June Update Blog 🌿🌻 (Patreon)

Hello, my lovely Friends and welcome to a new monthly Update Blogpost!

I had to check in my Hobonichi Planner what I did this month as I couldn´t remember this time haha. So it´s perfect that I now try to keep up writing in my Hobonichi a bit every day and use it as a journal.

So while going through the last weeks in my journal I realized that I haven´t designed any new products this month besides the two bookmarks that I ordered with the June Mail Club bookmark 🙀

And now it's nearly July and that means that I have to start working on autumn and Christmas stuff very very soon! 

I´m thinking of making my first calendar for 2024 and for that, I need 12 illustrations that fit the seasons, so a lot of work. I also want to create a coloring book as well. And for Christmas, I´m thinking of ordering wooden ornaments! So many ideas and not enough time! 

I will take you with me while creating the calendar and will also let you decide which illustrations to use for it! 

Then the Notebooks that had the wrong color and that I got reprinted from Vograce arrived and again they have the wrong color... Vograce now gave me a 70$ coupon for another order and excused for that issue and told me that they could not reprint it with the right color... So unfortunately that means no more notebook designs as ordering them from Alibaba would mean a MOQ of a minimum of 100 per design and that´s way too much... 

I`m also still getting lots of questions about when the desk mats and mousepads will be restocked. So I´m thinking about making a preorder for the desk mats as they are pretty expensive to order and I don't know how many I should get this time.It would be my first preorder listing so I have to research a bit about how to promote it the best way and how long to keep it open. The preorder desk mats would also be a bit cheaper than when they land in my shop. And I´m thinking to make a third design for the mats and mousepads as well!

What do you think? Would you be interested in a preorder of the desk mats?

The new products that I´ve shown you in the last update still haven´t arrived yet... there was an issue with making the wooden stamp and so the production time got longer than expected. But hopefully, they will send the goods next week.

I´ve already designed the packaging this week so I´m prepared when they arrive:

And on the 18th of June finally, the sun and warm weather arrived here too!Before the 18th we had a lot of rainy and cold days where I still had to heat the wooden stoves to keep warm...

So I could use our pool the whole last week which was amazing! I worked till around 2 or 3 in the afternoon and then was in the pool and enjoying the sun as I promised myself to be more outside this year.

And looots of puppy walks in the forests! I´ve also filmed a bit of the walkies and being outside for my youtube channel which I haven´t done in a long time now. Since last autumn I was sharing studio vlogs only there and like nothing of what I do in my free time, o maybe I will change that again during summer weeks! 

But with the garden, I don´t have that much luck this year...

Firstly we had an invasion of slugs that eat all the baby veggie plants and lots of the flowers that I planted from seeds... Now since we have warm weather and sunshine this is getting better.

But then a vole dug through both of my raised beds and destroyed A LOT of the veggies... I was sooo sad that I nearly cried...

And lastly... last week a fox visited the garden for the first time and killed two chickens... I was in the garden the whole afternoon swimming and enjoying the sun and then went inside and after about 10 minutes I heard the chickens scream and saw a fox catching a chicken out of my window...  I scared him away but he already had killed another chicken and the one he caught before I scared him away also died...

So yeah it´s a wild month... I really hope that the fox won´t come back, but for now, the chickens are staying inside their fenced area. 

Wish me luck that from now on everything in the garden will be ok 😅

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