Just working on art commissions, trades and gifts currently. We'll have a few photos of Krystal's partial costume outing at FanimeCon 2009 up in the gallery soon!

Finished up Krystal's tail and took some video footage so I can actually see how it moves and looks while wearing it.

The fabric for the body suit just came in and drafting the pattern is in process. I still haven't finished furring her head because I'm having second thoughts about the shade of blue I used. This light blue fur is so soft, but people are already getting on my nerves about it not being the right blue. It's been really hard to find her true blue because its either too light, too royal, or too green/teal.

It will probably push back my finish date by a LOT, but I'm considering ordering the "too royal" blue since the darker blue would shout, "Krystal!" a lot more than the baby blue is. *sigh* In the end if it looks more like Krystal I'm happy with it.

I've finally gotten around to making blogger appear "seamless" in my index page. I feel like I've not only accomplished my goal, but it is exactly the way I wanted it in the first place. And to think that I almost settled for using iframes... wow. This calls for celebration!

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The blackbackstudio livejournal has been converted to a community to make posting to it easier for me. Now I don't have to juggle two accounts on LiveJournal (personal: emberisolte & business: blackbackstudio).

Updates to livejournal will most likely be a copies of posts in this blog. The main reason I have this blogger account is because of how pretty it looks with the website and how much more user friendly it is for me to update the homepage without editing the html.

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I redid her teeth yet again. But for the final time since I am quite pleased with the way they are now! I'll post comparison pictures once I upload them.

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I called VistaPrint this morning about a refund and they credited me my order (less shipping, which was totally fine by me.) The lady said they would credit my account, but I was like, "Is it possible to just refund the money directly to the card I used because I'd like to close my VistaPrint account as well." Her reaction actually surprised me since it was a simple, "Oh, all right," and she didn't try to sell me on keeping the account. So, she immediately closed my account (only 1 minute or less on hold, I was impressed). I'm still a little paranoid about the "discount clubs" scamming I read about thanks to "hubbers" comments in my previous blog entry, so I'll be checking my bank statement closely for a few months.

Oh yeah, to clarify, when I said that the paper wasn't even white, I meant that the paper was just a very, very, very low quality white, so it actually looked like it had a yellow or stained tint to it. VistaPrint says they use 80lb stock for their business cards but I doubt it. I have swatches and samples of 80lb stock from Georgia Pacific and the crap that VistaPrint printed on barely even feels like 45lb stock... anyway. I'm glad I got my refund.

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