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Price reductions in my store. Here’s why:

I recently took an important step and changed the pricing for most of My Woolen Friends! I did this after careful consideration and after “sleeping on it” for the past couple of weeks. The last two participations at a craft market have helped me tremendously in terms of feedback and understanding what I want from my small entrepreneurial adventure, where I want to go with it and what is important to me, within it.

I was pretty much living in my own bubble before having had these chances to interact with people face to face and see in real time how they react towards my work. At that point in time, what mattered to me the most was: 1. doing something that brought me joy; 2. have my work be valued through proper pay. I held on to the last one rather stubbornly, backed by some personal insecurity or frustration. Now, however, I feel like it’s the right time to let go of that and re-evaluate the entire picture.

Despite them being successfully different (yet successful!), each market participation was a very enlightening experience for me. Seeing people’s reaction towards my work in real time is such a precious source of information, that I would otherwise hardly have. Especially the last time, people were just so happy and overjoyed when they would come around my stand! I even had a few fellow sellers from other tables coming by just to get some joy from my little, woolen friends.

The pleasant chit-chat and smiles on people’s faces put it all in perspective for me, as many had to walk away without affording a woolen friend. Despite sales having been good for me that day, I was somewhat sad for not being able to bring more joy to more people and that got me thinking. I make a big point about joy, when it comes to My Woolen Friends and I want that to be a two way street/ feeling. So, I re-evaluated my reality and started thinking of a compromise in how I can make my work a bit more affordable, so that more people can enjoy it – because if my joy can bring them joy, that then brings me joy back, which I then put back into my work and so on…

So, I sat down and re-evaluated the designs and the time it nowadays takes me to create them and came up with some price changes, that still feel fair to me and hopefully will result in less people walking away without a woolen friend. This really just raised the question for me: “what’s more important? knowing that I can bring some joy to someone or rather just bring that/ those item/s back home instead?”. Fortunately, the answer wasn’t a hard one for me and I hope you can all understand where I’m coming from.

Of course, I won’t be able to make everyone happy, nor am I trying to do that. I just wanted to compromise where I felt like I could and so it ends.

Thank you everyone who took the time to read this.

Sending you all joy and good vibes only!

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HOW TO ORDER on My Woolen Friends

I tried making the ordering process as easy and straight forward as I could, but, just to be on the safe side, I thought I can also briefly explain the main steps in a blog entry.

So, here it goes – How to order:

Step 1: Select the item(s) you would like to purchase & add the them your cart.
Step 2: click on “View Cart” & choose your shipping method.
Step 3: Proceed to check out and put down you billing & shipping address (naturally, you have the option to choose a different shipping address from your billing address).

Step 4: Select your payment methods: Direct Bank Transfer* or PayPal**.
*In case of the Direct Bank Transfer, you will receive the bank details automatically after you have placed your order.
**In case of PayPal, you will be able to see the PayPal account after you have placed your order. When choosing payment via PayPal, a 1 Euro transaction fee will automatically be added to the total amount.
Step 5: Transfer the due amount according to the payment method that you chose.
Step 6: Once the transfer has been successful received on the MyWoolenFriends bank account, your order will get ready for shipping.
Step 7: In case of shipping with a tracking number, you will receive an e-mail informing you of the tracking Id-number.

On an additional note, I would like to say that I am aware that the international shipping is a bit expensive due to the tracking number. Unfortunately, I cannot risk sending packages around in Europe and have them get lost. Needle felting is a very time consuming and meticulous craft and if a package were to get lost (especially in the chaos that we living in at the moment, with all this pandemic going on), that would reduce my work and my time to nothing but a waste. Having a package lost would create an unpleasant situation on both sides and I prefer doing what I can in order to try and avoid those situations by shipping internationally only with tracking number.

Thank you for being here and I hope you can find something that you like in the online shop! ❤

My Woolen Friends

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ONLINE SHOP OPENING – YAY!

Welcome to the My Woolen Friends shop, which has officially been opened for business!

Here you will be able to find adorable, hand- & wool-felted decorations made in Berlin, Germany.

So, I invite you to roam around in the My Woolen Friends universe: have a look at what’s available in the shop; read through the “About” section and get a better understanding about what My Woolen Friends is, how it came to be and what the goal is; follow me on social media or come back for the blog posts, where I will be sharing interesting things about what I’m up to or how I do this and that. For instance, in my next blog posts I will be: walking you through the ordering process; talk about packaging and recycling; talk about the wool that I’m using and the suppliers that I have decided on so far and why; keep you posted on what my next projects will be and so on.

I plan on keeping my posts sweet & short, so this has been it for now. Please go roam the web page and thank you for being here! ❤

My Woolen Friends