CandyCorn Studios

Recently read a story for Escape Pod, my favorite online fiction magazine. Why favorite? It’s a PODCAST, so I can listen to it while working on my jewelry. It’s sci-fi, which is my favorite short-story genre. And it’s free for listeners, but a paying market for authors, kept alive by donations. It helps keep one or two of the 5 hamster wheels occupied, anyway.

And no, I’m afraid I didn’t use the sexy voice…the story was about 45 minutes long, and I didn’t think I could keep it up that long. No modulation of my lower range…just my regular voice. Maybe it enhances the ambiance or something. Still, I find myself enjoying my own home setup more now. Condenser mics are great, but the bass boost of a close-range dynamic mic is nice when your lower range trails off into gravel like mine.
It’s a good story, although it’s rated R for realistic life situations (or something like that). If you’re interested in good fiction, you should check it out.

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!

Now that I have finished sending out all the custom orders I took, I’ve set up the rest of the jewelry in an Etsy shop. On that note, if you have NOT received a custom order you placed with me, it’s because I did not have enough information, tried to contact you, and never got a response. Because of this I have stopped taking custom orders through proxies and will ONLY handle requests PERSONALLY, and I will require TWO methods of contact in case one fails.
I have a ton more stuff, but it’s not all in the shop yet. If you’re interested in something you don’t see there, let me know and I’ll see if I’ve got it or can make it.

Take a look at the Jewelry page for more!!

Nuri is busy, busy, busy!

Since moving to Charlotte, a lot has been going on. I’m working on finding some local geeky stuff to do, taking martial arts for the first time since elementary school, and even keeping up with work.
NaNoWriMo is going…well. Well for me anyway; my goal was to make at least 500 words per day, with an optimal goal of 1667 a day. I’m somewhere in the middle.

Jewelry is on hold, considering that I’m not going to be vending at cons any time soon. Thinking about just sending jewelry out with distributors instead of doing it myself. Have several orders from ANIMAZEMENT that the customers haven’t contacted me back regarding details of the order, so I’m stuck there.

Art is going well; I’m working on a book cover for a friend’s project and it’s pretty interesting. I Haven’t drawn much in the way of Sci-Fi type stuff before, so it’s a good chance for me to break out. On an unrelated note, I’m also learning about drawing steampunk elements.

The Podcast seems to be on hiatus this month, as I don’t have time to edit. We’ll be back on schedule in Dec.

Seeing In Stereo is going pretty well; Mica sent me a bunch of scripts so I don’t have to horrify the readers with my poor comedic timing.

I also have some sewing/leatherworking projects, but they are on hold for NaNoWriMo. As is pretty much everything at this point, besides keeping up with the webcomic and my job. I will post updates as they come!

Hey there kiddies,

All of the knit kitty ear hats that have been ordered were shipped out today (6/27/07).

The remaining orders I have to finish are:

Will Griffin
Becca Green
Brandon Hurley
Stacy Rue

These four orders should be done and ready to ship out by the end of the week!

Just started working on the custom orders from Animazement. Moving and ConCarolinas and starting my new job took up a lot of my free time…but I’m all set up to get cracking now!

Just wanted to give you an update if you’ve been checking. ^_^

EDIT: This post is old and no longer entirely valid. I’m leaving it up for history, but please note that prices may have changed and the jewelry depicted here is ALREADY SOLD and DELIVERED. It is no longer in my possesion. Check the jewelry page for current stock.
For those of you that don’t know, I have been making special gamer jewelry out of polyhedral dice. I sold almost all of my stock at Otakon and took many custom orders. Well, I have finally gotten almost all of those orders done (I have two more dice to order), so I am opening orders again!
I have finally put together a quickie site where you can find enough information to make an order if you want jewelry made out of polyhedral dice. However, it doesn’t have price information on it, so here is a quick price guide.

Pendants on cord: $12
Pendants on chain: $15
Memory Wire Necklaces: $15
Hook Earrings (pair): $18
Hook Earring (single) $9
Stud Earrings (pair): $4
Stud Earring (singe: $2
Cell Phone Charm: $10

Extras:
Sterling Silver Earwire: +$2
Silver Orbital Wire: +$2

Shipping: $2

Talk to me about other things you might want added, and I’ll give you a price.

The link to the ordering guide and form is at the top of the sidebar on the right. Here are some pictures of my previous works. Enjoy!

Jewelry Orders on HOLD until I finish the ones from Otakon!

So, I’m finally recovered from Otakon and Pennsic. Nevermind that Otakon was a month ago, and I got home from Pennsic two weeks ago. I finally washed the last dishes from Pennsic yesterday, and started catching up on my online stuff. The clothes are clean, school has started and I’m actually keeping up with my homework and reading for once. AND I got an awesome job as a TA, even though I’m an undergrad. By awesome I mean I love it, not that it pays well. I mean, it pays okay, but it’s not something I can make a living from by any means. I’m teaching Dendrology students to identify plants, and I get to quiz them too! Bwahahahaha!

So, things I have’t talked about yet.

