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disney in november

2009-11-08T22:14:00.000-08:00

Some photos from our trip to Disneyland today. I tweaked with them in photoshop a bit to make them more interesting to me, or less blown out, until the last two or three. They either had cool light already, or were just plain weird. The last photo is the dinosaurs in the "Primeval World" on Disneyland Railroad.

cheapsters birds

2009-11-05T10:47:00.000-08:00

So, I'm currently working on a commission from Jackie Lam, who runs the Cheapsters blog, which finds fun (cheap or free) things to do around the L.A. area and posts them. She wanted some plushies of her logo, the cheapsters bird, for Christmas presents and blog giveaways. There's ten of them in this batch, and here's some of my progress.

My work desk is a total mess- covered in bird fluff, deer girl dress parts, and plushies, but these are coming along pretty awesomely. They're made of fleece instead of felt, so it's a new medium for me, very exciting. I also put Ellie up in my etsy store, and she'll be available there until Unique L.A. in December.

Ellie Hartford, the Country Bunny

2009-11-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

Meet Ellie, she's a classy country bunny. The dress fabric I got in my plush trade with benandi.

In other news, I was looking back at old posts, and this came up: my news Year Resolutions. Let's seeeeee...

Oh, and because I didn't put this in the last post, here's some New Year's Resolutions:

-Be nicer (uhhh)
-Be more patient (ummm)
-Be more social. (check?)
-Memorize some maps of LA so I don't have to google everything, I can just know. (check)
-Go to a concert. The Aquabats was awesome, I have to get out more. (hmm.)
-Draw more. (sigh.)
-Do a project in After Effects so I don't completely lose those skills. (double sigh.)
-Take more photos. (check)

3/8. How terrible. But at least I'm honest.

Pre-Halloween 2009

2009-10-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

We missed our weekly wagon due to Internet Issues on Wednesday (aka the Worst Day Ever) so Corey brought around the wagon today, with pumpkins! Justin went all out.

Dave gave Justin's a little hat. Very festive.

Mike made a Marx brother. I forget which one exactly... Groucho?

Here's Justin's and I's together. I made Oliver. You can see I added his big ole butt on the back.

Here's all the pumpkins, and a close-up of Amia's.

And good times were had by all!

Dolores Grimsby

2009-10-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

My newest Deer Girl. I'm currently working on a country style bunny girl. I have a show this Sunday, Nov. 1st, at the CAMP in Costa Mesa, so if you can make it out, please do. My table is 8, and it's indoors, so no sunburns or rain!

Plush designs

2009-10-23T17:49:00.000-07:00

Two new plush doll designs!

A victorian-inspired Bunny Girl.

The Deer Girl I'm working on currently.

bloggity blog banner

2009-10-21T15:52:00.000-07:00

Check it out, new banner and everything! The old one was nice, but I thought it was time to start having a cohesive brand for the plush parade. My business cards and Etsy have this design going, so why not have the portal blog match?

Oh, and coming to you from TatPar Productions, a new side project Justin and I have started working on (it's in the development stage now.) If you think of The Omen, Children of the Corn, and Eight Legged Freaks, plus babies who have freakish red hair, you have a pretty good idea of the plot. Here's the movie poster rough, a collab between Parps and myself.

Oh, and I'll be at the Handmade Brigade November 1st, Booth 8, at the CAMP in Costa Mesa. I'm indoors this time, so rain or shine, you should come say hello! I'll have some new products- needle-felted friends and deer/bunny girls for sale.

YOU'VE GOT CHEEZY BLASTERS!

2009-10-16T15:05:00.000-07:00

For you! I love Liz Lemon. She's the funny, awkward girl in all of us.
If you don't watch 30 Rock... WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?

I might change Oliver's costume to MeatCat.

PlushYou online/ 200th post!

2009-10-15T17:13:00.001-07:00

Me and Frank the Bigfoot at the show. In the top left, you can see the plush I purchased! He has antlers!

So, my pieces for the PlushYou! show are available online, in case you'd like to purchase one of them. Geoff the Giant Squid and Frank the Bigfoot! They don't have any info up on the site, but they're both made of felt, hand-sewn by me, and stuffed with polyful. The squid is gi-normous, at 3 feet long, and the Bigfoot is a around 18 inches tall.

I'll also be making some more deer girls (and bunny/cat/fox girls) over the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled. (Or just open, because peeled is something you do to a banana, not so much your eyeballs.)

Oh, and we're off to APE tomorrow! I'll be hanging around the Goblin-Fish Press table, in case ya wanna seeeee me.

--Trish

seattle, ape, and indieparade!

2009-10-13T16:40:00.000-07:00

Back from Seattle, and getting ready for APE this weekend, where Justin has a table again.

The plush show (PlushYou!) went great, and visiting Dan & Ada was fantastic! They have three great dogs, and three great chickens (I wish I'd taken some photos of their chickens, so cute!), and it was just amazing. Seattle is a super fun city, with lots to do. If you ever get the chance to visit, do it!

