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Holiday Shipping Notice

My brother is having surgery and I’m going to be up to my ears taking care of him and the family homestead. All will be well – there’s nothing to be particularly worried about, but he’ll be out of commission for a while and I will be picking up the slack.

As a result, I won’t be available to ship out orders for Stampeaz in a timely fashion during his recovery. If you plan on doing holiday shopping and having things arrive on time, please order this week. I’ll be able to ship out orders that I receive by November 23rd. Anything after that is a wobbly “maybe”.

I apologize for any inconvenience. Unfortunately, this qualifies as one of the perils of being a one-person outfit. Thank you for understanding – I have the best customers on the planet! 🙂

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Puffins, Printmaking and Pawprints!

I already posted this on the general blog (over at stampeaz.blogspot.com), but I thought it might be fun to share it here, too. I thought it would be good to try and train myself to use the Stampeaz site blog more regularly, so I’m going to learn the ropes. (Perhaps a New Year’s Resolution starting a little bit early? We’ll see how that goes.) What better way than to wish everyone the very best of the holiday season — and the coming year! Besides, there are puffins!

Puffins, Printmaking and Pawprints!

The linoleum blocks were carved for Christmas cards by my mother many years ago. So, you see, I come by my printmaking obsession honestly!

And, of course, the pawprint is Baloo’s big foot. He had to keep a paw in the festivities!

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Memorial Day Thoughts and Thanks

War Memorial

On Memorial Day, I like to take Baloo walking out by the lighthouse and the old stone war memorial. Every time we walk out there, I stop and take some time to read the names and think of all the brave souls (both the soldiers and their families) who have sacrificed – and continue to sacrifice so much for the freedoms I enjoy and cherish. I hope that, wherever they are, they can sense the gratitude for all they’ve given.

So, with gratitude in mind, I also think about all the intrepid folks who have stuck with me through product development, a website crash and rebuild, a pandemic and a surprising amount of family stuff, where my attention has been scattered (at best). Thank you for being there!

So, I’m trying something out (still learning to work with parts of the new website…) as a bit of thanks to all of you. If everything has been done correctly (hah!), Tan-Z Kut should go on sale this weekend, from Saturday through Memorial Day. You’ll also find that I have (finally) added modified Speedball cutters back into inventory. I think Kirbert must have been wondering if I’d been abducted by aliens or something – it’s taken forever for me to get them listed!