Christmas Card – 17 Versions
Quick Blurbs
Hello everyone =) Thanks for dropping by :) I want to track from year to year who actually gets it so even if you hehe, decided not to read the wall of text, just leave me a message/comment by teleporting right below [1]!
Oh, Mai is also thinking of hosting a contest of drawing lovely Mai & Otak :) Details below as well.
(Please no tweet/emails :P its easier for me to pull up a post and check comment ONE YEAR FROM NOW! :D!) I looked at comments haha, of who actually got it [2] and make sure you get one this year :D!
Btw! If you missed out on this year Mai & Otak’s errr.. April Fools, be sure to check it out LOL [3]! The comment is super entertaining =) LOL THANKS FOR PLAYING :D :D :D!
AND, during this year, I’ve COMPLETELY tagged ALL my screenshot :P with characters, like Facebook tagging :D! You might find yourself on my screenshot/chatlog/alliance member :D [4]!
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Christmas Card delivery! Mailman was mad!
Mai & Otak’s Christmas Card 2011
It’s been Mai’s 4th year doing Christmas Card to my gamer friends. I don’t even make them for my RL friends (if they don’t play games!). Gamer friends is just a lot cooler right? :) You are all a big part of who I am and :) I wanted to say even if I don’t see or ever met you before, you’re still important to Mai :)
The mailman was SO MAD delivering my cards… he had to breakout his trolleys :3 instead of putting it in his bags. He was like WTF is all these LOL :D! well 17 versions. 5 card per box.. that’s about right… lol Actually… it was delivered to Istari :D then Istari routed it back to Canada for me :D!
Here’s my previous 2. I think I skipped a year… maybe not. Somebody plz confirm xD! LOL
If you got hehe my previous one, zomg line em up for a picture and post under comment :O! They were so uniquely crafted for you that I no longer know what’s inside or outside ;; if only I can keep one for myself ;; but haha a pic would make me feel warm :D! Especially those that says THEY FRAMED IT (lol) Now that needs a PIC! *ahem Wicked/Jayashaya*
Anyway! You might get any of the 17 versions :) they come in various quantity ;) VARIOUS SIZES (like even ones that are like… 2cm high :D LOL) I just randomly select one out of the bucket :) Though I hehe, do try to personalize it =) not just Joy and Happy type stuff…. lolz. If you’ve drawn Mai a Kiriban/Commission/Gift of some sort, then I’ve sent you the one with your artwork as the front =)
This year’s Christmas Card is based on Otak’s FFXI fanbook design [7] (she’s even got a few more of the fanbook if you wanna buy :-) ). Essentially, it’s a mini one :) But the art inside isn’t Otak’s artwork, but artwork from TONS of various artists :) All the artwork is about Mai and Otak :) spreading our Taru love throughout the Christmas =) I really love this card, its like a feature gallery, but everybody gets a paper copy of it :D!
All the Kiriban’s, commissions or gifts made after Nov 2010 was put into this year’s Christmas Card and due to limited space, I’ve made 17 versions of the Christmas Card =) With arts from artist including (alphabetical order).
Since I wasn’t able to include Blackash’ wonderful Christmas-Themed drawing in my Christmas Card, I’ve included here for everyone’s viewing pleasure =)
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Dryopae, Petisu and Mai on Snow Day – by Blackash [9]
- aaagh [10]
- ainiwaffles [11]
- blackash [12]
- cactuar [13]
- cynthea83 [14]
- demachic [15]
- dhkite [16]
- eiffelart [17]
- ivloongoddess83 [18]
- lovelydagger [19]
- mirroredsky [20]
- neosorcerer [21]
- priestessofpie [22]
- rinielenika [23]
- shiyu-chan [24]
- sorasha [25]
- vinhnyu [26]
- witheringmoon [27]
- xmireille-chanx [28]
You can find the details of individual art pieces here [29], including link to the artist =)
Art… brings me a lot of happiness. It brings me more happiness than going out buying new pairs of shoes or clothes =) That’s just how much I love them :D! Loving art for me.. is a lifestyle :3 So I thought it’d be a nice time to share Mai & Otak’s love by sharing with everyone the artwork creations from various artists!
We stopped playing FFXI but still hops on from time to time for chats and giggles. We wish FFXIV was the way it’s suppose to be but it kinda dropped the balls. Lets hope XIV 2.0 will fix everything =)
The card is on its way to various places around the Globe, from Netherlands, Australia, Japan and United States =) I sent out the furthest one first and the closer one later :)
I hope you all enjoy Mai cards =) Iffff, you also have my previous one or kept it haha, I’d love to see them lined up :D! Take a pic and posted as comments below! I’ve never made or left one for myself ;; so :( sometimes I don’t even remember what it was ;;
Mai’s Cards – DIY
Oh, if you ever wonder how Mai create those Polaroid of your artwork/pictures etc, I actually use this machine [30] :D! The paper is around $1.50 per piece.
For the cards, Mai used Picaboo [31]. I used some other printing companies but I found Picaboo’s UI is very nice, easy to use. I pre-edit everything in Photoshop, import it to Picaboo and bam its done. They have various promotion. There’s always a promotion. The best one I’ve seen is 40% off order + free shipping. But those are like off-periods like.. June.. when nobody needs cards lol.
The card you are getting is either 100gsm (2.49/card) or 130gsm (2.99/card). If you draw Mai something, you have the thinner one since I can do low orders like 5 copies. The thick ones are 130gsm and they are in quantities of 10 increment.
