Happy Birthday Victor!

Yes, it's my birthday! But there are more interesting things to share!

I finally got around to finishing Humphrey Sextapus! You'll see him in the little Etsy window to the side.

"Single purple male Cephalopod ISO fun loving six armed creature of the sea. Raised in captivity. Nearly 17 inches wide and 15 inches tall.

I enjoy long crawls up the side of the tank, clam bakes and spooking the occasional passerby with a cloud of purple ink.

My perfect match would be a little wild, possibly from the Pacific, sweet and is capable of communicating using their chromatophore skin cells.

While unable to relocate from the aquarium, neighboring tanks include Japanese spider crabs and jellyfish. They're good company. Meals arrive promptly at 8pm and then we can party the night away.

My picture is included please send yours with your reply.

Longing for love under the sea....
Humphrey."

I like him!

I'd also like to share that I've been accepted to participate in this year's Plush You toy show! It takes place in Seattle in the fall and I've got some great stuff planned! Just be patient and let me get my work done!

Finally, a quick little bit about another recent project I finished for college. We could pretty much do anything we wanted to do as long as it involved... time... I suppose... Anyway, I made a cartoon. I had tried to draw animations a couple years ago, before I started making toys. Now I'm doing it again! Wonderful!

I'm not an animation student, so it's not perfect, but it turned out pretty wonderful!



"Fish eat Fish" 2009 Remake. 275 drawings, that were done in pencil, then each of them inked, and photographed. I even managed to finish it in about a week! I'm impressed! Since I'm not studying animation I have slightly different learning curve... but I'm hoping to finish a few more cartoons by the end of the summer!

Bye bye All! It's time for meee birthday!

To the Gallery!

So you probably thought I was sleeping this whole time right? Not making any toys, right?!

Well, you're wrong. Look at what I made!

2 morbishims, 1 morbisham, 8 bunnies and three new monsters! What a fun colorful bunch! Those bunnies are a gallery exclusive! Cause I do prefer to keep them white, makes things much much easier for me.

"Shreeby"
both valiant and humble. He can even stand on his own! What a guy!

"Meezles"
Four eyes... the better to see you with! and six legs... the better to steal all your nachos with!

"Nonunka"
looking sweet no matter how it's standing!

They're all going to the Made Gallery at:

2124 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

If you're around, go see them! Buy them! So I can make more toys for you to buy!



But it wasn't all work... I was even persuaded into making a Nannerpus:



It's not as good as a real banana, and I don't like making trademarked things! (Nannerpus might not be trademarked... it's about the principle!) But she wouldn't stop asking! Plus she has pretty eyes. What could I do?!

Finished at 3am... I was sleepy.

His eyes aren't even right! Where are my cupcakes?!?!

WARSINGTON!

Soon after seeing all those wonderful contest entires, I realized I really like the uncompromisingly simple, very huggable, gentle giant of a toy I call Warsington that I had made a long while ago.


The original sits on my couch, guarding it from evil spirits. I've decided I want to make more. He's around three and a half feet tall and I think everybody should have a giant plushie to hug every now and then. Especially in these tough economic times. However with a slight redesign and a bit of clean up I'd like to start selling them at your price.

That's right! I'm looking to gauge interest from people, who actually wants a Warsington and how much they'd be willing to pay. Then I'll pick the most popular price and that'll be the forever standard price of Warsington.

Of course, there are some things to keep in mind! He's pretty big which means the cost of materials (almost three lbs of stuffing) is about $20. I can't afford to give him away! So no less than 20 bucks, preferably... much more than 20 bucks...

Next, he's big and heavy. That means shipping especially outside of the USA may be kind of crazy.

Third, for a toy design, he's not complicated. Straight seams means less working time, which is one of the biggest reasons for me deciding on selling Warsington this way. It's the reason I'm willing to take a paycut!

Finally I can't do this all the time, for now this is a one shot. Every other toy in my shop in the future will only become more and more expensive (like crazy expensive!). But really, how often does an opportunity like this come along?!

$40? $60? $80? $175?? (ahaha, if only!)

In the end, I love toys. For all those people who share or will someday share that passion, I think you can certainly understand why I'm doing this. Toys help us explore our imaginations. They bring out the boundless enthusiasm we all have inside of us! So for this one time, it's not about the money, let's just have fun.

So tell me what you think. That was a lot to read, thanks!

Leave your price suggestions in the comments!

You've Won!

Well, you haven't won, you haven't done anything yet! Let me catch you up. Two weeks ago I came up with a contest on Deviantart.com for deviantarters for a chance to win a free bunny!

The challenge was to browse through my Deviantart gallery and draw a picture of any of my plushie toy creations. I was surprised by the interest and there were some absolutely wonderful entries! (make sure to click on their names to see their other work on Deviantart!)


Here they are! Click them to see them up close!

"Monsta House" by Clarisse-d

by 13words

"quadropod" by pineapple123

"Jupiter Scotch" by pineapple123

"my new Warsington tattoo" by pineapple123

"Squishipon" by aerisek

"Edmond and Frank" by Deadlypancake

"Listen, Love" by gopie (you'll have to search through scraps for their work)

"Plushland Invasion" by Chivalricspook

"Squorch and Chup" by Platypi

by lizthezombiebamf

Finally, the winners. I couldn't possibly pick just one... even three was tough! But I did it!

"Evil Corporate Day" by Clarisse-d

"Sensitive" by gopie

by ethereal-abstraction

VICKANGAROO.com

That's right! I now own Vickangaroo.com! Of course... it just links right to here...

I don't have a real site ready yet, but eventually it'll be up and it'll be awesome. So much awe.

Tell Your friends! http://vickangaroo.com

Tweet Tweet.

Now you can follow me on Twitter!

But... it's even less exciting than this blog...

Even though I was quite excited about my super extra long weekend from classes (that's right! I'm back to being a college punk kid!), I've quickly realized I've simply got too much to do and even this extra time isn't enough! I'm already working on getting more bunnies finished, a pretty rockin custom order, and it's about time I got to filling up my etsy shop! Look! It's empty!

Then I've got two design projects and lots of drawings to catch up on! Lots and lots. Hopefully I'll manage, I might have to give up sleep for a bit.

Other exciting news, I've started a little contest to give away a FREE BUNNY. However it's only for Deviantart members! You can read more about it here. I've already got a few wonderful entries and the contest goes on for almost another two weeks.

I'll be posting all of the entries up a bit later, though you could search for them yourself in the comments list on my Deviantart journal page. I may also post a few of my college assignments.... maybe.

I also want an actual website! Everything costs money but I have none! Time to earn some...


Finally, just to round out this Valentine's day post the most recent entry in my Free Bunny Contest:

"Evil Corporate Day" by *Clarisse-d
(click to enlarge!)

Good Golly!

Well I haven't been around here for a long, long while. No promises I'm staying this time! I've got things to do, see? Sort of.

But here you go, I made these guys and they ought to be adorning the shelves of the Made. Gallery in New Orleans! I'm finally getting things done so if you're nearby keep an eye out for any other fun toys that may make their way to the Big Easy.... is that a thing?