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09/01/2026

Final thoughts from my tea break today— thank you all for joining this impromptu meeting of the board.

Now it’s back to the cutting station to see what can be done about getting y’all some strawberries for that three day Cottagecore Closing weekend out at Bristol, yeah?

Love ya! 💜🐙🔱

08/31/2026

Listen, when you’re a jenga tower of stilettos, you just gotta keep running, ok?

08/31/2026

Of course there’s a part 2 (and 3 incoming) because it’s difficult to contain real complexity in under a minute 😬

08/31/2026

No, I haven’t fixed the fridge yet, or replaced the water filter, but I did have some water I could boil from my water bottle so at least I got my cuppa. And once the pitcher thaws we can at least change the filter and so we can use the warehouse water again, but I suspect we’re gonna need a new fridge pretty soon, tbh.

Which was just as good a starting point as any to share some of the backstage struggles we’ve been navigating.

08/31/2026

I… I don’t know what to tell ya, Friends. Some days it’s big things, some days it’s little things.
🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃

08/31/2026

Trying to keep up with everything and keep everyone updated at the same time, but there’s only so many human arms to operate the Kraken tentacles at present, and I’m strong, but I’m tired.

The shortest answer I can give to how we’re doing at present is that we’re *mostly* able to bail water at the same rate we’re taking it on, so while we’re not *actively* sinking the way we feared when we first capsized (the truck/merch/garb theft in this overstretched metaphor) we’re still very much far from recovered.
I hear this weekend was a hot, rainy one at Bristol but that y’all absolutely loved what we sent! Excited to look through the pics and post about them soon.
Love ya!
~M 💜🐙🔱

A few fresh-outta the suitcase shots of the Alastair collection at Bristol this weekend. No ruff tops, for@this collecti...
08/30/2026

A few fresh-outta the suitcase shots of the Alastair collection at Bristol this weekend. No ruff tops, for@this collection, yet, sorry, but the Antique Copper Hardware is a nice tasty treat.
Enjoy!

08/29/2026

Just so y’all know, you’ve basically been conscripted into body doubling me for a weekend of organizing and prepping the studio, ok?
Win and the Bristol crew are ready to show you all the crew’s hard work in the booth and I can’t wait to see the dress up pictures!
For my part, I’ve got one weekend to hyper focus clean/organize the cutting station before we basically have to double production for the next two months. Thankfully we’ve been prepping for this, but still, woof. 💪 🌎

08/28/2026

I’m back in the studio for *just seven days* (queue Dr.FnF weeping sesh…) before I’m (hopefully) back at Bristol for closing weekend which means I’ll be working some looong hours getting us organized and packing the production line.

I know it’s hard to see organization as a top priority when so much else is on fire, but I can’t overemphasize the impact it’s had on our ability to weather this storm.

I swear I’n doing my best 😅

Forgive the placeholder post; I just flew in last night after the weekend’s chores at our Bristol booth and because Win ...
08/26/2026

Forgive the placeholder post; I just flew in last night after the weekend’s chores at our Bristol booth and because Win is such a rockstar booth builder he got our NorCal one ready for inspection a whole day ahead of schedule (!) so we get one day in the studio together.

We’re doing our best to get a suitcase full of goodies on the plane with him but I can either actually make that happen or tell y’all how I’m going to make that happen and then not have the spoons to do so. So I’m making that happen today and hopefully I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.

Love ya!
Molly

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