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POOP!

2010-05-25T03:43:00.001-07:00

It's a turd and a stink nugget!

Recent commissions...

2010-05-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been ages since our last post! We are slack but have also been pretty busy, here's some recent stuff we've been paid to make...

Dia De Los Nardis

2009-08-31T12:59:00.000-07:00

So last year Alex made me an awesome birthday card of my cat Nardis as a sugar skull kitty. As my birthday is on Halloween this was very fitting and we celebrated at a little restaurant called "Little Mexico".
On the 10th July this year Nardis passed away. He has been my soulmate for the past 15years and losing him has been extremely difficult for Alex and I.
So a few weeks ago I decided I wanted to make some plush toys of him and I have used the image of the birthday card to do so!! Nardis will live on in our thoughts and in our hearts but now he will live on in plush!!!!

The plushie and the card

These will be available online very soon!!!!
Hope you like!!!

Plush Party Food!!!

2009-08-17T17:28:00.000-07:00

For this months Kraftbomb we decided to make some party food as it is Kraftbomb's 1st birthday!!!
Kraftbomb has been a total labour of love for Me (Karla) and my friend City. I can't believe it's been a year! We couldn't have done it without our husbands Alex and Chris and of course all our amazing vendors!!!

So here's a sneak peek at some of the great party food we have on offer, mini 1st birthday cakes, sausage rolls (vegetarian) with tomato sauce(here in N.Z we put tomato sauce on everything) and the good old classic, Fairy Bread!! If you don't know what Fairy Bread is, it's sliced bread with margarine and 100's & 1000's (sprinkles) sprinkled on top!!! YUM!!!!

On a side note, our buddy Jamie bought his niece a set of "1's and 2's" (poos and wees) a little while ago and has sent us some pics of her and her new pal, to cute!

Tiny Kitten Teeth Toy

2009-06-09T02:21:00.000-07:00

Last year we were approached by our new friends Becky and Frank to see if we wanted to make a toy of their kitten character from their comic, 25 toys in fact! We, of course, loved the design (see below) and jumped at the chance to collaborate with other artists! They wanted them by May, to take on their journey to the states to various conventions and events they're gonna be at over the summer, so we got to work!

Yay, they're finally done and ready to be picked up...

It was a lot of work and all the praise needs to go to Karla for working her fingers to the bone to get the toys sewn together and looking awesome! Becky and Frank were super stoked and if you want to buy one of these little dudes be sure to check out their website for info on where they'll be selling them!

Here's some other toys we've made recently. Photos taken with our fancy new camera...

Yeti dude...

Evil Luchadore...

And another Te Geek...

New Plushies!!

2009-05-09T17:00:00.000-07:00

Alex and I have recently had to cancel a trip to Mexico due to the pandemic and if we did go there our travel insurance wouldn't cover us...anyway we were so inspired by all the research we did and our general love of mexican art and culture that we came up with these little guys!! This chico is our first protoype we really hope you like him!!

Plush You 09

2009-04-27T22:53:00.000-07:00

Man it's been absolutely ages since we last put up a post but we are very happy to announce we have been accepted for Plush You 09!!!!

Here is a wee sneak peek.....

Toilet Toys!!!

2008-10-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

So this is an idea we've had for a while and a few people around the globe are making plush poos but we decided to do our own take on it... and as they say you can't do poos without wees!

We then thought about making other bodily functions into plush, sooooo... we made snot!

And farts, this dude is a "shart"!

And here's the labels we've made up for them...

Geek Freeks on Telly...

2008-10-17T17:54:00.000-07:00

Here's something cool we found on the YouTubes, it's from a few months back when we made a Gungi Plushie for What Now, they were giving him away as part of a competition...

'Tis the season for Plush Shows!

2008-09-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

Yip that's right we're involved in 3 in the next few months and here's our entries. Firstly here's our contribution to this years Plush You at Schmancy in Seatttle. His name is Fernando the Tattooed...

Check out his wallet...

The 2nd is a show at Red Hot Robot in Phoenix, Arizona, called Dia De Los Plush. It's a Day Of The Dead Plush exhibition and perfect for our "Sugar Skully-Wags"...

This lady has a special addition, a crocheted flower!

And finally our submission into the Plush It show at Ruban Rat in Sydney, Australia...

PLUSH YOU 08

2008-09-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

Last year we were involved in a cool plush exhibition in at Schmancy in Seatttle and they've asked us to contribute to this years show. It's a lot of fun making toys for things like this, especially when their so far away from New Zealand! So here's a sneak peek at what we made, we'll show the whole toy closer to the show in October. We were also just interviewed by Kristen over at the Plush You blog so go have a read...

Geek Freek in Sydney!!!

2008-08-12T02:14:00.001-07:00

A while ago we were asked to particate in a cool Plush Exhibition Ruban Rat in Sydney Australia called "Plush It". The idea of the show is that each artist is given the same template or shape and can do what ever they want to it, similar to vinyl custom shows.

Here's some behind the scenes pics of us making our toy, we'll unveil what the finished product looks like closer to the show in November...

