We come to you with an update containing news both good, and less than good (but still probably ok?) Without any ado at all, let's dive in.
Starting with Something Fun!
We're finished with the Froggo Familiars! So, so much painting. We thought you might like a preview of your little friends (and their tiny butts!)
We hope that you like them, we think they're adorable. They'll be heading off very shortly to join your coven and we've mostly housetrained them, so you know, good luck!
The... Less Than Good...
Shipping across the Canada US border has never been super duper simple, but this week it got a lot harder. There's a lot of complicated stuff happening, but just boiling it down to it's most salient, there were a bunch of agreements and trade rules that existed to make shipping small things, or small dollar value of things, across the border pretty seamless. Someone came in and knocked over that carefully constructed Jenga tower of trade a couple of weeks back, and in doing so erased, overnight, all the ways we get things across the border. Now everything need to be stickered with country of origin no matter what the dollar value, everything goes through customs, and everything is subject to tariffs, customs fees, and taxes no matter what it is.
In addition, we're likely going to have to eat those fees in shipping, which honestly sucks. We won't be asking anyone for any extra money for this shipment, because there was no way for anybody to know, and we don't think you folks should be penalized for supporting us.
Obviously this has made things incredibly challenging. Our normal freight forwarder and broker has actually shut down this week in order to try and sort it out -
We are hoping they do manage to get reopened next week, because we've already started packaging everyone's rewards for fulfilment x( We'd really like to get them to you all as quickly as possible. As soon as things open back up again they'll be on their way, until then unfortunately we're stuck with the upending of decades of trade agreements and the fallout from that. One way or another we'll keep you updated, and one way or another we'll get things to you all.
One Last Fun Thing!
Can't end on a sour note! We have the next sample ready for our plushie campaign running right now (which you can visit and back by going HERE! Check out the GlimmerGoat! Oooooh, so glimmery!
This is the second of three plushies that you can pick up by backing the Fey Friends campaign, part of the Pin and Plush Pintopia 3. As always, we're partnered with the amazing Austin Hartell at Dungeon Artist, who is running a campaign full of stained glass monsters. You can check him out HERE! Back us both and receive 2, YES 2! FREE pins!!
Thank You <3
As always folks, thanks for sticking with us. We appreciate your support more than we can say, and we'll figure out how to move forward from here together. We're stronger together than apart, and nothing is going to keep us down. That we can guarantee.
