Small update

I got a moment and thought I would send a small update.
I'm finally done with my receptionist job and can focus on my store full time. Yay!!
I ended up getting two commissions from the Horror Convention. The first request was a zombie armadillo:

The second was a zombie family:
The animals turned out really cute and I'm going to have to make more for the shop :)
The hardest part, I think, will be keeping myself on a schedule and not getting burned out on making zombies. But I have ideas for non-zombie related items ;)
But last Friday I sold two zombies. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Time to get back to work,
Cori

2011 World Horror Convention and the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys exhibit

My lovely friends from In Case of Attack and I recently went to Austin, TX for the 2011 World Horror Convention.
Unfortunately, I didn't take as many pictures as I had meant to but I still got a few good ones.
Here is our table at the convention:

We had some awesome neighbors, such as the guys from Austin Books & Comics and body artists from On the Spot who painted this lovely flesh wound for me:

She even added bruises (even though I bruise quite nicely on my own).

Sunday we go to sit in on a writer's panel:

Unfortunately I can't remember the authors' names except for Joe McKinney on the right and Joe Lansdale hiding on the left behind the guy in the black hoody.

I didn't get a picture, but Dustin and I met Steve Niles, author of 30 Days of Night and many other awesome things, and he signed posters for us.

Deyanna does her own crocheted creations called Frankenweenies (I think that's how she spells it); being a dachshund fan, of course she had to made little crocheted weenie dogs.
This little guy was sold before he was even finished:

Friday night, we went on a bat tour with the lovely people from Dark Continents Publishing and it was so fun! Even if there weren't bats to look at, I just enjoyed being on the boat.

Here's Dustin and Deyanna, the papa and mama-to-be:

They had free beer! (Sorry Deyanna! You'll be able to drink beer again soon!)

And free cake!! Woo hoo!!!

I am attempting to upload a video of the bats flying, but not sure how well it will come out.

Anyway, we enjoyed ourselves, met some awesome people and Texas wasn't too hot, as if it knew I was coming. Thanks Texas, you're swell.

Deyanna and I are planning a trip to Albuquerque next month for the Albuquerque Comic Expo and Stan Lee will be there! Woo hoo!!

Also, the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys's exhibit Colorado Made is now open and it features the work of local crafters such as myself. It will run through mid-September. Go and check it out :)

Oh, and I made a zombie armidillo as requested by a lovely customer who bought my red-head zombie at the Horror Convention. Pictures to come.

That's about it for now. Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all you awesome Moms out there!

Love you Mom!

XOXO Cori

Rain, rain, come and stay...

...my garden really needs you and it would make my day.

So here I am again, stuck at work with hardly anything to do and nothing exciting to say. This should make for an exciting blog post, eh?

Well, let's see what I can come up with, shall we?

This last weekend Jess and I were able to take the opportunity to do some much needed Spring cleaning. We rearranged our living room, bought some rugs, bought a shiny new shelf for the laundry room and cleaned out the pantry. It created a monster and now I want to tackle the entire house.

We moved in to our house in October of 2009 and still haven't completely unpacked everything. Being the crazy people we are, we decided to paint the entire house which has held things up. But we'll get there. I'll try to post some pictures of what we've gotten done so far. I'm very proud of having an (mostly) adult-looking living room for a change.

Here's a picture of my cat Jack:

This cat is an asshole. One day, for no reason whatsoever, he decided it was a good idea to pee all over my shoes. The only reason he is still alive today is because he is just so darn cute and lovable, you know, when he's not destroying my personal property by peeing all over it.

He's peed all over the carpet in our office and the sun room (Jesse can't smell it but I can and I know it's there) and I don't know how to get rid of it without ripping out the carpet and banishing him from all the other carpeted rooms. Anyone have any brilliant ideas? The only thing I can think of to do is to kill the cat (just kidding...probably).

Wow, blogger is making me feel all stabby today; stabby as in I want to stab it vicariously by stabbing my computer. Every time I try to publish something, it turns my carefully laid out paragraphs into one long run-on sentence and I can't figure out how to fix it. Please forgive me if I decide to give up and let blogger win because I am too tired and too bored to battle with it.

I came across this awesome picture the other day:


That's awesome.

(Unfortunately I don't remember where I got the picture from so I can't give it a source :P)

Things I accomplished today at work:

1. Ate breakfast

2. Put post-its on all the pictures in the office



That's about it.

Ok, I've actually accomplished eating lunch as well. I made the most delicious broccoli coleslaw EVER.

Look! It has almonds!

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to eat healthier (more often) and to drink less alcohol and caffeine. It's making me grumpy and boring.

Getting older sucks; it's actually making me want to yell at the middle schoolers by my house to "PUT ON A DAMN COAT! IT'S 42 DEGREES OUT, DUMBASS! AND ANOTHER THING: STAY OFF MY LAWN!" Sigh.

These kids today.

In the midst of making numerous amounts of baby gifts for friends and family lately and having a particularly difficult time finding the right colors, I got the brilliant idea to produce my own line of specific baby yarn. But damned if I know how to do that. Anyone know how? Anyone? Bueller?



This is a baby blanket I made for my friends, The Lamberts. It's Halloween-y.

A joke told to me by my co-worker Ed: "A man walks into a bar holding two bottles of whiskey. The man replies, 'I got these two bottles of whiskey for my wife.' The bar tender exclaims, 'That was a good trade.'" Hardy har har.

Ok, I can't think of anything else to say, so I guess I'll just stop now. I'll try to get pictures taken of my accomplishments soon because I'm excited about it and I don't care if you want to see them or not. Just kidding, I do care and hope someone else does too, otherwise I will feel like a loser.

Hope your day is more productive than mine. How many people can say that they would get more accomplished at home than at work? Probably more than I think.

Anyway, have a great Wednesday :)

Love,

Cori the lovable Curmudgeon