Count Down to Otakon

I've talked about Otakon quite a bit here, and be prepared for a little bit more ^_^ We've just a handful of days left till my favorite Anime convention! This is the first year I'll have a booth in the dealer's room as opposed to the artist alley. The dealer's room gets a lot more traffic and the booths are quite a bit more expensive, so I'm definitely taking a leap.

So for the next couple of days my dispaly stuff will be coming in and I'll be cranking out buttons like a mad woman.

SuperCute Sunday #2

Tattoos: Kim-Anh Nguyen, Tattoosday I've been a fan of Emily McCombs for a while, Twinkie Chan is the epitome of super cute.
Nail Polish: Glitter Gradient, Katrina's Nail Blog, Cupcake Manicure.
Hearts: Table I'm pining for, Heart Garland, I wear these two as necklaces almost every day - My Grandmother gave me this one years ago & Andy bought this for me the first day we visited Texas.

Lazy Saturday Morning

Still in our pjs, we've just been hanging out in the studio listening to pandora with the kittens just strewn about. Sprinkles is laying on my giant stack of buttons that have been printed and need to be pressed for next weekend. Turks has just been curled up on my feet (after he had unsuccessfully tried to share my cereal with me).

Today we're going to have a McDecadence date at the most decadent McDonalds in the DC Metro area, check out Captain America (we saw Harry Potter last weekend and I wish I had taken a pic of my Gryffendor eye makeup haha! I loved the movie btw...even though I'm a snob about some parts ^_^ ) and then come home and work on Otakon and wedding stuff. I suppose I should go shower now...

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Wedding Sneak-Peek

Our wedding is going to be very much DIY. We've been gathering some really fun things for our centerpieces and I finally got all the materials I needed for main part. Behold a sneak peek!



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Kitten!

I found a giant kitten at a Petco in Rockville. It pleases me.


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Paper Bear

I've teased a little bit about Paper Bear before, but this store needs it's own post. During visit to Texas a couple of months ago, I had to take Andy and we took tons of pictures. Paper Bear was a staple to every visit to my Grandmother's house and it used to behuge. As a kid, I'd walk in and follow the yellow brick road to the room in that back where the floor was covered in movie posters and there were toys and stuffed animals and books and everything a kid could possibly every dream of wanting. So much of it was educational, too. I could spend hours. Especially since the entire back wall was filled with bins that contained hundreds of little knick-knacks and tacky toys. They were just cents each so my cousins and I would always get to pick something out that we cherished the whole weekend we'd be visiting.

In recent years, Paper Bear fell victim to our economic times and had to reduce it's size. They had two adjoining store fronts and squeezed into just one. It's amazing how much they were able to fit in a smaller space. I do regret that the wonderful movie poster floor was destroyed as they gave up that half of their shop. But it's still a must visit. Check the pics!





















There was a yellow brick road that led to the toys and the plastic bins were still in full effect. I thought things were dense before, but now it's even more packed than before. So much awesome in one place. We got some Hello Kitty cups (this was the place that originally made me a Kitty-holic) and that teal Kit-Kat Clock is absolutely on my kitchen wall right now. We got tons of funny ticky-tacky things and loved every minute of digging around in here. Someday I will buy that 8000 piece puzzle for my mom ^_^ Also, any place that had a shop cat is so pro.

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SuperCute Sunday #1

Hi! I'm starting a new feature called SuperCute Sunday! I love supercute things and just wanted to share. So here's some of my recent favorites ^_^



Rilakkuma: Store, Giant Plush
Strawberries: Camera Case, Couch, Coin Purse
Bows: Bow-Accent Quilted Cross Bag, Bow Hair Clip, Huge Pink Bow Ring,

Goodwill Adventure

So we've been gather things for the wedding and we took a trip to our local Goodwill to see if they had anything fun to use. We didn't find anything for the wedding, but we did find some pretty amazing stuff.



If this typewriter had actually worked, I would've been all over it.

I loved these colors! Perfect for our balcony.

Delightfully tacky.

Blue lamp with a figure skater? Yes.

The 70's barfed all over this kitten!

I love a tangle of wires.

This was our first visit to this particular Goodwill and judging by the amount of records we left with, it won't be the last. Now to hunt down more thrift stores in the DC, Northern VA area!

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The view outside my apartment right now

This amazing blanket of black clouds just passed over our apartment. The lightning outside right now is incredible.

Just wanted to share!

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Turks!

Turkleton J. Kittenpants loves to sit in the window and watch the birds on the balcony above us.

Philly Comic Con

So a couple of weekends ago we headed up to Philly to the Wizard World Comic Con. I love comics and Billy D. Williams was supposed to be there, so I was all about it. Here's some pictures!


We were greeted by a flock of jedi on the escalators.


Billy D. Williams! First thing in the door, there he is and a wig out and get nervous and can't say anything. Also, Margo Kidder was right next to him. It was almost too much right at the start!


Please excuse the blurriness...but I had to take this one quick haha


And clearly this guy is blurry because he's moving so fast...


I loved this bucket of pokemans.


So good.


The Boondock Saints were there, too. Another freak out moment ^_^


And a Delorian! This is a street legal replica of the Back to the Future time machine. You had to pay to have sit in it, but all the procedes went to Team Fox for Parkinson's Research, so we were more than happy to contribute.


We stepped out of the convention center for a bit to grab some cash because the atm's there had been drained lol. Also Andy had never been around Philly, so we saw some of the more notable downtown stuffs and Chinatown.






So much fun and geekery! We got some prints from Tom Whalen and Josh Howard was there and I geeked out for a hot second and got a book from him.

We're still gearing up for Otakon...more buttons and all kinds of super cute things will debut at our booth there. So if you love Anime, totally swing by!


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