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The Celestial Squirrel Grand Opening!
After several busy months of merch design, printing, manufacturing, convention-going, and the nitty-gritty of registering a general partnership and setting up bank accounts and finding shipping solutions and *all that fun stuff*, we’ve finally launched our Etsy shop, The Celestial Squirrel! We’re three animators/artists operating this shop together with a focus on whimsical, colourful artwork, apparel, and accessories that trend toward geeky, odd, cute, witchy, and with a dose of cottagecore and dinosaurs thrown in for good measure. Basically, all things we three nerdy millennial women love. Aaaaand, we created a launch video to celebrate the opening– We’ve been busy brainstorming and creating so expect more new merch soon, as…
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Ottawa Comiccon 2022 — 3 years later!
Crazy to think that most of us who were tabling at Ottawa Comiccon this past weekend had bought our tables in May of 2019. 2020 was supposed to be the first Ottawa Comiccon to be held in September and well… yada yada, global pandemic, yada yada… here we were, 3 years later. Leading up to the con, the anxiety was real. Oh god, I haven’t done this in so long! Where had all my gridwalls gone? Have my button supplies crumbled to dust?–Answer was yes–What fandoms will reign supreme this year? How many new strains of covid are we going to brew up in the course of these three days?…
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Functional Website and Ottawa Comiccon
Phew, okay, I’ve finally got a website that has functional pages and more than just a single blog post that amounts to “carry on, nothing to see here”. Check out my fancy new About and Portfolio page! Now with that out of the way, how about an actual update? I will be attending Ottawa Comiccon September 9-11! My table will be under Sarah Anne Davis, but I will be selling under the banner of a collaborative new store (one more venture currently under construction–I swear things do get done around here, it all just tends to be very focused on my day job as a series director. Personal art/comics/side gigs…