Kawa Kon

Super quick update before I hit the sewing machine for some extra Cheese-kun making: Kawa Kon is awesome so far! Much love to everyone who has hung out at our table, bought our stuff, or completed our quest.

I had intended to post pictures of new stuff before the convention, but completely ran out of time. But there are quite a few new items for sale at the table, and yes they will all be offered online as well! (Just in case anyone who just picked up my business card is reading this.) As soon as the convention is over so I have time to post them, that is. ^_^

Hair Clip Pictures

Here's me playing with my new camera some more. I had my lovely friend Liz model the anime emotion hair clips, and put those in a new album on Picasa. Click below to see all 4 pictures.

If anybody wants to send me pictures of yourself/your friends wearing these hair clips, or with any other items you've purchased from me, I would love to post those on my blog! This announcement is going up on the Conventions page as well.

Hair Clips in Action

I've decided to add links to any Picasa albums I create over on the sidebar, too, so they will be easy to find.

In other news, only 2 weeks left before Kawa Kon!! I'm nearly finished re-stocking the items I sold at Bishie Con, and have a few new ideas in progress too. There will be more pictures coming soon!

New Pictures Up!

I've finally put up some new pictures on the merchandise page! My photography skills are not so fabulous, but these picture are still a vast improvement thanks to my new camera.

I have also changed the design of the "depressed" hair clip, to make it look more cloud-like. Behold!

The rest of the new pictures are after the jump.

New "About" Page

Well, it's been an awfully long time since my last post. >.> I still haven't gotten very far with my new camera, and replacing the current not-so-pretty pictures on the site, but that will happen soon!

Today's big news is that I've finally typed out a blurb about me, to be found on the new "About" page at the top. I hate writing about myself, so that took an embarrassingly long time to write, but at least I have something to improve and add onto in the future. (Suggestions, insults, questions, critiques, etc. are always welcome.)

I'm also slowly re-stocking various items for Kawa Kon, and will have at least one new thing to show off before the convention!

Cheese-kun's Adventures

Here are some pictures of the first Cheese-kun's first trip to Otakon in 2009. He had so much fun on that trip! (So did the rest of us. ^__^)

http://picasaweb.google.com/craftyotaku/CheeseKunSAdventures#

New Email!

Brand new email address: craftyotaku at gmail dot com! I've also transferred control of this blog over to the craftyotaku email, so now all the related google stuff (gmail, picasa, and blogger) can be managed in one place.

I've also updated the Merchandise page with some small fixes related to organizing my pictures, and put the new email address in the relevant places.

Someday I am going to put up a real profile, and a proper "About Me" page, and start posting pictures from my new camera (it is soooo nice) and all sorts of fun stuff.

edited to add: I've also removed all the little summaries of past conventions on the "Conventions" page. Talking about what the con was like is the job of a proper blog post, not 2 sentences cluttering up that page! It's not too long now, but if I keep going to conventions, it'll just keep getting longer and longer...

Post Bishie Con Cleanup - Bondage Time!

Bishie Con continued to be excellent on Sunday, and then Christmas took over for a week, and life was crazy.. but it was all worth it! My wonderful, fabulous, esteemed parents got me a new camera!!! I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but pictures should be getting better around here, from now on.

I have cleaned up and updated the merchandise page, and the conventions page. I also fixed my time zone, so the posts actually show the correct posting time... oopsie.

But most importantly, I am posting the step-by-step instruction pictures from the bondage panel Saturday night! So without further ado...

Square not vs Granny Knot
The square knot is the good knot - it won't come loose like the granny knot does. It's pretty easy to tell the difference when this knot is by itself, but you'll want to practice it a bit so you can tell the difference when it's piled on top of other knots too.

This is a square knot. This is what you want!

This is a granny knot. BAD! Look at how the circled part is different than in the square knot.

The rest (there's lots!) after the break: