Well, I'm up a few hours earlier than I thought. I heard a strange noise. When I got up to check, you guessed it, kitten barfing.




Other than that life is good. Business is going well for Studio Kensai. You can see a permanent link to our new webshop to the left. We're now seeing orders start to trickle in on their own, as well as the ones we have to go out and get. One of the biggest compliments we've been given was from a new customer, saying that he thought we'd be "the absolute best." (Wow. I just went to grab a quote from our email and found another inquiry on a commission!) It's nice to see that our utter dedication to quality is paying off. Seriously, if you ask our friends, like Jo and spiderling they'll tell you how completely nuts we are.

We've decided to take weekends off from now on unless we're in crunch time. I woke up yesterday with a sore throat so I played it pretty low-key. I was on the internet all day. In the morning I was just goofing off and looking at bento and bento making supplies (Ichiban Kan is now online btw for cute, $1.50, bento boxes as well as other fun supplies.).

In the afternoon, I started research for my super-special-top-secret-showcase-costume. I'll be entering it in a contest this fall or I'd share all the details with you. As it is, I want it to have it's own debut.  I think I actually spent about 12 hours doing research. D= It paid off though, I finally found some info I've been seeking out for months. When I told spiderling that I was going forward with this design, she said "You realize you're insane, right?" Mike looked at me last night and said "You couldn't have picked anything easy?" I'm so excited! In some ways it will be my costume debut too, as a designer at least. I'll probably put some teaser pics up on the studio_kensai blog as I work.

I'm going back to bed for a bit, but I'll be back to add to this post.