Youmacon 2013
Nov. 7th, 2013 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gryvonI was at Youmacon this past weekend, helping my friend Erin in the artist alley. She sells 8-bit and 16-bit Perler bead art but she specializes in 3D sprites and sculptures, which leads to pretty good sales. (Her shop is Pixel Visions.) Friday was slow sales but then it picked up Saturday. Seemed like everyone just wanted to circle the first day and decide where to spend their money before committing.
I was hoping to make it to the yaoi panels but sitting around all day selling stuff turned out to be more exhausting that I would have expected. I did get to try Pizzapalis (sp?) which is a really good Chicago-style pizzeria in Greektown in Detroit. There was also a really good french bakery next door which provided pastries for Saturday and Sunday's breakfast.
I can now say I'm an expert at circling the Detroit Renaissance Center looking for open parking lots. >.>
I picked up some cool stuff in the artist's alley. I got four pieces of art from Yun Peng. You can see the Sakura piece I got as a present for my twin on her homepage. She had a really cool Loki piece that I got for my friend Kaela and two matching original pieces that will eventually decorate the walls in my house.
Cogs N Creatures had amazingly cute plushies. I picked up a Loch Ness and a Bat. Hopefully her etsy shop will restock soon cause she had an octo plushie that I wanted but she was sold out of everything and gone on Sunday before I could buy one.
Big shout out to daunt who was the ONLY person selling Teen Wolf stuff and thus I had to fangirl at her and buy lots of her stuff.
Probably one of the most impressive shops I found was Little Creations by AnyaZoe. Erin bought me a Thor from her and it's just the cutest little crochet doll ever. Erin and Candie (the twin) both got Ursalas which were phenomenally well done. I'm going to be picking up more of her stuff for Christmas presents once I get paid tomorrow.
All in all, it was a decent con, though helping Erin has really given me the bug to sell my own stuff (chain maille jewelry and other crafts) at cons. Maybe next year. For now, I have a shit ton of stuff I need to be writing.
I was hoping to make it to the yaoi panels but sitting around all day selling stuff turned out to be more exhausting that I would have expected. I did get to try Pizzapalis (sp?) which is a really good Chicago-style pizzeria in Greektown in Detroit. There was also a really good french bakery next door which provided pastries for Saturday and Sunday's breakfast.
I can now say I'm an expert at circling the Detroit Renaissance Center looking for open parking lots. >.>
I picked up some cool stuff in the artist's alley. I got four pieces of art from Yun Peng. You can see the Sakura piece I got as a present for my twin on her homepage. She had a really cool Loki piece that I got for my friend Kaela and two matching original pieces that will eventually decorate the walls in my house.
Cogs N Creatures had amazingly cute plushies. I picked up a Loch Ness and a Bat. Hopefully her etsy shop will restock soon cause she had an octo plushie that I wanted but she was sold out of everything and gone on Sunday before I could buy one.
Big shout out to daunt who was the ONLY person selling Teen Wolf stuff and thus I had to fangirl at her and buy lots of her stuff.
Probably one of the most impressive shops I found was Little Creations by AnyaZoe. Erin bought me a Thor from her and it's just the cutest little crochet doll ever. Erin and Candie (the twin) both got Ursalas which were phenomenally well done. I'm going to be picking up more of her stuff for Christmas presents once I get paid tomorrow.
All in all, it was a decent con, though helping Erin has really given me the bug to sell my own stuff (chain maille jewelry and other crafts) at cons. Maybe next year. For now, I have a shit ton of stuff I need to be writing.
