Oi, Shiny!

[oishinythings]

Tiny Adventures For All!

Good morning Tumblr! Have you heard the word of the tiny turtle?

[ID: 2 small stone turtles, 1 green, 1 grey, on the wavy back of a wooden bench]

Everything’s an adventure when you’re only an inch and a half high, and these little guys have been out exploring the world. (And by world, I mean Hampshire.)

[ID: 2 photos. 1st: Small green stone turtle on patch of white ice, walking towards a dirt bank. 2nd: Small green stone turtle examining a pure white feather caught on a hedge.]

From the hard freeze in January to this month’s rainstorms, Turtle of Calm has seen it all!

From just $2 you can take home a Tiny Adventure wallpaper, ready to brighten up your desktop and lockscreen. Or grab a bundle and get a big discount. 

[thehaberdasheress]

Below: The artist in her living room/shop/studio, a real genuine small business owner, and two examples of wash-away embroidery patterns

FINALLY! I get to launch something I've been wanting to do on this shop for a long long time. I am but a smalle and humbell Etsy vendor and cannot lure Youtubers into using my products on camera with the promise of sweet sweet $$$, but I can offer free samples of products in return for an honest review and a little bit of exposure.

Want a taste of the influencer lifestyle? Here's how to request product samples if you make things and post about them on social media!

And in recognition and gratitude for all the teachers, artists, and researchers who quite generously contributed to my own education and growth in the fiber arts: Teachers can apply for product samples for classroom or sewing circle use.

How many requests I can fulfill has a lot to do with shop volume, but I'm hoping this can start something beautiful.

[thehaberdasheress]

Pattern highlight: Acorn Border

Here's one of the first videos I ever made! I really wanted to demonstrate the way my patterns can be used to make something cool.

This acorn border is one of the autumnal embroidery patterns that's 50% off on my shop right now!

There are so many ways you can use it, and it's so dang cute.

(Etsy)

[oishinythings]

Tariffs and the death of De Minimis.

Short version: If you're in the US and want to order from me, it's now or never. I will be adding a few more pendants over the next week, but this is it.

https://oishiny.etsy.com

If you're not familiar, De Minimis was exemption that meant packages under $800 didn't get import duties. That's going away on the 29th August 2025. (Or at least, at the moment it is.) And the current advice is they may be imposing *$80-200* fees on packages while they work things out. (Or, they may not. No, they won't tell you how they're deciding which packages.)

Obviously, this is impossible and is going to obliterate most international small businesses that have US customers.

Again, there's been so much back and forth on this that for all I know, they could cancel it on the evening of August 28th, or it could just go back to 10%, or anything.

But at the moment, I have to assume I can no longer sell to US customers after mid month.

My current cut off is night of 12th (US time)/morning of August 13th (UK time) to go out on August 13th.

This isn't going to be like Xmas shipping where people go "Just send it, I don't mind if it's a little late" because we're not talking late gifts, we're talking $$$ fees being added *while* it's in transit.

The earlier you can get your orders in, the better - right now shipping is taking 9-11 days, this allows for that plus 5 days wiggle room but I really, really don't want to push it. (If this wasn't me essentially losing my job, I'd have cut off earlier but I'm trying to do what I can before I have to close down.)

[oishinythings]

Down to the wire now - I've kept my cut off at Tuesday 12th (I'll switch it off when I wake up in my morning on Weds 13th UK time.)

If I can sell out most of what's in the shop, I have next month's rent in hand while I work out what I'm going to do for work. If I can sell out all the shop, I can also replace my dead phone.

I've just added 5 new labradorite pendants so if you've been after one of the smaller ovals, now is your chance:

[oishinythings]

LAST CALL!

I'm writing this at 9pm on Tuesday night. I will be turning off US shipping when I wake up in the morning, so less than 12 hours from now, so I can take the parcels out to the post office for Wednesday shipping.

I still have 7 pendants listed, and being able to find them all homes would make all the difference.

[oishinythings]

Tariffs and the death of De Minimis.

