The 500: Day 31 - The Final Day

Jan 01, 2015 09:09

Yours truly faking painting. 

Note the beverage of the gods.

Miss Piggy's Finest Happy New Year! Welcome to a warmer and slushier 2015! Well, I'm sure the weather will turn colder at some point but right now the yard is more slippery than any skating rink I've been to.

I finished off last night basing the final eight dwarfs (maybe one of them was a princess in disguise?), which took so little time it doesn't really even count.

Then I took some time off with the family enjoying a nice dinner and watching the fireworks. I have to say I was dead tired and happy to go to bed right after midnight. I even forgot to melt down the figures as I always do for New Year's...

...No, I don't really do that. You can calm down now.

The 500 Collection This has been a very interesting experiment. Starting out I had no clear idea if this could be done, or even which figures exactly to paint. I did not plan or pre-calculate anything, though having just painted 170 figures the previous month without even really realizing it, it seemed to be within the realm of possibility.

In the end hard work persevered. I worked every single day, even if only for half an hour, totalling 131 hours of painting. That's a couple of days short of a full working month (technically 147 hours I think).

I didn't take time off work, I didn't skip my chores, I even managed to watch an entire 47 episode TV series during this process!

If I can do this, so can anyone else who sets their mind to it.

Ironically, the last batch of the dwarfs are the only figures too tall to fit in the storage box. Well, they're all going to be relocated anyway...

Figures remaining: 0 (Total 514 figures)

Hours Worked: 131

Total pledges: 44 GBP Red Cross Ebola Campaign

End Times P.S. I was going to give you detailed instructions how to make the donation, but the donation site seems to be down right now. Anyway, it shouldn't be too hard, just click the link Red Cross Ebola Campaign to go to the campaign web site and follow the instructions there. They should be able to all major credit cards. They probably want to charge in euros, just find the correct conversion rate online (10 GBP is about 13 euros right now).

I'll doublecheck this once the site is up again -- I owe them 14 quid as well.

If for some reason you are unable to donate to Red Cross, just pick another charity. It's the thought that counts.

Personally, I usually donate through the church's aid organization but unfortunately they are unable to take international credit cards. If you can make an IBAN payment, go buy a goat for your wife. She'll love it, I guarantee it.

P.P.S. My trusty painting diary in use since 2006 finally ran out of pages. I need to go get another notebook.

maxxon


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Comments

Help is on the way! maxxon Jan 01, 2015 10:23

Looks like the Red Cross site is back up. I just successfully made my donation.

It's simple enough, just follow the instructions, click on the card icons on the payment page to use your credit card. The next page may be in Finnish, but it shouldn't be too hard to fill in your card details.

Donation Juha (guest) Jan 02, 2015 10:17

It seems to be down again. Maybe there's too many donors pushing money, so site can't handle it ;-)

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