Behind the scenes: Quick Snapshot

This post is for those of you who may have wondered why your individual orders had taken a bit of time to reach you. I've been meaning to post up a photo of this sooner, but here is a quick snapshot from my cellphone (I'll have a better one uploaded later, which is stored in my camera). I was extremely busy with this wholesale order over the last few months, but I'm super pleased with how everything turned out.

While it was a challenging order to fulfil, I had a lot of fun with it and enjoyed every minute. There's only so much my two hands can do at one time haha. So this is the reason why I had been behind in some of your individual orders. I just want to thank everyone for being extremely patient with me while my hands were constantly busy creating these wonderful lovelies (:

We've been spotted on Burrs & Berries

I was pleasantly surprised when Samia had contacted me to let me know that she had featured some of my characters on her blog. It really lifted up my mood, and I enjoyed reading what she had to say about my shop and my characters, as well as read about the other talented Etsy artists that she had featured on her blog as well. It was also interesting to find out that she's from Toronto as well! The program which she graduated in, was a program that I had almost went into myself, so I felt like I could relate to her a bit more (: It's also a program that one of my friends was in before as well (The York/Sheridan Joint Program for Design). I'm so happy that she had stumbled upon my little shop and had decided to include some of my little characters in her blog post. You can read about it over here. Thank you again Samia ^_^

New to the shop:
I've added a new section to the shop which features some monkeys that I had recently made. You can check them out over here. My favourite monkeys are Shu and Linda because they are so colourful, and so adorable. I had a lot of fun creating these monkeys ^^ Stop by the shop to see more of my cute little friends (:

Remember, if you stop by Papernstitch, you can use the discount code, which I have posted on there, towards your purchase from my Etsy Shop. Make sure to enter the discount code in the message to seller box upon checkout. This discount does not apply to custom orders.

Giveaway:
I haven't forgotten about the Giveaway that I'm planning. I'm working out the details, so information about it will be available soon (: Check back for updates. I'm going to try my best to update at least once a day!

Updates on missing mini hootsuite owly plush toy:

So I'm still a sad that the little owly is missing. I'm hoping that someone found him and will google my shop name "y0omii" so that they can find this blog and let me know that they have found him. I'd really like the little hootsuite owly to be reunited with his family (my friend) since I had made it for him. We're both sad that he got lost while traveling around the world. I hope that he is safe and someone is taking care of him while we try to figure out where he could have flown off to~ If you've spotted my friend's little owly, please let me know. I've love to have them reunited, and I will make you a bigger hootsuite owly plush toy to say thank you! Read about it over here and check out the photos as well.

*NEW REWARD: The folks over at HootSuite are offering a free HootSuite T-shirt to whoever finds this owly. So if you find it, you'll get a tshirt from them and a larger hootsuite owly from myself made especially for you ^^ I hope that someone will find him soon ^^

*Message from Richerd:
"I am the owner of the owl. Help him find his way back home to the HootSuite nest. My desk is so empty without him there."

Lost in flight

Oh dear, it seems that my mini hootsuite owly got lost in flight while on a business trip. He lost his way somewhere between San Francisco, New York, Washington, and Japan! If you are located in those areas and see this small owl, please let me know. He's probably scared of being in a new and unfamiliar area, and wants to be back home in Vancouver with his family. If you spot him, please leave me a quick message to let me know, or help spread the word (especially if you live in these locations). Here's hoping that he will be found and safely return home (:


He has a distinctive tag on his back which says "y0omii cute little oddballs" with a little bunny face birth mark (exactly like the one in the image below).

There's only one of his kind (for now), so if you spot him, please let me know :D

I'd be happy to make you a bigger version to say thank you (as the original one was made for a friend of mine).

NEW REWARD: The folks over at HootSuite are offering a free HootSuite T-shirt to whoever finds this owly. So if you find it, you'll get a tshirt from them and a larger hootsuite owly from myself made especially for you ^^ I hope that someone will find him soon ^^

Message from Richerd:
"I am the owner of the owl. Help him find his way back home to the HootSuite nest. My desk is so empty without him there."

