Nerdy Nora

This is Nerdy Nora. If you want to meet her in real life then make sure you're at the Plush You! opening night at Schmancy Toys, 1932 2nd Avenue, Seattle on 12th October at 17:00. Click here to go to the facebook event page for more info.

Posting Parcels

I seem to have got out of the habit of blogging - I guess life has been busy and I haven't had much time for making and baking. But in the time I have had, I have been getting things ready to post. This is my first parcel I sent off to PlushYou containing 2 lovely amigurumi dolls. Yesterday I sent a parcel to my Plush Team swap partner and hopefully today I'll send another parcel to PlushYou - just need to make time to put the finishing touches to that doll... And talking of PlushYou, there's an interview with me which went up on their blog last week. You can see it here.

PlushYou 2011

The PlushYou 2011 opening night was on Friday. As I don't live anywhere near Seattle I didn't go, but some of my dolls made it there without me! I haven't seen many photos yet, I'm sure they'll start to appear on Flickr soon, but I did see this one on twitter and if you look carefully you can spot my dolls :) Thanks to Kristen and Schmancy Toys for putting on this exhibition again.

PlushYou 2010

And we're finally online :)

These are some photos of my dolls at PlushYou 2010 taken by Anne-Claire of Hibou Cards. As you can see they are in good company - Just in front of them are the Moon Buns from Moon's Creations, on the wall are the cats from Yummy Pancake and you can just see on the shelf above some spider babies from Scrumptious Delight.

Across the World...

Yesterday I posted this parcel. It has 3 dolls in it and they are destined for Schmancy in Seattle to appear at PlushYou Seattle 2010. I'm always a little bit scared when I post things to far away places in case they get lost on the way, but so far that hasn't happened. One parcel I sent to the states did take 6 weeks which is why I've sent this one in plenty of time. I really hope they arrive safely as I'm pretty excited about the opportunity to have my amigurumis at PlushYou!

PlushYou LA opens this evening at Munky King. If you're in the area go and have a look. There's some amazing stuff to be seen.

PlushYou 2010 - I'm in!

PlushYou is an annual Plush Art show which takes place in the USA. It is curated by Kristen Rask, owner of Schmancy. This year there will be 2 shows, one in LA and one in Seattle. I applied to the LA show a few months ago and didn't get in but then I applied again to the Seattle show and today I got an email to say I have been accepted! I had to read the email 3 times to check that I wasn't dreaming! I'm so excited to have this opportunity :) The show is in October and I very much doubt that I'll be going in person, but I'm sure some of my friends from the Plush Team will take some photos for me!

Schmancy Olympic Challenge Entry

Back in January Kristen at Plushyou announced the Schmancy Plush Olympic Challenge. I signed up and was given the category Opening Ceremonies.

I decided that my inspiration needed to come from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. In 1984 Sarajevo was in Yugoslavia. Now it is the capital city of Bosnia Herzegovina - the country I live in. I googled 'olympic flame opening ceremony sarajevo 1984' and the first image that comes up is this one:


This is Sanda Dubravčić who was the final torchbearer for the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics where she represented Yugoslavia in Figure Skating.




And this is my plush intepretation of that photo! I'm not sure that I'll get far in the competition but I've had fun making my entry :)