Candy Corn Studios

I am caught up from May conventions. Thank you everyone who came out and visited at Animazement and ConCarolinas! I have 2 more conventions planned for July, so take a look at the schedule page if you are interested in seeing my work in person.

I would like to REMIND everyone who purchased anything from me that when you email me, you need to be able to receive the reply! Add my address to your whitelist. I have replied to a few people that did not respond, so I’m not sure if my email was blocked by a spam filter. I will try to reach you through 2 email addresses, and if I don’t hear from you after that then I will let it go. A good alternative to this is to send me a “convo” on Etsy; that gets around the problem of email spam filtering.

Also, I’ve gotten the store back up to speed and am listing some new items! Keep an eye on it since I will be updating nearly every day.

I will be moving to New York on July 4, so things will be busy around here. Custom requests will have to wait until after then, as will shirt listings and purchases. The shirts are already packed up in boxes. After I finish moving, there will be approximately a week before Otakon, and then another two weeks before ConnectiCon. That’s the end of con season for me, so store listings will pick up heavily in August. As always, I’ll post here when I deactivate the store for a convention or when I do a major update.

Thanks again everybody!

Attention Candy Corn Shoppers! The Etsy store (yes, the store link on this page goes there) will be rendered inactive on Wednesday, May 20 and will return after June 1. If there is something you want from the store, I highly recommend you purchase it before then. Here’s why:

Every single item in my stock is going to be for sale at Animazement (in Raleigh, NC) over Memorial Day weekend. Anything left after Animazement will be going to Con Carolinas (in Charlotte, NC) the following weekend. This INCLUDES all items listed in the Etsy store. I don’t want anyone purchasing an item from the online store only to find out that it has been sold at the convention, so I will put my Etsy store on Vacation mode and TAKE DOWN all listings for items that were sold at the con before re-activating the store.

I have considerably more stock than I have listed on Etsy, so more items will be available in the Etsy store shortly after it is reactivated. However, they may not be the same ones that are there now, and I don’t like to make exact duplicates of items. Consider this your warning: If you’re considering something in the store, try to decide before May 20. Otherwise you may lose the opportunity!

I’m very excited about Animazement…I hope to see a bunch of you there!

Just added 6 items to the store, and more are on their way! The shirts are extremely limited right now, but I’ll be listing quite a bit of jewelry in the upcoming days.

My new supply order finally came in the mail! Check out these cute new earrings I made:

I love these lampwork pandas! They are SO CUTE! I wanted to hang them from a lucky bamboo plant, but I didn’t happen to have one around.

And of course, I finally got some hanging mannequins to display the shirts. This will help quite a bit at Animazement! The girl is a little nipply, though…Makes me wonder if I should buy her a bra for the shows.

(Pssst…these thumbnails both link to the items in the store. There’s only one of each, so it’s first-come first-served.)

Thumbnail galleries have been added to the product pages so all of the visitors coming over from the convention pages have something to look at! In particular, check out the jewelry page; there are even a few links to specific new items in the store!

I’ve started restocking the Etsy store (link at the top of the page…check it out) with new jewelry. Remember, each item (except the stud earrings) is one-of-a-kind, so if you see something you like, don’t wait until you see me at a con to get it! It might be gone by then.

Custom requests (currently the only way to get shirts and hats, as they are not regularly stocked in the Etsy store at the moment) are welcome now. Use the contact form on this site or convo me through Etsy; either way, it goes to my email!

My order from Koplow arrived in the mail! I’m excited to start making new jewelry again. Just put in a huge order for new beads and supplies from Fire Mountain Gems, so I’ll be able to play with all kinds of colors and designs that I couldn’t make before. Right now I’m just getting all the dice prepped and the holes drilled so that when the beads come in I’ll be ready to get started right away.

Check out all the yummy goodies!

And here they are all spread out:

Still waiting for Chessex to get my wholesale account application so I can get some dice from them, too. I hope it gets done in time for me to get some more Chessex dice for Animazement! I still have quite a few of the Chessex dice I picked up at Dragon*con last year, so at least I will have some of the elaborate pretties if all else fails. For now…grinding, drilling, scraping plastic off the bit…so glad I have a nice dust mask from the lab!

Candy Corn Studios is confirmed as a dealer at Animazement in Raleigh, NC! I’m going to be at table #415 (It’s towards the back and on an end of a row), so come by and visit!

I’m doing my best to have tons of shirts and jewelry available. I won’t be taking custom orders at the con. It just gets way too hectic, and inevitably I or one of my helpers forgets to get some piece of crucial info, or the dog eats the order form (and I don’t even own a dog!), or something else. I’ll take custom orders through the website as always, but at the con what you see is what you get.

I have a limited quantity of styles and sizes for the shirts; each one is made individually, and there are various different types of shirts. I do not bulk-order standard T-shirts for these because it would get too boring for me to work with the same kind of shirt over and over. Many of these sizes and styles (especially XXXL or other rarer types) will be extremely limited. I recommend contacting me ahead of time or coming by the booth very early if you are a non-standard (not S, M, or L) size.

The website has been reorganized to a more efficient format for ease of navigation. There is now a link to my Etsy storefront in the navigation bar, as well as a page about each type of merchandise I produce. Also, the Artist link has been renamed so that it is easier to find contact information.

In addition, I will be getting photos of some of my example merchandise together to fill out the explanatory pages. I don’t always have everything up in Etsy, so it’s good to have a summary of what types of work I do. This site is the official face of Candy Corn Studios. Ov er the next few weeks I will be completing the edits and making sure this site is consistent with the storefront.

Becca Green, you have not responded to my emails about your order from Animazement. I need an address to send the order to! Send me an email!

Hey folks, looks like I’ll be at Otakon 2008! I’ve got a table in the Artist Alley. I should be some where near GeekNights, but right now we have no clue where that is. Anyway, I’ve been doing some updating. Check out the Jewelry page and the Etsy Account!