So as I have been sculpting lately and looking at a lot of toys and designer toys, I recently stumbled upon this really cool webshow. The show is called Toy Break and they talk about what else toys! They do some really cool reviews and keep you up-to-date about everything going on the toy industry; specifically the designer vinyl and plush toy industry. They also do a fantastic job of keeping show notes so what ever they review or talk about is always easy to find links and all in there show notes! I am hooked! I caught the last episode and now I have started to go back and watch all the previous episodes. You can also subscribe to the show through Itunes (its free under podcasts) and if you read my posts about the xbox media center I able to watch the show on my TV. You should really check it out! ToyBreak

Recently I have been working on some sculpting and toy stuff and was hoping to have a new website up before the first of October. Well needless to say I don’t think that will happen and although everything is going good and working out I think I will hold off till the first of the year. I am currently designing sculpting and casting custom parts and accessories for my favorite toy line and will be unveiling what I am working on soon!

I recently was reading about wordpress 3.0 and well I am a huge wordpress fan. So I just had to upgrade and in the process made the decision to overhaul my website and well this is the results of that overhaul. I am calling this design emboyd v3.0 seeing is how this is the third installment in my ever changing website redesign. I have added a lot of new features and at this point I am still not completely done. I have lost the last years content and as such I hope to replace it soon. So this site will see many updates and changes to come in the content department. More sections will be added as well. I hope to actually get some real tutorials up for the first time. So hope you all enjoy what I have done and look forward to what I have coming shortly.

I have recently started sculpting and drawing again after a long hiatus of not doing much art of any kind. I guess with my new job I am feeling creative again working as a graphic artist. I do a lot of layout, marketing and ad designs for the local newspaper. Having to be pretty creative all day is nice refreshing change of pace. So I hope this new found creativity lasts and I can start doing some projects I have had rattling around in my brain for some time now.

If any of you have ever used those wooden Drawing Mannequin then you will love this. I found these a month or so ago and I can’t get enough of them. they are approximately 3 inches tall and work great for drawing poses. I have a lot of these now and find them fun to have. They come in many colors and sizes, well the girls do guys not so much. They are Microman, but this particular ...Continue Reading

If you read my last post entitled “Kid  At Heart”  you know how much fun I had with the single shot Nerf gun, so you can imagine how excited I was to discover they have a six shot revolver. However after purchasing a few, I was disappointed in the standard yellow color you see in the back of the newly painted ones I created. So here is what happens when I get bored. As you can see I repainted them to look more interesting and less kid-like. I am after all 29 years old. Even my friend got her own pink princess gun!

Whats really cool is there are tons of people out there who have done and gone far beyond what you see here by me. Google Custom Nerf Guns and you will see some pretty crazy and fun stuff.

Football, I was never huge fan of watching Football, although I played some in high school, I just never watched sports to much. After seeing the fun all the guys at work had last year playing Fantasy Football I decided to give it a try this year. I was really interested in making my own logo and creating a team. My friend Sarah helped come up with the name… The Crazy Apes. Here is the logo.

Note: I manipulated a donkey kong image I found online.

Ok so in the last year or so I met this incredibly beautiful vivacious young lady at a restaurant I frequent. Her name is Becky and she was graduating from high school. Becky’s mom asked me to write her a graduation letter, how could I refuse. She has kind of a nick name of Sha-Tank-Ra and has quite a story to go with it, and well I am not going to share the story or the letter, here is the envelope I created that she received the letter in.