WOW. That's all I have to say. :)

This year I did not make the cut for Artists alley at anime north. It was full about an hour after registration opened. After being pretty annoyed by this, I ended up biting the bullet and getting a Dealer's table. Still being fairly new to the whole Dealer's Room concept, I was worried about the rather large investment I had to make...but thanks to my Sweetie's encouragement and help with some of the costs, I thought, well, here goes nothing!!So on day one, we set up (after I fled to work and made about 20 more journals, realizing I hadn't made enough..oops!) and man was I nervous! I wasn't sure what to expect when I got there! But, we did get there on time and checked in without any pain (phew!...organization was very good!!)

Setting up my booth was interesting. I've never really had a "booth" before. Table of stuff, yes. But actually Displaying things and having more product and a banner behind me? no.

One of my customers actually lent me a mannequin torso to have on the table, as well as a grid system behind my table. SO AWESOME! It looked really great when we were done. It took about two hours in total to get it all set up...raar!

Anywhoo...The con was very busy both friday and saturday. All the money spenders were out then! Saturday night it slowed down around dinner as the masquerade got under way, and sunday all the bargain hunters were out. We did manage to make almost as much on sunday as we did friday though, so that's not shabby at all!

People really went nuts over my buttons and the new silk screened shirts. Especially poo on you! ....another big hit was "meat is murder. (Delicious Murder)."So I think I may get that one silk screened for future conventions. Purrrr.

I got to see Jessie a few times, as well and shared a room with countess and her 2 friends. I basically missed the whole con except the dealer's room, but there was so much excitement in the dealer's room I did not feel cheated..lolI will post soon with photos...I got a few great photos of costumes..bwaha!

Meow! ^_~V

P.s., Scholastic's Lawyers have contacted me about "Grumpy Bunny" infringing on their Grumpy Bunny's Intellectual property copyright or some such nonsense. I didn't know the word "grumpy" and the word "bunny" could no longer be used to describe a design. And so, I may have to change the name of that design. Damnit. My bunny is nothing like theirs though, so I'm not sure I agree with this alleged infringement.

As such, the grumpy bunny merchandise will not be available for purchase until this issue has been resolved. Sorry about that :(