Due to a few artists who I greatly respect reviewing my work and pricing and consternation thereafter, my prices WILL be going up. I was going to do it a week after AC, but I wanted to warn everyone, in case you were thinking of getting anything, so the price jump should hit next weekend. The biggest concern my artist friends had were the badges, so they will be jumping the most but everything is going up some. Will post more progress, and shtuff soon. Cheers! Laura
Soooooes…. for those of you that want to know how A-Kon went.
Well, I went into it knowing it was going to be a learning experience, it was my first Anime Con. Both to go to and to sell at (whee)! So didn’t really know what would sell best and what I should bring. So I prepped. By prepping I made magnets, got a new display for the magnets, which I tested at home, made prints of a lot of my originals, and added more originals to my book, made a new binders specifically for my skulklan work, as there got to be too much of it and I wanted to seperate it from my originals for sale binder, and ran off a lot of ACEO prints that I needed to have extras of. Oh, yeah, and I made stickers.
Verdict from all of this was that the display didn’t work when I got to A-kon (I don’t know, guess there is too much aluminum in the metal so the magnets didn’t stick AND it wasn’t readily apparent that they were magnets, so I really need a better way to do that). The stickers sold really well! I should print more! Some prints still never made it in the binder, which was unfortunate and I don’t know what happened to them. My ACEO’s were a hit, and the Editions were really popular (CHEAP) so I had to reprint quite a few. I NEED to get a button maker… need need need. They will sell.
So today I finally got chickens in my Chicken arc, or chicken tractor. This is a small coop made by my father that has wheels so that once a week I can move it around so they have a new patch of ground to scratch over. Three little hens were moved in last night and I finally got them to come out late this morning and now they are clucking about rather alarmed. I can’t wait to have my own fresh eggs again. Omnomnom. There are three varieties out there, an Americauna http://www.ameraucana.org/ (which are the kind that lay blue green or pinkish brown eggs), and she is a beautiful golden rust with pale slate blue feathers in her wings. A Cuckoo Maran http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/…..BRKMarans.html which are dark barred chickens that lay VERY dark brown eggs. And a buff rock http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/buff_rocks.html which lays nice brown eggs consistently. I will try and post pictures of my actual birds and their lovely living accommodations soon. I love chickens, such a fun animal.
Of course Isis thinks I got her a three new toys, so I am glad they are not in the yard together. Hopefully she’ll calm down as life goes on.
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