Sunday, October 18, 2009

OshCon 2009

I haven't been publishing updates as often as I'd like, but this doesn't mean I haven't been busy sewing and selling catnip toys! Last weekend I was an exhibitor at OshCon for the first time. OshCon is a tabletop board game convention held right here in my hometown: Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I have attended previously as a gamer, but this year was my first year as a vendor.

There was a great turnout this year, as you can see:

An intense battle of War of the Ring. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for defending the free peoples from the shadow forces on a Saturday.

My table was located in the "artist" room, previously referred to as the "gaming widows" room.

Here are some of the colors available for miniature painting. This brought a lot of people into the room which was great for sales.

Some people hard at work painting their minis.

I never noticed this until Adam start photographing my catnip toy adventures, but I seem to always sew with my mouth open.


Here I am sewing at my booth. I had a "make-your-own catnip toy" thing going on, hence the huge pile of felt. People seemed more interested in buying a toy that was already made than creating their own, though. Every time I sewed a Cthulhu catnip toy I sold it, so I was sewing them all day long.

Our friend Phil Krause hard at work selling some books... or cheering about something.



Photos courtesy of Adam Bartlett.

3 comments:

  1. Love the picture of you working! Working with an open mouth is probably better than working with your tongue sticking out- which is what I do.

    I'm turning into my mother; she always stuck her tongue out when concentrating.

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  2. Ha! Whatever helps us concentrate, I guess. :o)

    Glad you liked the photo! I'm going to make it a goal to take more photos of the work while it is still in process.

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  3. I AM IMPRESSED AND VERY PROUD, ARTISTIC
    TALENT MUST RUN IN YOUR FAMILY

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