So, angsty post aside, BotCon went really well. (My angsty moment was while I was in the midst of a panic attack about my booth, which was, quite frankly, expected. I did fine, though!) I sold a ton of jewelry, and handed out most of my business cards, and I actually have received a commission from someone at BotCon! I sold all of my character- ( Read more... )

Helpful Cat Creations is officially registered for BotCon. :) I had to overdraft my checking account in sheer panic, but we're registered!

Okay, I got the email we've been waiting for- an extra badge for the booth is $85, which would bring the total to $435 or $145 per person. The brochure talks like we need to have it ordered by May 15th but there's no registration form! How am I supposed to register by then?! And the extra badge fee will be $100 after 6/1. Again... no ( Read more... )

So, after an initial "Oh he-AILL no" at the proposed location, I started giving it serious thought. The timing is pretty good for my job- spring is too soon to save adequate amounts of money, and fall sucks because it's right before my yearly review, which is a rather tetchy time for me. By summer I can have lots of UR stored up, so I will be ( Read more... )

So, I've had this idea of doing these barrettes forever. The discussion of a potential BotCon jewelry table got my creative juices flowing and I sat down to play with Shrinky Dink plastic and stamps from the Transformers tattoo kit. They're kinda smeary because I was using the low-quality ink in the kit, and then Chihiro "helped ( Read more... )

rusty_chevy mentioned before that her brother said we need to get a table next BotCon for Transformers-themed jewelry. Of course, this has the wheels in my head turning ( Read more... )

Helmet progress:

I'm a big doofus in a silly hat!

If anybody owns either a Unicron toy, or one of the upright Hard Hero statues, could you take some pictures of him from every possible angle for me? It's really hard to glean the details I need from what few pictures are on the web and from watching the movie over and over. If anyone could, I'll be indebted to you forever!

I have officially began work on BotCon 09's costume: Unicron. Granted, so far it's getting the sketches done and starting work on the helmet, but hey, it's still something ( Read more... )

So, a lot of you might not know about my total aversion to musicals. See, in high school, I had a classmate who was such a musical freak that she made the lot of us sick of them. She was going to be on Broadway, you see, and the lot of us plebes weren't nearly as musical savvy as she. Even when I saw a play in London on the London equivalent of ( Read more... )