Thanks to all the customers, craft fair organizers, bloggers, advertisers, and other word-geter-outers that made this such a fun, hectic, successful holiday season.  Expectations were surpassed that I actually ended up not being able to ship out some orders in time for Christmas, which kind of really sucks.  Bazaar Bizarre was also delightful.  After almost two years of selling stuff on the Internet, putting my tees in front of actual people and seeing their real-life reactions was slightly exhilarating.  There’s nothing quite like seeing a person’s eyes light up when they see somthing they really like.
Oh!  And I forgot to mention that I picked up my first wholesale retailer.  Huzzah Goods is now available in Sausalito Ferry in  Sausalito, CA.  Bay Area folks should go check it out and find all manner of superfun apparel and accessories.

And if things go my way, look for these tees in many more fine boutiques in the coming year.  Hopefully I’ll show up at more live events too.  Bring on 2008!

Email is now being handled through Google Apps instead of through Dreamhost’s servers.  Everything sent after Friday evening has now been received (oh hey look I made a bunch of sales yesterday!  That would have been nice to know!), and mail sent before that may still be making its way down the pipeline.  Dreamhost is stupid and should not be used to handle any of your mail, ever. 

For some absurd reason mail from a whole bunch of Dreamhost users is getting delayed for hours or days at a time.  If you’ve sent an email this week and haven’t gotten a response it’s probably because we haven’t gotten it yet.  Hold tight while we go yell at Dreamhost and try and get this thing fixed.  Thanks.

New design! Plus long sleeve and hoody versions of other ones! Including new remixed versions? And holiday cards! Plus gift bozes? That I painted! Myself? With brushes and acryllics?! Oh yes.

Upcoming things:

1. In the coming weeks I’ll be doing that thing where I give 10% of sales to Child’s Play. Hooray for helping sick kids!

2. I am now working on an offical T-shirt for venerable gaming blog 4 Color Rebellion. This is my first ever collaboration, and 4cr is awesome so I’m going to work extra hard to make sure that this is all the way live.

3. I’ve been invited to be a part of Boston Bazaar Bizarre come December, where for the first time I will be selling Huzzah Goods to real live humans. This is very exciting and terrifying. Hopefully by then I’ll have a bunch more new stuff to knock everyone’s socks off.

New site is up! Mostly. There’s still a thing with the Home/About page I need to take care of. But everything else? Up.

A whole swath of new things should be up this week for the Fall. I was actually supposed to write this like two weeks ago but then I kept working at all the stuff and kind of forgot about it. The new stuff shall include:

1. Slightly refurbished website.

2. New packaging. Shirts are now going to be wrapped in pretty blue tissue paper and shipped in a shiny black labeled box. Because a T-shirt with Pac-Man characters on it deserves to be delivered with elegance, that’s why.

3. Some stuff that’s going to be dropped, either because they didn’t sell too well or because I kind of don’t like them anymore.

4. Something to make this list an even five.

5. These:

The last one is a slightly revamped version of the original. I was going in for a restock anyway and I wanted to make it a little cleaner.

And now back to work. I’m trying out for this crazy new thing where I actually do what I say I’m going to do when I’m going to do it. I know!

So for the second one I’m planning on including a free washable marker so you can write your name in the darkened space (which on the actual shirt will probably by black anough that you can’t see it). This is a concept I’ve seen at a few other places and I figured this would be a nice way to apply it.

The new stuff is finally up. Took a minute because I was inexplicably sidetracked with getting even more new designs down, which I should be able to show off by Monday. Logically I should probably wait a little longer but these ideas are kind of exciting and I really just want to get them out there as soon as possible.

Hope you all have lovely weekends, because mine will likely be filled with the usual strife of hard designin’. Yee-ha.

The shirts are in, and they look nice indeed. I’ll put them up for sale when I get everything ready and I’m not super-tired. Until then, these: