I am veerry busy and my stress just increased a ton because it's already December! And I have only started on a few gifts. Here's the Christmasy stuff I will be doing (all drawings and quite big ones);

- gifts to my 2 friends, fiance, mom and dad (one piece will take about 5-12 hours)
- ESS (a lot of time will be used)
- Christmas gift featuring 13 characters owned my dA friends and artists I look up to, depending on what I have time for and if I figure out even more characters I should draw (will require tons of time as well)

So I better get my butt in the gear and start some serious work on these things! 24 days go by so fast!

This just means that you shouldn't be holding your breath when it comes to all the HARPG foals that are due and new HARPG horses / personal characters that will arrive. They will be up after Christmas or sooner if I can finish everything else before that.

kal

First of all I want you to know that I am not expecting anything, I'll just put this up because so many people are putting up theirs. Just in the Christmasy spirit, right?

My Christmas Wishlist:

Have a nice and safe Christmas you all
Wish me merry Christmas on my page on Christmas eve / the day before if you can't make it to dA on the 24th. I'll be sure to respond asap if I have the access to computer.
Gift art The characters that are the closest to my heart (so you might want to choose one of them): Agapee, Gay Pride, Sky Touched, Predator and Runaway (you don't have to ask if you want to draw Agapee or Gay Pride, but if you are featuring some other personal character (Hardcore or Hummingbird) you must ask before you start drawing. This is also why I suggest you choose one from the list.)


A day sadly only has 24 hours and I am drowning into the Christmas gifts I have already set my mind on, so I am terribly sorry if I can't give you something back in case you give me something. Anyway, if you send me a comment or a note saying that you will be doing something for me (no need to tell what since I like surprises), you are increasing your chances on getting something back. I can't read your minds, so if I have no idea that I'll be getting something from you and I am not already making something for you then there will sadly be pretty much no chance you'll get anything back. I think it's quite reasonable though, even though I love fully surprise gifts.

Edit: I have now set all the characters I will draw for my big Christmas drawing, I'm sorry but I can't do any more. If I get something from you for Christmas and your character is not featured, I will try to get back at you after Christmas and give you something nice.

_{I want to thank everyone who does something for me, no matter what it is - no matter how big or how small. Please go give these people some love on their pages, they deserve it. I'll feature here every gift I get this year.}

from *Diikae
from =1pen
from =ocean-lore

The adoptables are closed and I will not accept any new applications. I will determine the new owners when I have the time to concentrate on it. I'll try to do it asap.

I am the mares' names organizer so please send your mare registrations to me. Make sure you are aware of the rules when it comes to registering your horses or your horses won't get registered. All the rules can be seen at [link] and all the horse names can be seen at [link]

This is an account for my photography. I am quite slow with submitting stuff there, but be patient. If you have important questions about my photography send them here because I don't log into that account too often.

Please check it out:

Art Trades: Depends
Commissions: Open - 1 slot left [link]
Requests: Closed



Art Trades

- *Diikae icon trade


Contest entries:

- none -

Prizes:

- Prize for *Kiraiko44 of her horse Adhara [link]


HARPG related:

- new pics of Sky Touched
- foal from Sky Touched and World's Savior
- foal from Sugar 'n' Spice + RPS Burton
- foal from Crash Boom Bang + CF Fox
- foal from Cloud Dancer + RPS Air Force
- foal from Golden Essence + Milky Legs
- Trubadúr and Tee doing kür
- purchasing Pendulum Swing from *noblestallion
- purchasing Sweet Life from *noblestallion
- bringing out thorougbreds, Finnhorses and arabians to ZGS
- Finnhorse registry + auction
- new PGA rescue horses up for adoption + one to stay in ZGS


comment or note if I forgot something!


Other:

- tutorial
- Christmas gifts

I just wanted to let you guys know that we have our better computer all better and functioning now. This is the benefit of living with a people who knows his way around all electronic and is willing to put some money in it. Aaanndd we figured out what got my tablet + Photoshop so bitchy, and it works like a dream now! I can't describe how awesome it felt to be able to draw fine, hair-like lines and the tablet was on time, drawing exactly when the pen touched the tablet. Ah, this luxury.

Which of course means I have a huge urge to draw, which I can't do if I'm a responsible student. I am, I can't just choose not to study. Tomorrow I have physics exam and I must say I'm really out of energy with studying. I have had huge motivation issues doing this period, and I really need a break soon. Which I will luckily have soon. And then I'll spam your inboxes with a lot of art. And I need to get into serious business with my Christmas gifts. I'm sorry I can't include all the cool people's characters in the picture I'm planning on because I'm so busy and I didn't come to think of it early enough. But at least I'll be giving out some Christmasy spirit, and joining the ESS this year. (which I also seriously need to get started on, I have plans but nothing actual drawn or sketched)

Writing this journal just to get a short pause on my physics, it sort of seems like ancient Greek to me at this point. Well, as long as I'll pass the test I'll be happy. It's not a course I need in my life later on, but it's part of the further physics' curriculum so I need to take it.

