A NEW CAMERA! We’ve finally got ourselves a nice SLR and it’s making photographing our pieces a million times easier, not to mention faster. My old process was to position the piece, put the camera on Macro setting, take a picture, navigate to the exposure menu, adjust the setting, take another picture, navigate to the [...]

All right, I’ve got my orders out, the Etsy shop re-opened, and I’ve updated the items to reflect what has sold. What I have yet to do is add all the items I made prior to the show! This involves taking pictures of each one, resizing and cropping said images, and then uploading them to [...]

I know I’ve been pretty silent these past few weeks, but it was for a good reason… Meet Lemony, our new baby girl! She was born on May 11, at 1:11 in the afternoon. She was 19 inches long and weighed in at 6 pounds, 6 ounces with a full head of dark hair and [...]

I got my Artist’s Alley table for Tekkoshocon 09 confirmed! Tekkoshocon is Pittsburgh’s huge local anime convention. This year it will be held downtown in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. It’s a new location for the con, which has grown by leaps and bounds, so there should be plenty of space for everyone. We [...]

After reading through some Etsy articles about their shop makeover challenges, I decided to take the plunge and give it a try! I already updated my shop policies and whatnot when I re-did the site last month, so now I’m moving on to the photos. Photos have always been a sticking point for me because [...]