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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Nov 1, 2016 11:28:48 GMT -5
Hey Rea, my dear!
I will just go ahead and set up a planning space here so we can drop our ideas somewhere else than our pm convo.
I'm in no rush to get anything set up, but let's collect some notes and make plans because nothing is as much fun as plan-making (x
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Nov 1, 2016 18:31:23 GMT -5
Hey! Sounds good to me; may as well start planning when we've got spare time. I'm excited to see how this turns out cx Hmm... we'll need a title; possibly a song lyric or a book quote? I'm sure there's some good ideas from The Lord of The Rings or The Hobbit which have been some of my favorites for years, and hopefully there's some we've both read that could work.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Nov 2, 2016 7:13:58 GMT -5
Oh Rea, what beautiful things you create. That post alone is a work of art (and it has my name on it, wheeeee!) I can tell I'll have to practise a little to live up to that standard. Who am I kidding, it's been ages!
The Hobbit sounds like great common grounds to me. Alas, I have not read it in a while and left my copy with me grandparents, so I'm at a lack with suggestions. If you could make a few, that would be wonderful!
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by Brownie on Nov 2, 2016 17:56:38 GMT -5
//lurks
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Nov 7, 2016 6:58:49 GMT -5
Apologies for disappearing there! Aww, thank you <3 Sounds good; I'll flip through my copy later today and see if there's anything with a nice ring to it. I see we have an audience xD
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Nov 7, 2016 12:21:34 GMT -5
No worries! I know you'll always come back once you got time and muse. I'm the same.
Thank you very much <3
Yep, one of my favourite lurkers <3
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⁻ ⁻ ☾ ᵇˡᵘᵉ ᵐᵒᵒᶰ on Nov 20, 2016 22:07:03 GMT -5
*peeks in* Hi? owo
Rea was talking to me about the shop, and mentioned she was working on some names with you! I love coming up with names, so I hope it's okay to put in my two cents owo'
I had two suggestions ^^ One is Dragonrend, a shout from TES. I think it would fit because there's this elegant, noble mystery behind Dragonrend, how the mortals used it to save everyone from the dragon overlords. I get this fantasy, magic vibe from it that I think you guys could really make something beautiful out of with the layout of the shop! (not that you couldn't make any theme or title into something wonderful!) and the other idea is 'Under the Camellia Tree'. A Camellia tree is commonly known as the tea tree, and its leaves are used for a type of tea! Since I know of the love of tea you two share, I figure this would also be a fitting title! It gives me a calm, soothing vibe with the scent of herbs like sage or mint against a calm, pale green background... It also gives me an image of a tea picnic under a camellia tree xD
Sorry if I'm butting in or anything, but I thought it would be fun to suggest these owo
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Nov 20, 2016 23:02:46 GMT -5
Okay, finally some title ideas. I found a few good quotes from The Hobbit and there's also a couple other suggestions too. "By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green..." [ The Hobbit, chapter 1 ] "The flowering stars, on crowns they hung / The dragon-fire, in twisted wire" [ The Hobbit, chapter 1 ] "So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending." [ The Hobbit, chapter 18 ] Sleepy Towns and Cemeteries by Nicole Dollanganger is a song that I like the title of quite a bit. It's not one of my top favorite songs by her, but it does have a nice ring to it. Another option is Florence + The Machine - I feel like you've mentioned liking them at some point, though even if not I think you would. I'm sure there's some good ideas there too. @ Pommy - Need to make a header for your new name, whoops xD I like both of those suggestions, thank you!
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Nov 22, 2016 9:19:30 GMT -5
Hey guys! Typing from my phone while taking the bus, so please excuse horrible spelling/spacing...
Hi Pommy! Good thing Rea mentioned it was xou, I was somewhat confused at first... I really love your second suggestion a whole lot. Tea is perfect, calm, just my kind of shop atmosphere. We could totally make a habit of letting customers put their favourite tea flavor instead of a detailed form if they aren't sure what they want, drink that tea and be inspired! ... Joking, but still, I love tea.
All o' those quotes are pretty, Rea, thank you! I'd really lean towards the first right now since I'm in that calm tea mood (thanks, Pommy), or second for the sake of poetry. Gotta listen to some Florence+Machine today cx
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Nov 29, 2016 4:30:44 GMT -5
Ha, doesn't sound like too bad of an idea to me. I could probably agree to just about any plan if there's tea involved.
I'm not too picky about titles, so I'm fine with whatever you'd like to use. I can try to throw out some more ideas if nothing seems right yet.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Nov 30, 2016 5:48:52 GMT -5
Actually, no, I think we can work with what we already have. For the title, we could simply take a couple of words (like with the first quote you gave, "the quiet of the world"), then include the entire quote in the layout. We can also totally take multiple and work them into one theme, especially if they're all from one book c: And tea works with everything, so hey.
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Dec 13, 2016 15:20:01 GMT -5
Agreed, mixing several quotes could work very nicely and I feel like a lot of The Hobbit quotes also have nice aesthetics that would be great for layout designs. Perhaps The Quiet of The World with other quotes incorporated throughout?
