Shameless self promotion!
Kisla and I Decided to try our hand at toy design at the website PatchTogether.com. . . We thought it might be "fun." XD We also thought it might be a good vessel to help bring more traffic to our website.

Anyway. . . You can "Win" the chance to get your design made into a toy if you have 80+ Positive comments and 50+ positive votes. So we'd REALLY appreciate if everybody voted on our designs and passed the word on to others to vote as well.

HappeeBot Supreme!

Wispy Floxy DIY Design




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With school started, I really have to be careful to try and balance my time between school, work, and this convention I've been thrown at. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting what I need to get done on the convention side. So I decided to take Kisla's lead and write a list. Hopefully I'll be able to get everything I need done. . . -__- I really have no idea how I'm going to do it. At least my Tablet Pen came in the mail yesterday. . . so now I can get my artwork done.

Anime Banzai -- October 16-18, SLC


To Do:

* Re-do Website to Include Blog

* Finish White Rabbit Head
* Alice Costume
- Dress
- Apron
- Bloomers
- Petticoat
- Bow
- Style Wig
* Prep Elf Ears

* Fairy Sticks
* Mini Lox
* Squidly Charms
* Swissroll Charms
* Muffin Keychains
* Strawberry Keychains
* Hairpins/Pins
- Angel Wing
- Demon Wing
- Fairy Wing
- Fairy
- Crossbones
* Magnets
- Finish Artwork
- Assemble

* Color Art
- Nightcrawler
- Toki
- Ponyo
- Chii
- District 9
- Mermaid
- Papa Inle
- Any Other Stray Artwork

* Print Artwork
- Cut backboards
- Package in Sleeves

* Screen Print Placemats/Napkins
* Cucumber Sandwiches
* "Drink Me" Bottle
* "Eat Me" Cookies
* Cheshire Cat Cupcakes?



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As I said before, I've been taking summer classes and that has kept me from working on art much.
I've also been busy behind the scenes trying to get the Death Taffy site up to what it needs to be to promote it at this next Anime convention. . . which for awhile I was pretty sure I was going to opt out of. I don't have much spare cash so spending monies on "Anime Banzai's Family-Friendly-Con-For-Babies" Especially when they charge as much for Artist's Alley tables as the huge-cons like Anime Expo, and Sakura Con, and actually 10 dollars MORE than Fanime. Kinda irritating considering it's a convention that only got 2,400 people last year and that was largely in part that Vic Mignogna was a guest. Also rooms cost 109 a night. . . Okay, rant over. Long story short, I'm broke, tables are overpriced and I felt reeaaaly bad for those kids that got yelled at by Staff for laughing too loud. Plus there's a chance I wouldn't be able to go because of a hectic college schedule. . .
So, wasn't really making early plans on going. At least nothing immediate, I was also sorta waiting for AA info to be posted on the con's website.
. . . Theeenn I get a phone call from my cousin. She's wanting info on the convention, where it is, how much, rooms ect. She went with us to Anime Oasis and loved it. Not only that but another cousin was disappointed he didn't get to go to the last one, so he's all excited to go to this one too. I hooked her up with the info.
Now it's MY turn to start seriously looking things over. The webite finally has information on it, so I decide to talk things over with Kisla, my partner in crime. We decide that we might as well get an Artist's Alley table, since we really need to promote ourselves more. Plus, Kisla might actually have more than a few postcards to put on the table. ^_^ . . . THEN we come to find out there's a Tea Set decorating contest, this is something Kisla had been talking about wanting to do not a week ago. It was like some sort of sign. Plus, we come to find out there is also going to be a Swap Meet, and Kisla just happens to have 2-tons of manga she needs to unload. (Hey Ki, are you reading this? See how much of this has to do with you? XP) Sooooo. . . we suddenly went from being "blah" about the whole idea of going, to being super-duper stoked. . . Hopefully we can pull our thumbs out of our asses fast enough to get some stuff finished.

Incase you doubt my productivity, here's a speed-clip of me inking a drawing:
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Also, we've been trying our hands at blogging:
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I really am bad at updating my devjournal. I'm a terrible, terrible person. . .
Anyway, I'm really going to try and actually put an effort into updating this thing. I'm even considering a subscription just so I can put images up to motivate myself.

Summer was supposed to give me the free time to update more, finish the website and get crap ready for October/Anime Banzai. Kisla and I are planning a table there.
However, I ended up taking summer classes again, so I'm having trouble finding the free time I was supposed have. It's actually getting quite annoying. . . and the fact that my Tablet pen has been lost since March hasn't helped. (I'm SOOO Sorry I haven't gotten your art and necklace to you Zeros! I will soon, I promise!)

If any of you want more recent and random updates, please feel free to follow me on Twitter.

Also, I'm clearing out my closet.
If anyone wants a set of 4, unopened Robotech miniDVDs give me a shout. I'll give them to the first person who asks. If not, into the garage sale box they go.



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So, in case you couldn't tell by my recent art update, Bitey, my laptop, pulled through. I had to reformat the whole c-drive to get it working again. Lost a bit of information doing that, but not enough to matter much. I DID manage to find all the program disks I was worried about, so now it's like the whole unpleasantness never happened.

And now. . . Con Pics! Just in case you were wondering what the lot of us dressed up as for Anime Banzai.
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Now that I've listed those, I must make let people know of FUTURE PLANS to attend Anime Oasis IN MARCH. I'm going to making room reservations and buying tickets AT THE END OF DECEMBER.

I know I've talked to some people about attending, and there's a few that probably want to go that I haven't mentioned. So, I will be NEEDING to know who is still planning on going so I can get the appropriate number of rooms. Last I checked, rooms would be about 100-120 dollars a night. :/ So it's kinda important to know how many ways that is being split.

Ticket purchases for the con are advance-only and first come, first serve here: [link]


Annnnnd. . . there was probably more, but I forgot. Finals suck.

. . . Also >> [link] << Holy shit. We're all doomed!

Also, ALSO . . . [link] You're not a real internet artist until your art gets ripped and put on a Hungarian website. About a quarter of the way down. My sister was searching for something random when she found it.



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