So anyway, I was able to go from the dumpy toaster to THIS. AWESOME. SCENE. over the past few weeks of learning about the different textures and lighting I can apply to things. I'm pretty proud of it. I also made the toaster fly but that's for the project/too big a file for the likes of Blogger. But you guys can see this:

I know. I'm proud of it too. :D And it's only getting better.