Short version: If you're in the US and want to order from me, it's now or never. I will be adding a few more pendants over the next week, but this is it.

https://oishiny.etsy.com

If you're not familiar, De Minimis was exemption that meant packages under $800 didn't get import duties. That's going away on the 29th August 2025. (Or at least, at the moment it is.) And the current advice is they may be imposing *$80-200* fees on packages while they work things out. (Or, they may not. No, they won't tell you how they're deciding which packages.)

Obviously, this is impossible and is going to obliterate most international small businesses that have US customers.

Again, there's been so much back and forth on this that for all I know, they could cancel it on the evening of August 28th, or it could just go back to 10%, or anything.

But at the moment, I have to assume I can no longer sell to US customers after mid month.

My current cut off is night of 12th (US time)/morning of August 13th (UK time) to go out on August 13th.

This isn't going to be like Xmas shipping where people go "Just send it, I don't mind if it's a little late" because we're not talking late gifts, we're talking $$$ fees being added *while* it's in transit.

The earlier you can get your orders in, the better - right now shipping is taking 9-11 days, this allows for that plus 5 days wiggle room but I really, really don't want to push it. (If this wasn't me essentially losing my job, I'd have cut off earlier but I'm trying to do what I can before I have to close down.)

[oishinythings]

Down to the wire now - I've kept my cut off at Tuesday 12th (I'll switch it off when I wake up in my morning on Weds 13th UK time.)

If I can sell out most of what's in the shop, I have next month's rent in hand while I work out what I'm going to do for work. If I can sell out all the shop, I can also replace my dead phone.

I've just added 5 new labradorite pendants so if you've been after one of the smaller ovals, now is your chance:

[oishinythings]

Tariffs and the death of De Minimis.

Short version: If you're in the US and want to order from me, it's now or never. I will be adding a few more pendants over the next week, but this is it.

https://oishiny.etsy.com

If you're not familiar, De Minimis was exemption that meant packages under $800 didn't get import duties. That's going away on the 29th August 2025. (Or at least, at the moment it is.) And the current advice is they may be imposing *$80-200* fees on packages while they work things out. (Or, they may not. No, they won't tell you how they're deciding which packages.)

Obviously, this is impossible and is going to obliterate most international small businesses that have US customers.

Again, there's been so much back and forth on this that for all I know, they could cancel it on the evening of August 28th, or it could just go back to 10%, or anything.

But at the moment, I have to assume I can no longer sell to US customers after mid month.

My current cut off is night of 12th (US time)/morning of August 13th (UK time) to go out on August 13th.

This isn't going to be like Xmas shipping where people go "Just send it, I don't mind if it's a little late" because we're not talking late gifts, we're talking $$$ fees being added *while* it's in transit.

The earlier you can get your orders in, the better - right now shipping is taking 9-11 days, this allows for that plus 5 days wiggle room but I really, really don't want to push it. (If this wasn't me essentially losing my job, I'd have cut off earlier but I'm trying to do what I can before I have to close down.)

[oishinythings]

Tariffs and the death of De Minimis.

Short version: If you're in the US and want to order from me, it's now or never. I will be adding a few more pendants over the next week, but this is it.

https://oishiny.etsy.com

If you're not familiar, De Minimis was exemption that meant packages under $800 didn't get import duties. That's going away on the 29th August 2025. (Or at least, at the moment it is.) And the current advice is they may be imposing *$80-200* fees on packages while they work things out. (Or, they may not. No, they won't tell you how they're deciding which packages.)

Obviously, this is impossible and is going to obliterate most international small businesses that have US customers.

Again, there's been so much back and forth on this that for all I know, they could cancel it on the evening of August 28th, or it could just go back to 10%, or anything.

But at the moment, I have to assume I can no longer sell to US customers after mid month.

My current cut off is night of 12th (US time)/morning of August 13th (UK time) to go out on August 13th.

This isn't going to be like Xmas shipping where people go "Just send it, I don't mind if it's a little late" because we're not talking late gifts, we're talking $$$ fees being added *while* it's in transit.

The earlier you can get your orders in, the better - right now shipping is taking 9-11 days, this allows for that plus 5 days wiggle room but I really, really don't want to push it. (If this wasn't me essentially losing my job, I'd have cut off earlier but I'm trying to do what I can before I have to close down.)

[oishinythings]

Second half of the year sale.

Time to make a clean sweep of the shop! Plus, my birthday is in 3 weeks and I'd like to have a little less stress.

