"That's So Cute" Buttons

That’s what it feels like. I’ve done a lot of conventions this year and just tried a lot of new things in general, including a new comic, (Rival Hearts if you haven’t seen it yet.) And all this on top of keeping house, keeping my job, keeping my kid happy… (Okay, some of these I don’t do alone, but it’s still pretty crazy.)

But enough about my crazy life, I’m here to talk about con updates. Second to last convention this year, and I’ve actually added a lot of new characters. Also, starting earlier this year, I’d finally found a way to bring my entire stock to a convention without it taking up way too many cases for ideal organization. It feels pretty good!
On top of that, I am now branching out to being able to make the images into magnets too. I hope these work out. AUSA this weekend will be the tester.

Coming soon, I hope, will be a doodle blog. I have a lot of creative ideas I’ve been playing around with and I’ve been told they are worth sharing. Plus, I hope that seeing everything I’ve done will help encourage me to keep going. So yes, coming soon will be a “Doodle blog” of sorts. hopefully by the end of the year.

Ta!
Ani~Meg

PS. To date, I have managed to collect about $150 in donations that have gone to Japan. Thanks, everyone!

Okay… maybe that’s a bad title, but it kind of gets the point across? Thing is, there are changes going on. Well, for one, I should mention that there have been a few new series (some rather large) that have been added to the collection. (See The List and Current Stock.)

Also, I have done two conventions so far this year, Katsucon last month, and Zenkaikon this past weekend. I had a blast at both, met lots of new people and saw some familiar faces (both of which I will openly admit I love!) I’m looking forward to the next few busy weeks of conventions to come.
And look for even more characters to be added to the stock over the next few weeks.

But the biggest news is that Zenkaikon, this past weekend, held fund raising to help Japan in this extremely rough time. The artists were invited to help raise money, so I created three special images (look right) that I sold on large buttons, for $1 each (and key chains for $2).The ideas of the three images: “Thinking of Japan”, the “Hope Heart” (as the kanji within says “Hope”), and, yes.. I feel a little bad, but the sad, wounded Japan from the series Hetalia. Guess which was most popular…   ^

It went extremely well, and I’m very excited to say that just from sales of these buttons alone I added a grand total of $77.51 to the donation jar. For selling mostly $1 buttons and some additional from a few generous donaters, I was floored by how much I was able to bring to the staff table on Sunday.

Thank you everyone!

I fully intend to keep offering these buttons in trade for further donation to help Japan. After all, as one of the Zenkaikon staff members said, if it weren’t for Japan, we wouldn’t be having these conventions. Right? Exactly! So, if you happen to be traversing the same conventions I’m at, feel free to pick up a donation button.

In all, it’s been a fun bit of insanity to start, with quite a few more weeks ahead of fun. Hello to everyone that’s visiting after Katsucon and Zenkaikon! Thank you for helping make these events the fun kind of insane!

Time for me to prepare for the next one… as well as a special project that I will hopefully be able to talk about in a few weeks.

Cheers.
Meg

Good evening, everyone! We are finally up and in full working order with the new design of the website. (and I owe a really huge Thank You once more to a friend of a friend whom I will give glowing credit for as soon as I remember to ask her how she wants to be mentioned on the site. 9_9;; I’m such a slacker, can you tell?

Anyway, now only are we now up, I’ve finally added to the stock (yes, finally) and am working on more. But for now, see under “Current stock” for the latest from Soul Eater! (It has eaten my soul… finally. *giggle*)

Also, for those of you with enough time to do last minute planning, or live locally enough, or are already planning on going, I will be at AnimeUSA in Alexandria, VA next weekend: Nov. 12-14.

See you there. ~ <3

“That’sSo Cute” Buttons is currently in the process of redesigning to something evening cuter than before.

Please check back within the next few weeks for our usual selection and some new items and characters… and other fun.

Upcoming conventions:
Intervention – Sept. 10-12 2010 – Rockville, MD
Anime Weekend Atlanta – Sept. 17-19 – Atlanta, GA

~Animeg

PS. If you’ve not seen any of my work, take a look at my DA

http://ani-meg.deviantart.com