Yay, update!
I just spent a ton of time completely redoing each of my three islands, and I'm very excited about how they're coming along, with some room to grow. I'm making one island sort of a little town, and I've got my cold stuff there for now, plus my Sun (my only rare! I'll die if I can't get a Panlong!) and Collosseum.
Second island is more a formal park, split between earth and fire, with my lightning there. It's looking neat.
Third island is the one I'm most exciting about. I kind of think of it like I "live" in my nursery/hatchery, and it's got a forest/rustic theme. So I put all the forest/rustic stuff there. You start out at the warp-in, then follow the lamppost-lit path through the forest until you hit my "house" (nursery) with a few outbuildings (a farm, well, thatched cottege, etc.). Keep walking down the forest path and you'll stroll by my plant hab. Keep going and the scenery goes a bit oriental, and you'll walk by my pagoda and Japanese garden, which includes my air habitat and some bamboo (and the path lamps change to paper lamps). Keep going and it gets swampy in the woods, as the path takes you by my water hab and pond (try to find the hidden Cozy Den). The pond feeds into the breeding cave, which is secluded in the deepest part of the woods, all the way at the quiet private end of the path!
While I spent the time redoing all of this tonight, my visitors count skyrocketed. It used to max out around 50. Now I have 147! I'm still tweaking stuff though.
If you want to check it out, my GC id is tommyb 71 (yes, with the space), and I'll friend you, but I'm not necessarily looking for more gems - I already have a core list of gem exchangers. This is just for fun.
Really really really want to get that Panlong, though.
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. So much to do and so little $$. 