And because I hurt my knee last week and it's just gotten worse and I haven't been able to get an appointment with any doctor, I can't go riding tomorrow. I haven't gone in many weeks and it irritates me a lot. But in the other hand we don't have very kind and easy horses in our stables so maybe it's a nice break from them. I've lately gotten a little bit nervous around horses, due to horses trying all they got to buck me off, rear, take off, bolt, spook, kick, bite... and so on. Unless I've got a very steady horse I won't even adjust the stirrups from saddle anymore because I can never trust that the horse is not going anywhere. I'd really need to ride a steady calm (maybe a little bit older) horse for a change for a little while. I used to be a daredevil as a kid but these days I know that I should be careful. I've only fallen off a few times during my about 9 years of riding, so I'm quite good in staying on. It's just the fact that I've ridden green horses so long that I've learned to expect the unexpected and also become a little too paranoid. If my horse perks its ears and looks at something when I'm mounted I instantly prepare for a take off. Even if the horse is just looking. No I won't get tense because I know then the horse is very likely to take off, I just sit tight, lean back and press my heels down. And I don't enjoy jumping anymore, either. Because the horses do the sort of gigantic leaps, bolt off or just are shy of the fences. You never know which one will be when you make your way to the next jump. I used to be quite good at jumping at one point, I jumped every week, but these days I'm just glad if it's only once a year. Because if I tell my teacher I want the calmer horses she goes like "what, but you can ride the green so well and you never fall." But I must tell you that one of my fav horses (or actually he's a pony) is a little black pony gelding called Mustikka (Blueberry). He scares off the little riders but when he's with experienced riders he's gorgeous. And he's spunky, he likes to buck and sometimes take off, but he's so small and round that you can only laugh when he does that. And the other times he's just dead out lazy, hardly moving his legs unless you convince him that he has no other choice. Lolz. Oh the joys of those ponies

kal

The adoptables are closed and I will not accept any new applications. I will determine the new owners when I have the time to concentrate on it. I'll try to do it asap.

I am the mares' names organizer so please send your mare registrations to me. Make sure you are aware of the rules when it comes to registering your horses or your horses won't get registered. All the rules can be seen at [link] and all the horse names can be seen at [link]

This is an account for my photography. I am quite slow with submitting stuff there, but be patient. If you have important questions about my photography send them here because I don't log into that account too often.

Please check it out:

Art Trades: Depends
Commissions: Open - 1 slot left [link]
Requests: Closed



Art Trades

- *Diikae icon trade


Contest entries:

- none -

Prizes:

- Prize for *Kiraiko44 of her horse Adhara [link]


HARPG related:

- new pics of Sky Touched
- foal from Sky Touched and World's Savior
- foal from Sugar 'n' Spice + RPS Burton
- foal from Crash Boom Bang + CF Fox
- foal from Cloud Dancer + RPS Air Force
- Trubadúr and Tee doing kür
- purchasing Pendulum Swing from *noblestallion
- purchasing Sweet Life from *noblestallion
- bringing out thorougbreds, Finnhorses and arabians to ZGS
- Finnhorse registry + auction
- new PGA rescue horses up for adoption + one to stay in ZGS


comment or note if I forgot something!


Other:

- tutorial
- Christmas gifts

I was featured at ~aniris's journal so it's my turn to make this thinger!


The Rules:

1. Be one of the first 10 commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to the Feature List.

2. For each of the 10 first people answering this journal I will put his/her avatar and three deviations from his/her gallery on the list.

3. If you answer, you’ll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this list with 10 people. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone!


Featured people:

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That was it! It was first come first served so these people were the quickest at responding. Now go adore the art and share the love!

The adoptables are closed and I will not accept any new applications. I will determine the new owners when I have the time to concentrate on it. I'll try to do it asap.

I am the mares' names organizer so please send your mare registrations to me. Make sure you are aware of the rules when it comes to registering your horses or your horses won't get registered. All the rules can be seen at [link] and all the horse names can be seen at [link]

This is an account for my photography. I am quite slow with submitting stuff there, but be patient. If you have important questions about my photography send them here because I don't log into that account too often.

Please check it out:

Art Trades: Depends
Commissions: Open - 1 slot left [link]
Requests: Closed



Art Trades

- *Diikae icon trade


Contest entries:

- none -

Prizes:

- Prize for ~Kiraiko44 of her horse Adhara [link]


HARPG related:

- new pics of Sky Touched
- breeding pic + foal from Sky Touched and World's Savior
- breeding pic for Golden Essence and Milky legs
- breeding pic + foal from Sugar 'n' Spice + RPS Burton
- breeding pic + foal from Crash Boom Bang + CF Fox
- foal from Cloud Dancer + RPS Air Force
- Trubadúr and Tee doing kür

comment or note if I forgot something!


Other:

- tutorial
- Christmas gifts

I felt like giving a short update now that one of my classes got canceled. I've had my classes canceled so many times in the last weeks and we are for example badly behind with physics but well, no can do. Anyway, most often the canceled classes are in the middle of my school day so it would serve no purpose to go home since I could probably only be there about 30 minutes and then have to go all the way to school and then home again after one class. Sigh.

