Hello everyone!

I am now back from my very first confuzzle convention ever and I have to say, it was quite a fun experience. :)

When me and SDF set off to SMraides' house, I was not too sure as to what to think before getting there, but I was at least trying to keep my hopes up for an easy going event. When we first arrived over at the hotel, it was already packed full with furries from all ALL over the UK along with a few other countries like the US, Germany an France. When we checked into our rooms (SDF and SM got to share a luxurious double bed room) and I got a comfortable single bed room which reminded me of the Travel Lodges me and my folks stay at when we travel around alot. :) So rather quick and easy to get into. After the opening ceremony, I was able to have a wonder around and finally came across  rikmccloud in real life and he was a load of fun to be around. ^^ We were able to hang around, explore around the place, and even see a lovely Cobra sports car in the car park there which as HE pointed out was a carefully and beautifully remade kit-car. (I would certainly never have guessed, then again it would made sense since a car like that would not be left alone without some some heavy duty security around them)

There was plenty of things to do there, and plenty of things to get done. I was able to try out Thai food for the first time (I recommend Chicken and Prawn noodles =p) and was even able to enjoy ordinary burger and wedges with all the cider I could drink. :3 Hey, its all been paid for so why not? So in addition to enjoying the food, I was also able to enjoy watching some funny karaoke moments from some people who failed to hit high notes and actually applaud some who were pretty good. :) Rik really made an impression with his song Bohemian Like You by throwing in his own mix for the chorus. There was also one of my all time favourite artists who was there  drdubz who is as mad as he is in real life as he is online. But he was still a cool dude and even after he learnt who I was from showing him my flimsy badge, he offered me a hug. ^^ Lovely stuff. I also met  muzz while I was there too and she really is a friendly and fun person to hang around, even if I was a bit nervous to talk to her about anything. ^^;

While there, I was able to set up a Dealer's Den and be able to sell some print off work from some of the best illustrations I managed to put together over the years, as well as make some new badges and make some fresh marker pictures while down there. It was rather stressful trying to get the work all done in time, considering that through my foolishness, I tried to work on a new set of paper called 'Marker Paper' which while it DID give a nicer glossier look, it was a pain the ink dry properly and some of the pics I worked on and made it look like a mess. x.x So it was a bit of a pain to have to do them ALL again on ordinary paper all through the night... especially when you have to get another room after the room I was in suddenly sprung a leek from the celling when it turned out the room's toilet above me had broke. I had to get SDF to help me move everything out to another room above me (which yes was in the same corridor not too far down from the room that flooded. XD Fortunately I was soon re located and the person in the room that had flooded, but it wasn't his fault so no harm done. It was just a pain to have to rework everything to get the pics all inked and ready for the next day and I only had one and a half hours of sleep. (Stayed up till at least 5:30am and woke up at 7:00am so I didn't miss the breakfast or the Den again) Still, SDF told me he went through four days with about 4 hours of sleep total. How he's still alive is a mystery to me. XD

But never the less, for the ups and downs, I still managed to enjoy myself immensely. ^^ I got some decent commissions done, got some money from it all, got some helpful tips for improvement of my work and sales in the future and even some helpful feed back to hopefully get further in the future.

Would I go to the next confuzzle?

YES! Definitely! =D Too much fun not to be able to get back into another gathering of so many furs. =p

So, there is some smaller updates out of the way, I have also had time to think over the prices of some of my commission prices. I might try a new system out soon to hopefully get more and at a cheaper and more affordable price for all. :) Not sure how to go about it as of yet, but expect changes to come to those soon.

So, those are out of the way, it's good to be back and its good to finally get home again safely. No with all that done, let's get back to work!