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“Sealed Fate” batch 4 😛

Hi everyone!

There is a new, updated “silica gel candy” batch being sold right now! I wasn’t happy with the flavour of the last batch so I wanted to make sure to improve it.

Main changes:

✎ Better flavour!
✎ More “classic silica gel” feeling type paper (it kinda freaks me out)
✎ New ingredients: Sugar, Glucose, Malt Syrup, Arabic Gum, Artificial Flavour

The only downside is that the paper doesn’t rip very nicely, and it’s hard to get a perfect rip! I personally feel like the new positives outweigh this negative, but if you feel that the ripping process makes the candy experience really annoying, then please let me know! If people don’t like it, then I can look into improve it in the future.

I was planning on making a candy sale to celebrate this new batch, but things are a little crazy over here for now, so that’ll probably happen sometime in January. However, if you’ve already read this far and you’re interested in the candy, you can type in DoNotEat at checkout to get a big discount on the candy. This code is only written here! 🙂

Take care.

New Product: Cilan-troll Paper Soap

My whole life I hated cilantro and my mom made me feel like I was just “being picky”, until I learned that a lot of people experience it as a “soapy” flavour and it’s likely a genetic thing!

My newest product is inspired by my experiences. If cilantro wants so badly to be soap, then let it be soap! These are the Cilan-troll Paper Soap leaf flakes, and they’re partially hand made by me as well. They turned out really pretty, not gonna lie.

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.

Oh look a dice update.

Hello! I’m here with a little dice manufacturing update. If you’ve been following along for the last few years then you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with finding a manufacturer that can make the Think Twice Dice with fewer imperfections.

Pencil Pals Website

Hello! Remember the Pencil Pals pencils? You can buy a pencil with a unique code on it, and one other stranger in the world will also have a pencil with that code…

Anyway, there’s now a mini website to more easily connect you with your pal!

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 Product: Pencil Lit In Matches

The latest Wask product are tiny little pencils! But they’re actually painted matches. I make these myself, so as usual they’re made in smaller batches and not often. It was just one of those ideas I had for years because I was angry that it isn’t an actual product because they’re so cute – so yeah, here’s my version!

Check them out here.

New Product: Scentral Park Desk Freshener

The latest Wask product is a little scented air freshener specially made for your desk! It’s a two-piece pine tree that slots together to form a little standing decor piece that looks beautiful and smells fresh too.
Buy one here!

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? 🤔