Hello Softies!

Before I start off with updates, please ensure that your credit cards are ready to be charged. As of this email, 16 cards are still declined. I must remind everyone that should any portion of your order be unpaid, I will not be able to ship you your order when the time comes. Please check with your bank and/or credit card company to fix any issues.

Now, let's start off with... bad news, but I will preface everything by saying that none of you will incur tariff costs, so please rest assured.

Currently, I'm navigating these tariff woes with my manufacturers, and it looks like shipping across the board as increased pretty significantly. For example, the cost of shipping a similar shipment that originally cost me $450 now costs $860. However, since the status of these tariffs seem to change every two minutes, it could be that tomorrow, next week, or whenever strikes Trump's whimsy, these tariffs will be paused or canceled, bringing shipping costs back to normal. No one knows, which is why this is such a struggle at the moment.

All of the Softies are still in production, but I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention and let you know that this absolutely affects all of us. Please continue to support small businesses as best as you can. We all sincerely appreciate your patience as we navigate these unpredictable whims. 

Now, onto some GOOD NEWS! Check out these photos my manu sent over! 

Production continues to run smoothly. I will have more photos to update everyone with soon, so please sit tight. I sincerely appreciate everyone's patience as everything is going on. It's tough, but we will get through it.

As always, if you have questions or just want to hang out with others in this snuggly community, please consider joining the Very Huggable Softies Discord server. I don't always see the comments left on these update posts, as Backerkit does not send out notifications for them.

Thank you, and see you next update!