#adorkabows

[sailorastera]

Time to do another one of these, I guess!

"Sarah! Why are your hair bows SOOOO expensive!?"

Well, my friend! Let's break it down. 🕺🏻🪩

I picked a simple looking bow with an average priced center to give a good baseline.

I charge $52 for this hair bow. I try to shoot for an average of around that for most of my bows.

Costs: - $14 enamel pin by Snarky Co - $5 other supply costs (this is a guess because I'm not calculating per inch cost of ribbon and thread) - $1.81 transaction fee for processing the payment - $14 estimated taxes I will owe on the income

A bow like this will take me around an hour to make, maybe a little more at my current pace.

As long as I leave out ALLLLL the other costs to run a business like web hosting, shipping supplies, event fees, travel costs, and the physical toll on my body which after 17 years of sewing has finally said "SLOW DOWN..."

My "profit" on this $52 bow is around $17.19 in my pocket.

My sales have slowed like everyone else's and I'm doing what I can to keep making it work. Everything is more expensive right now and we're all feeling that. I have 6 bows in my shop right now that are 15-35% off because they didn't sell after a few events and I'm trying to make them more appealing to cash strapped folks.

I understand that my bows are out of some people's budget. I also understand that if I want to get something nice from an independent artist, I might need to wait and save up for it.

I want to buy just about every cool skirt my friend Maya Kern makes but I can't afford to buy a new $50 skirt on a whim. I have to plan for it.

My bows costs this much because ⭐ my art, my time, my skills ⭐ are worth this much.

🎀💕

[adorkabows]

New OOAK Hair Bows in my shop TODAY!

🥳

All my bows are one of a kind designs so if you see something you like, don't wait! 👀✨ Additional artist credits: Timelord and Chaotic Queer pins by DoctorGus, Dragonball by shoprozarria, Rainbow Cup by keikiiart, Gemstone by Chunky Tomato, Yikes pin by @shattered-earth and poop charm by Clay la Vie, Get lost by @daniellesylvan

[adorkastock]

Free Set on Patreon - Pokeball Grid Suit

I've got LOADS of free stuff up on my Patreon and you can follow for free to get notifications when I post poses and sets. 💖

[nyxnaiastock]

Dress from @adorkastock's Redbubble here:

(I got the alternate goth version though bc of course I did lol)

[mayakern]

I forgot to say when the video of your adorkastock shoot was posted, but the bow you are wearing is SO CUTE with that fit! I love your hairbows and you are adorable in them and it really ties in the look with your skirts!

aw haha thank you!

i actually don't own any hair bows, all the bows from that shoot belong to @adorkastock / @adorkabows

it was nice tho and i did feel very cute :')

(what you see me wearing in other shoots is just a scrunchy with little bits that stick up)

[elyachan]

I wore Lady Sloth's "Verrry Berry Picnic" for the first time to work a couple weeks ago, and reprised the outfit on Thursday since I brought the cranberry sauce for family dinner! 🫐🍓🫐 JSK, blouse, & headbow by Lady Sloth; offbrand cardigan; Snag tights; HT bag; Dandy Puppeteer ring; pins from AdorkaBows & Mended Moth Mercantile; hair clips from Space Candy Shop; BB&B necklace with the reprise outfit. 🍓🫐🍓 #LolitaFashion #JFashion #EGL #EGLCommunity #EGLFashion #SweetLolitaFashion #CountryLolita #PlusSizeLolita #PlusSizeLolitaFashion #PlusSizeEGL #PlusSizeJFashion #JFashionOver40 #EGLFashionOver40 #LadySloth #VerrryBerryPicnic #RaspBerryJAAAM #SnagTights #DandyPuppeteer #SpaceCandyShop #TeaDrinkingFashionGremlin #TheyThemFemme #NonBinaryFemme #JFashionIsForEveryone https://www.instagram.com/p/ClfvDYTuq42/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[amunetgfx]

Hey all! Just want to make sure you all know the BK project ends in 2 Days!

