The "Oh Crap I need a bigger inventory for this craft fair" Plush-A-Thon!!!!!!1!!!!!ONE!!

So yeah as mentioned in yesterday's post I'll be "LiveBloging" another Plush-a-Thon today.

And It Begins

7:00 AM Wide awake and ready to get rockin, I think I'll start with a Few Turtlebugs. Should be funtimes.

8:00 AM Ta-daaa, two turtlebugs, as "finished" as they're gonna be for now, I suppose I should explain that unlike previous Plush-a-thons I'm not stuffing/finishing plushies as they come, I'm gonna sew a decent number before I stop to stuff. Also, in the case of the turtlebugs I'm gonna wait to do all of the ones I'm working on's shells at once after I stuff them(which is why there's a sock in the background of this pic. (also I admit, I kinda cheated and started these guys before I went to bed last night (the pink/seafoam one was already at this stage when I woke up)Anyways... The Plush-tastic madness continues!

10:15 AM: a third turtlebug is most of the way done (just need to attach his noggin) and I took a break to shoot some new pics of "Muppet-Style" me for my portfolio. I Think I may be off to JoAnn's to pick up some more bobbins and a couple other colors of thread after I finish this turtlebug

12:40 PM Returned from Jo-Ann's with a bunch of awesome stuff! They had all their Notions stuff on sale for Buy one Get one Free, got some new colors of thread and this sweet pair of Halloween socks for half price. I also snagged some rad fabric for using on future Messenger Bags and whatnot. I'm just about ready to snap a pic of the third turtlebug, I may wait and just finish the 4th one and take pics of both at once.

2:40 Finished up the fourth turtlebug and snapped a pic of the both it and the third one! I think I'll take a break from sewing long enough to stuff these guys then I'll get teh sewing machine up and running to put together the turtlebug shells and to work on some other stuff.

4:05 PM: Finished up stuffing the turtlebugs! now to do their shells.

7:40 PM: Just got back from going out to dinner with the fam, that took waaaaay more time than anticipated, before I left I'd finished the shell on One of the turtlebugs, I'm going back to work on the rest now that I'm back. I'll post pics after I have all of them completed. Hopefully that's soon enough or me to do like 1 more plush today, just bceause I'd like to have more than 4 plushies in one Plush-a-thon.

11:35 PM: Ok, so I totally only finished the 4 turtlebugs...and I should have gone to bed 2 hours ago, what with the fact that I have to be up for work in like 6 hours. sigh. anywho here's a Pic of them:

Overall, it wasn't a bad plush-a-thon, it just wasn't my best. But hey there were several hours in here where I didn't get to do sewing work at all so I'm still pretty satisfied.


-Mad Artisan

Plush-A-Thon Tomorrow

Ok so I'm gonna do another one of my All-day squishy-tastic plush production days because well, that's what happens when I need to double my inventory by Next Saturday(fortunately I have some 30 plushies either started or at least cut-out and ready to sew, as seen above). See, I'll have a table @ a Local Craft Fair on the 16th. I'm a little stressed out by the fact that I am Nowhere prepared, but I suppose I shouldn't worry too much its only like a 3 hour craft fair and it didn't cost my anything to have a booth. Also because I'm kinda freaking out a little over finishing up my Application to CGU for their MFA program. (who knew trying to get letters of rec from people would be this hard?) 

ANYWAY:

I should start by sharing some pics of all the plushies I've already finished before the Plush-a-thon, since it could be overwhelming otherwise. (check them out after the Jump)