Hi everyone, 

A few of you might know that I am vending at Connichi in Wiesbaden, Germany. This means work, work, work for me and even though I have been lazy at times, I did manage to craft a few new pieces. I just hope, it's enough?

Here are some of the pieces ready to be embroidered on. My workload is really never ending lol. The woes of being a small business. 

Sailor Moon

I just finished this cute little red heart this week.

 

Hello lovelies, 

last weekend I went to Austria Comic Con in Wels in Upper Austria. It was way smaller than Vienna Comic con and not really reachable by public transportation especially on Sunday or had hefty waiting times. They had special guests like James Marsters, Ruth Conell and Bai Ling, Cosplayers and Comic artists.

I paid 120€ for two tickets, two chairs and a table of about 120x60cm. A normal entry ticket was about 20€ for a day, 38€ for two days and 112,5€ for the VIP tickets. Definitely not as pricy as Vienna Comic con.

We had booked an appartment and the previous guests had completly trashed it. We therefore got a new hotel which was a bit more expensive but booking would come up for the price difference. The only problem was, that it was way out of the city and there was no good public transportation. Damn. We cancelled our train reservations and went by car instead. Which turned out, was an even better decision as the busses and trains to the convention halls were not sparse on Sunday.

The hotel we stayed in was a small castle but nothing remained of it. The hotel also houses a small train museum and thus the train picture on the wall.

Here the view out of the window. The clouds were so pretty.

And now back to Comicon!

Here is my booth again - my fancy moons and everything else. We could set up the table the night before. I'm always a bit nervous about leaving my items there but there, only covered by a blanket.

Close up of the anime corner.

Here is my look from Friday. The dress is from Ank rouge and it has a little cupcake and chocolate print.

The next day I wore my trusted btssb dress. It's super comfy and I love wearing it for conventions.

Saturday was the best day but it didn't beat Vienna Comic con so I had a lot of time to embroider and finally finish this cherry. It was on my ufo for so long, I think almost a year. But I really like how it turned out and plan on maybe...keeping it?

Selfie time! The bow is actually mounted on the waist but as it's detachable, I added a hairclip to it and now always use it as a big hairbow lol. Nobody knows.

We were so tired and exhausted, after the convention we grabbed some food at mcdonalds and went back to the hotel room.

Hias gifted me this elegant elvish dice set. He did not know that I was tempted to buy it but decided not to. And it was the only thing I wanted at the convention. He is amazing!

Day 2!

Another super comfy dress in Japan. I just love strawberries. It's almost a bit too big for me but that makes it a perfect all-u-can eat dress too.

And of course, another picture behind the booth.

Sunday was even worse financially as there were so few people. We sat around all day long and I had about 5 sells. Oh well, more time for embroidery. It was good I learned from Vienna Comic con and brought all of my stuff along. That's why I could also finally finish a new and darker version of totoro. I use wood glue to glue the felt on the wood and press it with these tiny pink camps. It always looks like an alien spider lol.

View from Comic con on Sunday around 2pm. As I mentioned before, it was really empty. 

And a booth seen from our side. 

And here is the finished totoro. Isn't he a cute boy?
This time we ate something small at the convention and I bought a vegan and a meat siopao and they were 4€. I was so shocked. I sent my mother the picture of them and she was shocked and almost insulted. lol.

 

Another view where the sellers where. I tried to censor the people's faces but it made them look like in a horror movie. Sorry!

The theme of this convention was Jurassic park and they also had two huge dinosaur costumes and roamed around the hall every 2-3 hours with the Jurassic Park theme playing loudly.

One of the costumes. The other one was in use.

ET picture option! I have never seen the movie and have no association to the movie. I only know that the mars brand earned millions with the movie.

Look how empty it is. Plus, there were so many people carrying those stupid mystery bags.

At least the food corner was almost full. Almost.

I treated Hias to some ice-cream but then gave him my half because I didn't like the flavour. :(

And after the convention we drove two other artists to the train station as their only bus connection would not leave before 7pm and they needed to be at the train station before that. 

Afterwards we headed home, ate dinner at Burger King and then arrived home safely to cuddle our little kitty cats.

