Limited Shipping Days during Christmas Week

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the suggested mailing dates for the 2008 holiday season have passed (except for orders within Ontario Canada, you've still got till Monday Dec 22nd).

Ma Cobb's Hat Shoppe will only be shipping on Monday Dec 22nd and Tuesday Dec 23rd of next week, and then we're going on holiday, so get your orders in by Monday. :) All orders placed between Dec 24th-28th will be shipped on Monday December 29th.

Thanks to everyone who has ordered, and Happy Holidays! :)

Last Weekend for Holiday Shoppers

Get your Christmas gifts while you can!

Just a quick reminder that this is the last weekend to order your Jayne hat or buttons in order to receive them in time for the holidays! Of course, my fellow Canadians still have a couple extra days left. ;)

I will still be knitting and taking orders, so no worries to those of you ordering non-holiday items.

December Give-Away brought to you by Firefly Cargo Bay

Gorramit! I was so busy knitting all weekend that I almost forgot to announce the December Give-Away! This month's give-away is very special indeed as it is a small sampling one of the very fine products that you will find when you visit Firefly Cargo Bay. Yessir, Earthgirl has many fine items hiding in the little nooks and crannies of http://www.fireflycargobay.com/, but one of my very favourites is her collection of temporary tattoos:

There are four fabulous designs perfect for any Browncoat: Blue Sun, Serenity, The Fruity Oaty girls, and the Independent Patch. And for the month of December you can get a set of all four tattoo designs with any purchase from Ma Cobb's Hat Shoppe! Just enter the code "Firefly Cargo Bay" in the notes to seller when checking out and you can take home these shiny tatts:

Perfect for wearing with your Jayne hat, or with some of my very fine Browncoat Buttons!

And of course you need to see all the other shiny wares that Earthgirl has in her Cargo Bay! I don't think a finer collection of 'verse wares have ever been together in one place at the same time! Independent flags, black-market beagles, Badger hats, Kaylee-esque parasols, terrifying space monkies.... this stash has got it all! And if you hurry you can get it all in time for the holidays for that special Browncoat on your Christmas list!

Much love, and stay shiny,

Ma Cobb

Customer Appreciation Pictures! Shiny!

One of the things that I absolutely love about etsy.com is their feedback system. The first great thing about it is that it's completely optional, which is awesome cuz there's no pressure (although I do leave feedback for each and everyone of my buyers, regardless if I get feedback back. That's just common courtesy, in my opinion).

But the best thing about etsy feedback is: customer appreciation pictures! Another optional yet awesome feature which has allowed me to take a little glimpse of my happy hats on happy heads. Here are few little gems that made their way to me. Thanks to LordGorthaur, Kontxesi, and XBettieMacheteX.

Oh so shiny. ;)

Well that's all from me for now. Stay tuned later this week to find out about December's Give-away! Wait, is this week almost over already? Gorrammit!

Reminder For Christmas Holiday Shipping Dates

There are only a couple weeks left to order Jayne hats and buttons so that they will ship in time for the holidays, and I just thought I'd pop in and put up a little reminder about these dates. These are suggested mailing dates, and with occassional customs hold-ups for orders going outside of Canada, it's important to order early if you want guaranteed delivery for your Holiday gift-giving. So here they are:

Expedited within Canada: Dec 12th-22nd (depends on location, if you're in a remote community, or outside of Ontario, err on the side of caution)
Airmail to the USA: Dec 9th
Airmail to the UK & Europe: Dec 8th
Airmail to Australia: Dec 8th
Airmail to Everywhere else: Dec 1st-8th (depending on your country)

With that said, of course I will still be knitting and shipping Jayne hats after these dates, so if you're not worried about getting them in time for the holidays, then just ignore my frantic worrying. ;)

Jayne Hat Review at DrFaulken's Very Fine Blog

A nice little surprise awaited Ma Cobb's Hat Shoppe this week! Earlier in the week I got a message from a Browncoat to let me know that he had gotten his hat, and that he loved it! But that's not all! He also sent me a link to his blog where he had done an in-depth review of the experience of opening his Very Fine Package. And now I present it for all to read at DrFaulken's Very Fine Blog! A very big thanks to DrFaulken for the kind words!And I must follow that up with another happy Browncoat in his Very Fine Hat. This one sent to me by greg of blindpigpress.etsy.com a fellow Etsian! Check out his shiny buttons and prints!

Thanks to greg for letting me borrow this one! :) I love to see happy Browncoats in Jayne hats!

The hats have been flying right out of my hands this past week, and I think there will be a couple more crazy weeks of Christmas shoppers before it gets to be too late to ship in time for the holidays. I'm trying to take it all in stride. Despite being the busiest that I have ever been, I am having quite a good time running around like a crazy person. My local postal workers have come accustomed to seeing me everyday at the post office, and they all know what is in my little boxes and envelopes. I am "the hat girl". Heehee. Nothin' wrong with that. :)

Milestones

Howdy friends of Ma Cobb,

Things have been bustling around here! I'm fair certain that the Christmas shopping season is in full-swing here on the cortex... or at least at my little shoppe. I'm not nearly as prepared as I wanted to be, but I think that's only because I have underestimated just how busy things can get. But I am wholly enjoying the busy-ness (business? lol). And I'm not frantic... yet. Also: I am so grateful for early Christmas shoppers! Thank you all!

So a couple of little milestones happened this week. First of all I wore out my first pair of knitting needles! Well, okay, it's not like they're completely worn down to the nubs or anything, but they got a couple little cracks and started splitting a bit and kept catching the yarn, kind of like a hang-nail. My diy patch-job with pink nailpolish really wasn't cutting it, so I decided that with 300+ Jayne hats under their belts, it was probably time to retire my much-loved needles.

Which brings me to my second milestone: 300 Jayne hats! Yes folks, that's right! I have passed the 300 mark! There are over 300 Browncoats walking around in the world wearing one of my cunning knit Jayne hats! Well maybe they're not wearing them right this minute, but... you get my point. The number isn't completely accurate, as I didn't start keeping track until sometime in 2005 when I started selling them (at that point I had already knit a good little number for friends and local Browncoats).

Anyway, I thought that was an interesting tidbit, for those who like to keep track. It's funny, but 300 seems simultaneously like soooo many, and yet not that many at all. Is that weird? I've been doing this for awhile now, and yet I can't even imagine what all those hats would look like if, say, they all got together to hang out, or something... But then again, maybe my sleepiness is making my brain-pan a little whimsical. So perhaps I will turn in for the evening.

See you in the world,
Love,
Ma Cobb