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 15, 2016 13:05:10 GMT -5
Yep. Now that we've found ourselves a theme, let's do colour shemes next. I feel like green, maybe with some rose added in for Pommy's tea tree, and the colour it blooms in?
[Thought I'd sent this a few days ago, but obviously I failed]
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Dec 16, 2016 2:52:30 GMT -5
Sounds perfect! I found a few nice combinations and was going to post a few shades for some inspiration but my laptop is being a sluggish nightmare for some reason and I can't even type a few words on it right now Maybe it'll work tomorrow. Seems like it just can't run my web browser at a bearable speed since all my editing programs run fine, but the internet speed is good on everything else. Oh well.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 16, 2016 11:21:58 GMT -5
Well, take your time! We're in no rush, okay? Maybe you could try a different browser? If you're using Firefox, try Internet Explorer maybe (I know it's a slow old turtle, but good for experiments), or vice versa?
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Dec 17, 2016 1:30:34 GMT -5
I'm using Google Chrome and my laptop runs Linux. I may be able to try Firefox soon; managed to get it running a little better now so I can actually post, though now the forums themselves are being weird for me. Getting a bad headache so I'll keep this short but I found a few color scheme ideas.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 17, 2016 18:01:09 GMT -5
Nice! Maybe we can mix the fist and last one? The second is a little too bold for me, the third too pastel.
I like my colours a little more subdued, and I'm in love with those greens and the neutral shade in #1, but the reds in #4 <3 (Oh the options... And the pink in 2... I'm a mess when it comes to colours, tee-hee...)
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Dec 18, 2016 18:16:17 GMT -5
Agreed, those are my favorites as well.
Okay, another idea based on the best previous colors:
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 19, 2016 11:17:48 GMT -5
Rea, I think we have a winner! You've always been great with colours. I remember when you came to me for colour advice and I was totally embarassed because what you'd show me was already so beautiful I couldn't point much out. (And the one time I totally messed up the layout you requested... Oh my cx) What's next? It's been so long since I last did this.
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Dec 20, 2016 9:19:58 GMT -5
Aww cx I love your color choices. I'm on mobile and my phone suggested "I love your mom," oh dear. xD Hmm... it's been a while for me too. We could work out rules and forms, though I think that's mostly pretty straightforward, or keep moving along with the layout in which case we'll need to decide who does what.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 25, 2016 13:52:08 GMT -5
Well, my mom is quite lovable, you know.
How about you go for the main banner? We could have little ones for the subposts, with small quotes, maybe. I'd rather not do the most representative one, since I'm out of practise and I know for a fact that I won't be happy with it until the umteenth try.
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ☾ Cʀᴇsᴄᴇɴᴛ ☽ on Dec 26, 2016 23:54:59 GMT -5
Just stumbled in! I have no idea if you remember me Nangijala, but I used to be Larkflower on the old forums and I've always admired your graphic design. By the way this looks so amazing and I wish I was so creative and talented, haha XD.
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Dec 27, 2016 10:19:57 GMT -5
Why hello there, Lark! Of course I remember your name! c: Glad to see someone's interest in Rea's and my project here, despite the fact that we're taking our sweet time with it. (The forums will probably be dead by the time we open, oops.)
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ☾ Cʀᴇsᴄᴇɴᴛ ☽ on Dec 27, 2016 16:30:28 GMT -5
haha, your graphics have always been stunning, so I'm sure you'll have lots more interest when you open. <3
I can't wait to see how it goes and who knows, I might be one of your first customers..
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Jan 3, 2017 15:34:16 GMT -5
Alright, sounds good. I've been busy and trying to recover from the holidays, but I should have some time to mess around with some ideas soon. I like the idea of having ones for the subposts too. ☾ Cʀᴇsᴄᴇɴᴛ ☽ - I remember you! c: Glad to see you're still around. I'm happy a few people are interested as well.
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Post by ⤞ r e a on Jan 7, 2017 16:21:17 GMT -5
Possible banner -
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Post by Brownie on Jan 9, 2017 19:56:14 GMT -5
gah it's so prettyyyyyyyyy
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Post by ᶰ ᵃ ᶰ ᵍ ᶤ ʲ ᵃ ˡ ᵃ on Jan 10, 2017 9:15:31 GMT -5
We needn't even talk about how much I love this. I'll hopefully come up with some smaller designs soon to accompany this gem, but right now I feel more like stuffing a lot of food into my belly and falling asleep on the spot.
Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. Come to me, child, and I shall embrace you. In my arms lies Eternity.
- Canticle of Andraste, 14:11
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Post by ⭐ 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍-𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖓 on Jan 10, 2017 19:41:58 GMT -5
Nanji, it's me~<3
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Post by ⁻ ⁻ ☾ ᵇˡᵘᵉ ᵐᵒᵒᶰ on Jan 12, 2017 4:07:19 GMT -5
WHO DARES TRY TO STEAL MY SPOT AS FIRST CUSTOMER HMMMMMM???? SOMEBODY WANNA FITE, M8??
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