One of the stores our shopping script buys packages from is Pixel Bound Studios based in Michigan, USA (Instagram @pixelboundstudios). Here our script has been able to find some high quality ceramics and chibi stickers.

Pixel Bound Studio is run by Ashley, an independent artist whose two favorite things are cuteness and clay. She loves animals, so a lot of her work is inspired by them.

Pottery is Ashley’s true passion and now that she has a kiln, has started to add pottery to her store.

About her process she says, “I shape the clay into a ball, throw it onto the wheel, then center it. Centering is essentially making sure when I open up the clay ball to form a mug, bowl, vase, etc, the sides are even. I pull and push the clay into what I want, always remembering… “Its just clay.” Don’t take things too seriously, experiment, and have fun – three good rules to live by for the potter. :)”

One of the stores our shopping script buys packages from is The Persnickety Co. out of Manchester, England (https://persnicketyco.co.uk). It is a cute and quirky gift shop full of handmade gifts.

The shop is run by Cheryl and Emma, two friends who met in a 9-5 office job and decided that together that they wanted to take on a new challenge and the rest as they say is history!

Their favorite and bestselling gifts are their Make A Wish Bracelets with funny quotes and sayings.

Cheryl and Emma are both hopeless romantics with a sunny disposition and a positive outlook and they wanted The Persnickety Co to reflect this. They want their products to bring a smile to their customers faces and hope they show just how much they love what they are doing now. 

One of the stores our shopping script buys packages from is Snooze Labs Crafts out of Mississauga, Canada (@quietsnooze on Instagram). Snooze Labs has some of the finest pencil cases and keychains around.

Snooze Labs Crafts is a small business run by comic artist Vanessa Stefaniuk. An animator by study and illustrator by trade, she also designs plush toys and dice bags for clients such as Dungeons and Dragons.

Snooze Labs Crafts blends fanart and original art in items ranging from pinback buttons and enamel pins, acrylic charms and wooden keychains, fabric pouches and handmade plushies, to original full length graphic novels.

One of the stores our shopping script buys packages from is button making machine beanforest (@actualbeanforest on Instagram).

Vince, the proprietor of beanforest, is an artist born, raised, and currently tromping around in Grand Rapids, MI. When not filling orders, he enjoys drawing, writing, reading, biking, dancing when appropriate, and recreational screaming-at-the-heavens.

It all started when Vince’s 2009 tax return was spent on a button machine almost as a joke. The money probably would’ve been whittled away on books, DVDs, and bars if left to its own devices, so it seemed as good an option as any to blow the cash on something with a price tag larger than $20. He had always drawn comic strips, greeting cards, etc, to entertain myself, friends, and bored coworkers, and a pinback button felt like another usable surface to cover in jokes and strangeness.

Worst case scenario, Vince thought, the machine gets used a few times and then stuffed in the back of a closet waiting for the inevitable evening when friends are over goofing around on the porch, and someone says something funny, and someone else says, “haw haw, that’d be funny, on, like, a button!” and then his eyes could light mischievously and he would scamper inside saying, “hold on just a sec…” We are glad that the button machine has spent exactly zero days stuffed in the back of a closet, as it has now supplies our subscribers with quite a few interesting and unique buttons!

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