Friday, June 17, 2011

Finally a blog post, including...Designer Toy Awards!

Tyler and I are nominated for three awards, yay!

Our Gummi Bear is nominated for Best Plush Design.

We're nominated with Breena Wiederhoeft for Best Toy from a Comic.

and Kaeti's nominated for Break Through Artist.

Since I am traveling out to the SDCC I will be at the awards ceremony that is only blocks away!

I'm really excited for SDCC, but also a bit nervous because there were no more guest passes to go with the Professional passes so I have to wander by myself, not even with Tyler, my usual human substitute.

We should have som of our toys at the DKE toys booth, and some paintings from the Amalgamated Menagerie, Volume One in the art show.

But also exciting!!-- We're moving into a more permanent studio this weekend--the first we've had since February, and the best part--We get all our furs back!! We've been trying to keep up these past months, but Lengi Bears have been sadly out of stock since most of our supplies and furs have been in storage. So we're thrilled.

Some unfortunate news... Tyler broke his neck a couple months ago. I performed a fixing surgery but it looks like he'll need his whole spine replaced. As the original Poncho, he has an early cardboard spine from a canvas roll. I'm always nervous about fixing him because I don't want to alter the personality he seems to emanate. Hopefully, once we're in our new studio I will be able to perform the spine surgery optimally.

Hmm...no pictures so far, instead I'll link to this new promotional catalog I made.



I couldn't do it, I needed a photo.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Even more Gummi Bears!

We've been making batches of 40 bears at a time, super intense!