✨First Time in Artist Alley! WasabiCon 2021 ✨ | Kandy Vlog

[Music] hey guys it is friday and it is 1pm so i woke up today early one two staples to get some things i got some contact paper instead of buying uh laminating pouches which was my what i was gonna get but then i realized my machine is not big enough for the displaced which is what i wanted um to use it for um and i just realized that this basically what i want because i just want to cover the top of like the ink of the display that i'm gonna print out so if for somehow i get moisture or like rained or something it's still fine and it doesn't bleed the ink and whatnot and everything like my signage and everything so i bought this instead because it's it's a lot bigger i only bought one roll because it's 18 inches by nine feet which i think is going to be more than enough and then because i saw them i bought a little display that you can see there that is for standing up i thought about having there like a signage with a qr code or like people can take a picture of my socials or people can just scan it okay so summary on how i made my displays i made a canvas on clip studio you can use photoshop any editing software of the sizing of my cork boards i divided it into rectangles for my charm squares for my pins and my buttons and i just printed it out cover it in contact paper cut it with my keychain and then glue it to the cork board for gluing it to the corkboard i initially thought of using spray adhesive but i noticed that it didn't hold up at all so i had to use hot glue to reinforce it so just keep the spray adhesive and then to hook the um charms to the cork board i used like a wire barbie doll technique which is just um stabbing the wire and holding the item in place and then just kind of like um tying it on the back and then after i tie on the back i did put tape over it to prevent any stabbing to the fingers and i repeated this for my other charms and then for my pins i just tap the the pin into the cork board and then for my buns i actually use magnets which i actually show my button display later on in the video so you guys can see now for my sign i did a kind of similar process where i printed the design i did use spray adhesive with this and it actually work um i believe it's the texture of the corkboard the one that was giving me issues before um and i um glue it to a foam board um and then cut it out as carefully as i could with a knife i cover it with contact paper and then i used a ribbon on the edges to make it look a little bit more put together hey guys so um i just finished streaming i finished streaming a little bit earlier that i wanted to um and i'm going to talk to you as i press this um so i finished streaming earlier because um energy to talk to a stream kind of like just fade it um so i'm just gonna be pressing a few more buttons before going to bed um but i wanted to show you something that happened so i have so these bottom parts that i have here are what i have left of the bottom parts that came with my machines with my machines with my machine that it's um that they're from shy buns i have bought in 500 from barbaric and bar maker under 1.5 inch size which is supposed to be the one that i should buy but they don't work so i'm gonna call them to see if i can do uh any sort of return with them um because like they they just don't press properly they don't fit on the machine properly um so it's a bummer uh i kind of feel angry at myself because this bumpers have arrived a while ago because i ordered them a long time ago and i just hadn't tried them out um so it's just a bummer but i already ordered the replacement they should be here on saturday so i still have time to press all of them down it's just it's just something that i did not plan and whatever but it's a small setback [Music] good we're alive [Music] a little bit of fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so it is 12 now so it's basically saturday now and um i did it stickers are all caught up and i'm really proud that this last round i was being very slow and careful because i don't have any more sticker paper so if i up laminating any of them i don't have to replace them so i managed not to i think literally only one sticker and i think i dumped it here i need to find it when i do inventory was the only one that got bubbles in it um also ignore the mess in my office it's disgusting i know um but yeah they're all they're all finished now i do need to count all of this tomorrow um and store them and why not but okay i am though heading to bed now and i'm just gonna sleep until my body just rest so tomorrow the plan is that um since the bottom parts are not going to be here until midday or later on i'm going to be working on that art that i mentioned that is going to be the art where i just say like hey i'm going to wasabicon here's my booth come visit blah blah blah i also want to do know i have to work on the signs for the the prizes and stuff this is the only reason why i'm not moving my cricket out of my desk yet because if i'm thinking i'm gonna do the shape that i'm thinking for the price tags um i am going to be needing the cricut to cut it nicely but anyway i'm gonna shut up now i'm gonna go to sleep i'll talk to you guys in nine to ten hours sounds good [Music] [Applause] [Music] in my eyes it's time to dance [Music] a little bit of fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so one thing though the the tablecloth is really wrinkly oh honestly i could have i kind of wanted to see the colors together but i should have tested without it because with boxes running around it's been it's been an adventure to have the tablecloth out to be honest so are you ready are you ready this is what it looks like