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ENAMEL PINS…AND SMALL FISHES IN BIG PONDS.
So, a couple years ago I made a post about enamel pins and how to approach making them/what to expect from manufacturers–admittedly the post is pretty bare-bones, but it works. A lot has changed since then, both in the things we’re interested in making, and what we’re interested in posting about. One of those changes
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2025 CONVENTION ROUND UP
We… did a lot of markets… festivals… conventions… we did a lot of travelling this year meeting all of you fantastic lovely people who helped keep our heads above water. SO–I wanted to try this thing where I do a round up of all our convention tables at the end of the year just to
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OTAKUTHON VENDORS V ARTIST ALLEY
This sounds like some sort of smackdown on either of these things BUT ITS NOT I SWEAR–We just had a Vendor Booth this year after having spent (almost) every year since 2013 in the Artist Alley for this particular con. FOR TRANSPARENCY’S SAKE Here are a few things to be candid about our situation: APPLYING
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DON’T FORGET (CAN AUTHOR EDITION)
RESOURCES FOR CANADIAN AUTHORS OKAY…. Let’s make a little post for Important Things We Rely On as a small duo that makes mostly books… the big DISCLAIMER here is that these are CANADIAN-based because we’re from CANADA but we encourage folks from all over both in publishing & self-publishing to take these into account when
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THE POST!!
AKA… EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT [CANADIAN] SHIPPING! Hey there shop-owning merchant of the online persuasion, are you CANADIAN and getting ready to SHIP out your very first online purchase from your fancy little online webstore? (Say yes) PERFECT. Let’s talk about what happens AFTER that! PACKING YOUR PRODUCT Alright so I know many
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I WANNA CROWDFUND!!
Woah there, settle down friend! I know you’re looking at all the hundreds, thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars people are making by funding their sweet sweet wares through crowdfunding campaigns and want in on the mayhem. So I’m making you all this handy dandy guide for where to START because there are
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THE COMIC PROCESS: AUGUSTINE
It’s time… for me (Winter) to take you (whoever you are) on a trip down the process Windy & Wallflower takes to develop a comic book from START to END. FEATURING: AUGUSTINE VOLUME 1 So where the hell do we even start? Comic making itself is such a daunting task. For most of our comics,
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Plushmaking (with Dinosaurs)
Hello 2025! Also hello new website revamp. It’s me, Tas, and I’m here to talk to you about one of my big projects last year: the Dino Loafs, because they were something that had been in the works for years. Plus, I wanted to use this space here to talk more about our processes for
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Let’s Talk Enamel Pins
So I’m thinking of talking a little bit more freely around here about some of our process and why we’ve settled on doing things the way that we do (hi it’s me, Winter writing this post hehe). I know this is a belated sort of topic as the Enamel Pins Craze winds down for a