Custom Items Update

Hi guys! I just wanted to give everyone a quick update regarding custom orders. Due to the high volume of orders I've been receiving and the upcoming holiday season, I will not be taking any new custom item requests until mid January 2012. This includes wedding orders of all kinds. If you sent me a request before 08/04/2011 and confirmed that you were ok with the time frame/price you have been added to the waiting list and will be receiving your custom item(s) by September 15, 2011. I apologize to everyone who has sent me requests over the last week and to anyone who was planning to order custom items for Christmas gifts. Unfortunately I am only one person and there are only so many hours in a day:(

Radioactive Zombie Toast Available Friday!

The Glow in the dark Radioactive version of "Zombie Toast" We be available for a limited time in the Sleepy Robot 13 Shop Starting this Friday 06/03/2011. The cost will be $15 + shipping





"You carelessly left him sitting on top of your microwave to mold. Over along period of time he began to absorb the low levels of radiation, now he is back to seek his revenge on you and your kitchen!"

He has broken out and is attacking everything in site! The jar of Smuckers on your counter has had it, as he claims it's sweet jelly brains for his own and proudly displays them in his moldy hand!

"Zombie Toast Need Grains!"



Each 3" body is hand sculpted from vinyl clay and hand painted. The faces are printed on plastic to ensure the continuity of each figure and placed in a handmade, signed and numbered boxes.

Black Friday Sale!

Designer Con Re-cap

Woo! Designer Con came and went in a blur! I kind of feel like I set up my booth and in a blink of an eye it was over. I had an amazing time. D-con was my very first convention, so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I made a few mistakes as far as planning and expenses (I had to travel from my home base in Ohio to Pasadena, CA for the show). I definitely know what to do differently next year.

The reception was great. A lot of people stopped by the booth and I even met a few celebrities. The highlight of my day was finally getting to meet Buff monster who is one of my favorite artists. I was taken by surprise by the number of people who walked up to my booth and handed me their sketch books. I guess sketches are the new autograph lol! I loved it though. My boyfriend Bobby was kind enough to help me out in the booth through out the day and I think he really enjoyed himself.I will turn him into a toy person yet!

Below I have added several pictures of the booth through out the day. If you would like to see pics from other exhibiting Designer Con artists click Here.

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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Win a Zombie Robot as part of the Undead Bazaar

I recently had a chance to take part in the Zombies & ToysUndead bazaar. Zombies and toys are featuring several amazing handmade artists and giving you a chance to win some of their items. Currently you have a chance to win one of my Zombie Robots.


To enter follow this link or send an email to sleepyrobot13@zombiesandtoys.com. Entries must be received by July 23, 2010.

While your there Please check out the feature/Interview I did for the site Here!

Crafty Advice Youtube Channel anyone? Send me your questions!

Hi guys sorry for the lack of updates lately. I've been busy preparing for craft shows and making wedding cake toppers. I hope to next month put together a post to show you all of the custom toppers I've made this summer in a special wedding segment. I've also been working on putting together a youtube channel where I can put up video containing crafting/small business advice. The main reason I wanted to start the channel was to answer all the questions you guys have been emailing me. I will still continue to post selling tips and advice here, but I figured that somethings make more since when you see them. As soon as the channel is finished I will post a link here, but in the mean time I would love it if you guys would submit questions for me to answer in my videos. Please send your questions to lisastarchild@yahoo.com. Also as soon as I get the software working correctly I plan on posting short animated web comics featuring many of my Sleepy robots. I'll keep you updated!

Themed Robot & how about you come out & see me?

With Craft show and wedding season beginning, I have been super busy, but I wanted to share a few of the new robots I have been working on. I really wanted to work on some pieces with themes. A few are movie themed and a few are a based on fairytales. All of these bots are available now in my Etsy shop here. I will also have these and other figures on sale at Oddmall located in the Clarion Hotel, Hudson this upcoming Saturday 10am-6pm. I'll be in booth #62. Stop by and say hi!

Quick Update and some photos

I've been super busy lately, juggling craft shows, art shows, orders, custom orders and making huge quantities of robots to send out to charity and promotion events. Since everything has been so nuts lately I decided not to take any more custom orders until the end of May. This was a hard decision because I LOVE doing custom orders. The ideas people submit are just amazing! Other than being busy I don't really have any new news to report. Below I have attached a few photos of the massive amount of robots I made to send out to a private charity event and the loopsandpluto.com clothing party for their swag bags. Later!

A Few New Robots

I had a chance this weekend to work on a couple of new robot designs including a few customs. This will probably be the last new batch of robots for a little while. I currently need to make 80-120 robots for an event as well as two sets of custom robot wedding cake toppers, as well as a few other custom orders. Enjoy!

Robot in a monkey suite(custom order)

Skeleton Robot

Splish Splash Robot

Bride of Frankenstein Robot

Kawaii Robot


Big gulp Shake Robot


Wizard Robot


Pin Wheel Robot


Strawberry Ice cream robot


"I want Candy!" Robot

Finally Some Booth Pics!

I have forgotten to take pictures at almost all my recent shows(I received a few emails recently reminding me of this!)I finally remembered this time! Sorry no pics of me in my booth ): But you don't want to see me anyways lol! The following pics are from the "Art Is Alive" in North Canton, Ohio this past Weekend. Friday was a looooooong day. I got up at 6am to finish up last minute items and parts of my display. The show didn't start until 5 but I had to be set up by 3. I got to there at around 1 and was done setting up by 4:15 (I would have been faster but I had a mishap with my table, I really need to get a new one!) I had a lot more space than I was intending (as I had a corner spot) I should have brought a 2nd smaller table so I could have spread my items out more, but it all still worked out ok. The show didn't end until 11pm. There were a lot of big crowds so by 11 I was exhausted! I finished covering up my table and left around 11:30. I got home about 12:15, but it wasn't bed time yet! I still had 3 custom orders people had placed during the show to complete that they were pick up the next day during the 2nd part of the show. I finally went to bed around 2:45 in the morning, but it wasn't the best sleep due to butters snoring all night. I got up around 6:00am the next day to finish painting and glazing my custom orders (I usually don't do much painting, but someone requested a robot wearing a Lebron James jersey. I had to paint on the name as well as the numbers. I left for the show at around 9:45. The show didn't start until 11 this day but I wanted to be a little early so I could re-set up what I had to take down to cover up my table and to get coffee. Oh sweet, sweet coffee! All in all it was a great show and there were some amazing artists there. I can't wait until next year!