No, I didn't get Con Crud, thankfully. I just usually have to recharge after being around that many people. So I did pretty good, considering I felt a little less prepared this year (despite having a list, I forgot a few items, like my watercolours and brushes, dammit). A lot of interest in the Nom-Skullz hats, but sold only one. Sold almost all of my tails, though, and most of them on the first day! That's rare- usually furs keep their coin until after the art-auction, at least, that's how things went the last four Cons I went to. No worries. People like my work, it seems.

So, it seems I lucked out hugely in the table-placement area of the Dealer's Den. All I'd asked in terms of "special requests" is that I not have my back to a door (old nervous habits). So they put me in the first row! People were milling around my pretties pretty much constantly. Awesome! It do attribute a lot of my sales to that, but wow, I had so many folks coming by!

One fellow came to my table who had bought a tail from me last year. He'd worn his lion tail so much, it had pilled and a seam had popped, so he brought it in for repairs. I sewed her up a treat, gave the fleece and tip a good brushing, and handed it back to him, looking nearly new.

A second repeat-customer came by, saw that I had a lovely dragon tail that more closely-matched his character (black iridescent scales, with purple fur and a spade-tip), bought it and a second, red and black dragon tail with spikes for another character. He just really liked the black flocking scaled pattern on the fabric. <3

Another fellow had bought a Nekomimi head-set and wanted fox ears modded to fit, so I got that job, too. I think they turned out sweet, but, like a twit, I didn't get a photo. But I had them on my table, with the finished one all trimmed and brushed and the still-in-progress one in my hands as I was working on it.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun, even though I spent nearly all of my time at my table.

Met some sweet folks, and shared a room with  trystentangled and  creoste Hey, Cree- "MOO!" We were so odd, doing that all Con. LOL Cows "arguing". *giggles*
Got to meet  draco18s finally. Grabbing some nosh at a Subway and I saw his badge- we shared a nice, squooshy hug.

That awesome Rooster that was wandering the Con- I dunno his name, but he was fun to swap caws with.

I didn't know it, but I'd encountered  helvetica in his cool demon costume: he had this sweet mask with eyes and mouth made of LEDs synched to his voice (the eyes were apparently random, but it worked as an effect, anyway), coupled with a voice-changer to give him a buzzy, odd voice that I rather liked. His wings were this open-work "outline" made of EL wire and he had on a simple black bodysuit with scales painted on in a nice range of orange, red, yellow and white. Jerk didn't tell me who he was! LOL That guy makes THE coolest shit, I swear. I suggested he hit the art-show and bid on the black, red and gold scale-tail done up in a coral-snake pattern, but he didn't get it, pity (his words when I described the tail, "No shit? that's awesome!").  yaochi got it, instead. He showed it off to me, later. Hear that,  helvetica? You can go mug the rainbow dragon for it! Or, maybe if you ask nicely, he'll let you borrow it. *giggle* Better yet, go here;  yuuryuu He's the fellow who makes them. Kani got one of his gold-scale bracelets form the Art-Show.

Met  aazhie, who is adorable, as is  questionable (if you haven't seen his art, go to his page- he's got some fun and ODD things in his gallery).  necrodrone13 loved the Master's couch in my Adult Dragon Panel submission. *giggles* It would make a cool piece of classy furniture, wouldn't it? And to think I made that monster up. Poor  dreamous got mobbed when everyone heard that Dragon's Hoard was looking for stories and art. I admit I was one of them.  skadjer is adorable, as always. And I HATE him- his art is too frakkin' GOOD. Gah, so many cool people and costumes, I can't name 'em all!

Ran into Fox-Tails-Ninja (I don't know if she has an FA) and she yelled at me from down the hallway "I've been MURRAHNATED!" *giggle* That silliness dates from my wedding to  kanis -she was there and had a great time. Saw some gorgeous suits, drooled over more artwork than I have wall-space for, sold some art (yay!) and bought a Nekomimi set. I'm gonna mod it for Murrah's head. Don't worry, I'm not going to risk destroying it by taking it apart. I'm just gonna make new ears for it. And I gotta figure out how to make the ear-clip less tight- that thing starts to hurt, after a while.

I came within a mere $10 of breaking a $1000- never got that close before. Woot! Tails did so well, I'm gonna make a whack-ton of 'em for next year, and some more of the complicated types, too- those were a definite hit.

One of my tails showed up in somebody's photo (not on purpose- he was just passing by when this adorable dogpile was going on. LOL): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9750225/

All in all, a good time, some good foodz (we went to The House of Siam- AMAZING food, if you don't mind the wait).

So, I'm rested up, finishing up the badges I got on the drawing-board and then it's get my ass back to finishing some other overdue things.

Cheers!