PAX Prime 2014 Cosplay

We spent the last four months creating our cosplay of Bittersweet Lulu and Wicked Lulue from Lague of Legends to attend PAX Prime this year in style. Since Cami and I were both in full costume, we didn't get many pictures of other cosplayers, but here are the few pictures we did get.

Our Wicked Lulu and Bittersweet Lulu with another Classic Lulu.

A view of the League of Legends 2014 NA LCS Summer Playoffs.

We loved this cross-play of Classic Thresh.

League of Legends 2014 NA LCS Summer Playoffs

This amazing Blackthorne Morgana is by Tiger Tessa Cosplay

A crochet Yoshi from SmallRiniLady being ridden by Luigi.

Incredible Nidalee cosplay in human and cougar form by Puppichu Cosplay

We'll be posting about the making of our costumes over the next couple weeks. We had a blast! If anyone has pictures of our cosplay feel free to email them to DrapesOfWrathAprons@gmail.com and if you know someone in the pictures above that isn't credited please let us know!

Drapes of Wrath Hits 100 Sales!

Today we hit 100 sales in our shop, and we just wanted to give a big thank you to all of our readers here. To all of our customers. To all of our friends and family who've been cheering us on.

To celebrate this milestone we're having a sale in our shop. You can use coupon code: 100SALES25OFF for 25% off all orders for the next week. April was a great month for us, at a record 13 sales, and what better way to start off the month of May than with a celebration! So share this with your friends and family. We appreciate you all so much.

Portland Iron Chef Apron: Put A Bird On It

We recently were invited, through the Pacific Northwest Artisans Team on Etsy, to participate in a silent auction in Portland, OR. The auction will be held at the 11th Annual Portland's Original Iron Chef event, benefiting Children's Relief Nursery. We were drawn to this event initially because, being from Oregon, we like to give back to our home state. But also, how perfect an opportunity to give an apron up for auction at a cooking event!

All of the fabric used on this apron is up-cycled, with the exception of the heat resistant batting used in the potholders. We wanted to keep the design simple and size-friendly, but we still wanted to add a touch of personality. For this we were inspired by a skit from the show Portlandia, where a couple take over an entire shop in Portland putting birds on everything. We finished off the theme by making the potholders egg shaped.

The event is Friday April, 20th and we can't wait to hopefully see some pictures of the event and maybe even hear from the winner of our apron. Did you see that apron before? I didn't. Now it has a bird on it!

Drapes of Wrath See TMBG and Jonathan Coulton!

So you might have taken a hint from our Guide to PAX that we're nerds, it's not really a secret, but I hasn't come up too much here on our blog, but I hope you're ready for a little more nerdity. Last week Cami and I saw Jonathan Coulton and They Might Be Giants and the Showbox SoDo, and it was amazing! Apologies for the low quality cell phone pictures.

Jonathan Coulton at the Showbox SoDo

Jonathan Coulton was the opener for TMBG and he was fantastic, in fact I wished he'd played a few more songs, but hey that's how it goes with openers right?

If you play video games you might know who Johnaton Coulton is, he's probably most well known for writing Still Alive, the song written for the ending credits of Portal. He's also the mastermind behind the song Code Monkey, and my favorite (which didn't get played at the show) Re: Your Brains which is a song in business letter form from a zombie to his former coworker who is still human. Strangely enough Jonathan Coulton was at PAX too, but there was a million mile line to meet him.

John and John at the Showbox SoDo

However, the main event of the evening was our favorite nerd rock back of all time, They Might Be Giants. 
Thier music pops up in the most unlikely of places such as the theme song for Malcom in the Middle, Tim Burton's Coraline, and 2 well-knows songs from Tiny Toons; Istanbul and Particle Man (currently under the tyrannical oppression of YouTube, hence no animated version...)
However, of our favorite songs we were lucky enough to hear "Why does the Sun shine?" and Ana Ng. Sadly "They'll Need a Crane" was not on the set list.

RIGHT BEFORE WE TOUCHED EET!

Of the newer songs our favorites were "Marty Beller Mask" (their new drummer truly looks like he is having a seizure while he is playing!) and "You probably get that a lot".  The pièce de résistance was getting to touch Flansburgh's guitar (for the 2nd time!).  This is a good time to note that John Flansburgh, at 51 years old and weighing what appears to be as much as Cami and I put together has hands DOWN more hippity-hops on stage than most 18 year olds. Additionally, John Linnell age 52, even with his crooked teeth and mismatched ears is still as cute as he was in their videos from the 80's - a fact that we attribute to his intense eye contact with everyone within about 10 feet of his keyboard (because he is more or less blind without his glasses. We are all amorphous blobs to him).

One last shot of two very happy girls, status post BO assault by a bunch of sweaty, middle-aged nerds! NO REGRETS!

Seattle Tilth's New Starts Green Gala and Auction

Today I have exciting news to share about an event we're participating in. We were recently invited to have our aprons featured in the New Starts Green Gala and Auction being held by Seattle Tilth to raises funds to support their Seattle Youth Garden Works program. Four of our aprons, below are the fliers I made up for the auction, are being featured in the silent auction at the event, which is on October 1st at the Mountaineers Club in Seattle.

The benefits of the auction go to their Seattle Youth Garden Works program which empowers homeless and underserved youth by providing employment and education growing, packaging and selling produce at farmers markets. You can purchase tickets to the event here and you can follow Seattle Tilth on Facebook to learn more about this event and the other work that they are doing in the Seattle community.

Special thanks to Jennifer Crouch of Seattle Tilth for contacting us and offering us the chance to be featured in this auction.