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PROJECT UPDATE
QuirkoryPlus
CREATOR
11 months ago
Project Update: Plushies getting Packed — Shipping Prep underway!
Hey everyone!
We’ve got another exciting update for you — Cowddles the Cow and Marigold the Red Panda are now being packed and prepped for their journey to us!
Our manufacturer has started vacuum sealing these big squishy babies to save space in transit (they’re absolutely gigantic, after all!) — and we couldn’t stop giggling at how funny they look all squished in their boxes! Just look at them!! ૮₍ ˵> ヮ <˵₎ა
We’ve got another exciting update for you — Cowddles the Cow and Marigold the Red Panda are now being packed and prepped for their journey to us!
Our manufacturer has started vacuum sealing these big squishy babies to save space in transit (they’re absolutely gigantic, after all!) — and we couldn’t stop giggling at how funny they look all squished in their boxes! Just look at them!! ૮₍ ˵> ヮ <˵₎ა
We’ve already completed the shipping payment, so the cargo will soon be on its way to us. This shipping method is quite slow so it might still take a while for them to arrive in our hands. Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly from here on out! 🥺🤞
Once the packages arrives, we’ll be getting straight to work on sorting and packing each of the shippable pledges with care. As mentioned before, your plush might arrive looking a bit... flattened and wrinkled due to the vacuum sealing. But don’t worry — a few gentle puffs, squishes, and cuddles will bring it back to full puffy glory in no time!
We’re also working on a simple illustrated instruction sheet to include with each plush, just in case you need a reminder on how to help them bounce back to their best selves.
Thanks again for your patience and support. We’re getting closer and closer, and we seriously can’t wait for these cuddly friends to finally meet you! Trust us, they're so squishy and comforting that it's all worth it 🥹
With fluff and love,
he Quirkory team~
PROJECT UPDATE
QuirkoryPlus
CREATOR
11 months ago
Project Update: Cowddles & Marigold are Done — Bulk Production Complete! 🎀
Hey everyone!
We’re back with an exciting follow-up to our last update — and this time, we’ve got completed bulk production photos to share!!
While the sample of Peanut the Opossum is currently undergoing some tweaks and adjustments, we have these other exciting news:
✨Cowddles the Cow and Marigold the Red Panda are officially finished!✨
Our manufacturer just sent us these super fresh shots straight from the production line, and we couldn’t wait to show you! Just look at these squishy cuties all ready to cuddle their way to you 🥹🎀
We’re back with an exciting follow-up to our last update — and this time, we’ve got completed bulk production photos to share!!
While the sample of Peanut the Opossum is currently undergoing some tweaks and adjustments, we have these other exciting news:
✨Cowddles the Cow and Marigold the Red Panda are officially finished!✨
Our manufacturer just sent us these super fresh shots straight from the production line, and we couldn’t wait to show you! Just look at these squishy cuties all ready to cuddle their way to you 🥹🎀
It’s such a huge milestone for this project to see them all done and looking exactly how we envisioned — from the embroidered little hearts on their bellies and toe beans on their paws, to the custom tags and labels we worked so hard on 😍 We're beyond proud of how they turned out, and we hope you love them just as much!
📦 Next step: shipping to us!
The plushies will be vacuum sealed by the manufacturer to save as much space as possible (they're huge and squishy, after all!), and then sent our way —we’re still waiting to get the exact shipping date, but it should be very soon!
Once they arrive to us, we’ll start carefully packing them up for you. Just a heads-up: when your plush arrives, it may look a little flat or squished due to the vacuum sealing of course —but don’t worry! You’ll just need to give it a few gentle *PUFFS* and squishes with your hands to bring it back to full fluffiness! 👏💕
We’ll try our best to create and include a simple *graphic* instruction mini-sheet with each plush, just in case — though they're super easy info to remember!
Thanks again for sticking with us on this other plushie journey. We're getting closer every day, and seeing these cuties in bulk now is making it all feel even more real!
