Wonder Con 2016

Vuduberi Plush dolls
We have a dealer's table at Wonder Con this year. I hand painted the backdrop this time. It's so hard to paint large scale! I'm not used to it, so I felt that it was slightly crooked in the end, but overall I was happy with it. I thought it'd be nice to be able to get some neon colors into the banner which I couldn't get with normal printing. Plus, hand painted background feels more personal than printed ones to me.
Tada! Wonder Con 2016 Set up. Neon Pink is really bright!
Aww~ Little Kids with Baby Yeti and Baby Sasquatch plushes

I got to meet so many old friends and I also made some new friends too! It's different at Comic Con because it's extremely busy and our corner booth has two giant walls that separates us from our neighbors. It's so much more fun to be able to get to know your neighbors, and they are super talented Visual Development artists by the way. These are my neighbors at Wonder Con ^^. Kristina introduced me to a pastry called Gata and now I'm super addicted to it. :
Kristina Vardazaryan http://www.kristinavart.com/
Jonathan Hoekstra http://jonathanhoekstra.blogspot.com
Casey Robin http://caseyrobin.com/
Jeannine Schafer http://jeannineschafer.blogspot.com/


James is on vacation in Turkey *cough cough*, so I was watching the booth all alone. My friend, Gary, came by to help out on Saturday and Sunday and he was able to go around and take some pictures. I only made it to the small press area. I'm so sad that I didn't get a chance to walk around the Artist Alley. Thank you, Gary, for the pictures!

Of course there were tons of Cosplayers, and they are all amazing. We spotted many cute bags and backpacks too.
Waking Dead Cosplayers.

That's the end of Wonder Con 2016. I will be signing up for next year, and at the moment, I'm trying to see if FSc would like to join me as well *fingers crossed*.
Coraline and Kiki checking out artworks
~ Patara

SDCC 2013

Our booth this year
I'm back at SDCC 2013. I was actually really nervous because we have a new location this year and it's very far from the center area where all the crowds are. The booth is already super expensive and the corner booth costs even more. Every year, they'd up the price by a few hundred dollars too. Hotel costs another $300 per night. Everything adds up so fast, so I was really scared that I won't make back the cost. Aside from that, I was pretty prepared this year. Randy, Sunny, Mitsu, and James have been helping me with some preparations and they were also helping me at the booth too. I'm so blessed with such wonderful friends. Even though I'm there every year, the first day is always overwhelming. There are SO many people! The crowd! You can't even walk...
We have a few new merchandise this year. One is the Penguin superhero costume. I'm glad that they really made a lot of people laugh and they were selling very well. I also got custom printed biodegradable balloons of puffer seals made. I always thought they'd look super cute floating around the convention. Sunny handmade some pillow plushes of Narwhals, Alligators, and Puffer seals, and we also had glow in the dark drawstring bags too.
In the end, we did pretty well overall. *phew*. There were a lot of happy faces. Some customers would come by everyday to buy new things or at least to say hello. A lot of people came to tell me how much they still love their yetis and penguins that they purchased 2 years ago. A few people stopped by to show me pictures of the purchased artworks that are now framed and hung on their walls. I was so touched! I really try hard to make sure that all my merchandise are well made with really high quality materials, so I am glad that people are noticing and appreciating that. I am so glad that I have so many repeated customers and it always make me so happy to hear positive feedback. On Saturday, Frank Frazetta's daughter came by and bought a lot of my prints. She said they are going in her dad's room next to her dad's artworks! I felt so honored. All these happiness totally made me less sad about the fact that I lost my iphone on the last day of the show. I only miss some of the pictures I have in there. To whoever that took my iphone *waves fist*, I just want my pictures back! T_T. As usual, the con had so many interesting people. The cosplayers were amazing. There were a lot of cool giveaways. It was the first SDCC for Kim (my friend) and I think she had a blast. James' wife came this year too! James got a giant box of a Transformer toy as well as My Little Pony DJ lol (totally an impulse buy). Thank god, I had Randy, Sunny, and James to help me out. The booth was so busy this year. I'd have died if I were there alone. I actually got pretty sick on Sunday during the show because I was so hungry lol. Overall, I really had a lot of fun. I hope my friends also had a lot of fun there as well ^^. Also, Thank you, James, for some of the pics that I stole from you :p. The crew: Sunny, me, and Randy. Thank you James for working
at the booth while I stole these two out for pics.