Halloween Comes Early At Sleepy Robot 13!

Since I'm one of those people that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year and I just use the holiday to stock up on supplies, you can only imagine that my little robot minions would feel the same way. Most of them have already picked out their costumes and wanted to show them off for you!



















You can view more robot Halloween Craziness by visting the Halloween section of my shop HERE.

856 Etsy Sales!

Today I reached 856 sales on Etsy and along with countless other sales offline it feels amazing! Next month on the 9th I will celebrate my one year anniversary of opening my Etsy shop. I am still amaze in less than a year how fair I've come. I definitely couldn't have done it without the advice of other amazing crafters, all of you who wrote about me on their blogs and having the guts to try things that others wouldn't think of, without knowing if they would be a success or I would fall flat on my face! Sleepy Robot 13 definitely put a hole in my wallet for a while, but before there can be feast there must be famine...or maybe I should just say it takes money to make money. I started Sleepy Robot 13 with 3 figurines (2 of which weren't even robots) and the hope that I could make a little money to pay my bills while I was out of work and today it's more than I could have ever hoped. My goal is to reach 1000 sales by my shops one year anniversary. 144 sales in 3 1/2 weeks, think I can do it?

Synergy Magazine Article

Recently Sleepy Robot 13 was featured in an issue of the Australian magazine Synergy. You can find a copy of the article below on page 142.

Synergy magazine is an unusual publication dedicated to the exploration of the diverse world of cinema and entertainment. We are one of the largest sources of genre cinema reviews in Australia, offering content from around the globe. Synergy is packed with articles, features, news, reviews, and commentary. They also offer regular reviews of music, unusual toys, collectibles, Urban Vinyl and Plush, books, magazines – all sorts of strange and intriguing things you won’t find anywhere else!

Synergy is available in a print and digital edition. The digital edition of Synergy is free and released in Adobe Acrobat every two months.

Open publication - Free publishing - More horror

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Pizza Love!

Today my little Pizza Robot was featured on the Tilt Treasures blog. I love the the title of the feature "Pizza...ok,so I was hungry..." Along with my robot she featured other amazing pizza themed items by other great Etsy sellers. I would also advise checking out the blog owners Etsy Shop "TiLT creations". There you will find several unique and lovely bags, purses, clutches, back packs and pouches!

Ghetto? I think not...

Ok I don't rant that often, but I had to today. Don't you hate those people who act ghetto or describe themselves as ghetto when they live in the suburbs or they live in a city, state or even country that doesn't have ghettos??? I can understand trying to portray a certain image because you like it or you respect elements of it, but I don't respect pretending to be something your not! Fine whatever act like your ghetto, but there is a big damn difference between "being" ghetto and "being" an idiot! Speak fucking English! When having a conversation, typing an email, blogging, filling in information on a website, writing a letter. Please try to be grammatically correct! I can understand a few misspellings here and there and maybe the wrong use of a word, But don't make up your own words or shorten them so much you can't understand what the fuck your saying!!!! Outside of texting this is not okay. Oh and guys not every woman is a shorty or a baby girl. We sure as hell aren't your "Ma". I'm tired of opening email that begin with "Waz Good with it Baby gurl?" Really? I mean really? I know most people will say that's just how people talk. Yes is how "some" people talk, but me I still value actually intelligent conversation.

An All Around Awesome Week!

So this week was pretty cool. I'm going to be featured in an issue of Synergy magazine, I have a Radio interview in Florida at the end of the month, I'll be apart of the Cirque Imaginaire Art Show / Bazaar in March and I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance! lol (I had to throw in that last one, it just seemed appropriate.)Now if the weekend is as good as the rest of the week has been I may go into awesome overload!

Very Cool Feature on a Very cool Blog

Today my work was featured on The Meandering Musings of a Consummate Shoppper. They posted an article on my shop and robots that was very complimenting and well written. When you have a moment I'd advise you to check out their shop Bits n' Beads. They have some amazing Jewelry and Accessories. I love their use of color. Tell em' Sleepy Robot 13 sent ya! (:

Robot Idea Contest Update

Ok so my robot contest has ended. I received wayyyy more entries than I had expected but I have narrowed them down to 9. I know, I know I said I was only going to pick 3... That's where you come in! Since I'm having trouble picking just 3 I am asking you to vote on which idea should be made into one of my robot sculptures. Voting begins NOW and will cease on Wednesday 01/13/10. The 3 ideas with the most votes win! Winners will be announce Friday 01/13/10. Please use the poll below.

"Happy Voting!"

***UPDATE*** 1/14/2009 Voting has ended. Stay tuned for the results!

Awesome Robots by other people!

So today my Sad Robot was featured on spinoncreativity.blogspot.com as part of her "I love Robots" feature. This was awesome because I was introduced to several new robot artists.

My favorite by far were the misc. robot pouches fromanatomy of a skirt You can check out some of my favorites below:

I've Been Blogged About

Today I received two messages through Etsy Convo from awesome people who have blogged about some of my items. First http://www.seemegshop.com/2009/10/30/friday-ramblings/ posted about how much she loved the earrings her husband bought her from my etsy jewelry shop sugaredwithspite.etsy.com . She says that she has been wearing the same diamond earrings she received from her husband on her wedding day since that day, but took them out because she wanted to wear the new earrings that badly.

Next http://www.sewcupcake.blogspot.com/ featured my Sleepy Robot Figure in her "Whacky Wednesday- Cute gifts for children". Though I really appreciate her featuring one of my items, I will just say I do not recommend giving any of my figures to children as they are fragile. This is the 2nd blog in the last few weeks to feature my Sleepy Robot.