One of my owls, Bosco, also got featured over at www.indieparade.com, so that was a sweet thing to come back to, also! (Other than my car being rammed into. Ugh.)

Anyway, here's some of our faves from the trip!

Cheers!

halloween at JibJab + seattle updates

2009-10-06T10:35:00.000-07:00

This one is from last year, one of my all-time favorites- I worked with Justin on it. The other four are from this year, I also did all the Monster Mash postables- with backgrounds provided by Justin- they were just flipped Live this morning, so check them out!

In other news, I travel on up to Seattle this Friday for the PlushYou! opening. I've never visited the city, so it should be a really good time. I just hope it's not too cold. I've also fully moved into the new apartment, so I'm arranging up my work space and everything. It's coming along nicely, if I do say so myself. I'll post some pictures once it looks respectable enough. I'm also working on some new plush, some commissions, and some new forest girl art dolls. I want to make a fox girl pretty badly, I think the tail would be magnificent.

Anyway, I'll update soon with lots of pictures and things! Oh, and thank you all for the kind words about Drawn! The response was outstanding, really. Thank you!

baby jesus in the hiz-ouse

2009-09-30T11:25:00.000-07:00

So, a few mid-week updates are in order, I think.

Here's a ladybug I needle-felted a few weeks back, as a replacement gift for Sarah and Erin, whose Scott C. buttons got stolen by greedy mailmen. This time I taped the envelopes shut, and put a warning: Stealing makes Baby Jesus cry. Both ladybugs arrived intact. So, a shout-out to my homie Baby Jesus for helpin' make that happen.

And now, for the Weirdest Thing I've Seen All Week, technically Last Week:

One of our new favorite friends over at dogsinsweaters.com!

And on a special WTF ALERT: The Cleveland Show is awful. Flat-out awful. They took the least funny character on Family Guy and gave him his own show, with ANTROPOMORPHIC BEARS as his new next-door neighbors. And they have Greek accents. WTF.

big ole week

2009-09-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

Big week, I got featured on Drawn! on Monday, and just yesterday Shannon over at Rainbow Fabrics featured my plush owls (3rd store down!)

I'll also have some work in the new Ringling Made-By store, run by Nancy O'Neil. I believe it opens next month, so if you're in that neck of the woods, look out for some of my older work, and some new keychains I'm sending along soon.

This guy, name of Bosco, is also up in the store as of today!

zelda fitzgerald

2009-09-18T16:21:00.000-07:00

My newst Deer Girl, with an antler modification. Hope you like her.

And in a new segment I'm going to call "The weirdest thing I've seen this week", here's a Czech song about Jozin (Joseph.)
Thanks to Justin, for the link.

Dolly the Deer Girl

2009-09-11T16:06:00.000-07:00

This is the plush I've been working on for a little over a week now- stayed up late last night to finish her. I named her Dolly, and she's a deer girl (and yes, I know female deer don't have antlers.) I plan on working in this style on and off when I'm not making funny foods and monsters and simpler pieces. I really like her, maybe because she looks vaguely tired or pissed off.

She started off as this drawing I did at Joe's Diner.

The arms and legs and the line details in the hair are machine-sewn, but all the rest is hand-sewn, thus why it took so long to complete. The fabric I bought from hushbabyco on Esty, and the felt and other baubles are just bits I've collected over the years. Her eyes are safety plastic.

This particular doll won't be up for sale, as I'm keeping her to love for-ev-er, but I'll have some other ones up for sale by the end of the month, including a man with a giant moustache!

baby owl giveaway!

2009-09-08T11:05:00.000-07:00

EDIT: Mare MacIntosh won, so congrats! I'll hold another giveaway next month, so keep your eyes pealed for it!

Howdy! In the awesome spirit of, um, early September, I'm running a giveaway this week for this little guy! All you have to do is leave a comment with your name and email and it'll be entered into a random drawing.

On Friday at noon, I'll pick a winner (I'm going assign each comment a number, and use a random number generator) and announce it THIS Friday at noon-thirty (both here, and on my twitter.) Then I'll contact the winner and send them this cute little owl!

In the spirit of fairness, one comment per person, plzkthnx.

Look at that cute little face! Doesn't it just say "Win Me!" ?

gratuitious man boob-age

2009-09-02T12:25:00.000-07:00

So, Halloween is just around the corner (not really, but shut up) and I'm going to dress my cat, Oliver, and myself, as Ewoks. So I did this little piece to just give you a small taste of my vision. BEHOLD!

Also, More to Love is starting to wrap up, and let me just say, I'm glad Anna is gone. Basically because I cannot stop making fun of her face. And when she says OH MY GOD, she sounds like what I imagine a harpy would. The rest of the girls are equal parts boring and pathetic, so I don't really care who wins. That's Tali below, sharing the frame with Luke and his super boobs.

Also, so this post isn't a total waste, here's some new owls, and a tiki named Big Tom, which is up in the store.

super owly mania + More to Love

2009-08-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

All three of these super plushie pals are up in the store, so check 'em out! First is Pug, then Bim, and then the fabulous Pumpkin!

