Greetings from Australia

[Lithiel Morn]

Welcome, Veluene! It is so good to have you - from what I've seen in this thread alone, you will fit in here seamlessly. I will second the avatar compliments and add another one for your name.

Let us know if you have any questions, we're all at your disposal.

 

[Melorea al'Taehor]

Welcome Veluene!

Your avatar is so good! I'm a recent student of digital art - loads still to learn. What programme do you use?

 

[Veluene al'Myr]

Welcome Veluene!

Your avatar is so good! I'm a recent student of digital art - loads still to learn. What programme do you use?

Thank you so much! I use Daz3d as the base and then Photoshop for all post-work. I never studied it (and Daz is pretty straight forward), just a hobby of mine for many years. The motivation is often to make art renders for my roleplay characters in various online games. Also, I am not certain if I am allowed to share a link to my gallery here? Otherwise happy to forward you the link privately if you want to see more of my art.

 

[Ilverin Matriam]

YAY Welcome Veluene, happy to have you here!

 

[Lyndo Shiranui]

Welcome to Tar Valon, Veluene! :joy I am also between book Gray and Blue as well. I found myself in the same situation for the site Gray and Blue as well, and finally I've aspired to Blue.

I am really saddened to see Lotr mmo got cancelled, I was very hopeful for it. :cry

Feel free to reach out to me to chat or ask questions!

 

[Satara al'Caelahn]

Welcome to Tar Valon! :welcome

 

[Satrim Kha'os]

Please ignore my SortaBonded. He's odd and doesn't know what he's talking about.

And yes, Matt Smith is awesome. One of my favorite modern Doctors

Fezs and Bowties are great, but even a Plotsy Blue knows that :tug I bloody well do know what I'm talking about. P.S. I liked Eccleston more

 

[Merena Orithana]

Welcome to the Tower Veluene!! Happy to have you with us!

 

[Nymala Ingasy]

Fezs and Bowties are great, but even a Plotsy Blue knows that :tug I bloody well do know what I'm talking about. P.S. I liked Eccleston more

Don't you tug your braid at me, sir. Don't make me come over there. :P

 

[Elia LePhant]

Welcome!!

 

[Nandi el'Shahir]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Alexr al'Petros]

Great to have you here! Welcome.

 

[Satrim Kha'os]

Don't you tug your braid at me, sir. Don't make me come over there.

We don't have the international travel bubble up with you lot yet! Do we?

 

[Jahily al'Karee]

Welcome!!

 

[Nymala Ingasy]

We don't have the international travel bubble up with you lot yet! Do we?

Or do you?

 

[Delara Morellin]

Welcome Veluene! Lovely to have you here.

I'm not sure if I'm more excited to see photos of those critters or your garden :yay

 

[Dovienya el'Korim]

As for my other hobbies and interests, I work in the sustainability/environmental industry, I love creating fantasy digital art (my avatar is one I created), I enjoy video games as mentioned, and live on 3 acres in the Australian countryside where we have 4 alpacas, 3 chickens, 2 cats, 1 dog and a lovely vegetable and medicinal garden.

Sustainable homesteading is a dream of my husband and mine. We're hoping to build a house somewhere remote within the next 10 years with some acreage and start in on some of these beautiful projects. We dabbled a bit with chickens already, but our little suburban home just didn't have enough space.

Also, your avatar is gorgeous, and I would love to reach out to you regarding an avatar.

 

[Alyria Ess]

2nd homesteading - we have a lot of related topics in the Discussion Halls. Since it covers so much I don't think that topics exist in just one forum, so you'll have to poke around , but that just means you get to know more people!

Welcome to here, at any rate

 

[Soronhen Ciryaher]

Welcome to TarValon Veluene!

 

[Veluene al'Myr]

So many lovely welcomes!! Thank you

Also, it really delights me in reading others interested in the sustainable living journey. Even if you can't move out to the country there are so many things you can start doing already, from growing veggies in containers on an apartment balcony (I recommend starting with herbs due to their pricey tags at supermarkets and the fact many are so easy to grow), learning the uses of various plants (as you can buy them dried from healthfood stores and use them for tinctures or salves), to learning how to preserve food or simply reducing household waste. Lots of possibilities no matter where you live.

As for avatar creation, perhaps in future I will open up art commissions - just at the moment too much going on with all the xmas/end of year parties and so on!