Thanks for the awesome Crayboth pic, CC! Your future job as official Onell photographer awaits!

Cady and CC both hit the drawing pads this time, each producing another round of our familiar aliens in action! It was the best watching the girls work on their stuff together, stealing my markers and pens throughout the process (their dad was also in drawing mode).

The particular versions shown in the images above will be surfacing early next week -that is of course if the kids don't swipe them all first. I've never seen the girls so excited by the colors on the figures before. Usually Glyos ends up losing out to the Zelfs, Shopkins and Barbies that populate the play areas around here.

I guess those Zelfs are pretty good.

Thank you for the awesome artwork, Bubba and Bays! 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at Onell!

Merry Christmas from the whole family over here at Onell!

No matter what you celebrate, we hope you had a great day!

Check in a little later for a special treat!

These images have been cracking us up around here, so I thought you might also get a kick out of them. The girls call these "Phone Fakes".

Having two young comedians in the house is the best.

It's also somewhat horrifying.

Happy Easter! Michelle, Cady, CC and I hope you and your families have a great day (the mayhem started here at 5AM)!

Things have been pretty quiet here on the blog for the past few weeks, due to some major hours being logged in up at the shop, coupled with preparing for the next wave of stuff centering around the return of Glyaxia. Hopefully when everything comes into clearer focus, you will enjoy what you see.

Speaking of the next round, the tentative release date has been scheduled for Sunday, May 4th at 9:30PM EST. Production of the new Glyaxia order has taken a bit, as extra time was required to nail the fit and finish on all the stuff. It's been a while since we've run so much vinyl, so a few things had to be pulled off the shelf and reactivated to produce everything that we wanted to fit into this assortment.

The timing bump to May also effectively ends the monthly release schedule for 2014, which in light of the heavy frequency of offerings from across the boards, may not be such a bad thing. Some months may run in succession again, but the space between the big and little waves will spread out some more. It was fun to push the envelope, but the accompanying risk of overload has been clearly illustrated and we're tweaking the plan to keep the ship on track.

Thank you for all the feedback so far this year, your individual opinions really do make a difference and we take everything into consideration as each decision is made around here.

Pics of the new selections will start to filter in this week, along with a few sneaks from the latest projects being worked on at the shop!

CC built a mini icicle half cavern after asking me to snap the hangers off the house. She turned the frozen spears into a really neat little exploration area!   

We hope you guys are all having a great round of holidays! The girls had a fun Christmas, and are still running around playing with their new stuff. Cirie has already played a few "concerts" for us with her new guitar, which had Michelle and I in stitches.

Instead of our regular Annual Cookie Showdown, we had an Italian Food Challenge, which ended up producing a freaking mountain of Parmesan Cheese, very reminiscent of a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. My stomach still hurts from the combined super sauce assault!

Our whole family thanks you for all the support this year. We'll do our best to make 2014 something extra special.

Happy Halloween!

The girls cleaned up this year, despite it being overcast and pretty crummy out.

After getting rained on, we made it back home, watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and sorted the sugar piles.

Hope you guys had a fun night out there as well!

Our daughter Cady, who is now 8 years old, made a special illustration for her little sister Cirie. The above drawing is supposed to be a character guide, to help Cirie understand who you can find in Glyos.

I love how kids think.