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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One of the stores our script buys from is Etsy seller Amber Morgan Designs. She sells stickers, cards and magnets with designs that are cute and a little nerdy. Her designs feature a lot of cats, the occasional unicorn or screaming taco, a heavy dusting of the absurd, and a heaping shovelful of cuteness.

Amber enjoys imagining animals as food.

Should her pets be concerned?

Amber says that her store is a positive way for her to combat her own anxiety and depression, and it’s a way for her to connect with others in a positive, joyous way!

Cats just love bags.

Frankenkitty!!

You can find more from Amber on Etsy or subscribe to Bobcat In A Box and add ‘sticker’ or ‘cats’ to your keywords.