The Owlys have been spotted, and Happy New Year!

Happy New Year (well almost) to everyone! It's been a pretty crazy year, and yeah, I'm still catching up! But thank you to everyone who have been super supportive and patient! I can't tell you enough how much I really appreciate it. I've been working hard on getting orders finished. There are still quite a bit that I need to ship out, and I apologize for the delay T____T I'm heading out to the post office to ship some out today, and more will go out next week. I've got a final coming up which I have yet to study for (my exam is on January 8 for those of you who are curious, which is REALLY SOON! So I really need to study for that. BUT after that exam, I'll have a lot more free time to work on these orders (while I job search haha).

ANYWAYS, some more exciting news!
I woke up to an awesome tweet, which was posted by Hootsuite. Photos of the owls that I had made for them is now posted on their blog!

Some of these photos you've probably seen before if you had read my previous blogpost over here. But there are some additional photos of the owlys traveling around the world, along with other Hootsuite fanart made by many other people! So definitely check it out~!






Again, I haven't updated the order status on this blog yet (I will on the weekend however). But the packages that I have shipped out have been marked shipped on Etsy already, so do check there. There are still a lot that I need to get out, but the holidays have been super busy, and I've been dealing with a bunch of weird allergies this week. First on my hands, and now around my eyes. It's SUPER annoying T_____T! Anyways, I need to finish off a couple of owls and a dog so that I can ship them out today.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! I'll try my best to get all of these orders out to you really quickly!

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to quickly wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope you're all having a great day today! Is anyone going out on boxing day??? haha! I still have a ton of work left to do T___T so I'll do my best to get out more orders out to you within the next week! I had an awesome opportunity to meet two of my Toronto customers the other day, which was really great! It was a bit of a hectic day that day, since the night before, the unthinkable happened... I had run out of yarn! I had stayed up all night to finish as much as I could, and then headed out early in the morning to quickly buy the extra yarn that I needed to finish an order for a giant and small mushroom bear! I ended up showing up to our meeting location late (since I was trying to finish making 3 bears that day), but thankfully both people were still there. It was really great meeting them and being able to give them the stuff they had bought ^___^. Afterwards I headed back out to do some last minute christmas shopping for my family~! I had no sleep that day, but happily passed out on my bed after coming home and eating dinner~

I hope that everyone will have a wonderful christmas and enjoy the rest of their holiday! I'll be working on orders (like usual starting again this afternoon) as well as studying for my finals. Yes, while most people had theirs before the holidays, mine happens to be in January =___=. Good news is, I'm going in with a really good mark! HAHA, lets hope I give myself enough time to study so that I can do just as well on the exam!

Orders that I've shipped have already been marked on Etsy. I have not updated order status on this blog yet, as things have been extremely hectic around here since it is the holidays, but I'll update that as soon as I can.

Within the next week I'll post up more orders that will be shipping out (in a list format like in my previous post). There are a couple from the list in my previous post that I still have to ship out. Sorry for the delay, but again, thank you all so much for your patience! I greatly appreciate it, and I wish all of you a wonderful holiday!

Rest up, and enjoy your time with your loved ones~!
And again, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Photos!

For those of you who want to see what I've been up to, and why I've been so busy~
This post is picture heavy.

+--- Note important information from previous post --+
Again, if you see your Etsy username in the following list, it means that I have either already shipped out your order this week, or I am planning on shipping it out really soon...
- doodlebugart
- CindyBraniff
- blancamonrosgomez
- chupala
- cpelliccioni
- bananeanne
- JasonJaySharma
- neraEcri

P.S.

for my Toronto folks (kgigi and tensing) I'm hoping to have your orders ready by early next week, so I will contact you both soon about a meeting location.
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Don't see your name? It means I will be trying to ship your order out to you next week. Therefore you will receive it after christmas. Really sorry about that. I will have another list up later. I still haven't slept yet T_____T and I'm suppose to head out with my family later today, so when I get home I'll need to continue working on orders (assuming I don't pass out). When do I even have time to sleep today? I honestly don't know haha =____=;;
OMG I just realized I've been awake for 24 hours! ...
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Anyways, here are photos of what I've been making! If you're wondering why it takes me so long to get out your order.... this is why! It's because there are a lot of you, and some of you order more than one thing from me. PLUS I had my wholesale order to do. AH! I need sleep haha. Enjoy the photos. I'll try to update again later~ Anyways... proof that I've been busy making everything.
















+--- Wholesale ---+

Busy Schedule.

Good morning folks! Just a quick note (since I have not slept yet), but the following orders will be shipping out this week (at least I'm trying my best to get these ones out this week):

- doodlebugart
- CindyBraniff
- blancamonrosgomez
- chupala
- cpelliccioni
- bananeanne
- JasonJaySharma
- neraEcri

If you do not see your Etsy username here, it means that I will be shipping out your order out next week (hopefully!) These are shipping out (roughly) in the order that each order was placed. So if you do not see your username listed, please check back again next week.

I really wanted to get all of these out before Christmas, but it's super difficult (this year) considering the amount of orders that I have, as well as how long each one takes me to make (my mom already complains that I do not sleep, even though I did get my 8 hours of sleep in yesterday.... not yet today however). It didn't help that I had very little time last week to work on these considering I was in the court house the entire week for jury selection, as well as a final paper to write for school.

