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Well I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of how my Stacee Jaxx commission turned out. sakihrumino.deviantart.com/art… He looks exactly like I was hoping he would. To be honest I wasn't planning on the fur coat when I started him. It wasn't an original ask in the commission, but once I finished hand-embroidering the tattoos I was preparing the pattern for a simple slinky black shirt and I just knew he had to have the jacket. (I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I admit, but I strive for authenticity.. well.. as close as you can get to authenticity when we're talking about a 9″ plush version of someone. LOL)
I'm having so much fun doing my plushie shoots with the new ideas. See, I originally thought it was smart to have my plushie on display against a simple white or black background so that all the handiwork was clear. Then I read something on the Etsy Sellers blog www.etsy.com/blog/en/category/… about how people shopping online can't handle your products and really look at them like you can in a store. The article said the best way to entice shoppers was to show your products in use – dishes with food on them, jewelry or clothes on the body, etc – and I thought that made a lot of sense.. but my products don't really have a "use" that I could portray in a photo shoot. So I figured I would shoot them like I was shooting the character they're based on. It turned out even better than I imagined! The first one I shot with this new vision was my Twilight Sparkle sakihrumino.deviantart.com/art… and the pictures came out brilliantly so I kept with that theme. I think I might actually go back and shoot some of my other dolls (a few of them were gifts for my besties so they're still chilling around my house) so they have the same kind of display quality.
So he's all finished and I'm on to the next commission on my list. Let's see.. at this point I've got..
1. Toothless (from How To Train Your Dragon)
2. Rainbow Dash
3. clothes for custom Ciel Phantomhive Lalaloopsy
Plus various other sewing projects – working out making/upcycling clothes. And I'm going to be taking a break from commissions, most likely, because I want to build up a stock of plushies for Ramencon in September. (My 1st con!) I've still gotta figure out what I'm making for the con.. busy busy!
~Seth
I'm having so much fun doing my plushie shoots with the new ideas. See, I originally thought it was smart to have my plushie on display against a simple white or black background so that all the handiwork was clear. Then I read something on the Etsy Sellers blog www.etsy.com/blog/en/category/… about how people shopping online can't handle your products and really look at them like you can in a store. The article said the best way to entice shoppers was to show your products in use – dishes with food on them, jewelry or clothes on the body, etc – and I thought that made a lot of sense.. but my products don't really have a "use" that I could portray in a photo shoot. So I figured I would shoot them like I was shooting the character they're based on. It turned out even better than I imagined! The first one I shot with this new vision was my Twilight Sparkle sakihrumino.deviantart.com/art… and the pictures came out brilliantly so I kept with that theme. I think I might actually go back and shoot some of my other dolls (a few of them were gifts for my besties so they're still chilling around my house) so they have the same kind of display quality.
So he's all finished and I'm on to the next commission on my list. Let's see.. at this point I've got..
1. Toothless (from How To Train Your Dragon)
2. Rainbow Dash
3. clothes for custom Ciel Phantomhive Lalaloopsy
Plus various other sewing projects – working out making/upcycling clothes. And I'm going to be taking a break from commissions, most likely, because I want to build up a stock of plushies for Ramencon in September. (My 1st con!) I've still gotta figure out what I'm making for the con.. busy busy!
~Seth
Homeless Cheshire Cat
I am SO happy with how the Cheshire Cat is turning out but unfortunately my commissioner has changed her mind about the purchase. I'm going to finish him because he's over half done and he's gonna be awesome, but he's a jumbo size plushie (almost 2 feet tall!) and I only do those on commission because I don't really have space in my room to keep a bunch of them that big. So when he's finished I'm hoping that I can find another Alice In Wonderland lover who's dreaming of a giant Cheshire Cat of their very own...
WIP Jack Frost commission - COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN
I am so happy with how the embroidery is coming along on my Jack Frost commission. I love when somebody commissions something really fun! I have a feeling I will have to make a second Jack, though, because Nevi is already flailing over this one.
AND... SPRING COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN.
I've got a couple more commissions after this one but there are still some spaces open for the Spring batch.. so if you've been thinking about requesting a custom plushie, now is the time to get a quote!
~Seth
2014 Awesomeness Review
Where to even start reviewing 2014... there was a lot going on this past year. Definitely. It was not necessarily an easy year by any mark, but the year brought an abundance of learning and new understandings.
I discovered so many new things:
Welcome To Night Vale – If you haven't heard of it yet, it's this brilliant and creepy podcast about this little town of Night Vale in the desert. It's... kinda hard to explain, really. But it fast became an addiction in my house and it's sparked a lot of new creative ideas about writing, artwork, plushies..
Cards Against Humanity – Which is such a wrong, messed up, hilarious game. We ha
Devious Journal Entry
Just a little heads up. I got schooled by senpai at Nijicon. This and other revelations I had this weekend about my craft have inspired me to change the pricing structure on my plushies – including what I am now calling plush art dolls, due to the technical difficulty of their construction and the time spent working on them. I have updated my Commissions and FAQs to reflect this change.
I will be posting new plushies and plush art dolls to my Etsy shop in the next couple of days, once I sort out my inventory from Nijicon.
I am looking forward to having the winter (because I’m so not traveling very far in the snow) to work on mor
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