ABQ Ren Faire was absolutely amazing this year.. we had a great time, saw a lot of wonderful people, and couldn’t have topped the day.
So, of course, part two is that we put up the stock that didn’t find homes at Ren Faire on etsy.
Keep an eye on the store, lots of things we’ve never offered before goin up!
.. sad times.. we got rained out of Pride.
The GOOD part is that we have refreshed the online store (http://www.etsy.com/shop/RicksChainmail) and, because there’s so many people we didn’t get to see, we’re offering a coupon code for the rest of the weekend! Just use ‘rainpride’ at checkout to save 15% off your purchase!
The really disappointing part is that we had a lot of our new stock out for really the first time… Dragon’s Egg scale bags, glow in the dark bracelets, lots of new designs and colors… so please, take a look!
Just a few more sneak peeks.. all new gear coming to ABQ Pride!
So we’re back at work tinkering with new items and new ideas…
Also just loaded a few new items to the etsy shop!
A huge thank you to everyone who came out and said hi yesterday.. you made the day for us! A lot of new items were out, the sun was shining (at least for the first part of the day), and it was great to get to talk to folk and see what they liked.
Special thanks to our friendly helpers who let us keep the pliers going on special requests and adjustments all day long!
OK….. I’ve been a bad, baaaaaaaaaaaaad minion. I haven’t kept our main site as updated as I could have… I’ve left you all in the dark, wondering if there was ever going to be anything posted, ever, ever again.
I accept your condemnation.. I think it’s important to admit when one has been thoughtless.
BUT.. I had the best of reasons… look at all this amazing stuff we’ve been working on…..
Want to see more? We’ll be at the Albuquerque Ren Faire on May 2!
I know it’s no secret that we are huge omg geeky geeky geeks… so pardon while we get particularly nerdish for a few minutes.
Thanks to a random conversation down at our local game shop (that’s Twin Suns at Coors and Montano if you’re in the Albuquerque area), we decided to make up bags for all the color combinations for Khan. For those keeping track, that’s a green/blue/black, white/red/black, white/red/blue, green/white/black, and red/green/blue.
Here’s the ones that are already done and available for sale down at Twin’s. Only two to go, and one of them.. I can’t lie… it kinda makes me think Ninja Turtle.
So don’t be surprised if you see a bag soon that has orange and purple stripes instead of the repeating blue and red….
But overall, we’re very happy with the way these came now. Now on to other things… like our in house draft!
Happy Magicking, Planeswalkers!
When we were at the ABQ Ren Faire this year, we were asked a very intriguing question about making a suit of armor for a Corgi… well who the heck could say no to that??
We decided to go with a simple Japanese 4 in 1… we once saw a pup in a European chainmail shirt, and while it looked awesome, the poor little guy was overheating, and we didn’t want to see that happen. For the same reason, we started with aluminum rings, to keep it nice and light.
These pics are from the first fitting.. and so far, so good! We added a few more inches to the sides to get a nice drapey effect… and then….
ADORABLENESS!
We were so enchanted by how cute this turned out that we are now offering these as a custom item- https://www.etsy.com/listing/205603284/custom-chainmail-for-your-dog
Got to finish a custom order that brought up a really good question.. what’s the difference between flat bottom vs round bottom when you get into minibags (other than the $5 price difference)? Here’s a side by side comparison… the green is the flat, which gives it a squarer shape and holds a little more. The purple is going to hold more of a pouchy shape- and the equivalent of 2 standard D&D sets of dice (and is kind of like a little mini hand grenade when full.. which leads to a lot of Holy Hand Grenade jokes around here). We were able to get 5 sets of dice into the flat bottomed one.. and then we kinda wanted to play D&D…
So, funny story… it seems we have a fondness for bears around here (really, woulda guessed THAT?). And then, we wanted to experiment with scalemail on the small scale (hyuk, hyuk, I kill me with the puns). So it seemed very natural to put the scalemail on bears… which we think went VERY well!
Yes, we’re working on larger pieces that could go on people, too, but for now, you can find these finely dressed knight and lady bears at events and available in the etsy store!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/RicksChainmail?ref=si_shop