FanExpo 2011 Con Report

What a long~~~ weekend. I'm home early. Kind of drama with my family. I'm still totally exausted though. I'll try to keep my con report short. ^_^

I got there on wednesday to pick up the badges. Reg was simple since I was there in advance. I actually brought a lot of work to do with me: paints, glue gun, and ample amount of felt. Wednesday was spent giving hair to the 10 plushies I didn't have time to give hair to, and I actually didn't finish it all. ^_^;

Thursday was the first day of the con. It was so slow~~

Otakuthon 2011 Con Report

[Warning: LONG ENTRY! Image-heavy post ahead!]

Oh boy, what a weekend. Here's the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

But before that, here are some pics of my merch~~~

Updated production & Otakuthon table location

Wahhh! The con is in a few days, and I'm NOT READY!!! *cries and dies*

Hopefully, by the end of this day, I will at least have some completed plushies, but at the moment, they look like this:

My sister and the army

And that's actually not all of them. o_0 That's only 63 of them, and I have 80 planned. It's supposed to be for Otakuthon AND FanExpo. I haven't made any of my lycra plushies, so looks like I won't have any for Otakuthon. :( I'm also working on some dango plush-pillows, some daifuku plushies, and I'm going to bring back my no-face keychains.

Plushie Production

Ughh... My production isn't going all that well. :( I've been very distracted with lots of other things, namely updating my online portfolio. So far, I've only tackled the chibi-plushies. I'm aiming at making 80, and they all have pants so far.

I still gotta give them shirts, stuff their heads, and then design eyes+ glue hair. I'll definitely get it done (despite Otakuthon being less than 2 weeks away), but there was another list of things I wanted to make, and it doesn't look like I'll be able to get to them done. :(

HeavyMTL Day 2, Trims & Vans

As mentioned in my previous post, I wasn't quite sure if I'd attend day # 2 of HeavyMTL, but alas! Yes I did! It's great having connections~~~ ^_^ I got to see Opeth. Holy crap. I love them. I really forgot just how much I love them. 0_0 I told my bro's roomate who I was hanging out with: I was ready to make-out with ANYONE around me, be it female, fat, grimmy, whatever. That's how much Opeth turns me on~~~ LOL

This makes me lean towards the decision of still going to Youmacon. Ok, seems like the topics aren't related, but they are. Opeth is playing in Detroit on October 29th (they aren't coming to either TO or Montreal for their tour). Youmacon is from Nov 3rd-6th. And in between, there's Halloween. :D Now this all depends whether my guy wants me around, lol.

And totally random, I sticked around for KISS who were headlining. My bro's roomate really wanted to get up front, so we got pretty close. I don't know any of their songs, but they were pretty entertaining!

Youmacon AA reg= FAIL

I've been looking into getting a table at the Detroit convention Youmacon  http://www.youmacon.com/ because I have a place to stay in Windsor (about 20 mins away from the con) and it'll give me the opportunity to see my friends and also finally take a stab at an american con!

The reg was really not well announced, so I've been stalking the forums for the past few weeks. Finally, they said it'd open on saturday the 23rd (yesterday) but couldn't tell us the time.... Lately, I've been working on my online portfolio (which is going really well), so I was on the computer anyways. I was checking back every 30 mins or so.

Guilty Pleasure

I was a bad girl the other day, and splurged on some clothing items. o_0

At first, I hit up Underworld (skate shop) because I had a gift certificate that my brother gave to me three or four years ago. If you like streetwear and skate shoes, they've got a stylish selection. Here's their online shop:  http://www.underworld-shop.com/

I was really drawn to the clothes by Element Eden.  http://www.elementeden.com/

I bought 2 dresses/tunics; they're very knitty and good quality material. :D Here's a pic of one of them (I couldn't find the other one on the site!):

Looks like a shirt, but it's quite long.

 

The one I bought was black.