12/14/2025
We have been a bit quiet over here for a few reasons...
- 📖 First, the back and forth conversations with the publisher for the children's book has been very time consuming but productive.
The format of the book needed quite a bit of adjusting which took some time. It's been in the printing process for a bit, we are just waiting on a ship date now and are still hoping to mail out pre-orders before Christmas.
- 🧥 In the meantime we shifted our focus to finishing up this parka many of you had seen in progress this summer.
We are happy to announce that we were successful in completing this with zero plastic, except the zipper that will be added next.
All leather, custom embroidery, wool liner, real wool quilting. Even the cuffs are hand spun, hand knit using a wool/silk blend... and if course real fur. Black bear and fox.
- 🌬️ And finally, the weather. Our area of Alaska has been hit with some monster winds and only one significant snow fall this year.
This has definitely put a damper on many of our winter plans and made our home chores take longer than usual which pulls us away from studio work.
Fortunately we haven't suffered significant damage but some repairs will be necessary this spring.
- 🗓️ We do have many updates to share with you soon. Please tell mother nature to play nice so we can get back to our 'normal' Alaskan Tough...