If you happen to use Picabbo =) feel free to use the referral link [31] so I get $10 :D Even if you print a single card, I’m happy xD! You can also ask Ainiwaffles, Blackash, PriestessOfPie :) they also used Picaboo [31] before. :D! Let me know if you do use the link =) I’ll be sure to send you back a card next year LOL D:!
Also, these cards requires oil-based pen to write on. You can use… ball pen but they look not that great. Some cards I try to be fancy and used a silver… obviously it was a fail…
Mai /provoke Otak :3 – Switzerland
RL Mai and Otak
Many ask while I do address check of how’s life and love life. They are both going very well =) Otak and Mai went to Europe together and travel around Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Unfortunately we didn’t have the time to visit Jowah from Italy, Aaagh from Spain, Veronique from Belgium or Calaelen from Germany. We’ll try our bestest to get some FFXI nerd meetup in the future :)
We’ll probably take another Europe trip :D this time to Northern Europe. Now that we got a hang of Europe’s rail system, its easier to navigate around :) We’ve gotten a ton of Europe Exp now :D! Hopefully we’d get at least Lv37 in Europe Navigation skillz :D!
Daggy, Recheche, Mai and Aene – San Francisco
Visiting FFXI Friends
Mai also travelled to NYC to meet Tsunade, Chidorii, Special, Eleira, Sibe and Xariana =) we had a blast nerding out with other FFXI people :) In fact, we’ve gotten closer everytime. FFXI meetup are best times ever ;) I enjoy every meet up xD
Mai also went to San Francisco this year and met up with Daggy, Cheche, Aene and Keiffa. Mai also took a trip to Vancouver to meet up with Jtaru/YarlyRagnarok and Calaera.
There’s one common thing I found in every one of these meetup. We had SO SO SO SO SO much to talk about, that we NEVER had enough time to finish any of the conversation we started. The old school, the drama, BOTS!! (lol), events, HNM, gear and all the old-school LOL chat just gets more fun and… never on Earth I left these meetup with time to spare. Everyone I met was super awesome, very social able and just have endless amount of stuff to talk about :3 I enjoy every moment I had with them.
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Kennen and Teemo Snuggle – LoL Fanart by Rinielenika
Current Games!
With smaller and smaller free time available, I’ve started playing League of Legends =) (haha I gifted everyone I know in FFXI who plays League of Legends… some riot points card!). I’m also in the Diablo 3 Beta and plays Skyrim. It’s quite a lot on my plate but these are the games I currently play :) Go find me there :D!
Battle.Net Diablo 3 Real ID Account: maiev at StarOnionDotCom / BattleTag: Maiev
League of Legends (LoL) Summoner ID: Maiev
Zelda Skyward Sword on Wii *lol I just finished Twilight Princess*
Skyrim
Occasional Team Fortress 2 (Steam: maievfenrir)
Simcity 3000 Unlimited (lol)
If you hehe, really wanna play d3, give me a shout and hehe maybe we could work something out :)
No, I don’t play Microsoft Flight Simulators!
I’m new to this LoL thing so… no where a Pro, still learning =) So come and play :D! The picture you see on the right was drawn by Rinielenika from Fenrir. They look like Taru’s but they are call Yordle in League of Legends (LoL). Rinielenika, Mai and Tazo is a huge fan of Yordles :D!
League of Legends is really noob-friendly, and you play with people that’s equivalent to your level :)_ If you play with Mai, drop me a line :)
If you don’t have an account :) Use this referral link. I could see your progress, level and accounts ;) (and maybe, even get $10 Riot points card! I send everyone I know who plays LoL a $10 Riot Points card this year!)
[Signup for League of Legends [33].]
Connecting with Mai
With I dunno what I’m doing it with my gaming life :x I dunno how to keep in touch with all you awesome people. So all I can say is follow Mai twitter [34] xD! No worries if you don’t have twitter :) can always add me on aim: maievfenrir or email me maiev @ [mydomain].
I hope to stay in touch with everyone of you =) I miss you all :3
If you wish to return a card etc and need my address. Again, leave a message below and I’ll email you my address. You can also find my return address behind the envelope that came with the card. =) Except the cards that I wrote for YOUR kids :P since my return address on the cards that I wrote for your kids is…
Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
Canada
…. which doesn’t really goto me… LOL so yea in that case, leave me a comment and I’ll reply with addy :)
OR…if you want to be hehe, cheap :D you can take my envelope, cross out my address infront as if it was mis-delivered and it’d bounce back to me LOL.. ok, you did not hear this one from me :D
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Shayx’ Christmas Card
Mai and Otak’s Artwork Contest
So Mai is thinking of.. meh, its getting more rare and rare to see Final Fantasy XI artwork :3 of Tarus. So I thought maybe I can throw out a contest :) just draw Mai and Otak in any way or form and I could perhaps do something like this.
5 Entries or more to have this contest and…
5 Entries + : Winner gets a $50 usd prepaid gift card + a 16×20 print of their winning artwork, sent to their home =)
If entries passes 15: Winner gets $80 prepaid gift card + 16×20 print of their artwork. Runner up gets $50. I thought about offering commissions, but with gift cards, you can buy whatever commission you like or fuel more art supplies.
And entries would be used to create a 12 month calendar =) for 2013 LOL (yes, Mai is thinking that far)!
Regardless, a random contestant will be drawn out of a hat and get a 3 month DA sub.
Lemme know if anyone would be interested =) I’ll then iron out the details and post it on DA. If you leave a comment, I’d have your email so I’ll email you the details =)
[Self Note]: People that received their cards in 2011: Shaya, keiffa
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