Introducing the Bargain Box!

I’ve created a Bargain Box page to put all of the clearance / flawed products all in one place. I felt that adding the discounted options in the main product pages was making things a bit cluttered so I wanted to try to put everything on one spot.

You’ll really appreciate it if you’re on a tight budget! The stock on the page may change frequently as I go through inventory.

You can find links to the Bargain Box in the product descriptions of items that are currently in it.

Restock: Flooded With Emotions Mug

So you may have seen that the mugs are finally back in stock after forever! The ceramics manufacturer was trying to improve the eyes area because there were a lot of problems with the first batch (especially a lot of asymmetrical eyes) where I had to sell a lot of mugs at a big discount.

So far this new batch is a bit of an improvement! The eyes are a bit larger though which doesn’t bother me. This time the white colour is more creamy, whereas originally is was more of a light grey. I think when it comes to using the mug in person, the creamy colour is really nice – however it’s a bit brighter so it doesn’t photograph as well as the grey one did (as you can tell!).

Once again, I’m going to put aside the mugs with little / large imperfections to sell at discount prices, but I probably won’t list those until much later on. However, if you’re on a budget and really want a mug at a discount price right now, please e-mail me and I’ll give you some options for a flawed one!

New Wask boxes.

It’s my first time ever making branded boxes!
I’m excited because for Wask I always keep all of the packaging as simple and inexpensive as I could, so that I can have more money to spend on making fun new products. It turns out these branded boxes cost a little less than my last ones, and require waaaaaay less assembly time! Win-win.

I still have a lot of products packaged in the previous white slide boxes, but eventually all the tiny products will come in these new ones.

“Sealed Fate” batch 3 is here!

The silica gel candy is back again for its third batch. Thanks for your patience – the shipping took much longer than previously.

There are a couple of changes this round:

✎ New print design
✎ Smaller candy spheres
✎ A more subtle flavour*

* I don’t feel that the candy company landed the flavour this round, it tastes a bit more generic and is smaller than I had hoped. But because of this, I am planning to sell larger discount packs of this batch sometime in the near future so that I can eventually focus on batch 4 and try to make improvements! I’m considering another giveaway too.

A note on the packaging: From the start, the reason I’ve been doing custom packaging with my very own fonts and placements on the paper was so that people can distinctly tell which packet is a Wask one versus real silica gel packets.

I’m curious what your thoughts would be if I actually used some of the common printed silica gel designs that are already out there? I thought to myself that it’s more risky since it can be swapped with a real silica gel discreetly, but the only situation I can think of would be if you’re snacking on your own silica gel packets and somebody else decides to swap in a real one in your snack bowl!

Thoughts? 🤔

New product: Sticky Fingers Bookmarks

Although a lot of my product are becoming more quirky and playful, the original foundation of Wask products was inspired mostly by stationery! And I want to keep making stationery things forever.

Anyway, I kept seeing magnetic bookmarks online for a while now and I just couldn’t figure out how to make a fun Wask version of the bookmarks. And then I saw a photo of some magnetic bookmarks in a row on a page in a book, and to my brain they looked like fingers gripping the page. I liked that weird thought, so I decided to make it!

You can check out the “Sticky Fingers” bookmarks here.