felt fud free-for-all

After a long busy period, and a long dormant I-just-want-to-watch-tv-when-I-get-home-damnit period, I'm back to making new stuff for the shop! Check out Super Happy Breakfast Set, My Bestest Donut Friend, and Carrot Friends in Felt right around here somewhere.

Also! If you so desire, you may use this coupon code "JUSTCUZ" in my shop, and save 10% on everything! Just enter JUSTCUZ when you checkout, and bam, saving money, because you know, the economy and blah blah.

recycled vintage

So I bought this dress on Etsy a few weeks ago-


And I'm short. 5 feet 2 and 3/4's inches, actually, so I hemmed the heck out of it this morning. I also changed the buttons, because they were old lady buttons, and I thought they would work better on one of my art dolls instead.





So, now it's about a foot shorter, with more modern buttons, and super fun to bounce around in. Thanks to Justin for the sweet pictures in our parking lot at work!

tons of felt food

The next few days I'll be adding a bunch of new stuff to the store, check it often!

More Owls!

cheapsters birds

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

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.

Dolores Grimsby

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!

bloggity blog banner

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.

gratuitious man boob-age

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.

made in the shade

So... awesome news! Super Punch! plugged me a few days ago on their crazy awesome blog where they basically show off all the coolest stuff they find everyday. How totally friggin' awesome is that? I feel all special and stuff. Thanks!

Also, a new plush series I'm developing, inspired by the unemployed: Happy Sacks. Good Luck VooDoo Dolls.



You can pop a message in their pouch, or perhaps a small candy for luck. They are squishy and fun and coming to an etsy (my etsy, specifically) near you!

Oh, and my absolute adorable-ness also graced the most recent entry on the JibJab blog- I brought in eggs for dying purposes. Woot. Despite the shortness of the weekend, it's been pretty awesome!

holy snap- you's got a camera on dat fone!

Went sailing this weekend in San Diego, and we saw some of my most favorite of legless creatures, a big old group of seals basking in the sun on a buoy. Being the nerd that I am, I climbed up to the bough of the boat and started barking at them- AND THEY BARKED BACK! I am now officially one of them! Don't you just want to hug the crap out of them? Oh yeah, and we also saw a gray whale, but I didn't get a picture.



And these are some brownies I baked tonight for St. Patty's Day tomorrow. I will (most likely) completely forget to wear green, and someone will inevitably pinch me. And it will hurt, because I'm a wimp. So I baked these so at least they'll feel bad for pinching me, because I had one, and they are delicious.

So I know this is kind of a wackadoodle post, but whatevs. It'll do until I can get some for-serious pics of my new plush work- which includes a very large, very cute puppy, and a deep sea diver.

Oh, and one of my customers left feedback on my etsy today that just made me smile like a lunatic: "This is so awesome!" Hooray!

sky and sea

A cute new keychain for the store- based off an icon set I made earlier in the week. There's ninjas, top hatted gentlemen, and bears with mustaches... perhaps I'm too busy for my own good, I think?



Those fish commissions I was talking about awhile ago- two white Goldfish, and two yellow Pufferfish. I finally got them done a few days ago, and surprised Dave (a co-worker at JJ) with them at our monthly show & tell. They're pretty big- sorry for both the blurriness of the photos, I was in a hurry, and the mess that is my back room/studio.

Oh, and there's more to come next week.

collab model drawing and sticky fun

Some stickers I made oh-so long ago for my senior GIC portfolio night- I had some left over (somehow) and decided to pop them into purchases from my etsy shop. Good times.



The other pieces of scans from my sketchbook- this week at figure drawing Devin & I collab'ed on some sweet draw-rings. Each of us would draw for a minute, then switch.

The first thing Justin said when he saw them: "What the heck, the model was skinny!" Well, that's what you get when you only half-look at the model when drawing anyway.

win cool felt stuff- like Polo!

A super hip lady over at Now Entering Momville did a write-up of my etsy shop in conjunction with a plush I donated to her "Felt like Christmas" giveaway. If you win, you don't only get my plush (pictured above) but you get super cool stuff from 3 other shops as well!

You can enter at the link below by leaving a comment about what you like in each shop: Felt Like Christmas!

Pretty sweet, huh? Polo the yellow monster plush lurrrves you and wants you to win, so go enter, NOW!

updates on your updates

Since leaving Ringling, the interwebs have been few and far between. We sneak into Panera to steal their wifi because my house no longer has an internet or phone connection. It's been so bad, Ben and I got blackberry's just so we could check our email.

It looks like I won't have any significant updates until I have a job/house/thinger, so ...yeah.

I did get the sewing machine though, and I'm currently working on making a patterned cat. He's going to be big, about the size of my crammedorganisms plushies. Hopefully I can get some things into my etsy soon, too.

Oh yeah, and Iron Man was everything we hoped it would be and more. (Can you say Sam Jackson as Nick Fury? Hell yes.)