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- Are you ever going to make plush again? I might here or there, but overall I’m switching gears to 3d printing and making tiny toys. Unfortunately I have ADHD and I can’t do the same thing forever. Sewing is old and boring, and 3d printing is exciting and new! Rest assured though that whatever medium of the moment I’m working in, my core focus of making cute little guys will persist.
- Do you take custom orders? I am not planning on taking any more custom orders/commissions in the same way that I have in the past. That business model stressed me out, and I am having a much better time making stock for shop updates and keeping it at that. I may do some collaborations with other artists for limited edition runs of little guy designs, but that’s about as custom as I want to get right now.
- I sent you a DM, why did you disappear? It’s Not You, It’s Me. Somewhere in there between 2019 and 2023 checking DMs started making me very anxious. This is part of why I’m not taking custom orders, because I know I can’t keep up the level of communication required for something like that. Maybe I’m traumatized from having an email-heavy desk job that critically burnt me out during a global pandemic, or maybe I’m just a weenie. Hard to say.
- Why don’t you ship to my country?? Well, similar to taking custom orders, international shipping stresses me out, and was a big part of me stepping away from selling online for a few years. It’s so hard to predict pricing, and packages go missing at a higher rate. On top of that, different countries have different tax, etc. requirements and that’s just hard to keep up with. Limiting where I ship to keeps this whole operation manageable for me. Eventually I’d like to expand where I ship to, but on my own timescale. Please don’t send me guilt-trippy messages about it, it makes me feel bad and does not make me want to ship worldwide more.
- Are you single? No!! I am one half of an artist power couple, check out my partner’s excellent pottery here