Links to everything!!!

Hey everyone!  Since we tend to not update the blog as much I'm going to compile a list of links to the various other sites you can find us on!  We update our facebook fan page the most so if you'd like to stay up to date on what we're doing and making that's the best place to follow us!  Going to try to keep this post pinned as the first post on the blog~

Facebook:

The Tofustache @ Facebook

Deviantart:

The Monostache @ Deviantart

Tofutastic @ Deviantart (inactive)

Twitter:

The Monostache @ Twitter

Tofutastic @ Twitter (personal account)

Tumblr:

Monostache @ Tumblr
Tofutastic @ Tumblr

Where to buy:
The Monostache @ Storenvy
The Monostache @ Ebay

New Shop Location - Switch to Storenvy

I realized I never actually made a post about the new crappy policy that Etsy adopted, and had only talked about it with friends on their personal Facebooks. Long story short, Etsy was originally an online market for handcraft artisans to sell their items, and now they no longer care to do that because they can make more money by letting cheap Chinese manufacturers sell on their site. This article goes into the issue in more detail:www.huffingtonpost.com/shannon…how-etsy-changed-the-rule_b_5708565.html

So I’ve gone ahead and decided to make a new shop with Store Envy, which I am really liking so far. It’s very easy to customize and organize everything, as well as copy listings to make things easy when selling similar items. The biggest problem with Store Envy is the traffic is pretty much nonexistent, but I am hoping the fact that I am keeping my original shop name will allow customers and admirers of my Etsy shop to find the new shop easily. monostache.storenvy.com

You can also find some of my stuff on Ebay too: www.ebay.com/usr/kichara

Honeymoon Coupon Code For The Monostache Shop

As some of you know, I got married in April~ I'll be leaving for my Honeymoon soon, and wanted to make a notice stating that any orders that come in after 08/08/14 will not be shipped until I get back (08/27/14). To make up for the delay in shipping, you can use the coupon code "ICELAND" to get 10% off all orders! This applies to everything, including large items like hoodies, scoodies, and phone pouches. Please note that any made-to-order items will have the wait period started after I get back~

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Monostache

~Amanda

1K Likes Pokemon-Themed Giveaway!

It has been extra crazy for us at the Tofustache! Amanda got married in April, with Cassie playing the important (and exhausting) role of Maid-of-Honor! Immediately after, both of us had to get ready for Animazement in NC, and for 3 weeks in a row, had conventions to attend!

In other words, it took a little longer than we would have like to find time to do so, but we are excited to now be announcing our 1,000 Likes on Facebook Giveaway!

We decided to make this Pokemon-themed, as there's been a lot of excitement for it recently. We'll be giving away a Sylveon tofu plush from Cassie, and a Pokeball necklace, and Pokeball/Greatball buttons from Amanda!

This Giveaway will run for a month (6/11-7/10) and you can enter several different ways:
-Follow us on Facebook (Tofustache)
-Follow Amanda on Twitter (Monostache)
-Tweet about the Giveaway (available on the Giveaway page)

Thanks so much for all your support, we cannot thank you enough! 

Check out the Giveaway page here:https://www.facebook.com/Tofustache/app_228910107186452

Happy Halloween!

Hi everyone, and Happy Halloween! Sorry that we've been so quiet here (we mostly only remember to update our Facebook page: 

But I wanted to pop in and make a post to show off this great photo I got from a customer! She purchased one of my Shadowbolts hoodies for her adorable daughter to wear for Halloween! : )

https://www.etsy.com/listing/90161841/wonderbolts-shadowbolts-my-little-pony

Garry Plushie - Ib

Got a commission recently for a plushie of Garry from Ib.  I've never actually played the game as horror games really aren't my thing (though maybe I can talk Steve into playing it and I can watch much like we did with Silent Hill 2 cause I hear it's pretty good) but making this plushie was a lot of fun.  I'm still getting the hang of making felt hair but I think this one turned out pretty good.  Took a few layers of felt to get the shaggy look in the back which was probably the biggest pain!

Now that I've finished him up I need to get started on the Tofu farm for the summer con run.  Pretty sure I have to make around 200+ regular Tofus alone for the 3 cons we have in May and that's not even including character Tofus or the little ones @_@  I think my hands are going to be killing me before long!

~Cassie

Contest, Giveaways and Die Hard 5, Oh My!

Got lots of exciting things happening with the Tofustache this month! : )

First off, until February 14th, you can use the coupon code TREATYOSELF at the Etsy shop to get 5% off your order: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Monostash I'm celebrating Valentine's/ Hearts and Hooves/ Die Hard 5 coming out in theaters (though I may be the only one that cares about that :P).