We seriously can’t wait to get them into your arms 🐮
Talk soon & take care,
the Quirkory team~
Once they arrive to us, we’ll start carefully packing them up for you. Just a heads-up: when your plush arrives, it may look a little flat or squished due to the vacuum sealing of course —but don’t worry! You’ll just need to give it a few gentle *PUFFS* and squishes with your hands to bring it back to full fluffiness! 👏💕
We’ll try our best to create and include a simple *graphic* instruction mini-sheet with each plush, just in case — though they're super easy info to remember!
Thanks again for sticking with us on this other plushie journey. We're getting closer every day, and seeing these cuties in bulk now is making it all feel even more real!
We seriously can’t wait to get them into your arms 🐮
Talk soon & take care,
the Quirkory team~
PROJECT UPDATE
Quirkory
CREATOR
2 months ago
Project Update: 📬 A New Year, A New Push Forward. Thank You for Staying With Us.
👋 Hey everyone!
We hope you had a warm, peaceful Holiday season, however you chose to spend it! And we wish you the brightest, kindest, happiest New Year! 🌟✨
It’s now the very beginning of 2026 (can you believe it?! 😭), and even if we don’t have any major updates to share just yet, we wanted to check in and let you know…
We hope you had a warm, peaceful Holiday season, however you chose to spend it! And we wish you the brightest, kindest, happiest New Year! 🌟✨
It’s now the very beginning of 2026 (can you believe it?! 😭), and even if we don’t have any major updates to share just yet, we wanted to check in and let you know…
💌 We’re still here. Still working. Still pushing through in the background — slowly but steadily.
We learned silence can feel a little discouraging sometimes. But behind the scenes, things are still moving — production, coordination with manufacturers, emails, logistics, packaging, follow-ups. The current work is very "invisible", but it’s all ongoing. We’re doing our best to move things forward, at the often awkward pace that small creators with no external help, like us, have to dance to. 🥺
✨ A tiny extra peek just for this campaign!
While we still don’t have much to show yet, we do have a little behind-the-scenes glimpse of Peanut plushies currently in the end phase production… 👀
Here’s a snapshot of Peanut the Opossum coming to life — still inside out, but already looking adorable! 💝
We’ll be sharing more once we receive more photos from our manufacturer of them being packed and sent to us! But we couldn’t resist sharing this final tiny work-in-progress moment with you 🐿️✨
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We’re far from perfect — a little clumsy, a little chaotic… we stumble, we get overwhelmed, but we never stop trying.
We can’t wait for the day we get to share exciting news, tangible progress, or even the final fulfillment photos with you!! That moment is still coming — and we’re holding onto that light with all our hearts. 💜
In the meantime, thank you for sticking around, for being patient, and for still believing in this little dream of ours. REALLY.
We’re wishing you a 2026 filled with warmth, breakthroughs, self-kindness and color — and we truly hope that what we’re building here will add a tiny spark of that to your year, too, despite all. 🌟
🌱 A small note:
This update is going out across all of our pending/open campaigns — because while each project is different and has its own timing/complexity, the heart and care behind them is the same. 💜
We know it’s taking way longer than expected. And we want you to know:
it’s in our own interest to fulfill as soon as possible, too.
Only once these campaigns are fulfilled we can bring the leftover products to our shop and actually earn something from them.
Crowdfunding doesn’t bring profits; it helps fund production, and sometimes we even have to add personal savings to cover unforeseen costs. 😣
So please rest assured: we want these campaigns to be finished, more than anyone.
We’re committed to making that happen, even if slowly — and we’re endlessly grateful for your trust, your patience, and your presence. 🎀
As we always say, your support keeps our hearts warm and our motivation alive.
Even just knowing you’re still out there cheering us on (and/or simply waiting patiently) means everything to us. This community is what keeps us grounded. Thank you for being here.
