Friday, October 30, 2009

Sci Fi Genre



This is the case my first creatures are in. Some of my favorites are in there- I'm very excited to see how this turns out.

Pipecleaner Creations at Sci Fi Genre

Sci Fi Genre- a successful internet shop/brick and mortar game store hybrid- is located very close to me. The owner has agreed to allow me the use of a diplay case to sell my creatures on consignment. It seems a great opportunity, and I am excited.
Of course, now I’ll have to work even harder to get enough figures made for MACE. I’m very glad for the opportunity, though.
None of my work is likely to appear on their website, but you can find loads of other cool stuff there. (I am particularly partial to the plushie Cthulhu dolls)
http://www.scifigenre.com/

Pipecleaner Creations is going to MACE!

MACE is a small gaming con in High Point, North Carolina. They’ve generously agreed to allow me to set up a table to sell my work.
This will be something of an experiment- will there be enough interest in my work to make the trip worthwhile? So Angie and I are packing up the kids, and we’ll be there next week. The kids can be our mascots. Thank goodness we were able to get a room- they’ll need a quiet place to decompress.
Man, I hope I’ll have time to fit some games while I’m there. There are some I’ve always wanted to try. And I hear that the folks behind Fading Suns will be there, as well as ‘The Game’s the Thing’. All my hobbies are converging on one point.
MACEhttp://www.justusproductions.com/mace.php

Pipecleaner Creations links

I’m trying to set up a sensible web presence- starting with this blog, but also through DeviantArt, and Etsy. I plan to have some items available for sale as soon as I am finished with an opportunity coming in November.
Pipecleaner Creations at DeviantArt:http://derangedarchivist.deviantart.com/
Pipecleaner Creations at Etsy:http://pipecleanercreations.etsy.com(nothing’s here yet, but this will change)
I’ve also set up a Flickr page, to feed images of recent creations to this blog.
Over the years I’ve made many things, and given them away. I want to have some sort of archive of the things I’ve made, so in the future I will take a picture of each thing I make before I let it out of my hands.
Unless it’s ugly. Or I forget.

A new beginning!

Welcome to Pipecleaner Creations! I’ve decided to take a life-long hobby and make something more of it.
Ever since I was a child, I’ve been making things out of pipecleaners to amuse myself. They started as toys, the monsters and heros of my imagination made manifest. As I learned new tricks over the years, they became a form of self expression. Some won prizes at art shows, others were toys for my children (or for me). But I’ve never lost my joy of seeing the image in my mind take physical form in my hands.
I plan to use this blog to record my experiences, as both artist and as observer of the world. Or at least, the tiny piece of it that I can see.