Wask Blog

Behind the scenes and tidbits from a little online shop called Wask.

Toronto Stationery Show 2026

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that I’ll be part of the Toronto Stationery Show this upcoming April 25th, 10am to 5pm! Come buy some Wask products and avoid the shipping fees. 🙂 It’s located at The Parkdale Hall: 1605 Queen St W. This will be my 3rd time doing this show, and based on my previous experience, it can get quite busy with potential long line-ups outside of the venue – so if you’re planning on coming, bring some snacks and things to keep you busy if you’re stuck in the line. Also, only about 50% or fewer of my products will be for sale, since the show only allows majority of stationery-related items to be sold. However, if […]

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Toronto Stationery Show 2026

New Product: Bitecoin Token

Introducing Bitecoins! These are small, brass, arcade token style coins that feature the Bitcoin logo on one side and a NO CASH VALUE on the back! And.. a little nibble.. This is actually a remake of a very old project I made back in 2016, before Wask ever even existed. I wasn’t super happy with the original project (mostly due to manufacturer problems) and I’ve always wanted to make it again in some way. It wasn’t until this year that I got the idea to make it in an arcade token format.

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New Product: Bitecoin Token

New Product: Vanity Size T-shirt

Here are our first ever T-shirts! The Vanity Size T-shirts. They ship duty-free to USA! The concept for these evolved over time. I knew I wanted to make a super simple “Wask-esque” shirt but for the longest time I couldn’t think about what that could be. Then one day, I started thinking about those size stickers that often come on clothing. My first idea was to actually make a “luxury” version of that sticker (with raised gold foil and fancy fonts, etc.) that you can willingly stick onto your shirt when going out. The second idea was to permanently embroider the size sticker design onto the shirt. I went with this second idea! These shirts were actually quite a bit […]

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New Product: Vanity Size T-shirt

“Think Twice Dice” – GIANT version!

So this summer I decided to get crafty and make a giant “Think Twice Dice” prop mostly out of styrofoam and took some fun pics with it! Huge thanks to my friend Justin Poulsen for taking the photos and helping me with my prop! Justin also just launched his own online novelty shop, Wurs Mart, so check it out!

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“Think Twice Dice” – GIANT version!

Shopify Milestones Award

Early this year I got a Shopify Milestones award for reaching 10,000 sales on Wask (and Shopify is the e-commerce platform for it). Considering my little online shop started as an obsessive side hobby of mine, I’m proud of this achievement and figured I’d share it here. 🥰 Thank you to anybody who has ever bought one of my strange product creations, or shared my store to a friend, or commented on my work!

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Shopify Milestones Award

New USA tariff rules

Update October 2025: Hi. 🥲 Thank you for your feedback in the comments section! I will now be turning on shipping to the United States once again. To start, I will be using Shopify’s internal system that will calculate and add the duty costs directly into my shop’s checkout experience. For now, these shipments will be sent out using Canada Post which can be a little bit slower than some of the other carriers I’ve used for USA orders previously. Until I get a few sales using this new method, I won’t exactly know how quickly or smoothly these orders are getting through, or what types of issues could arise through the customs system once they reach USA, so I […]

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New USA tariff rules

New Product: I Hope You’re Happy Balloons

The latest Wask product is a super simple one. Among all the smile balloons in the world, I found there to be a lack of sarcastic smiles – the upside down smile – so I’ve decided to offer them. These are the “I Hope You’re Happy” balloons! 🙃

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New Product: I Hope You’re Happy Balloons

New Product: School Sucks Straws

The latest Wask product is a straw that looks like a pencil! I was just surprised that this wasn’t a thing yet… because I wanted to use it. Check out these pencil straws on my shop! They’re plastic and reusable, and sold in packs of five.

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New Product: School Sucks Straws

The dice saga continues. 😵

So it turns out my dice journey hasn’t reached a “good enough” point after all! Long story short: after a few weeks of checking & packaging the dice, it turns out that the newest dice batch (Manufacturer E – batch 1) that has been selling this year is prone to the ink “flaking off” from use or from rolling it on surfaces. The manufacturer made a small new batch, “batch 2”, which fixes the flaking off issue.

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The dice saga continues. 😵

Dice + Candy Sale!

The “Dice + Candy Sale” is here for one week! From Feb 4th until Feb 11th. I don’t have sales very often because most of my products are made in small batches and have small profit margins – being an independent designer and all! But if sales end up being manageable and beneficial for Wask then I’ll consider doing a few others in the future. Are there other Wask products you’d like to see on sale? Maybe I can make it work!

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Dice + Candy Sale!