diff --git a/interface/src/avatar/Avatar.cpp b/interface/src/avatar/Avatar.cpp
index a5ed16bcb5..3f64436ff3 100755
--- a/interface/src/avatar/Avatar.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/avatar/Avatar.cpp
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ void Avatar::sendAvatarURLsMessage(const QUrl& voxelURL, const QUrl& faceURL) {
     message.append(packetHeader, numBytesPacketHeader);
     message.append((const char*)&ownerID, sizeof(ownerID));
     
-    QDataStream out(&message, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
+    QDataStream out(&message, QIODevice::WriteOnly | QIODevice::Append);
     out << voxelURL;
     out << faceURL;
     
diff --git a/interface/src/avatar/BlendFace.cpp b/interface/src/avatar/BlendFace.cpp
index 0fdd37da2c..e8e6e1d4e7 100644
--- a/interface/src/avatar/BlendFace.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/avatar/BlendFace.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ BlendFace::BlendFace(Head* owningHead) :
     _modelReply(NULL),
     _iboID(0)
 {
+    // we may have been created in the network thread, but we live in the main thread
+    moveToThread(Application::getInstance()->thread());
 }
 
 BlendFace::~BlendFace() {