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No Mary, there was no trick, the Google form was not on our website. The two were not connected. Turns out those forms are tricky to set up! Lots can go wrong in the set up that you don’t realize until folks are filling out the form…. or perhaps our fans “broke Google” !
We apologize for the various difficulties that were encountered during this waitlist sign up!
If you had trouble signing up on the waitlist for this grab bag, please email me your full name and address and we’ll add you to the list. If the email address on your Windstone account is not the same as that you are emailing from, please provide that as well. Email to susie@windstoneeditions.com (no PMs)
This waitlist reached its 100 maximum names quickly and closed. Now, October 2, 2023, we have hidden the PYO Capybara from view while we begin to offer the first 37 that are ready to those on the list.
We are going to send out an email announcement/newsletter with a link to sign up via email to a “waitlist” for the Paint Your Own Capybara. I’m not sure if that’s going out later today (Sept 29, 2023) or exactly when – but it will be coming up after we send out the email about Melody’s September Raffle prize. Watch your email for those announcements! This will be a test run of a new way to announce a product that might crash our website if its done in one of our usual ways. There will be no need to haunt the website – but do visit it and read stuff!
I’m so happy the website didn’t crash! But my COMPUTER DID! LOL! First time I ever saw one of the new style Blue Screens with the 🙁 on it. It was terrifying! But it seems to be o.k. now.
I’d like to add that I’ve had people ask about the upcoming Grab Bag. We do not have a waiting list for it yet and there is no way I can keep track of people who want to be on that waiting list and are concerned that they may not be able to get onto it (traveling, internet problems, etc). When the Grab Bag is ready to be ready we will be sending an email announcement with instructions for joining the waiting list for the Grab Bag. It will work differently from our usual website based waiting list because the last time we had so much trouble with the site crashing while people tried to join the list. Melody is still painting those little cuties and its not happening just yet! Be sure you are subscribed to the newsletter (that purple subscribe button on our home page – if you aren’t sure – press it and answer the questions and if you are already on it, it will tell you – if you aren’t, it will add you).
In answer to this question: ” The new Brimstone color – have you guys decided how you’re releasing it yet? By waitlist via email, by waitlist via forum, by NO waitlist and just a drop in the shop? There’s just been a lot of variation lately and I’m not sure where to look anymore lol”
We aren’t sure how we will announce each sculpture as it becomes available in Brimstone. There has been a lot of variation in how we introduce new things into our webstore because we are trying to avoid having it crash when everyone receives the information at once. Some of the new things we’ve introduced recently we’ve had only a few of (for example, only a few of the Wizard Cat in Copper Patina) and we don’t want to excite all of our email announcement “mailing list” with an announcement when that is all there is for possibly years to come. I am not sure how each addition of Brimstone will be handled. We may be just popping them into the store as they become available due to the holiday shopping season sneaking up fast! We know that folks like to shop early and this year the USPS mail that many people are choosing may take longer than usual to reach its destination (I advise early shopping).
Plans are made for all of the dragon family to be made in Brimstone. The ones that are the farthest off are the Emperor and the Scratching as these sculptures are on hold for technical reasons. We are trying to make fair sized introductory batches of Brimstone however we may sell out quickly and you will need to join the waitlist for sold out pieces. I suggest keeping an eye on the store section of our website Forum and our Facebook pages for announcements – we will also most likely do more email newsletters on them too, but not one for each sculpture. I’m sorry its not super simple!
Today we added someone new to the Ancient Steel group! You can now view from the “Dragon Color Families” link on the home page!
When you choose your USPS shipping service be sure to compare Ground Advantage with Priority Mail – in some cases (especially small boxes) – Priority Mail is less than a dollar more and a lot faster! I would choose Priority in those cases.
I’ve emailed the rest of the waiting lists for the Ancient Steel Mothers and Fathers! You have until August 21st to place your password protected order. Give us a couple days to process your order while we are very busy!
