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COME OUT AND SAY HIIIIIII <3!

Super Awesome Sweet Rad Times at Fuzzy Mountain: Heck Yeah
Works by Michelle Romo of Crowded Teeth

Super cute paintings, prints, plushies and more! ♥!

JapanLA
7320 1/2 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

www.japanla.com

www.crowdedteeth.com

Food trucks, sweet jams, and the first 50 people get a Crowded Teeth present!

Opening reception is April 9th, 7-10pm
Art will be up from April 9th - May 1st

I wish this blog update was coming to you from a place of not so sad news!

A couple of great people in LA have asked me to donate art and products to their auctions / fundraising shows for Japan.
Below is more info. regarding those events.

Please support if you can!

If you would prefer to donate money, please donate to the American Red Cross. Visit [link] to donate directly (or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10).

Thank you dudes!

#PrayForJapan" Art Fundraiser Exhibition

Saturday, March 19 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

JapanLA (www.japanla.com)
7320 1/2 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA

100% Benefiting the efforts of the American Red Cross and Japanese Red Cross currently in Japan.

Exhibition runs March 19 - April 4, 2011.
Opening reception: March 19th, 2011, 7pm-10pm.

SWEET STREETS ([link] is hosting a "#PrayForJapan" Art Fundraiser in response to the recent earthquake in Japan. 100% of art sales will be donated to the American Red Cross and those close to us. Please contact us at info@sweetstreetsla.com to inquire. An opening reception will be held on Saturday March 19, 2011 from 7pm-10pm.

Q-Pop Shop - Help Japan!
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March 18th - 7pm-10pm

128 Astronaut E S Onizuka St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Art fundraiser / auction.
Buy cool art - help people in need.
All proceeds will go directly to hospitals and relief groups in areas affected by the Tsunami and Japan Red Cross Iwate Prefecture branch.

I am so excited to be a part of this show!! I am an incredibly lucky lady to be on a list with all of these awesome artists! I have a booth of art of my take on many of the Sanrio characters. I created about 100 pieces of art for this show! AAHHH. It has been my main project for the past few months! Sanrio was such a big part of my life growing up I feel really special to be a part of this show! I posted a couple of designs I worked up below - but I am not allowed to show the actual art until after the opening. I'll be posting here on Friday! EEE!

Jamie from JapanLA has been so nice in asking me to be a part of this - and the Sanrio people have given me such nice feedback about what I have worked up. I am going to be teaching a couple of workshops on the 20th - I will post more details on those as they come.

Here is the basic info for the show, Please come out!
Small Gift Los Angeles
November 12-21, 2010

Event Location: Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405

Visit these sites for all of the details!!

Sanrio - Small Gift - LA
JapanLA

SANRIO Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary with Popular Artists from Around the World
Small Gift Los Angeles
November 12 - 21, 2010 Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
www.sanrio.com/smallgift

It's Sanrio's 50th Anniversary, and to celebrate, the iconic company has invited popular artists from around the world to collaborate in two standout art exhibitions: Small Gift Los Angeles and Small Gift Miami, during Art Basel. Inspired by their "small gift, big smile" philosophy, Sanrio's Small Gift events offer a multi-dimensional experience for fans of all ages. For both Small Gift exhibitions, artists will transform their favorite Sanrio characters such asHello Kitty®, Little Twin Stars®, My Melody®, Patty & Jimmy™, Tuxedosam™, Keroppi®, Badtz-Maru®, Chococat® and many more into stunning original works that will be available for sale to the public.

Small Gift Los Angeles and Small Gift Miami exhibitions will feature different artists as well as incorporate charitable components specific to each city.

Small Gift Los Angeles will open on November 12th, 2010 at Barker Hangar as part of Sanrio's 50th Anniversary celebration events, featuring a character product retrospective, pop-up shop, interactive activities and special event programming, in a carnival style theme. Curated by Jamie Rivadeneira, owner of JapanLA, Small Gift Los Angeles will showcase works by 50 artists as well as eleven unique installation rooms designed by 64 Colors, Anna Chambers, Buff Monster, Crowded Teeth, Dan Goodsell, Joe Ledbetter, Neivz, Peekaboo Monster, Plasticgod, Sharktoof, and Tim Diet.

I got the first pictures of my cut and build paper toy book!
AHHH PICTURES!

And my '25 Project' book is now available for sale
Check it out!

This is my new Spring line - it will be available I think some time in April through Loungefly.

If you have a store and are interested in buying wholesale - Loungefly will be attending Magic from Feb. 16th through Feb. 18th. They are located in the Central Hall, booth #72805.

I design for their regular line too - so if you are interested in cute skully stuff, Hello Kitty, Disney, etc. you should check them out!


Click here to view the line

I'm sorry I am so crappy at updating my Deviant Art account.

I am everywhere on the internet if you want to be friends though!
I usually update Twitter and Facebook with everyday blah blah blah, and any really exciting news happens over at the blog. Hearts and hearts and hearts, friends!

Twitter:
www.twitter.com/monstromo

Facebook:
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Flickr:
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Blogger:
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Myspace:
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Deviant Art:
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Design Dada is a Korean company who stole about 5 of my images and are reproducing them on coasters.

I posted all the images in my blog here:

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WAH!

Hi! Hey! Hello! Happy New Year everyone!

I feel like I have fallen off the internet! I had a big deadline for my book that I freaked out about, and I took the last week off from book happenings to work on some other things!

It's been rainy this weekend so I stayed inside and re-did my website. Check it out. I think I am going to spend the rest of the day making my wedding invitations.

I am trying to cram as much stuff as I can into this time in my life. A bunch of Crowded Teeth product is being released this spring that I am stoked about! Here is some info. from my front page:

For now the Crowded Teeth shop is a little sad, but there are other exciting product developments! PQ2 is releasing a line of greeting cards featuring Crowded Teeth graphics from the 25 Project. Also, Loungefly is manufacturing a mini-line of products exclusively for Hot Topic stores - and a separate line for specialty stores.

Books!
I'm making books! I am going to self publish the 25 Project book, but I am taking my time putting it together. The Paper Craft book is being published by HOW Books and will be available in 2010!

Visit the site for more info.

I just got all the final paper work from my publisher about a book of my paper craft dudes from August's theme.

It will be separate from the '25 project' book and will have 35 paper craft goodies and be approx. 128 pages long. I will be using some of the projects from August but also coming up with some new stuff.

The book will be out next Fall!
Yay!

Come out and say hi!
I will have prints that are cheap.

April 12th 5-9pm

All'Aboard Boutique
2201 W. Sunset Blvd.
Echo Park, CA 90026
213 413-4709
www.allaboardboutique.com


Here is the flyer.

I entered a design competition. Click here to vote for me!
You have to register with the site, so it's kind of a pain, but if you do - I totally appreciate it.
If I get enough votes - these little guys will be made!

Here are my concepts:

J-Burger

Owly

Sleepy Time

I spelled 'Momiji' wrong in my description - I AM AN ASS.

Latest Artwork: 25 Project

Shop: Crowded Teeth

Portfolio: Yellow Toothpick