Thank you~

Coming soon to the shop: Monkeying around

Quick photo post of some new items that will be listed in my shop soon. Stay tuned!


I hope you'll look forward to seeing some new stuff that I've made. More to come soon so check back for updates~

We're on Paper 'n Stitch!

Hey Everyone, I just wanted to take the opportunity to let you all know that y0omii is on Paper n Stitch from now until June 27, 2010. For anyone who places an order from my shop through Paper n Stitch, you can receive 10% off your order when you use the discount code Y10OFFPNS in the message to seller box upon checkout. Discount will be refunded through PayPal after initial payment has been received.

This discount only applies to orders that were made when visiting my shop through Paper n Stitch.

Also, most of my remaining orders will be shipping out this week, so please stay tuned for further updates, and thank you for your patience. I hope you are all having a lovely long weekend, and if you don't have a long weekend, then I hope you are having a good Monday.

Enjoy the rest of your day! and don't forget to check out my shop over on Paper n Stitch ^___^

Sorry for my absence.

Hi everyone, I'm back.
Well, I really didn't go anywhere but I've been extremely busy finishing up my wholesale order (which by my standards, is already late T___T). I had meant to have it finished last week, but it's taking a lot longer than I had expected. However it is almost finished. I just need to sew on the eyes on the monkeys and the mushroom bears (: So Angela, I'll have it out to you asap! I'm planning on shipping it out to you Saturday, May 22, 2010. I'm hoping the post office will be open tomorrow. But if it's not, I'll have to ship it out on Tuesday because of the long weekend since I am pretty sure due to the holiday, it will be closed on Monday.

Since I've been super busy with orders, I haven't had much time to update my blog... but I just wanted to let everyone know who is still waiting for their order (which would be I think 5 people, although 2 of them are really big orders) that I am working on them all. There's only so much one can do at one time with just two hands. It's times like these that I wish some of my toys would come to life and help me out a bit with putting everything together hahaha.

I've also got some exciting news, and that is that I've also got an order to make some owls for HootSuite :D I'm so excited! But I need to finish up my wholesale order first. So I'll end my blog post here because I really need to finish sewing these! AHHH am I putting too much pressure on myself?

Anyways, when I come back, I'll have a giveaway. Either for one of my owls, or one of my mushroom bears :D:D:D So stay tuned!

If you have any concerns about your order, please send me an email. Thank you for your great patience! I really appreciate it and I'm doing my best to get everything out to all of you wonderful people (:

Treasuryhog.

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been MIA during the past week. I've been incredibly busy finishing up an important wholesale order that I was suppose to ship out earlier on in the week (but will ship out on Monday/Tuesday). Due to fatigue and working on this wholesale order, I know some of your orders have been delayed a bit, but please do not worry as I will try my best to have them finished for you during this week once my wholesale order is out of the way. I'll have photos posted up later of my wholesale order so you can see the amount of toys that I've been working on finishing up. I can't wait to get these out, as well as all of your orders as well, since I know you're all patiently waiting.

Also, a big thank you to Angela for featuring my hedgehog Toki in her wonderful treasury full of hedgehogs! Check it out down below (:


Stay tuned for more updates and pictures of my wholesale order. And please look forward to receiving your orders soon. I've updated the order status section. Thanks for being super patient.

A treasury of bunnys.

I just wanted to make a quick post to say thank you to both helendesign and WhisperandHush for featuring Max and Daisy in their treasuries! yay! Although they are not in the same treasuries, the fact that two of my yellow bunnies were featured in separate treasuries today still makes me happy! (Okay, well Max was featured on May 1, and Daisy on May 2, BUT I have not slept yet, and so it feels like the same day to me, as I'm writing this at about 2am ^^). Anyways, please check out both of these wonderful treasuries! The first featuring a theme of yellow, and the next featuring cute plush stuffies! Thanks again Helen and Dawn!



Also, I'm currently sitting at 991 shop hearts. If I reach 1000, I'm thinking about doing a giveaway. I'm not sure what will be up for grabs yet, but I'm definitely thinking about it! So if you aren't following me yet, please do so that you can stay up to date with the latest information :D