Here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/adorkabows-amunetgfx/mini-moon-pin-set

There are separate pledge levels for the Brooch Mini Pins if you want just those. You can also pledge for the mini pin sets and do the brooches as an add on.

I should have most of these pins in the shop after we ship but it will depend on the inventory we get and how many of them grade well. If you want to guarentee these cuties, please support the BK project!

BackerKit is just like Kickstarter - pledge now with a CC and pay at the end of the project (April 18).

For international peeps other than Canada I'm sorry you will have to wait for the shop drop later. 🙏🏻

Let me know if anyone has any questions!!

[theheroofthepeople]

Photo study of @adorkabows (AdorkaStock on DeviantArt). Digital practice drawing, Clip Studio Paint. #art #digitalart #drawing #digitaldrawing #photostudy #study #adorkastock #artistsoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CnU_TI8vivP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anna-neko]

Terri Marlowe - cosplay breakdown

and we are back with another of these, yeah!

This 200% was inspired by what they do with dolls clothes sets: Barbie "day to night" or JEM havin Jem~to~Jerrica looks with the subtract & flip, add another piece for new outfit (80s kids will understand)

ANYWAY, yes, Scary to Terri with 'fixed' piece being the red~plaid skirt. Broke it down in good ol vidya game RPG-chara "item slots" ....and then went the subtraction route...

did the shoot during the [sunny] day, to contrast Scary's [endless] night

📸 by: whatChuLookingAt.com

Terri Marlowe - a hard-working soccer star whos mom is her best friend ~♥

"hey, hey! I dunno why I'm so happy!"

"I also noticed none of you said Congratulations"

much details & rambles follows

Without the scrunchy there's no messy bun! Sky-blue baubles instead. My bangs ain't goin nowhere, but no longer in my eyes.

chain-necklace still there, took off the choker any eagle-eyed nerds notice it's been there since the beginning?? Since the very first outfit?!?)

Shirt: used for Scary before - it has I'd rather be Alone printed on breast, but the "alone" is now covered up with a pin. Fittingly, "Mercy" (contrast to prev 🔪Fight). No arm-warmers, holes or fishnets. Kept the plastic bracelet because HighSchool~me legit thought those were cool! (also it's kinda stand-in for healed-scar from lost arm few eps earlier)

No useless belt, instead side of shirt gathered up with scrunchy (almost did the scrunchy-on-wrist thing, but item slots! Belt slot needed its filler)

Skirt: 'sup plaid skirt painstakingly made myself. Removing ripped-up leggings, she's not into that

Socks: rainbow stripes!! Very opposite of goth emo kid, ain't it.

miscellany: more pins!! puffy star pin (its PINK! and she did go to space!), cute lil pixel-heart & "It's gonna be Alright"

Ring that looks like a daisies chain with a matched hairpin

Boring logic stuff: no buying new clothes, because Terri "woke up" in middle of literal outer space and didn't have the time to go home and change. Or buy new things because clearly Scary would have tossed all her old sports-kid or school~spirit nonsense. The stripes felt 'sporty' enuff...

The ring serves as "wedding band", Hero would have gifted it after hearing the announcement (her dumb brother obv couldn't be trusted on this...) Like, can easily see an entire lil cut-scene of Hero finding some change in her pockets and goin to the gatcha machine at some nearby convenience store. Hairpin matches, easy! (was thiiiiis close to straight up havin a flower-crown, but that'd read far too Oak~family... so nope!)

The leather-cuff bracelet IS from Scary~side, Terri would simply have not bothered to weight herself down with so much of the rest of them: spikes? ugly braided leather twists? nooo thanx. These stamped~in leafs do look nifty tho, it can stay

If need to explain rainbow stripes, you may be in the wrong room. So sorry

minor credits: all those pins puffy-star is from AdorkaBows. Part of their "filler" sets Mercy is from Fangamer. Part of the Undertale set "It's gonna be alright" is, of course, official DnDaddies merch Ya girl absolutely would slap a very positive mesg on her outfit

cosplay is freakin wild, y'all! It becomes an exercise in almost-accidentally building up headcanons while doin the most mundane thing like tryin to figure out what a chara from an audio-only medium would wear

Then goin on an insane internal mind-quest of mapping out where to go & how to stand in an effort to desperately visually communicate** the different moods of - again - something that went down in audio only !

