lifeofelle

We're getting ready for another shoot! I've been planning to do one shoot every month and got spoiled this month with multiples! Next shoot is going to be a concept combining my Amber (Sucker Punch) cosplay with kitty cat features and GUNS! Bang bang!
Of course, I'll have one or two prints ready after the shoot has been ironed out.



I'll be remaking the jacket for better range of motion - the gun(s) that I'll be working with are supposedly going to be big(!). I wore the military uniform inspired cosplay out to the Calgary Expo on Sunday and it was very limited in motion ... I ended up wearing my new TARDIS jacket instead of the pilot jacket for better comfortable, which earned me a lot of confused looks

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It was not my birthday on September 25th, 2014. My birthday is actually a week before Christmas. December is a terrible month to have a birthday in. It’s too cold and everyone had Christmas rush on their minds.

After decades of battling with this winter holiday, I've given up on trying to organize anything special for my birthday. There’s two things that I hate doing: 1) being openly selfish, expecting my silly whims to be catered to and 2) being a bother by interrupting the busyness of everyone else’s life with these silly whims. There’s no point in bothering others with a day of selfishness when everyone is too busy to be silly with you.

So, birthdays flew by, lazily “celebrated” with token dinners and coffee meetups. Then, Darling, the best gift giver ever, decided to change that ...

Read more at: lifeofelle.ca/2014/09/an-unfor…

After the Bridal Expo, I still had 14 or so cartons of unopened, cold, and yummy milk. I'm lactose intolerance, so downing 14 cartons of milk would probably kill me - I'm too peasant to throw them away So I tried to return it to Safeway and the assistant manager refused to accept the return.

I understand that accepting milk returns is risky, so the milk returns would just be trashed. It would be such a waste to throw away so many cartons of milk!

So, Darling had a wonderful idea and in the late hours of Tuesday night, he was able to organize a pop up event for me.

On Wednesday, I popped up at a City of Calgary office building and sold coffee to the employees for a "donate what you can" price. 100% of all sales went straight to United Way!

During that lunchtime, we raised $461 and went through 13 cartons of milk! Most lattes were served with the United Way logo as latte art, but I did receive a few requests for Daleks, Robocop, Pikachu, and Hello Kitty.

It was terribly funny because the last minute email that was sent out to advertise for the event claimed that a world class barista was going to make coffee. So, I heard a lot of sarcastic comments about this OTT claim when people were ordering their drink, but when they took their first sip, they realized that their coffee wasn't no where comparable to "office coffee". It really was world class - that's what I do

So, Wednesday was a super special treat for everyone and everyone was more than happy to donate to a great cause like United Way - when I was in elementary school, I was one of the kids that relied on United way for breakfasts and lunches, so it was great to give back!

I feel like some Asian ghostie fall out of bed this morning - unable to move my legs and arms because they are so sore from pulling espresso shots all day long at the Bridal Expo yesterday.

This was my first tradeshow as my own business, Latte Art Love, and it was a worthwhile investment! It was a complete organizational disaster - equipment got there late, we were still setting up when customers arrived, and we lost electricity several times ... many many times ... but I've never been so happy!

It was obvious from yesterday that Latte Art Love is a HUGE crowdpleaser and with a lot of tweaks and a day's worth of prep, our next tradeshow will be spectacular!

It was so insanely busy that I was only able to do four coffee sketches, so most of our coffee art was classically poured latte art. I'm hoping that once we have some more helping hands at the booth next year, we'll be able to "pump out" more coffee sketches

When I got the notification that my project was approved and available on Kickstarter, I nearly knocked over my desk as I jumped up with joy!



Coffee has always been my ambrosia, especially when I get the chance to etch something amazing in it. It brightens up every morning by helping me pump out my creative juices for the day and challenges me to work with a medium that is unconventional in the art world.

Coffee etching is just one of those things that I could never stop doing. A couple of weekends ago, I opened my first pop cafe at an Art Gallery and popped out over 30 drinks and the very next day, I still made a latte for myself in the morning. I will never be tired of making coffee

Now, I can bring that cup of coffee straight to you!

Visit latteartlove.com and find out how you can help move this project forward! I would love it, too, if you send the link to a handful of people that you think that would be interested in the project!