I'm home from MiDFur now. Time to write a little wrap-up of the event I guess.

We drove down on Monday. Nice easy drive. It's almost the same distance from Sydney to Brisbane as it is from Sydney to Melbourne, but going to Melbourne is so much easier since the road is all nice 110km/h dual carriage-way instead of the mess of roadwork and 60k zones you get on the way up to Brisbane.

We stayed with some non-fur friends of ours in Sunshine.

When we realised the Dealers Den wasn't going to be open on Tuesday, the Rahball decided to spend that day getting more stock organised while I went in on the train to attend that day by myself.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we ran our table in the Dealers Den.
Rahball was selling Patterpillars, Build-A-Beastie patterns, T-shirts, comics, ACEOs and commissions.
I was mostly just chilling out behind my big monitor displaying my art and being ready to take commissions if anyone wanted to give me money.
No one really wanted to give me money on Tuesday, but I got one commission on Wednesday and two on Thursday:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9407071/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9413665/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9413707/

I don't think we really made enough money to cover our costs, but that's okay. We weren't trying very hard since we both have jobs that pay well enough these days that we don't do this stuff for a living.
It was still fun though, and nice to have time to hang out a bit with our Dealers Den neighbours  Naira (plus  Anonymsdogman and  Iseeyouthere),  Ithkale,  Dirtiran,  Atateatarin and  Snackish.

I attended all three of the art panels, they were all very well presented by  DarkNatasha and many other artists I know and admire including  BellTheOtter,  Rinatar,  Deezmo,  Thesaria,  Naira and  Dirtiran.

DarkNatasha is amazing! Such a great artist, and yet so friendly and down-to-earth too. I really enjoyed hearing from her in the art panels and at her "All about Dark Natasha panel" too.

With the Dealers Den not being open on Saturday, and no actual panels happening on that day either we decided not to attend that day and instead went to visit all the interesting animals at Melbourne Zoo.
By skipping the Saturday we missed out on the Charity Auction and the Closing Ceremony, but we've read or heard from friends about all the important points from those events.
Sounds like a very respectable amount of money was raised for charity!
It's a bit sad to hear that MiDFur as we know it is ending, but with it really just changing time, location and name it's not such a drama. As long as there's still a furry con happening in Melbourne around the end/start of the year it's all good. I'll be interested to hear what name ends up being chosen for it though.

Sunday was the drive home. Like the drive up it was very easy thanks to the quality of the roads between Melbourne and Sydney.
An interesting co-incidence occurred though, both times that we stopped for food or fuel, at Dog-On-Tuckerbox near Gundagai, and at Marulan, we found that Dirtiran, Atateatarin and Snackish were also stopped there too!





A few people took note of my FA user-name with the intention of perhaps commissioning me after the con, so I'm opening for commissions now if anyone is keen to buy some custom art.

The standard offer will be the same kind of thing as those commissions I linked earlier in this journal.
You provide a photo of yourself (or someone else) in the pose you want, plus a ref of your character, then I'll work with your photo as a reference to produce a picture that combines your look and pose with the details of your character.

If you're interested in commissioning something that doesn't really fit that standard offer, let me know and we can discuss it.

I'm happy to work anywhere within the scale of ratings from tame fully clothed, though modest no-bits nudity, tasteful nudity, erotic or explicit sexual content.

Pricing is as follows:
$15 for lineart, and another $15 to colour it.

I don't really need actual money, and I'd rather not have to deal with getting money into and out of PayPal, so my preferred method of payment is though gifts of games or content on Steam.
My Steam wishlist is here:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/spiritofcat/wishlist
Songs for Rocksmith are what I'm most interested in at the moment, and at $3.50 each, four of them makes $15, or eight make $30.


I'll open 3 slots for now with the expectation that I'll finish them my this time next week if people want them.
Depending on how that goes I'll open more after that.

Slots:
1. OPEN
2. OPEN
3. OPEN