, I had a most enjoyable afternoon perusing your website and looking at all the treasures you have there. What a delight! Thanks for the request and as I'm brandie new here it'll be nice getting to know a few kindred souls as I figure out the site. :)

    Valerie
    January 29, 2008
    09:41 PM GMT

    Thanx for the add!!

    oddfae
    January 04, 2008
    07:24 PM GMT

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