Hey all. Rebekkah here.
It's been crazy since the last post. Not only did I go to two "First annual" conventions last year (TimpCon and MyCon), but I actually quit painting! I wasn't going to paint customer orders ever again. "WHY?" you ask? Well, I got bad news from a doctor that rocked me to my core. That same day, when my world was crushing around me, I got a message from a customer who I was doing a custom paint order for. Turns out all the colors were wrong (I had been sending this customer regular pictures for feedback and heard nothing for weeks.) and they wanted me to start over. The brave face I had maintained the whole way home broke away and I fell apart. I didn't change it, and I didn't pick up a brush for a few months after that. For a while, looking at the paints made me thing of that doctor visit, and I'd walk away. Fortunately, "quitting" ended up just being a hiatus for a few months because not only did I still have the games we bought from Kickstarter waiting to be painted, but this year's SaltCon booth was already paid for, so I decided I had to go. January, I sat at my desk and painted again. Our personal copy of Massive Darkness by CMON. It was like I never left. I felt like myself again! I painted every day until SaltCon and had a blast! Many thanks to Matt, Melodie, and Lynell, who kept the booth running while I painted! It was the most successful convention we've had! Turns out a lot of people thought the figures we had out were for display, not purchase, so we could've done even better! Next year I'll have a sign that says "everything is for sale". So, with renewed vigor, I'm not only painting again, but I've set up an etsy shop and we're slowly working to get all these figs up for sale. Being busy is good for me, and gaming is the best kind of busy! Turns out this website gets more traffic than etsy (tho, etsy's only been up for a few days, so maybe I'm not being fair), so I decided I need to do a few things to get "out there" more: 1-Create the Etsy shop (done!) and sell the painted minis! Maybe even get some custom paint orders coming in between conventions. 2-We're going to be updating the website! This will include posting unpainted minis we have that you can buy and get customed painted (I'll be directing etsy shoppers here, I think). We'll also post what's for sale on etsy (also, check the facebook and twitter page. I'll post the pages there, too.) 3- Get more active on social media. (Ugh. I don't actually enjoy being on social media much. Alas it's the nature of business today. One post a day is enough, right?) If you have custom paint jobs, we're open for business again! It's good to be back, and we hope we'll see you around! ~Rebekkah
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I hope this paint decanter get's funded, will save us all so much time and cash.
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