Also, is anyone watching More to Love? Because it's awesome in it's complete horrible-ness! I know that's mean, but whatever. Some of these girls are turbo pathetic, and it has nothing to do with their weight. Also, she's a model. Right.

felt like lurve

2009-08-26T10:19:00.000-07:00

One of Justin's toys- I got my new camera, so I was practicing taking pictures. It's a sea monster hopper guy!

Dino par-tay. I'm trying to get that depth of field bizness going.

Cool spider we saw outside Justin's apartment complex. He was very hard to shoot, as the camera wanted to autofocus on the plant behind him.

This is Bilius Ballsworth Ballington- my first needle-felted friend. He's a cardinal- I got a kit on needle-felting from fancytiger on Etsy.

This is old, but not old-old. It's a plush I made for a co-worker of her husband (who is also a co-worker). I haven't made a ton of dolls, and my first try at him turned out something close to HORRIBLE, so I completely restarted, and decided to stylize him more. Realistic dolls, in my opinion, just end up in that uncanny valley realm where it's just creep-tastic. So yeah.

More pictures soon, and expect some fabric owls up in the store today/tonight!

FABRIC OWLS = awesome

2009-08-21T14:51:00.000-07:00

Taken with photobooth at work, because my sweet sweet Canon Rebel XS hasn't arrived yet.

New owl plushies, with fabric backs, made with love (and my sewing machine!) Expect them in the store mid-next week or so!

More updates, soon. Promiiiise.

Help, plzkthnx?

2009-08-13T12:32:00.000-07:00

Howdy. These are some color roughs I did for a dresser I rescued from certain garbage-y doom. Which one do you like? I really can't decide, and it's been driving me bonkers all last night/this morning. Just let me know in a comment or @reply to @trishans on twitter. Thanks! I'll post the results later.

Weird Al released starring... JJ employees!

2009-08-04T09:53:00.001-07:00

One of the perks, again, of working for JibJab is being a ready-to-use actor. This video in particular is super awesome because not only is there a StarringYou! version on our site, but we're baked into the actual video!!

One of our animators, Mike! All fear the CNR.

Devin is broken! He was also the body-double for Charles Nelson Reilly!

Alan and Andy are dead bodies.

I was swallowed whole whilst driving about town...

Alan was just munching on a sub, and BAM! LASERS!

And Devin, Dave, and Justin all run for their lives!

I also worked as the body double for Meg White. EDIT: (I'm drumming, they put Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz' head on my body.) Thanks @algonacchick for the info!

And here's an animated GIF I made, woot.

ADDY award pictures

2009-07-29T16:28:00.000-07:00

Ringling finally posted the ADDY award winners, so I thought I would link you guys to my piece(s), in case you missed it at last years graduation ceremony. I ended up winning a Gold local ADDY, and a Silver regional ADDY.

Anyway, if you're perusing the Ringling site, check it out.

Oh yeah, and because I'll (hopefully) be moving soonishly, I must link you to this, because it's one of the few things keeping me sane. It's so friggin' beautiful, I would die a happy death if I could live in a place half a cool as that.

cool news plus cool pics

2009-07-28T17:58:00.000-07:00

This is a thumb card I made, which was originally supposed to be the title card. The one they actually use for the video is boring, and makes me sad, so just pretend it's this.

This is ripped from the JibJab blog, because I'm not sure what we can post and what we can't. But what I CAN tell you is that I'm Meg White's body (its not just in silhouette in the full video) and I appear to be eaten by Charles Nelson Reilly. Justin appears too- he gets shot at by lasers. The video is friggin' awesome, so when it drops, I'll let you know.

This is a business card I'm finishing up for my plush biz. I think it's pretty awesome (not to toot my own horn or anything, even though I just did.) The back is blank so I can draw funny things on it when I send it to people, or write important infos on it when I'm giving it to people who need such things. It's one of 3 things I've actually designed for myself in the past 3 months. (That's sad, considering my profession is listed as Designer, but whatev.)

I'm also working on some new plush designs, whoo hoo, and a badass bear pattern that will save us all from destruction. I also plan on updating this thing more often again, since I don't have Comic-Con as an excuse.

P.S. We did really awesome there, and had a killer time. If you can, you should totally hit it up next year. We can hang out, it would be rad.

COMIC-CON 2009

2009-07-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

Hey all! So I'll be at Comic-Con for the rest of this lovely week, joining my friends at the Goblin-Fish Press booth in the exhibitors section! If you're hitting up the Con, you should definitely stop by.

The boys of GFP have some FANTASTIC new products including buttons, 2 new beautiful postcard sets, 3 new monster prints from Justin, and a screen-print from Josh (with green sparkly metallic ink!) There's also many great prints, both old and new, books, puzzles, and magnets. Whew.

Also, I'll be there, in all my 5-foot-2-and-a-half-inch glory, so there really isn't anything holding you back, now is there? (There also might be a Bigfoot or two lurking around, so keep your eyes peeled! They're elusive!)

Hope to see you there! And if you have a booth, or want to meet up, leave a comment and I'll be sure to swing by!