So! 20% off everything, free shipping included as always.

Over 20 different pendants in need of homes - heavy on labradorite, but I have a handful of fidget pendants available too.

Jump in, and join the magic.

[oishinythings]

Happy Friday 13th!

And by that I mean "I missed my shop's birthday back in May, how about a summer sale instead?"

20% off everything for the next week.

Fidget pendants are all stocked up - 12 to choose from:

Along with plenty of labradorite, a little apatite, and lots more.

(I don't have anything specifically for Pride, but I promise I was queer while making them, if that helps.)

[dduane]

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

[dduane]

And one thought in passing: those of you who followed him for his Caturday posts, please make tomorrow special in his memory by tagging them #GNU Peter Morwood. I don't know if he had anything already queued up: he often didn't do that until quite late on Friday nights. But there will be no more of those...

[oishinythings]

Fidget Pendants Are Back!

I've been making fewer of these because they're harder on my hands, but I've just listed 5 - apatite, carnelian, citrine, tiger's eye, and blue goldstone.

[thehaberdasheress]

TFW you're a small Canadian business and the country 90% of your customers live in just made exporting to them way harder 🙃 so you have to change your tactics up a bit

Now at my Etsy shop

I sell stick-and-stitch embroidery patterns that are extremely easy to follow. They're taken from medieval and 16th century embroidery, or designed by me. They can mend patches in your jeans, decorate your clothes, or help you build a new costume. Then when you're done, just wash the pattern away!

This is the biggest discount sale I've done yet. It runs until April 1!

[oishinythings]

Calling all merfolk!

Can I interest you in an ocean?

This hand-wrapped beauty is just listed and looking for a home.

[oishinythings]

That one found a home pretty quickly, but there's still plenty of ocean blues to go around.

Or perhaps I can interest you in a galaxy?

[oishinythings]

Calling all merfolk!

Can I interest you in an ocean?

This hand-wrapped beauty is just listed and looking for a home.

[dduane]

Status report: In the "Adventures In Staying Housed" department...

Greetings to the Bluesky folks who've dropped by! Just to confirm what's going on:

We're hoping to sign the lease on our rented house early next week, but we have some rental arrears that we're very much hoping to be able to deal with in the short term. Some extra cash flow in the short term would be a really big help.

With that in mind, may I possibly point you at the following SF and fantasy ebook bundles at our ebook store? All are DRM-free and come with our lifetime replacement guarantee if you lose the files or your reading device, change platforms, or whatever. (With this caveat only: due to Brexit, we can no longer sell into the UK. Our profound apologies.) And once you buy a book from us, you own it. Period.

Our store's full inventory of the revised/edited Young Wizards young adult SF/fantasy novels, and the interstitial works that go with them, is here:

Young Wizards "All The Wizardry" Bundle

This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing: The nine New Mille

All the current works in the LGBTQ-centered Middle Kingdoms adult fantasy universe are here:

Middle Kingdoms Bundle

This bundle contains all the Middle Kingdoms material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's ten ebooks, including: The three main-sequenc

And if you're feeling expansive, our entire store inventory—36 ebooks at present—is here:

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle

This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM

Finally: if you're all ebooked up at the moment, but you'd still like to be of assistance... after some public-demand style noodging we've finally installed a Ko-Fi. If you choose to go this route, please consider yourself thanked in advance for your thoughtfulness! We very much appreciate it.

Support Diane Duane on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/dianeduane

Support Diane Duane On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

Thanks, everybody! ❤ ...And we very much look forward to enlarging your TBR pile. :)

[oishinythings]

Betwixtmas 2024!

As usual, am kicking off the "bit of the year no-one knows what to do with" with a sale - 20% off everything.

Over 30 different hand-wrapped pendants ready to travel the world! Free international shipping with every order.

Go on, treat yourself to a little magic.

[oishinythings]

Last week of the sale! Still plenty of pendant to go around - get your Valentine's orders in now.

[oishinythings]

Betwixtmas 2024!

As usual, am kicking off the "bit of the year no-one knows what to do with" with a sale - 20% off everything.

Over 30 different hand-wrapped pendants ready to travel the world! Free international shipping with every order.

Go on, treat yourself to a little magic.