🔥 flamecon is this weekend! 🔥 (and other august updates)
it's august already, somehow, which means flamecon is right around the corner! in fact, flamecon is tomorrow! (i meant to write this earlier, but got caught up in convention preparation.)
🔥 flamecon 🔥
if you're in the nyc area, you can still grab tickets for both days of the convention here! flamecon is once again (thankfully) requiring proof of vaccination & masks for all attendees, so make sure to bring your vax card and mask up.
here's a handy lil map to show where you'll be able to find me! i'm at table R167, all the way in the corner.
i have a full table instead of a half table for the first time this year, which i'm very excited about. i'm hoping it makes my display look a little less cramped! i have a ton of new stuff, including:
hand-painted buttons! (i'm really excited about these, i think they turned out so cute.)
hand-sewn pins! new zines!
horror barbie prints!
'build your own haunted house' sticker activity kits!
& i finally redid my hand-sewn convention banner, and i'm very pleased with how it turned out. it's nice to see evidence of how much my sewing has improved in the past year-and-a-half since i made my original banner!
(i'll also have my usual array of books, zines, comics, prints, stickers, etc! just a lot of things, in general. please come take some of them off my hands so my suitcase is less heavy on my trip back home.)
🗝 recent art 🗝
horror barbies — i'm super proud of how this series turned out! it was a lot of fun trying to emulate old barbie packaging aesthetics & make the boxes look weathered and worn and dirty.
washi tape! i made some fun new tape for the washi station's fall collection, which is dropping in september. folks who are signed up for my patreon can see a full preview of all 10 stamp designs here! i'm really excited for this one, and i can't wait to stick this tape on everything.
a few recent haunted houses! the first two were commissions for riley, and the third is a close-up preview of a ttrpg project i did a few pieces of art for that i'm very excited for. (more on that in the future, i promise!)
recommendations
i've been going to a couple of events hosted by the baltimore horror club lately, which have been very fun. for anyone else who's in the baltimore area and enjoys horror, here's their instagram! they're hosting a game night at no land beyond this weekend that i'm super bummed to be missing out on.
one of my favorite musicians, dessa, put out a couple new songs lately. my favorite is hurricane party!
i put together a haunted house recommendation list on bookshop a couple weeks ago. if you buy books from that list link, i'll get 10% of the sales, plus a matching 10% will go to supporting indie bookstores! a win-win for everyone: you get cool haunted house books, i get a little money with which to buy more haunted house books for myself.
i finally set up an rss feed for my website. you can add this link to your rss reader of choice to follow it & get updated when i add things to my site!
gotta go do some more last-minute convention prep, so that's all for now. i hope to see some of y'all at flamecon! talk to you soon!
💖 - kaylee