so ignore the things on the side um the table basically goes until the tablecloth is at so that's what it's going to look like okay guys so um just want to update your compressing buttons in my bedroom chris is playing some video games so i'm just watching ignore the masks in a room but i have buttons here trash can there parts here water my impress on this little table and i want to show you what i did before i continue so i split my buttons into um splitting eight that i'm gonna be pressed and they're gonna be pre-passed and then all the other designs that are already printed i put in a little solo bag and i'm gonna put exactly where the buns are so while i give people their orders and stuff um i can tell how much i'm missing how much i have left and then press and then for my let me show you um for since i'm cutting them and stuff i'm doing keeping update on my inventory list um and i have like a quantity press and then i quantity printed um which i come up with dating slowly as you can see i have done nothing of inventory that's gonna be the first part um while i press them so i'm gonna be doing tier by tier of this ones doing the same separating eight they're gonna be pressed now and then the others are going to go in the cello box and then pressing uh the ones those just so i'm completely done with it here before i move on to the next one so um i'm going to try to get two tiers done today before going to bed because since my head was not going away i drank a coffee at like 5 p.m which i probably shouldn't but my headache was not going away and honestly that did the trick so i i'm gonna use the energy because i'm not gonna go to sleep i'm probably gonna be scrolling to tech talk so i'm just chatting with chris while he plays video games and just pressing buttons so also look at them babies so i basically put everything like all the charms to of the same design together in a cello bag and everything is like that since they're clear i am hoping that it's easy to access um underneath there's more um the washi tapes are right here per design the prints are there the only thing that is not in here is the buttons because the button display does not not the display the button container doesn't fit here so that's going to go in the other box so yeah everything is here now i just have to close it and this one's ready to go i have to now pack the little carrion where the bottom maker is gonna go and what else do i need oh make my actual bag because i haven't packed my bag like all the booth and setup stuff are ready to go i got no clothes all my things are ready to go me myself i'm not ready to go apparently because i got no clothes nothing's back i'm still doing laundry so okay so it's officially the day that we're driving we have everything already in the car and then the babies are staying sadly um but my brother is taking care of them so yeah i think i didn't film us packing everything in the car because it was kind of chaotic and we were playing tetris to hit the things but yeah we're going i was filling up my water bottle um i think we're gonna buy some food like any fast food we find now because i i clean up my kitchen like very stressfully cleaned it up yesterday um well i was waiting for laundry to be done and i really didn't wanna you know have to clean stuff and clean dishes so we're just gonna go and buy something on the way are you ready [Music] [Music] know exactly i love how it's like oh i practiced it this is exactly how i'm gonna do it and now i should use it i mean looks better now like yeah it's just to have the stickers together i'm still missing the fried stickers but i'm gonna have the price stickers here and then the fried pinch down here that way they're all together chris is judging me chris is judging me because i'm staring at other people's heart you're just standing there men and somebody i'm just staring at pretty arm let me stare it up hard like this i don't know how i ever survived [Music] okay so after a me having to restart my makeup because i was trying to do i'm going to post a picture here the makeup that i was trying to do which is this like crease liner look it was it did one that one was up here and then the other one was here and i was just like there was no way of me deleting it so i had to wash my entire face and then i did this brush so good enough i guess so now i'm going to do my hair so chris is still in bed watching tic tacs probably um i am ready i got my outfit on my little spooky socks and um i'm gonna make some sandwiches this is like the lunchbox i'm gonna take with me she's gonna have two sandwiches two chips and then two monsters just in case we need them for water i am taking my water bottle my water bottle my water bottle completely filled and um if we ever need more water i guess we'll just buy a water bottle though it's fine why am i saying water bottle weird i don't freaking know i'm too tired to think you're ready i'm not so we're basically all set up down here i'm gonna show you a behind the booth kind of like how we try to organize everything so we can have access to the things we need so we have our boxes that have all the stuff in it but i took um the big boxes down like out of the big box like well i took the boxes with the merch out of the big boxes so i can use this as a second table here and here like our charms and stuff that so basically the arcade and my oc's my stands then here are the wooden pins here are the jiu jitsu kaisen ones and then my washi tape and their muff pins are right here the buttons are in here so we can grab them and we have our little guide right here and then we have like things to package order my prints and then the sticker folder is right here and that's what everything looks from the