This whole week I'm dedicating a great majority of my time to finishing up these orders as quickly as possible which means, no sleep for me! lol. But anyways, the people I've done wholesale orders with are complete angels. I've been busy finishing up one of my wholesale orders heading for Australia, so I'll have photos up later (along with the other photos that I keep promising to put up... they'll all be up later). The other person that I do wholesale with has given me a bit more time to work on her order as well, since she knows how much work I still have to do for my individual Etsy orders, and I honestly can't thank her enough.

P.S.

for my Toronto folks (kgigi and tensing) I'm hoping to have your orders ready by early next week, so I will contact you both soon about a meeting location.

Thank you to everyone again for your patience! You have no idea how much I appreciate it. To my most recent orders, most likely you will be receiving yours in January, but if it is possible for me to ship it out before then, I definitely will.

Cheers!

Jury Selection

Just a really quick update.
Order updates will be slow this week on my blog because I've been summoned for jury selection here in Toronto. It is something we must attend. I originally thought it would be for just one day, but found out today that it's for the entire week. If selected to be on the jury, it means that I'll be in the courthouse for more than a week, and depending on how long the trial goes, it could be even longer.

Because of this, it's going to be a bit hard for me to get as many orders out this week as I would like to. Today I was there from 8:30am - 4:30pm, and for the rest of the week, I've got to be there from 9:30am - 4:30pm. I've also got a final paper to write which is due this weekend, and wholesale orders that I MUST ship out this week.

That being said, I still have individual orders to catch up on. I know I say this time and time again, but I really do appreciate how patient you've all been, and I'm really sorry for any inconvenience the delay in receiving your orders have caused. Please do know that I'm doing as much as I can to get these out as soon as possible to all of you.

I really want to be able to get all of them out before christmas, but some of you may receive yours after that date, due to the large volume of orders that I have received.

Unlike last year, when I didn't have school, and didn't have as many orders to work on, this year, the response on my characters have been quite overwhelming. I'm really happy that you've all liked them enough to purchase them, and so I'm working as hard as I can to get these out to you, even if it means little sleep.

I do ship out multiple orders each week, so if you haven't received yours yet, please expect that it will go out soon. I've been trying to ship everything out in the order that I've received the orders in, accommodating different deadlines when I can. There's only so much I can do in a day, and now because of jury selection and the possibility of jury duty, I'm having to re-arrange my schedule this week in order to finish all the work that I need to get done.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do send me a message on etsy. If you send me an email, please send it to oddlycuteyoomii@gmail.com, as it's hard for me to check my hotmail address (since it doesn't always work). If you haven't heard from me first, and you're concerned about your order, please don't hesitate to contact me, but please also know that I do not read minds... there's a lot on my plate, and so if I am contacting you first, it would be to let you know that I've finally shipped out your order after the long wait.

Again, I greatly appreciate how patient everyone has been. My short update has turned into a bit of a lengthy one.
I'm going to have some dinner (since I missed breakfast, and they didn't give us enough time off for lunch for me to find something decent to eat.... I only had yogurt for lunch today).. and after dinner I'll continue on orders until about midnight.

Have a great night, and again, please contact me on etsy if you have any questions.
Thank you~

(p.s. more photos WILL be posted soon.. .they're all on my camera still....but I've been so busy with making stuff and studying, that I haven't had time to upload and edit pictures.
p.p.s to those of you who had contacted me recently, and I said your order would ship out last week, I'm still working on those, as I had to finish up wholesale orders and that took longer than expected. I'll try to get those out to you this week. sorry T___T)

Hootsuite Plush Owls: Behind the Scenes

So, I've finally finished my Hootsuite order!

It feels so good to have finally finished, although it has taken a lot longer than it should have (but that was because of all the other orders that I also had to work on at the exact same time... my fingers are definitely crying right now~). Anyways, I wanted to quickly share the photos that I've taken during this whole process. I've posted a few of them before, but I guess I'll repost those ones as well, for the purpose of this blog entry. This post will be a quick one, as I still have a bunch of other orders that I need to work on (which I'm trying to get out before Christmas), so for the most part this post will be pic heavy. My desk feels a whole lot emptier without those owls around. I kind of miss them already~!

Here's hoping for their safe flight to Vancouver! Can't wait to see photos of them once they're in Hootsuite's HQ hehe~

+--- In The Making ---+







+--- Finished Owls ---+







+--- Extra Photos ---+













*red hat borrowed from one of my other owls~

Getting 20 owls to fit in the box was quite challenging. I thought it would be impossible...hahaha, I don't think the little owls were looking forward to this part either~

^ The Medium Box (it was a bit small, but the Large box CanadaPost offers would be too large)

^ All 20 owls waiting to go in

^ The first 10 have gone inside

^ Now there's 12 inside

^ Make that 14

^ The last 6 have made their way inside. No more space! They're all so squished >_<

At this point I'm wondering whether or not I'll be able to close this box properly

Horray! They fit! And yes, I drew doodles on the box for fun~






Side note:
Sorry about the poor editing job on the photos... I rushed through them (while eating dinner) since there was a lot. I might go back to re-edit them later if time permits, but I still have many other orders to catch up on, including two more wholesale orders. Must.. get.. everything out.. before christmas!!!