I have arranged a lot of natural breedings and one unnatural, and I'm in the progress of finishing all of them. I have one trade plus tons (I mean, seriously, tons) of Christmas gifts to finish since I'm drawing something for everybody. I have one large pic to finish for my fiancé, two for my friends, two for my parents, then I'm in the ESS and I also plan on giving gifts to my best dA friends this year. Since Christmas won't wait I'll be quite slow with my breeding pics, I'm sorry. I'm slaving over them and I've got most of them sketched already. The foals are coming too, but I only have very little time to draw in a day and I've been missing out on my sleep for weeks now.

I also need to finish at least one auction bid and two show entries, and I'm also bringing some new thoroughbred starters (natural!) to ZGS, and I've been wanting to bring Finnhorses (aka Finnish Horses as I like to call them) here too for a maybe year now. If you've never seen one, I can say they very often are similiar coloured with Haflingers, but chestnuts are very normal too, and liver chestnuts are not rare either. Bays and black are seen too, but I don't think I've ever seen white Finnish horse, and paint markings are non-excistent as well. They're quite drafty breed and their most common discipline is harness racing, but they do well in carriage pulling, jumping and dressage too. They're most often kept as hobby horses (if not harness racers or monté horses) and don't jump in Grand Prix shows or show up in huge dressage shows, but in lower levels they do well. In Finland there are many shows hosted just for Finnish horses. And what's most important they have so big hearts and kind natures (well most of the them anyway). Since most of Finland's horses are Finnish horses (or at least it's the biggest group), I think it'd be awesome to breed them in HARPG. If people get interested in them I might hold a Finnhorse auction! But we'll see, I won't get ahead of myself. Anyway, be expecting to see a few Finnish horses here in dA and HARPG anyway!

Some pics I browsed of Finnish horses aka Finnhorses!
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

+ See them in Wikipedia: [link]

kal

The adoptables are closed and I will not accept any new applications. I will determine the new owners when I have the time to concentrate on it. I'll try to do it asap.

I am the mares' names organizer so please send your mare registrations to me. Make sure you are aware of the rules when it comes to registering your horses or your horses won't get registered. All the rules can be seen at [link] and all the horse names can be seen at [link]

This is an account for my photography. I am quite slow with submitting stuff there, but be patient. If you have important questions about my photography send them here because I don't log into that account too often.

Please check it out:

Art Trades: Depends
Commissions: Open - 1 slot left [link]
Requests: Closed



Art Trades

- *Diikae icon trade


Contest entries:

- none -

Prizes:

- Prize for ~Kiraiko44 of her horse Adhara [link]


HARPG related:

- new pics of Sky Touched
- breeding pic + foal from Sky Touched and World's Savior
- breeding pic for Golden Essence and Milky legs
- breeding pic + foal from Sugar 'n' Spice + RPS Burton
- breeding pic + foal from Crash Boom Bang + CF Fox
- foal from Cloud Dancer + RPS Air Force
- Trubadúr and Tee doing kür

comment or note if I forgot something!


Other:

- tutorial
- Christmas gifts

EDIT: Find me directly using this link: [link]
_{(since so many people had hard time understanding that you can actually find me by searching with my dA address, like kalmakoira.deviantart[dot]com, [just change the [dot] into .] so just go and click the link above mkay? That should be easy enough for anyone )}

I just made my facebook account yesterday and was wondering if people wanted to add me? Find me by my name, Emma Rask or by my home page kalmakoira. deviantart.com. If you add please leave a message saying that you're from dA and your account name here so I know. :3

kal

This day and tomorrow left to get your entries in!

I am handing out four (4) Hallowequine adoptables [link] and they have their deadline set at 14th November 2009, so you have nine (9) days to finish your drawings. Most interest has seemed to be landed on number 2, and none on number 4. So if you're interested in #4 she/he is totally up for grabs at this point! Number one might stay with me after all, but I am satisfied with the amount of triers he has got so far. I do hope more people will try for him though. After all, he is one in a million (or rarer) and one of the three orange based Hallowequines that will ever be born. Yes, you read correctly, there will only be 3 approved Hallowequines with orange base coat color, ever. And the next one might be born like... next year, if even that soon.

You can't say I didn't give you the heads up.

I am the mares' names organizer so please send your mare registrations to me. Make sure you are aware of the rules when it comes to registering your horses or your horses won't get registered. All the rules can be seen at [link] and all the horse names can be seen at [link]

This is an account for my photography. I am quite slow with submitting stuff there, but be patient. If you have important questions about my photography send them here because I don't log into that account too often.

Please check it out:

Art Trades: Depends
Commissions: Open - 1 slot left [link]
Requests: Closed



Art Trades

- *Diikae icon trade


Contest entries:

- none -

Prizes:

- Prize for ~Kiraiko44 of her horse Adhara [link]


HARPG related:

- new pics of Sky Touched
- breeding pic + foal from Sky Touched and World's Savior
- breeding pic for Golden Essence and Milky legs
- breeding pic + foal from Sugar 'n' Spice + RPS Burton
- breeding pic + foal from Crash Boom Bang + CF Fox
- foal from Cloud Dancer + RPS Air Force
- Trubadúr and Tee doing kür

comment or note if I forgot something!


Other:

- tutorial