More exciting news is that I am hosting my very first giveaway!

You'll just need to "Like" our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Tofustache and watch my Twitter: https://twitter.com/Monostash and go to this link to confirm that you've done both and be entered: http://is.gd/v1pu1I

The giveaway runs until February 28th, and the winner will be contacted shortly after! : )

And as if we weren't doing enough, Cassie is actually hosting a contest on her Deviant Art! She is now making GIGA TOFUS, out of extra soft fabric, and is asking for people to submit in their own ideas for faces~ Copy Pasta'ing her rules here:

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Oh what's this another contest from The Tofustache! HOW EXCITING!!! This time around the prize will be from Tofutastic, you'll have a chance to with a basic Tofu or Tofu keychain of your choice! 

Here are the rules~ 

1: Photoshop the image I posted of the blank Big Tofu anyway you'd like, have fun!
2: Upload to imgur, photobucket, deviart, anywhere that makes it easy to post a link to your entry
3: Like us here on facebook!
4: Submit a link to your entry in the comments of this post!
5: ?????
6: PROFIT!!!

You have until 9pm EST (6PM PST) on Friday to enter and then I will decide on a winner. The winner will receive a free basic Tofu or Tofu keychain of their choice!

Here's a link to my deviart journal about it, it will have links to the picture to photoshop as well as the Tofus you can pick from as prizes! http://tofutastic.deviantart.com/journal/#/d5tya3r

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-Amanda

Orlando Anime Day Over

It was great seeing everyone at Orlando Anime Day, we had a wonderful time once again!  Make sure to like us on Facebook (there's a link in the sidebar on the right!) as we update there a lot more~

Animazement and Swampcon

We're really excited to be sending in our application for Animazement soon and hope we make the cut!  AZ is definitely one of our absolute favorite cons to attend, both the staff and attendees are great and lead to such an enjoyable weekend (plus it's an excuse for my family and I to visit my sister and two nieces while we're up there)!  We've got our fingers crossed that we make it in, wish us luck!

Our booth at Animazement 2012 on Saturday!  By this
point it had been raided by fans and looked a bit thin X3 

This weekend is also Swampcon in Gainesville, FL!  It's a free convention held at the University of Florida student union and we'll be selling there both Saturday and Sunday.  If you're heading there make sure to stop by and say hello~  

~Cassie

New Items Available from The Tofustache for January events!

In case you missed it, we will actually be selling at THREE events this January (Cassie says I'm trying to kill her lol).

UPCOMING CONVENTIONS

• Jacksonville Anime Day - January 5, 2013
• Swampcon - January 12-13, 2013
• Orlando Anime Day - January 26, 2013

Starting this weekend at Jacksonville Anime Day, we will now be selling ALL our pony cutie marks as buttons! So many to choose from! :D

I also snapped a picture of some of the sweet fabric phone cases I'll be selling! They are based off my old, smaller pattern, so I am selling them at a discounted price of $15 each! 

Now back to work, so I can hopefully get more stock made in time for all these January events! :o
-Amanda

Happy Customers!

I made a custom set of Flim Flam Brother necklaces for someone, which were Christmas presents for her and her sister. Got some absolutely wonderful messages back from the both of them, which absolutely brightened my day! One of the best parts about this job is the lovely feedback I get from customers! : )

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Thank you so much for the commission Flim and Flam necklaces for me and my sister. They are perfect and came very quickly. My Discord necklace is also awesome!

We were also very surprise to see the magnets and the Black Widow keychain that my sis had her eye on for a while. That made us really happy!

Thank you so much and have a very merry holiday!

-Meg

P.S. Did you choose to send us an Applejack sticker because of our Flim Flam necklaces?

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Thank you thank you THANK YOU! so much for the custom Flim and Flam necklaces! They came just in time for Christmas and I was so excited to tear open the package! The charms are beautiful and look really classy! You can expect more orders from me sometime soon! ^^

I love the extra stuff too! The magnets are awesome and the Black Widow keychain is hanging proudly from my laptop case! It's beautiful! I'm so happy! I have a new favorite necklace! 

-Heather

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They were also kind enough to snap a photo of them wearing their new matching necklaces! : )

-Amanda

New Plushies!

Christmas is almost over and it has been super busy and fun for me!  While making presents this year I tried out a new plushie pattern that I really love!  Ended up making three plushies as presents and was so happy with how they turned out that once the January rush of conventions is over I might try to take some commissions!  I'll have to figure out prices but for now the range seems like it will start between $65 and $80.  Once I have it all figured out I'll make sure to update, but for now here are the plushies I made~

First is Sollux Captor from Homestuck that was made for a Secret Santa exchange on the My Little Pony subreddit (of all places!)  It was a lot of fun figuring out this whole pattern and how to make everything and I was quite pleased with how he turned out!

