Project Open Squish!

Something exciting happened today!  A couple weeks ago I entered a contest called Project Open Squish hosted by Squishable.  For those of you who don't know what Squishables are, they're basically big, fat, round stuffed animals, so pretty much they're one of my favorite things X3  The contest they were holding was to design a Squishable and I ended up entering six designs (after the only design I entered was rejected but they really wanted me to enter some more since they loved my art style)  In the end, 4 of the 6 designs I entered made it into the finals (and that's about 50 designs out of the 2000+ that were entered)!!!!  I'm so excited and can't wait for the voting to begin!  

Two of my designs are in a animal only vote off, where multiples of the same animal will go against each other and the top two will go to the final voting rounds!  Those two are the Dodo (which was super surprising) and the Pug,

Dodo Design~

Pug design (I really like his wall-eyes)~

The other two designs will be up for vote in the Fall/Spring (not sure when that is, but I'll make sure to post when it's happening) voting period.  Those are the Beaver (which is my absolute fav of the bunch) and the Puffin!  

Beaver desgin

 Puffin design

I am just way too excited that so many of my entries made it into the top and I hope at least one of them might win!  Just too exciting X3

Birthday Goodies! And News About AWA~

A customer returned to my shop, requesting a custom made Fluttershy necklace (it looks so pretty with the teal chain!), to be shipped directly to a friend of theirs. I put together some extra goodies for it, including a MLP-themed jewlery box, stickers, a tattoo, and a little card (I think drawing human Fluttershy is my favorite lol).

In other news, my fiancé and I are hard at work, preparing for Anime Weekend Atlanta (which is coming up on us WAY too fast). It's my one con for this year to just enjoy for the convention, and I am super psyched! My plans are to relax, cosplay, and drink. :3

This is my inspiration wall, next to my sewing machine. The Gumshoe and Edgeworth picture is hilariously inspirational. :D

My cosplay lineup for the con is:
Friday Day: Hikari/Molly from Harvest Moon: Animal Parade
Friday Night: Racing Queen Meiko from Vocaloid, My Original Design (possibly)
Saturday Day: Rider from Fate/Stay Night with my fiancé as Archer
Saturday Night:  Racing Queen Meiko from Vocaloid 
Sunday: Edgeworth from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney with my fiancé as Gumshoe

I am running a panel about how to keep your cosplay organized, Friday at 2:30! Need to finish tweaking the panel, but I'm excited about that too, been a while since I ran a panel~

-Amanda

Now Selling In-Store!

So we have some very exciting news! An anime store is now in Orlando again! We're very excited because we haven't had one for several years. And to make things even MORE exciting, we are actually renting out our own shelving unit to sell stuff in the store! This is a great way for local folks to get our stuff any time (especially since Cassie does not have an online shop), not to mention help support this awesome new store! 

The manager, Chi, is a really great guy, and very friendly to talk to! Everyone that came by on opening day had nothing but good things to say about him and the store, so please make sure to check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anime-Orlando-Inc/440160219337844

Con Season: Webcomic

Some of our very talented friends have written and drawn an awesome webcomic, all about cosplay and conventions! It's super funny, cute, and addictive! : )

Please check out their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ConSeasonComic

And website: http://conseasoncomic.com/

Tubby Tofus!

Took some photos of what I use to call Tofu standies but they now have a name: Tubby Tofus!  These are mostly the new MLP Tofus but there's a couple from different shows!

Rainbow Dash

Applejack

 Pinkie Pie

Derpy Hooves or Ditzy Doo

Surprise

 Kyubey or Cube-y

 Plusle and Minun

OAD Picture Post

We've finally remembered to post pictures that were taken at a con somewhat soon after it's over!  We didn't take too many pictures at OAD this past Saturday but the ones we did we're pretty good!  

First we got some new booth babes to come and hang out at our booth!

I think they did a pretty good job of getting people's attention.  

Piccolo and Maaya Pakamoto bring in the customers

Someone asked us if they could design their own button since we like to have

the button maker at the booth and of course we said yes!  Unfortunately when I went to

make the first button it got ruined so she made another one which led to this hilarious

picture of the two X3

Gengar is upset with how the original button came out

And finally we decided to try out something new at OAD that we are definitely going to 

continue making:  Grab Bags!  They're full of stuff that we make and other random goodies

and there will usually be one of two that have double the amount of prizes in it!  You also get 

three free buttons of your choice when you buy one which is an added bonus!

There is actually another bonus that we didn't expect to be so popular with the grab bags; you get 

to pick from a variety of random drawings on the bags.  We never expected people would want to 

keep these things we drew at one in the morning but we're glad they were well liked X3 And 

without further ado, the grab bag collection!

Rainbow Dash eating a cookie and Goku eating a cupcake

A Dalek exterminating a cake and Dovakin eating a waffle

Tofus with Pizza, Sexy Kyubey and an Alpaca with a milkshake

Miku eating a hotdog and Black Widow bringing Hawkeye some cake

 Panty eating a hotdog and Sailor Moon wanting all the candy

Orlando Anime Day

We had a great time seeing everyone at Orlando Anime Day today!  We really love to attend OAD cause it's such a fun little event and if you haven't been to an Anime Day before we definitely suggest you check one out!  I think there's 5 different cities they're hosted at right now in the Southeast and they always seem to be getting more shows going in other places.  You can check out the page here for more info~  I'll also be posting some pictures tomorrow for everyone to see but for now I need rest X3

In other news, though we're not officially attending as The Tofustache, we're going to have a presence at Otakon at the end of the month!  Our great friends at Athena's Wink needed some help with their booth so Amanda will be up there helping them out as well as selling some of our stuff!  So make sure to stop by and say hi to her and check out the sweet swag Athena's Wink sells as well (it's pretty sweet!).  They'll be at booth I-13 in the dealer's room and I will be here in FL playing pinball while they're both working mwahahaha!

Now it is time for rest because tomorrow the work begins again!  

~Cassie