Wedgehogs...and in memory of Gwen

The Wedges family is always growing, and today, we happily introduce two new members, Gwen and Beck, the wedgehogs:


Wedgehogs have spiky backs and fuzzy tummies, but in Beck and Gwen's case, even their spikes are pretty soft. They tend to keep to themselves, but Miko and Mantari attempt to play with them whenever they can.

Gwen is an extra-special albino wedgehog, complete with laser eyes (eyes do not actually shoot lasers). Diversity is valued in Wedgeland!

On a special note, this post is in memory of another Gwen, the wedgehogs namesake. Sadly, the ever adventurous Gwen the albino hedgehog passed away this past night of April 17th, 2008. She was the mother of 2 sets of babies, 7 in total, and was much loved by her family.










This is not a goodbye to Gwen, as she will live on, preserved in Wedgeland, as the Wedgehog matriarch, and instigator of wedgehog adventures!






Watch for Beck and Gwen online and soon in the wedge shop!
Or email info@wearewedges.com for more detail and ordering information.

Oh dear. Walter found out about Twitter. Twitter's like blogging for really impatient somewhat self-centered people (don't get huffy, it's totally true). Walter really gets caught up in these internet-phenomenon-of-the-day type of things. This is probably going to end up with more internet addiction counseling.

Until the intervention occurs, you can keep tabs on Walter in almost kind of real time at www.twitter.com/walterthewedge. If you like, you can 'follow' Walter, and you'll be pestered whenever he does something in twitter-land. The internet is awesome!

Mitten + String = Disaster

This is Miko's namesake...

We went away on a 2 day trip....
and then disaster happened....

NOoOOOOooO...Miko, you're not supposed to eat string!

Then you have to sit on cold tables,
endure evil thermometers...

and then you get a giant cut in your belly!
Weeks of Medication!!! MEDICATION!!!

Don't eat string! String is for wedges, not cats!

***A large portion of all wedge sales will be necessarily donated to Miko's vet fund!

Show and Tell

Show and Tell at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery was a fun and idea filled night with fellow Toronto artists and crafters.

Thank you to Susan Rowe Harrison for putting this idea together and to Day Milman, and Jen Anisef of Toronto Craft alert for hosting it.

Here I am...
with my wedge smittens.

Miko-Nation

This is it....Miko Mass Production....well not really as I only have 2 hands.
Octo would be really helpful right now.

Lightboxes!

Walter, Brie, Miko, and Mantari are in the Wedgeshop! We posted some 360 degree shots of them and one day when we get really fancy we'll turn them into animated 3D VIRTUAL WEDGES. It'll be like they're from the future, or at least, some 80s version of the future where everything involved 3D goggles. Memories!


Also, taking pictures is hard! Or was hard, at least, until we made THE MOST AWESOME LIGHTBOX EVER. Lightboxes are things you shove stuff inside of to take pictures in a controlled glare-free-ish environment.

OK, HOW TO MAKE A LIGHTBOX

1. Procure things! A cardboard box, big enough to put your photographables in with some leftover space. A piece of bristol board, white. Tracing paper or some translucent white sheet/paper/etc. A few lamps or light sources. Tape.
   
2. Cut holes in the front, left and right sides, and top of the box. Make them squarish. Leave two inches or so along the edges so your box retains it's boxy strength.
3. Cover all of the holes you just cut with tracing paper, or cut pieces of thin white sheets. Tape them down.
   
4. Cut the bristol board to be the inner width of your box. Place it inside the lightbox so that it covers the back, uncut side of the box and curves down along the bottom of the box. The idea is to eliminate any corners/possibilities of shadows along the bottom of the inside of your lightbox.
5. Shine your lamps through your tracing paper/sheet windows from the top/bottom/sides as necessary.
6. Take pictures of stuff, glare free!

So the next time someone with a fancy camera with 7 lenses and a panorama SLR gigapixel floodlight condensertron gets all camera-snobby, show them your cardboard box! It really worked out fantastically for us.

Miko mass-production is next! And when we say mass-production, we're referring to the hand-made, filled-with-love kind.

Walter talks magnets

Magnets are awesome.

Walter wants you to know that he has them in his guitar and gets very excited about how they convert sound to electricity, and how there are very strong ones in computer parts if you smash them apart and look very hard, and how you can make a magnet by wrapping a wire around a nail, and a bunch of other things that seem to be very exciting to him.

SEGUE TIME!! (DEFINITELY NOT SEG-WAY TIME)
You can buy Wedges magnets in the wedges Etsy shop! They're just like the pins except you can't accidentally stab yourself with them. And they're not wimpy can't-stick-the-phone-bill-to-the-fridge magnets either. There was rigorous quality assurance testing involved (we stuck the phone bill to the fridge).

We're on the internet!

Woo! Wedges website, online! Walter, Brie, Mantari and Miko are finally out for the world to see. We're really happy with the website so far, and are continuing to hack away at it, DIY-style.

The plush versions have turned out ridiculously well and we are hard at work on getting heaping mounds of wedge product ready for the masses (that's you!).

Lots of new things coming soon:

• More wedge comics!
• More shiny website stuff!
• More wedges!

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