Next was Chuck from Motorcity made for my friend Clarissa (who's the biggest Motorcity fan I know!)  He was pretty simple to make because I figured out most everything making Sollux, though making his shirt was a bit of a challenge due to slant of the seams on the sleeves~

And finally here's a humanized Rainbow Dash I made for my partner in crime Amanda!  She was super hard and helped me discover I'm not too good and making up outfits!  I still think she turned out fabulous as I went for a sporty basketball theme with her (I really just want to make those short shorts, everything else I just made up on the spot XD)

I hope you all like these and I look forward to hopefully taking some commissions in the future, but for now I need to get back to work for all these conventions in January!  I hope to see you all then and have a fantastic  New Year!  

~Cassie

I have a Fabric Addiction!

My fiancé is building me a new ironing board/shelving unit for the workshop. Got all the wood and supplies purchased, except for the fabric to cover the board with. I've narrowed it down to these 6, but this is tough! :o

I suppose this would be much easier if I didn't love fabric so much! Leaning towards the colored British propaganda patchwork design, though. I am so excited for the new ironing board, my current one is old, flimsy, and WAY too low for my tall body to use without getting a back ache. D:

Hopefully I'll get the whole workshop all finished soon, and I'll post some photos online~

-Amanda

Christmas is All Around! :D

Totally forgot to make a follow up post, but my Christmas ornaments are now for sale in the shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Monostash?section_id=12686561

Also, I am having a sale in my shop until Christmas, just enter the coupon code: YOHOHO to receive 5% off your order! Happy holidays! : )

-Amanda

Surviving Black Friday and MLP Ornament Preview~

Survived Black Friday! I got up with my (very patient and wonderful) fiancé at 5AM to head out to Joann's. Thankfully, the majority of my Thanksgiving was spent organizing my new workshop (just started renting a new house, I am totally thrilled with all the work space I now find myself with~), and planning my Joann's trip, right down to the color and yardage of every fabric I planned on picking up. We got in and out of the store in an hour and 15 minutes (a huge improvement from years past, when it's taken 3 or so HOURS), and I saved OVER $500. O___O 

Stocked up on a lot of fleece for hoodies, and also picked up some cute prints for phone cases, and colored flannels to make My Little Pony phone cases! Hopefully I'll be able to make some soon, but most likely I won't get a chance until after Christmas since all my gifts are handmade~

Also, got a (somewhat crappy cell phone) photo preview of my newest item: My Little Pony Christmas ornaments! I am SUPER pleased with how these look, the matching ribbon and rhinestone is totally perfect~ Waiting on some supplies to come in so I can finish the rest, but I hope to have the Mane 6 (and possibly also Luna and Celestia ) ornaments finished, properly photographed, and up in the shop by next week!

Alrighty, back to making things and playing Civ V...
-Amanda

Shadocon

Shadocon has come and gone and we had a ball there!  Everyone we met was really nice which lead to a much more enjoyable weekend, we're looking forward to attending Shadocon again.  I also want to give a big shout out to whoever found my boyfriend's DS at our booth Saturday night and turned it into lost and found, we were really shocked and excited that it didn't get pocketed!  Thanks again mystery person~

Once again we were terrible at getting photos of happy customers but we did manage to snap a couple so here they are!  

(this shot was totally candid hoho)

Thanks again to everyone that came to see us at Shadocon!  We look forward to seeing you again, either at Swampcon or whichever con you see us at next!

Project Open Squish Pre-voting dates

The dates for the Open Squish pre-voting have been announced and two of my entries are due to be in these pre-voting rounds!  Basically multiple entries of the same type will be voted on and the top two entries will move on to the actual voting rounds where the winners will be made into Squishables!  To vote you will need to go to http://www.squishable.com/ and make an account (which they are doing to prevent spam votes) and then when voting you will be sent a confirmation email to verify your vote. I want to thank everyone who is going to vote for my entries and I'm hoping they do well enough to make it to the finals and possibly even win! X3  Thanks again so much!

Pre-voting for the Dodo entries will begin at 12:00am EST on Sunday the 14th!  Voting will be up for 24 hours before the winners are decided, my Dodo design is below~

Pre-voting for the Pug entries will begin at 12:00am EST on Wednesday the 17th!  Voting will be up for 24 hours before the winners are decided, my Pug design is below~

Thanks again so much for supporting me, it means so much!  I will also be making entries on the actual day of voting to remind people and it would mean a lot to me if you could share this with your friends!  

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