The great end-of-November Monster-Fest! (Saturday Nov 28 2009 liveblog)

10:46 AM hey y'all tis a day I've been waiting for, one where I can go nuts on the monster making. Monster's Inc is in the Dvd Player (still can't afford the new Blu-Ray one... sigh) Dinosaur Bandanna is on,  got my power sweats, and rawkin my Nonsense monster shoes. On my list today are several plushies and coloring a set of Ceramic monster faces I made for a sculpture class.

11:12 AM Getting ready to go outside and do a Test Dyeing of one of the Ceramic pieces, I'm trying out using Rit Dye to color Bisque fired Pieces, should give me Bold colors and a matte finish.

12:17 PM Dyeing the Ceramics is go!  here's some pics I snapped of them:

One of the color batches is lighter than I wanted, and not qute orange enough, so I'm off to buy more dye... WOOOSH!

2:05 PM I've returned from Michael's and already thrown down the additional dye for the ones that needed another soak. I snapped some pics of the finished ones:

Also, I guess I should explain why I haven't posted any Plush Updates yet, well you see... My sewing Desk looks like This:

aaaand thus my Sewing machine is living on the floor till I clean it

2:36 PM WHEW.... that was close, its been overcast all day, and well I just Barely rescued everything from the rain that just kicked up. I literally looked out my window...said "rain... RAIN!" and ran out the door just saying "RAIN RAIN RAIN!" ... I'm crazy. Consequently, this most definitely puts me inside for the rest of today... its sewing time.

5:02 PM Still cleaning up, and preparing a number of things to run through the sewing machine in one go, thing is, at the same time I'm also preparing for what could be another All-day video shoot tomorrow, so... well so much for getting a tonne of plush done today...although there is plenty of time so who knows?

9:42 PM ok, so I totally Failed on getting much plush work done, did some hand stitching, that's about it, mah sewing machine is a prop for this video shoot I have tomorrow, and I realized I had to pack it back up. ... Also, cleaning ... is still going. sigh.

Tomorrow shall be a day of grand feats! ... I hope.

This saturday, there's one thing on my agenda, Sewing like you'd never believe. If all goes to plan I should have 3+ new plushies done. it will be great. expect a live update as the day goes on.

Tis the season...for making Plushies....

As you all know, tis the holiday season, and Thus begins that lovely time of year when I spend most of my free time sewing commissions for Friends, Family and random people who stalk me on the interwebs because of Nerf, but nevertheless it means I'm making monsters and spreading nonsense. I'm Working on the Launch of the new Site for Nonsense Monsters and a Final Update to the Bags Creature Co Site.

Also, as I just mentioned ... I'm open for commissions, with literally only one in the que, it won't be long till I'm back to making Etsy Fodder which is also a good thing, maybe I'll make some monies eh? as a bonus I'll post a few pics of my recent plushies:

Rawr! A lion My first take at an abstract animal plush that isn't mostly monster with hints of Animal :


Here's another of my Ten-Footed Toe Sock monsters, this one still is unnamed:


The Twins: Mort and Bort (yes that's a Itchy and Scratchy Land Simpson's reference) These Two are Bound for ETSY As soon as I post them on my Deviant Art Page...Note to self, must update DA page...

OO OOo I should Show off my new Way of puting Tags on my Monsters, along with the Re-branding is completely Re-designed way of sticking the Logo and my Name on every Plushie. Technically the Branding is no longer a Tag, they're Patches but well just look at this:
See I found this Awesome Fabric that's designed to be Directly Printed on from just your typical home Inkjet printer and its just AWESOME for my purposes.

Yeah, so that's what's up in plushie world. In other Nonsense News I made myself a funky fresh new set of shoes check em out:




And of course, since everything's Neon, they look AWESOME under black lights...I'm soo kicking myself for forgetting these at home when I went to disneyland last...sigh
That's pretty much it if you're interested in commissioning a Plushie, contact me @ N8@NonsenseMonsters.com (and yes, I know that domain isn't even active yet but the email account is)

-MadArtisan