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We had the pleasure of hosting a short term intern in March. Alyssa, sister of the wonderfully infamous Chainmail Chick, spent her spring break learning how to make Organic Armor. She fit in comfortably and showed a real aptitude. She helped us get started with circlets for our summer inventory. She also made herself a [...]
Tags: alyssa, assistants, elliot, employees, intern, learning, lynette, sean, small business
Busy busy busy lately. Sorry to let the blog languish so. Here is how the Edea headdress turned out. The colors were so much fun! We will be at the Lake Eden Arts Festival May 9 – 12 in Black Mountain, NC. Come enjoy the sweetest music festival in the Blue Ridge.
Tags: colors, cosplay, edea, fainal fantasy, headdress, horns, nautilus, video game costume
Paul is working on one of the last custom orders before we launch into full time inventory making for the summer shows. It’s a headdress based on the one that Edea of Final Fantasy 8 wears. It’s a wonderful asymmetrical piece that will be painted in brighter colors than we usually use. As I wrote [...]
Tags: calendar, cosplay, Custom, edea, Final Fantasy, in process, production schedule
We’ve been working on a custom Greenwoman vest, based on the Greenman tail coat that Paul made about 6 years ago for Burning Man 2007. Our customer, Emily, is a LARPer from the UK. We’ve developed many new techniques since 2007 and Paul was able to create the new version with many refinements. He made [...]
Tags: celtic, coat, gold, green, greenman, greenwoman, leafy, pagan, vest
As promised, here are some of the shots from the photo shoot we did a few days ago with Modern Scribe Photography and Claire Dima. You can see more here.
Tags: belly dance, claire dima, fringe festival, goddess, headdress, kali, modern scribe photography, mythology, skulls
Every year since moving to Asheville (4 years now) we have attended the Asheville Fringe Festival in January. And we would say “We should create something for this next year!” And then we would be too busy and forget. But this year we didn’t forget and with the collaboration of the amazing Claire Dima, we [...]
Tags: bebe theater, claire dima, dance, firestorm cafe, fringe festival, indian myth, kali, parvati, shiva
Dear friends, We apologize for the warning messages you may have received when trying to access our site in the last week. We were hacked. Paul spent the last four days finding and cutting out the mean and ugly code secreted away by internet vultures. A warning to those of you with your own WordPress [...]
A very happy new year to all of you wonderful freaks! Organic Armor is profoundly grateful for your support this year. May your 2012 be full of genre-bending, dramatic interpretations, alternative futuristic innovations, and the embodiment of the divine! We’ve been rather quiet online for months due to several complicated custom orders. These time consuming [...]
Tags: artist, Asheville area, belly dance, cameo, commissions, costume, Custom, devil jinn, gauntlet, goat horns, mold, neon, new year, pricing, process, sculpting, slip cast, studio, venus uprising
We’ve been quieter than usual online lately. It’s taking a lot of time to catch up on custom orders. Here is an amazing top hat in progress, made for our favorite Steampunk Overlord in the UK. Paul sculpted the crazy faces with the ball in the mouth, as well as the beautiful skull cameos. It [...]
Tags: cameo, kingdom hearts, skull, steampunk overlord, top hat, ventus
We’re back at the lovely Triboriginal belly dance retreat, hidden away in the autumnal NC mountains. We came here last year for the 1st time and learned so much about the belly dance world. It’s good to see familiar faces and meet new friends. Onca, queen and founder of the event, calls Tribo “Cozy community on an epic [...]
Tags: belly dance, caberet, fusion, hendersonville, jaylee, nc, sidetracked, tribal, triboriginal