My thoughts on Austria Comic con: Compared to Vienna comic con the prices for the booth was cheaper but all in all, including food and gas it made it more expensive. There were way less people than Vienna Comic con and the public transportation to and from the convention hall was terrible. I will therefore not attend Austria comic con again, same for Vienna comic con. It was not worth my time and I know some booths earned even less than I did. 

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All the best, 

Auris Lothol

 

Hello lovelies, 

I will leave for Japan tomorrow and I AM SO EXCITED. The last time I visited Japan was in 2025. That's eons ago. And this time I will travel with my partner and a friend and we are not doing shopping only, like the last time, but we will also do a lot of sightseeing and visiting places I have never been before (Nara, Arashiyama, etc). 

But before that, I wanted to give a small "brand" update. 

So, what's new?

• I have a portfolio! It took only a few minutes as I applied for Connichi to make but it didn't turn out half bad.

--> Portfolio link 

•  Bye bye Etsy and Patreon. I ditched the sites for Ko-fi and it works much better for me. 
  

--> Ko-fi link

• New Designs!

I made a few new designs the past couple of months and I am particularly proud of one: 

The card captor Sakura brooch. It is worked in gold embroidery, the shiny gold bouillon is real gold, and has sequins as wings and beads made with a vermicelli stitch. I used this term loosely as it's more from tambour embroidery but I don't really know if it has its own name in bead embroidery. It's not an orderly stitched and used to describe the art of just going around in a more "messy" fashion. If anyone knows, please tell me!

It was actually a pretty pain in the butt to make, not sure if I have the nerves to do another in the near future. 

The progressive flag was a bit stressfull too because the heart was so small. I will definitely only sell them in a bigger version.

 

 

For christmas I made a cute nordic styled decoration and it turned out super cute. I will try and make more for this year's christmas. And maybe fill in the gaps? I don't know yet.

No Royal Duck sortiment would be complete with the Ghibli inspired collection:

And the dust sprites of course...

And of course, one of my favourites, the dripping heart. I love the symbolism in it and I also like to play with the colours. This is the pastel coloured one as the dark blue and purple I normally use, are not that visible against the black.

I hope you love them as much as I do,

All the best,

Auris Lothol

 

 

Hello lovelies, 

it's been two exhausting weekends (by the time I post this it's probably already a month later lol).

First I was vending at Slay! and then the week afterwards at Lupins Market. I'm relieved it's over now and I can go back to being lazy. Or, lazier, as more markets are waiting but they are still far away. The next one will be ACC - Austrian Comic con in May.

SLAY! Queer Art Market

This small market took place at Ullmannstraße 45 in the 15th district of Vienna. The place is on the smaller side but still had enough space for various artists and their booths. A small kitchen was included too and my partner got free coffee all weekend long by our organizers and hosts Sev and Ivo. The fee for selling was only 20€ and that was super cheap. 

Last time, Slay Market was full with people and I expected way less as a convention was held at the same time. But that didn't really stop the people from coming and I was positively surprised. 

The market lasted for two days and here are both of my outifts. 

 I always try to keep my hands busy even during the markets.

The light was no really good as we all had thick curtains infront of the windows. 

And at the end of day two, we decided to get dominos pizza. Nom nom.

This is not my only purchase but I forgot to take pictures of the others ones:

I also got an angel shaker, a picture and some dnd stickers.
 

Lupin's market

This market was bigger in size but smaller in revenue and guests. I had the feeling that most guests were over the age of 50 and a bit confused by the glittery or lgbt friendly booths. As the market before, we also got free drinks and all artists got free snacks. Big, big plus. 

The fee for the booth was 35€ and quite affordable too. 

On the first day there was a lottery with most of the artists winning most of the prizes. We paid 10€ for 10 lottery tickets and got this nice little sea painting as a present, which would have been 10€ too. lol.

 

Not sure what I was laughing about here but I think my partner said something silly.

  And here is the outfit for day 2. I wore my Angelic pretty lemon dress again, as it's the cutest.

keeping my hands busy again!

While there were not as many people at Lupin's markt, the whole vibe was amazing. I enjoyed my time there, plus I also bought some items. 

 

I am especially fond of my glittering dice set from dungeon master. The two rings and bracelets are from alien moe and the yellow chicken was made by Flo from Froggy crochet. I can't remember where I got the cake ring as it was a present.

And that's it for now. 

I will be in Japan at the end of March and I am so excited about the trip. See you again after I return, 

Auris Lothol