Hello, and thanks for reading this issue of our newsletter; I know I’ve been sending a lot of emails out lately. 😖

I plan to return to our regular pace soon, but this one is about the future of our Etsy shop, so let’s get down to brass tacks. Last month, Etsy’s changes to their Terms of Service prompted us to consider alternate sales platforms. The new terms, which go into effect on December 16th, will give them full rights to train AI using seller content. In light of this, we’ve made the decision to leave the platform.

We’re still in the process of figuring out where the shop will live on a more permanent basis after this; Etsy has something of a chokehold on the handmade market space, and there aren’t many, or any, other platforms with the same brand recognition or centralized user base of both buyers and sellers. For the moment, we’re going to use Ko-Fi as a bridge between Etsy and our next step. Our Etsy shop will close on December 14th.

Now, we skipped November’s MotM. We’ll be skipping December’s as well and running a holiday clear-out sale on some of our older work instead. This sale starts today and will run until the shop closes. I won’t be listing anything new on Etsy or renewing any expired listings because, frankly, we don’t want to give Etsy more of our money or work to scrape than we need to.

If you’d like to shop the Holiday Sale, this link will take you directly to our clearance section!

Thank you for reading, and we’ll catch you in the next one. <3

- Chet (and Char, who says hello!)