Fall update

I am up to my eyeballs in quaggans!  Hehe. That is an observation, not a complaint. Good thing I have an air purifier because the fabric fibers really fly all over the place. I am really glad that so many people love the plushies I have made and I am doing my best to get more out there for adoption.  I will have to limit how many commissions I do in October because my kids want their Halloween costumes and if there is a Guild Wars 2 Halloween art contest I really want to put in a good effort for that. My large quaggan pattern is getting a few small tweaks this week to make it even better because I am just so picky like that.

On Monday I went to the restaurant my inlaws used to own to visit the new owner and discovered that the custom dragon I made for her was missing! It seems during the last week someone stole it right out of the display cabinet!  How disappointing. She told me last week there was someone who wanted her to 'give them a deal on one' (I only charge $20 a dragon. For custom creations that is cheap already!) She told them that she doesn't take the custom orders so they would have to contact me and that the price is the price. They apparently were not too happy with that.  I really hope the two events are not related.

We got to go to our first Dragon*Con at the beginning of September. It was really fun and I hope we can go again next year. I only got to go for the first two days because our childcare plans fell through.  My husband and I wore our brain slugs and it was so funny to hear people go "Look! Brainslugs!".  I swear I hear someone walking in the parade even do that.   Quite a few people asked where we got them and were surprised that I made them.  We sold some on the spot and handed out a bunch of business cards. It makes me so happy when people like my work.  On day 1 I wore my quaggan backpack (someone even asked me to verify that they were right about it being a quaggan) and day 2 I took one of the plushies and used it as a wallet holder. It caused a lot of grins by vendors when they saw it eat my wallet again.   I met Elizabeth Malczynski Littman, the artist who drew the wonderful covers on the first paperback editions of the Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey.   (Her daughter took a picture of my quaggan, whee!) The next day my husband went back for me and got her to autograph my copies of Dragonsong and Dragonsinger.    I also met Pete Abrams, the artist who does Sluggy Freelance. Totally forgot to get his autograph.  >.<   I had more fun in the artists area than in the Walk of Fame.   I thought about wearing my Lunatic Court outfit but decided against it because 1) I have no confidence and 2) walking around with that bustle would not be my idea of fun.  Plus I would need better boots for it, the covers I made were ok for the pictures but not good for walking around a lot in.

I have managed to do a better job of getting crafting work done but my exercise time has gotten turned into house cleaning time.  And of course I need my Guild Wars 2 time.   So many ideas, so many projects..... need more coffee!!