Long time no see!

Hi all, it's been a while since I've made any updates on this blog. The last couple of years the business has been running smoothly. Since I started, I haven't added a single new pin design. The reason is because super glossy objects like pins are really hard to take a good picture of. The photos currently on the shop where all taken on the same day, and it took a lot of adjusting of to get those pictures to not have big distracting reflections in them.

Since then, I've picked up photography as a hobby however and now own real lighting equipment. Soon, I'm going to establish an easily repeatable workflow for photographing new pin designs and I'll get to adding new ones!

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