We’re leaving behind the weight of the past year, and carrying forward only what fuels us: hope, connection, and the belief that we can finish what we started — together. 💫
With so much love,
— Inari & Mako 🐾
Hello I've ordered/pledged the Red Panda last year and there are still no updates on the shipping other than that you received the order. It even says that I have been charged for it last year on my profile. I am from germany if that helps and would love an answer :) Thank you, Martin
PROJECT UPDATE
Quirkory
CREATOR
7 months ago
Project Update: 🇺🇸📦 Important update for all our US backers/customers
We wish this wasn’t the update we had to write today, we're devastated. But sadly, like many other small businesses based outside the US, we’re being forced to temporarily suspend all shipments to the USA, effective immediately —until further notice.
This decision is not voluntary, nor temporary out of convenience. Due to new international trade restrictions, and following a formal notice from our shipping carrier, all DDU (unpaid customs) services to the U.S. have been suspended starting August 23, 2025.
This comes in response to the abolition of the de minimis import exemption pushed by the Trump administration, which will make every single international package — regardless of its value — subject to sudden and severe customs fees, often between $80 and $200.
Worse still, there’s no infrastructure in place for small businesses like ours to cover or pre-pay these fees the same and with DDU service removed by our courier, we physically cannot ship to the US for now — even if we wanted to.
This comes in response to the abolition of the de minimis import exemption pushed by the Trump administration, which will make every single international package — regardless of its value — subject to sudden and severe customs fees, often between $80 and $200.
Worse still, there’s no infrastructure in place for small businesses like ours to cover or pre-pay these fees the same and with DDU service removed by our courier, we physically cannot ship to the US for now — even if we wanted to.
👉 What this means for us:
As a brand whose customer base is over 89% U.S. based, it’s not just an inconvenience. It’s literally devastating.
💔 How this affects us — and why we’re heartbroken
If you've been following us for a while, you already know: the past two years have been incredibly hard and emotionally heavy.
But 2024… 2024 has been the hardest year of our lives.
We went through multiple heartbreaking losses, one after another.
Our 4 beloved companions got sick, one by one. We fought for them. We sacrificed sleep, comfort, and thousands in medical expenses to give them the best possible care — but we lost them anyway.
And with every loss, a piece of us broke too.
And at the same time, we were trying to keep our work alive.
If you've been following us for a while, you already know: the past two years have been incredibly hard and emotionally heavy.
But 2024… 2024 has been the hardest year of our lives.
We went through multiple heartbreaking losses, one after another.
Our 4 beloved companions got sick, one by one. We fought for them. We sacrificed sleep, comfort, and thousands in medical expenses to give them the best possible care — but we lost them anyway.
And with every loss, a piece of us broke too.
And at the same time, we were trying to keep our work alive.
Work, which had always been our one steady ground — suddenly turned into chaos too — and completely crumbled.
Our long-time trusted manufacturers, who had never let us down before, began failing us in ways we never imagined: delayed communications, endless waiting. We were left with months of silence, and no choice but to start over from scratch.
We had to test new unknown suppliers — and ended up with defective products.
We lost money, time, energy. We had to redo entire collections multiple times, spending every last cent we had.
Every last bit of our personal savings vanished in the whole process.
Our long-time trusted manufacturers, who had never let us down before, began failing us in ways we never imagined: delayed communications, endless waiting. We were left with months of silence, and no choice but to start over from scratch.
We had to test new unknown suppliers — and ended up with defective products.
We lost money, time, energy. We had to redo entire collections multiple times, spending every last cent we had.
Every last bit of our personal savings vanished in the whole process.
We were physically and emotionally exhausted — and as we kept trying to stay afloat, the multiple burnouts we were facing, eventually turned into physical illness.
Still — we kept going. We kept creating.
Because we kept telling ourselves:
Still — we kept going. We kept creating.
Because we kept telling ourselves:
“As soon as we get all the items, if WE just work extra hard, if we give it our all, we’ll finally be able to ship everything and get back on track.”
But now… this.
A decision completely out of our hands — cutting us off from the country where most of our customers live.
This new law is like a giant wall placed between us and you — our supporters, our community.