behind the scenes [Music] you [Music] i think it was yeah it's one and a half it's one and a half already and um i don't know how much you'll be able to hear me but i feel okay i feel like things have moved okay i don't have anything to compare it to so it's hard to be like oh yeah it's been going well or oh it's a slow convention um i don't know it's my first time i did have to leave chris for a bathroom break did you panic i panic i was like trying to like go as fast as possible because there's um i've seen the this three alleys but not the ones behind me so i try to go um at least one um like one alley to before i come here after the bathroom but like i was trying to rush also because i knew he might panic but it's been isn't going okay i think okay so it is five something almost six uh my energies did crash a little so i'm like struggling to stay awake but it's okay hello hi okay so day two um we already had a sale um i am going to lower the price of my buttons because i did uh looking around saw the people practice about the same way but they're bigger so i'm just wearing mine since they're a bit smaller um just to be fair and um we are we're kind of sleepy and tired but it is what it is we have coffee oh it just opened okay she's gonna go down now [Music] okay now as soon as i picked up the camera people throw by and i feel very awkward like i feel i feel kind of awkward now but people kind of are not looking at what you're doing so it's fine but then once someone stopped by you're both i'm like so yeah it's been on and off today um and i haven't picked up my camera because i slowly started crashing after like one or two [Applause] or something like that so i've just been struggling i can't put music on my booth as well so i can like dance around cause i was falling asleep we have about half an hour now to go so after that half an hour we just take everything down as quick as possible while chris um goes get the little wagon that we have and then is to drive home we actually destroyed everything pretty fast and stored everything um like the events ended up five at 5 25 we're already on the car and our way we're gonna get some gas and then starts to drive back home hey guys so it's been a week since the convention kind of um it is friday um and it's kind of weird to think about um at this time last week we were almost um actually we're not almost arriving because we're still on our way but i was on my way to like build our booth and everything and the experience have been amazing um i want to give you like some wrap-around thoughts of the convention um and um my experience so in very brief shore uh long story short um my experience was nothing but positive and um it has definitely calmed a bit the nerves of doing holiday mastery in december which is my next convention um so i'm very very excited for that i got very much a lot of ideas i thought i was gonna be warned out which i was like this entire week i was just like i'm just gonna play animal crossing and disconnect and i think it was the very best decision that i did because slowly i've been getting ideas here and there and i just been writing them down but not working on them yet just because it was a very heavy months or months before the convention to uh crunch artwork and everything so um this week of just disconnecting and just using my free time to play animal crossing was needed um so long story short i loved it i loved the experience of meeting new people i love seeing people cosplay also people uh complimenting my booth like it's not like i it sounds shallows like people complimented my booth but because it's my first time doing to going to a convention i kind of wanted to buy things that i was going to reuse and because um with twitch donations or twitch tips we got into um like reaching goals to buy the things that i wanted to buy and not buy the super alternative with then maybe i'll have to upgrade i want to like feed my branding everything and that was the biggest compliment we got definitely experience everything was positive um uh wasabicon in general because i've been talking right now as like convention artist outlet in general because it's my first experience but wasabica in general i think it's an amazing traffic for a first person um obviously i haven't gone to another one but this is what i imagined the traffic was going to be um it wasn't ever too full that i felt like too nervous to handle everything so yeah that's like my experience though like i said positive i can't wait for the second one so that said that will conclude this video um instead of giving you guys a september vlog and an october vlog i try to combine the last minute of the convention with the actual going to the convention and the summary and thoughts of the convention just because it made more sense that as a video than having two um so the rest and last week of october if anything exciting happens i will be filming it and include them on the uh november vlog um and yeah i will see you guys on that one thank you guys for coming into like this adventure of me prepping and going to my first convention i hope you guys enjoyed this video it was a lot more vlogging and us vlogging like while we were there and filming and stuff like that so i hope um it was of your enjoyment and i will see you guys on the next one [Music]

Channel: Kandy's Creations

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Keywords: artist, convetion, vlog, cute, business owner, booth tip, artist alley, tips, display, pastel, aesthetic, moths, first time, beginner, convention, vendor, wasabicon, 2021, jacksonville

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Length: 25min 51sec (1551 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 23 2021