Trinoc*con was great! It was really small, but that made it very personal. I got to have a few one-on-one critique sessions with some pro artists, and got a few artist interviews in while I was at it. The con report and an interview with the artist guest of honor, Patrick Meadows, will be up on the next episode of Artist Alley. I had hoped to get that done before Otakon, but…well…yeah. Pennsic prep took up too much time. I had 4 outfits to make for Evan and 3 to make for myself. Michelle helped out with that a lot, but we still didn’t manage to get the cast up and ready.

Anyway, while I was at Trinoc I hung out with Rich Sigfrit (my official ConBuddy(tm) for the weekend), who gave me the rounds. I met Christiana Ellis, the author of the incredibly fun book Nina Kimberly the Merciless. On Saturday night we ended up at Mur Lafferty’s birthday party, which rocked. We weren’t there for a terribly long time, but while we were everyone was enjoying themselves thoroughly. With all of us gathered and drinking, the temptation became too great and Mur broke out the podcasting rig, which resulted in hilarity (and an in-depth commentary of my con-pants.) Afterwards, we headed back to the con to hit up the Stellarcon party, where we picked up Davey Beauchamp. And of course, everyone being either slightly or deeply intoxicated, we gathered up a group to go to IHOP.
Rich and Davey ended up crashing at my place (I live 15 minutes away, and neither of them had a hotel room yet) and the next morning we headed back to the con to just hang out, get some interviews, and buy last minute stuff. Overall, a very fun con, and well worth the money I paid for my student admission.

Of course, I ran out of time afterwards and didn’t get to sending out my usual flood of emails to all the people I met. So I’m sorry if I missed sending you a thank-you, but eveyone I met was great!

Otakon was next, and since we were headed straight up to Pennsylvania for Pennsic after the con, we had to pack all of our Otakon stuff AND our Pennsic stuff into one ‘96 camry. That was quite a feat…we ended up driving to Baltimore with a wall of stuff packed up to the ceiling right behind the two front seats. No rear-view, no checking your right-side blind spot. Somehow we made it safely.

Now, the whole reason we ended up going to Otakon is that my good frind Rym (of GeekNights) offered to buy my admission. Since this pretty much made the con free (I have family in Baltimore to stay with), I couldn’t pass it up. He also got me free space in the Alley (sharing a table with his friend Yuko (a.k.a. Aido), who is awesome and cute!), so I spent most of my time there making and selling my polyhedral dice jewelry. At which I made quite a tidy profit…enough to enable me to buy several small things at the con, eat, and buy food and gas for Pennsic confortably. Michelle and I also picked up a few interviews for the podcast while we were there, so we’ve got a few featured artists lined up. ^^

Pennsic time! We were going to leave Baltimore on Monday, but we didn’t have anything to do once the con ended on Sunday so we just drove straight up and got there around midnight. Since we were there for two weeks, I won’t give a detailed summary. But I made some more money working for friends, picked up a bow and some decent arrows of my own (finally), and took quite a few awesome classes. I also picked up some leather to make myself a quiver, which has been fun and looks great.

Did I mention we were camping for the entire two weeks?

Anyway, I got home and found out that my financial aid award hadn’t come through yet (and it still hasn’t) so I’m working in a bit of a budget pinch. Borrowing money from Evan for textbooks…food…rent…it’s wonderful. -_-

Anyway, now that everything is settled in, I can order the dice for the custom orders I took at Otakon and get those babies cranked out. It’s taken a little longer than I expected to get started because of the money thing, but it shouldn’t take me long at all once I get the dice. (Now that Michelle has found my jewelry-making supplies. Bless her.) Also, stay tuned for a new episode of Artist Alley coming out soon; as soon as I have a spare moment in a quiet place I’ll record Patrick’s intro, and then it will be released!

Today saw 650 words added to my collaborative story with Lauren Harris, aka “Scribe”. We don’t have a title for it yet, and it’s only at about 8,000 words total…most of that is the pre-history that Scribe wrote. Just finished the first chapter and started on Chapter 2. The working title is Blood Bound but I haven’t had a lot of time to discuss it with her yet. This is a story I’ve been writing in my head for quite some time now (6 years, to be exact) and it’s about time I put it down in some kind of coherent form.

The two main characters are my character Rhysta and Scribe’s character Zeike. So now this blog is going to be my word count journal, among other things. After all, I need SOMETHING to keep me motivated! Podiobooks.com is doing a great job of keeping me inspired and wanting to write, so I hope this will continue. Just got to sit down every day for 30-60 minutes and make myself write something, right?

Also, I’m going to be attending Trinoc*con since it’s changed locations and is now a 20 minute drive from my house (WOOT!). Too bad I couldn’t gank a spot in Artist Alley…maybe I’ll see if they have any spots left when I get there. It would be nice to sell some more of that jewelry. If you’re going, please let me know so we can get a drink and talk! Yeah, that means you, Rich, since I’m pretty sure you’re the only one who reads this besides my boyfriend. If anyone else DOES see this, I’ll consider that an added bonus!