A decision completely out of our hands — cutting us off from the country where most of our customers live.
This new law is like a giant wall placed between us and you — our supporters, our community.
We’ve always been transparent with you, and today is no different:
👉 This is not just a shipping issue. This is about our entire livelihood.
👉 Not just our work, but our ability to survive — to eat, to pay rent, to afford care for our last living animal still with us (only our bunny Mini-kun is left).
And it’s not something we can climb over with just more effort.
It’s out of our hands.
🛠️ So what now? This is NOT the end.
It’s out of our hands.
🛠️ So what now? This is NOT the end.
We want to be very clear about one thing:
This is not permanent. This is not “the end”, for now.
We are still committed to doing everything in our power to make all the rewards happen, and we hold on to hope that things will work out. For now, it’s a pause, not a goodbye.
We’re working on trying to find solutions — actively — and we are fully committed to bringing this project and all our creations to life as much as we possibly can, even if this adds to the already huge delays.
Here’s what we’re doing already:
🌀 We're exploring alternative routes (like DDP or intermediate delivery hubs, PO box reroutes)
🌀 We're planning to speak directly with US-based fulfillment centers/warehouses
🌀 And yes — we will continue the currently ongoing production wherever possible. We are fully committed to creating every single item we promised, even if shipping will be extremely delayed.
🌀 Additionally, any new campaigns we had in the works will now be postponed, suspended, or blocked for US backers until there is more clarity. This breaks our hearts, but it’s the only thing we can do
We know this might sound like a lot of uncertainty — but please know this:
💬 We are not giving up. Not on you. Not on what we built. Not on this dream.
And beyond the immediate crisis, here’s what we are planning for the future, in order to stay afloat and avoid complete shutdown:
- We may set up US-based print-on-demand options for some of our creations
- We’ll soon open digital versions of many of our works — from wallpapers to coloring pages to art printables
- We’re planning to reopen limited shipping for certain flat items like stickers or prints using flat mail (which seems to be exempt — for now)
- Most importantly: we’re also working on coloring books through Amazon’s direct print service. This is something we had already started developing, and now more than ever it feels like the right path — turning our art into something therapeutic and accessible worldwide.
🌱 How you can help (if you want to):
We are a two-person, neurodivergent team. We work from a tiny room, trying to create beauty and connection despite the chaos around us.
And right now, we’re at risk of losing everything we’ve built — and everything we’ve survived to keep alive.
If you want to help us make it through this:
💾 Support our upcoming digital releases — we’re making many of our designs available in digital/printable form (wallpapers, sheets, planners, etc)
✉️ Grab stickers or prints — when we’ll reopen flat mail shipping for US customers (as soon as we’ve adjusted the shop)
📣 Engage with our posts on socials: leave a kind comment, send a message, or share our work — a kind word goes a long, long way... it means more than you know
🌍 If you’re outside the US — your continued support is more crucial than ever! And we thank you deeply for being here 🫶
🎁 Even symbolic support helps us keep going
Please stay with us. Your patience, your presence, your faith in what we do… it’s everything.
And we'll do our best to keep you updated, as clearly and as honestly as possible.
Right now, we’re hurting. We’re tired. And yes, we’re scared.
But we’re still here — because of you.
And we will fight, with all we have, to keep creating and delivering the magic you believed in when you chose to support us.
💬 Last but not least: thank you.
Right now, we’re hurting. We’re tired. And yes, we’re scared.
But we’re still here — because of you.
And we will fight, with all we have, to keep creating and delivering the magic you believed in when you chose to support us.
💬 Last but not least: thank you.
Thank you for believing in us. For staying, for waiting, for understanding.
We’re doing our best, even when we’re at our worst.
And this time — we really, really need your help to get through it.
This is not goodbye.
It’s a pause, while we fight to make things work.
From the bottom of our hearts:
Thank you for being here. Thank you for still caring.
With all our love (and all our hope),
Inari & Mako 🐄 💔🖤
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Inari & Mako 🐄 💔🖤
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