We also answered a few questions for them, check out our interview here!!

Sparkle Friends vs Geek Freeks!!

2008-07-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

So this is pretty cool, we were asked to make a plush toy of Gungi from Mukpuddy's cartoon Sparkle Friends (see clip below). It's gonna be used as the prize for a competition on What Now (the kids variety show Sparkle Friends plays on), and kids have to draw themselves as a Sparkle Friend with Gungi. It's gonna be really cool to see what kids come up with and one will be lucky enough to win this handmade one-of-a-kind Gungi Plushy!!!
Here's the latest episode...

So here's us making it...

And heres the toy, not sure if the photos do it justice really...

Check out our cool new tags too...

NEW STUFF!!!

2008-06-08T17:03:00.000-07:00

We finally have some Geek Freeks badges!! We are very excited about this, so excited that we made them on the floor in our lounge, we now have badge makers blisters and bad badge back!! If you love them you can buy them from our etsy page (see right) or from Toggle (www.toggle.co.nz)

New order...

2008-05-20T13:45:00.001-07:00

Here's some toys we made for local shop Iko Iko, half of these will be going to Wellington, while the other half will stay up here in Auckland!

New things are coming...

2008-04-27T03:03:00.000-07:00

We've both been super busy as of late at our day jobs, tattooing and making cartoons, that this blog has suffered a little but rest assured we are making a bunch of new stuff, as seen in the pics below..

When we aren't animating,tattooing or sewing...

2008-04-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

We are baking delicious choc/chilli vegan cakes and mini muffins with whittakers bittersweet choc/peanut butter icing!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!

Easter Bunnies

2008-02-27T21:25:00.000-08:00

What better way to celebrate the death of Jesus than by eating some polar fleece and felt!! That's right we thought it'd be cool to make some plush Choc Bunnies...

And for those of you that prefer white chocolate...

Choc Kisses FOR SALE!!

2008-01-29T14:49:00.000-08:00

Check 'em out here

Geeks For Sale

2008-01-14T13:28:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, just letting you know we have geeks for sale on Endemic and we have an etsy store now too!!

Christmas Pressies!

2007-12-26T15:12:00.000-08:00

A few weeks before Christmas Kylie at Sanderson Gallery got in touch with us and wanted us to make her some toys, she only wanted to give her friends and family our toys, which is pretty cool!! To personlise each toy she wanted us to sew the names of the people onto each one...

Christmas Kisses!

2007-12-12T14:36:00.000-08:00

Here's some new stuff we made...

Plush Choc Kisses

And Wolly Gog and his Albino brother

New Stuffs

2007-11-27T14:10:00.000-08:00

Heres something we're particularly proud of, we made these 4 "Limited Edish" toys of our cat Nardis for our exhibition next month (see flyer below). We're stoked at how they turned out and 3 of them will be for sale at the show...

And some other dudes we made...

New Things!

2007-11-13T13:31:00.000-08:00

We have our first solo exhibition coming up in December. From December 11th-22nd we'll have painted things at Satellite Gallery in Auckland City (Cnr St Benedicts st & Newton rd)!!

We are also making new plush stuff...

Bunch-O-Toys

2007-10-28T15:45:00.000-07:00

We made a whole lot of these little suckers for a couple of shops here in New Zealand!!

You wanna buy a Punkin?

2007-10-23T19:46:00.000-07:00

We have 9 of these little suckers for sale. They measure approx. 15cm x 15cm and made of felt and polar fleese. Each one is slightly different and is $35 including shipping!

If you're interested just email us geekfreeks@gmail.com and we can sort it out from there!!

Xander & Karla

Get Plushed!!

2007-10-14T21:29:00.000-07:00

Well as some of you may know Plush You is currently on and we have our toys at Schmancy (1932, 2nd Ave Seattle), here's our contribution to the show... we would like very much for you to buy them!!

The very talented and very plushie CutesyPoo has posted up some piccys on her Flickr account... wish we could of been there :(

Happy Hollows Eve!!

2007-10-07T14:58:00.000-07:00

We got into the festive mood and made some plush Jack O' Lanterns, check em out...

Plush You 07

2007-09-19T21:03:00.000-07:00

We've got 3 toys in this awesome show, so go check 'em out if ya can!!!

Auckland Craftwerk Sept '07

2007-09-13T17:02:00.000-07:00

Craftwerk was last night and it was sweet!! We made some moolah so can't complain!

We made some new pillow type "geeks" and they turned out pretty sweet, check out our process below...

Baby Plushie

2007-09-09T22:42:00.001-07:00

Here's a one-off plushie that we made for our friends baby that is due in 5 weeks!!!

Let's introduce ourselves

2007-09-09T22:01:00.000-07:00

First of all I would like to introduce ourselves...My name is Karla and that is my husband Alex, we make crazy plushies called "geekfreeks" Alex is the designer and I sew them all! I also make brooches, hairclips and aprons amongst other things. These you will see very soon.

I hope you enjoy our plushies and other bits and pieces!!!