Well it's been a while.

16 days till comic-con. My next convention that I'll be selling at is in august. Rocky Mountain Furcon and PAX prime. Moving a long with other projects and things, plus commissions.

my latest plushie! I'm so proud of it.

After I finish two commissions I'll post again. Bye!

Sac Con is in two days!

Long time no post. Carpal tunnel has been a jerk to me. I'm way behind on the amount of plushies I wanted to make for both Sac Con and Am2Con... but in other good news I got a full time job! It's kept me busy and tired... another thing keeping me from going SPP full time.

I finally find something I want to do, and of course my body denies me.

Carpal Tunnel (34 days till am2con)

Well. It's official.

I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I'll just copy what that means so I can type less:

Carpal tunnel syndrome is pressure on the median nerve -- the nerve in the wrist that supplies feeling and movement to parts of the hand. It can lead to numbness, tingling, weakness, or muscle damage in the hand and fingers. Carpal tunnel syndrome is common in people who perform repetitive motions of the hand and wrist. Typing on a computer keyboard is probably the most common cause of carpal tunnel. Other causes include:

    Sewing
    Driving
    Assembly line work
    Painting
    Writing

That number one cause on the list after typing is sewing...As a lot of you know, I do a lot of. Well, 'did' a lot of. It has really put the breaks on my dream of doing plushies full time so I can leave my day job. I can't afford surgery, but thankfully it isn't to that point yet as long as I wear braces on both my wrists and ice/medicate/rest for a while. Which is why I really need some help because to stop this progressive issue my doctor told me to cut what I did when my hands started hurting and at most do 1/4 or less of that work. He really insisted that I stop, but he understood I was passionate about trying to make my own way out into the world.

He wants me to go to physical therapy. I don't have the money for it even if I agreed, which would cause my hands stress because it is a 20 minute drive on a very bendy highway. Including gas it would be about 25$ every week. That's money I don't have.

What I'm asking for help is for my watchers to either commission me, or buy a plushie from my store. I'm willing to give you guys 2-5$ off the listed prices, depending on the plushie.

Please help here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Aeolynn

I appreciate any help anyone can give me.

44 days till Am2Con!

Well it's been a very unproductive couple of days for me. I got pretty sick at work... Was really pale and weak and ended up going home early. Hopefully I'll get back on the ball in the next few days. I ordered a new pair of scissors! They are electric! This should help with the pain in my hands and wrists I've been dealing with over the last few weeks. Anyways....

get back to you in a few days!

52 days till AM2Con!

Well I figure I'm not getting to go to Fanime, which is fine, actually. My day job has really been keeping me busy. But HEY, 52 days till AM2Con! Which I'm totally still excited for. I've set a goal of 2 plushies a day, so hopefully I will have a good number of slugs and other plushies for inventory! I won't be able to make things some days do to work, which just means I need to catch up on my days off.

I've created a new slug! They are called Dragonsluggers:

I will be making up a commission sheet for these guys soon! They will be a little cheaper then my other slugs due to their simple design. Also, check out my latest commission!

He was a 47$ commission. First time dealing with a very slippery fabric. Overall he turned out looked great!

55 days till Fanime, 68 days till Am2con

It's really difficult going to work at best buy, while knowing that if I just had the time, I could easily make SPPlushies my full time job. At the moment, all that is stopping me is not having the money to quit and focus. Yeah, the hours are steady because of some employees that got fired, but it ain't going to stay that way. The moment they hire some new people they will put Russel back in gaming and there goes half my hours. I'm only making 400$ every two weeks. I'd rather be making that much making plushies and being happy than having a steady-ish job.

I'm very depressed right now.

Post Anime Conji 2012 (66 Days till Fanime!)

Well, I'm back. I had the tiiiiime of my life! Loved every second of it and I met some wonderful people.

Overall, it turned out super well. This was my booth! All the stuff on the left is my commission information, newsletter signups and my business cards. 4 people signed up for my newsletter and I sold 2 commissions, and 15 plushies! Overall, I broke even, being safe I made 10 dollars or so lol. I talked to mooost of the artists around me and I heard that breaking even at your first convention is super rare! So that was great to hear. Man... I can't wait to quit my day job, I want to do this fulltime!

2 days till Anime Conji! 72 days till Fanime!

So... 2 days left!!! I can't believe that on Thurs I will be driving down to my first Artist Alley convention! I have updated my inventory with a platypus, and I plan to complete some pikachu dragonslugs, maybe some other pokemon. SO EXCITED.

5 days till Anime Conji! 76 days till Fanime!!!

It will be 5/76 days tomorrow... soooo excited. We had a GDC party here last night, still recovering! No new plushies yet. Tomorrow I will be doing plushies allllllll day.

8 days till Anime Conji! 79 days till Fanime!!!

So... I didn't do anything today. I got up for work, got home tired. Decided to relax for the night and play some tf2. Had a blast! In other news, there's a possibility that one of my coworkers is going to transfer to another dept, meaning I will get twice as many hours. This is both a curse and a blessing, as I'll get a better paycheck, but I will be even more tired and won't be able to have the energy for making as many plushies as I need to. And two coworkers were caught stealing... so stupid. So yeah, I might not be able to quit my day job as soon as I had hoped... goal for now is to put in my two weeks on june 15th, in time to be day job free by Anime Expo.

We'll see. I still need to make about 15-20 plushies before conji.

10 days till Anime Conji!/81 days till Fanime!!!

Pretty proud of myself tonight. I had work this morning and I was tired, came home, had lunch, watched the laker game and relaxed. I went downstairs around 5:45 feeling good! Cut and sewed three angel sluggies :) my inventory for anime conji is growing steadily, I'm not rushing persay because it will be a good experience to dip my toe in the market. My business plan does include making the money I need to pay for the whole trip and then some, but I don't expect to make much more then 500$. I will be accepting commission slots for 5 dollars (with 5$ off shipping) so we'll see how well that does.

Should be a good time though, I'm quite excited.

In other news, got a twitter account! follow me at https://twitter.com/#!/SPPlushies

85 days till Fanime! 15 days till Anime Conji!

Soooooo I go into an artist alley that's on march 16-18! way excited, didn't think I was going to get in, as I was on the waiting list... so I'm busting my butt preparing. Going to be fun!

In other news, I made minirays! I made them about half the size of the stingrays, so I will sell them for 12$ and sell their parents for 25$. Also looking into making buttons so I have little items around too... might not make it in time for conji though. I'm kinda in a rush!

91/90 days till Fanime!

Well, managed to complete my articuno scoodie, and just about done with a commission for someone on elftown. I have planned to finish another commission tomorrow, and start on a skylanders plushie!

Also looking around at different cons around november. I don't think I'll get into the florida long beach comic-con one :\

92 days till Fanime!

So, not much done today. Went and bought more fabric (some half off patterns, blue, yellow, orange and red) and decided to get more thread. For some reason my sewing machine is acting up again. Hopefully it will be all better tomorrow after sitting clean and newly oiled overnight.

Working on an Articuno scoodie, about 2/3's done. It's looking really great, but, it's taking me foreeeever to finish.

93 days till Fanime!

Goal: 3 sluggies (or equal plushies) a day

Slugs: 2
Fancy Sluggies: 3
Sluggies: 0
Cuttlefish: 1
Stingrays: 0
Pokemon: 0
Scarves: 0

I cut out another slug for tomorrow, and I have 9 stingrays and a squid cut out as well.