Happy Saturday fairies!
I've got some updates for you.
My Art of Where collection featuring my fairy wing art printed on apparel and accessories has been moved now to my Shopify store.
You can find the collection here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/art-of-where-collection
The skirt shown above is just one of the items you’ll find there, made to order.
There's more I want to add to it soon, like cotton face masks among other things!
This should hopefully encourage more sales as well as prevent theft of my product images from scammers.
As you know I already have a huge problem with IP theft, and having no control over the product images in the Art of Where store made me nervous, as I couldn't put a watermark on anything and the scarves were shown in pretty much full view.
The downside is that having them sold thru my site means I'll have to pay sales tax on the full amount of the sale rather than only on the commission I get, so I did have to increase the commission percentage a bit.
Since the POD items are now on my site and there are no issues now fulfilling those orders, I’ve added gift cards!
They can be used to purchase any of my items, but due to the hand made wings so quickly selling out and my switch to no longer regularly taking custom orders I didn’t comfortable offering them before. You can find them at the link below:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/fancy-fairy-wings-things-gift-card
The other update, is I've set up my Shopify store with auto donations from purchases of any of my original hand made and digital items to the Transgender Law Center, or The Bail Project.
5% of all physical items (excluding the print-on-demand items) and $1 from each digital purchase will go to either of those organizations.
Right now, Transgender Law is the default charity but you can click on the prompt if you want to change it to The Bail Project.
I chose Transgender Law Center as the current default donation because Black trans people face the worst of discrimination, and helping the least of us always benefits all of us and I know they do good work.
The Bail Project is also helping people who desperately need it, having been jailed unfairly by more conservative enforcement branches that are attempting to silence protest against police brutality.
There may be times I change it so that The Bail Project is the default and you can change it to go to Transgender Law when checking out.
The Art of Where and any future print on demand items I add will be excluded from the auto donations because I am already going to have to eat the cost of sales taxes based on the full sale price for those items I have to pay much more for.
That's pretty much it for today. Unfortunately we now have more fires happening not too far away from us so we are again going to be dealing with long stretches of time without clean air, living with taped up windows. Not how I wanted to spend the first part of autumn, as I now have to wait longer to be able to sand more wing frames :/
Or I'll have to sand with the windows shut, and leave that room empty for the rest of the day so all the metall dust can settle and then get wiped and vacuumed but that makes me nervous. Maybe I'll get lucky with a day or two of good air if the wind shifts!
I only have 2 more wing frames that are powder coated and everything else needs sanding.
Maybe it's a good time for more mini wings and hair things, I'll figure something out.