Terri / Scary Marlowe

anyone interested in the rambles about/ internal~logic/ details of this whole mess of an outfit?

**am no theater kid, my "acting" wouldn't fool a baby seal. The play of cosplay has always been the hardest

[dianapocalypse]

Get excited! Next weekend (Dec17 & 18) I'll be co-hosting #moonbeammakersmarket with Adorkabows and 10 awesome artists and makers!

During the event you can get 20% off at ALL of our shops! Pick yourself up something shiny~

Check out http://adorkabows.com/market to learn more!

[sailorastera]

I just sold a hair bow for $1000

On my birthday, no less. 8D Needless to say: it's a new record.

[adorkabows]

They are v pretty

[adorkastock]

Sorry if you've answered this before but why did you change your name from Senshistock to Adorkastock

Oh yes! Let's talk about it! ⭐ When I started making pose references I was doing them for myself so I could draw Sailor Moon OCs. Fandom friends were like, "Wow nice poses!" and I was like "Thanks, it me." so they asked to use them, too.

I started making more poses focused on Sailor Moon themed characters and ideas which is why I chose the name "SenshiStock." Senshi is the Japanese word for soldier and the characters in Sailor Moon were called "bishoujo senshi" AKA "pretty soldiers." (In the modern incarnations the branding as been "pretty guardians" to focus more on the protection aspect vs the fighting aspect.) Eventually people started asking me for poses that were outside this theme and I began to expand my gallery. For many years I kept the name but for a long, long time it was feeling like it didn't fit anymore. Only - I didn't have a new name? SarahStock was one but she's a Canadian wrestler so I didn't want that to be confusing. 😅 Fast forward to 2018/2019 when I started getting really serious about my hairbow making business. I needed a name and a friend (gosh I wish I could remember WHO) suggested "AdorkaBows" since my bows are pretty nerdy themed. I loved it immediately. After that it just seemed natural (and maybe good marketing?) to change my pose reference stuff to "AdorkaStock." It was actually my kid who made that suggestion. Brilliant little bean.

So yeah to summarize for the TL;DR:

SenshiStock name felt outdated thematically

I didn't have a good name so I didn't change it for many years after that feeling started

my bow business got a name AdorkaBows

stock followed along = AdorkaStock

And that's how that happened. ♥

[anna-neko]

and then u find out she also makes incredibly nerdy hairbows too

@adorkabows

You know what’s some crazy $hit?

This fabulous bitch

She makes a shit ton of poses (like 16,000 or some crazy nonsense).  I used this lovely lady to draw so much as a teen.  Whether it was some nerdy pose for my Mary Sue as fuck OCs

or for full on fight sequences

or for tragic deaths of my OCs in the arms of a totally OOC main protagonist.  

this bitch hooked me up.  

And with the wildest, craziest stuff that you could see in your head but had no way or resources to reasonably draw like

or this

or this

DUDE!  INASNE SHIT!!  So I was using her for a pose reference and decided, you know what, I owe this bitch some cash.  Lemme dole it out for her.  BUT then, I looked and saw she only has 286 fucking patrons!!  This chick gives out free shit and spends countless hours arranging these shoots and setting this stuff up.  

I’ll fork up the cash, SenshiStock.  You’re worth it.  

Check out this amazing woman’s stuff, and get knowledged:  https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock

[paulichu]

Got my @karikaiju pin thanks to @adorkabows letting me know they exist. 😍 Definitely check them out. Shop.karikaiju.com (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQr-5blgVme/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kimchikawaii]

We commissioned special exclusive bows for the upcoming Kickstarter from @adorkabows and they are amazing. Don’t miss out, there are only 5 of each design! We go live Monday, Feb 3 at 7am California time!! . . . #kimchikawaii #hairbowshandmade #witchcat #matcha #kittycats #kawaiiartist (at Davis, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7j8HFXFyv4/?igshid=hgoz3lsmpdzp