January 2021 Production Update

Despite sending in files and revisions a bit earlier than intended, production of some merch are still affected by the Chinese New Year holidays!

‼️ Holidays last for the whole of February ‼️

Most of my manus will be on vacation, so production will be delayed for the following:

🔸 Mesmerizer: Shinsou enamel pin (Patreon)
🔸 Hope in the Wind Hawks enamel pin
🔸 Fiery Bonds of Friendship Axel chakrams enamel pins
🔸 Pearlescence villain enamel pins
🔸 Asphyxia Shigaraki enamel pins
🔸 Villain dolls
🔸 InaTodo Vampire Hunter acrylic charm
🔸 Future acrylic charm releases

These merch will be shipped to me by end of March to early April. Villain dolls may extend from April to May, but I’ve been bothering that manu for weeks already haha. We should have a doll sample hopefully within the week, like they promised 🙏🏼✨

Side note: In case the manu fails to show photos of the samples despite me paying and bugging them already for doll samples since last Nov 2020, I have a back up manu that my friend trusts just in case! 😤

(I believe they also work faster and I’ll be switching to them in the future!)

Omanjuu production is not affected, but they will still arrive to me by mid March or so as well! Sorry the new designs are taking a while, I’m still kinda resting but also kinda busy at the same time 😅

Will be extending the manjuu preorders after I finish the designs this week owo

If you’ve got any questions, feel free to comment or use the contact form! Thanks again to everyone for being super patient 🤗💖💖💖

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Happy Holidays!! — December 2020 Update

Hello everyone!!

This is the last blog post of the year. So I’d like to say a couple of things!

 

I am super grateful to all the customers, supporters, followers, and new friends I have made this 2020. Thank you so much for everything! Without you guys, I wouldn’t be able to have this level of success despite all the odds stacked against me. A lot of things have happened in my personal life that have led me to think several times that this path may not be for me.

But because of your amazing support and encouraging words, I am where I am today. I am able to celebrate small victories all thanks to you. I know this year is definitely not one of our best years. But I’d like to stay hopeful and optimistic for the days to come.

And as thanks! A heads up: I will be hosting a pin giveaway on my Instagram @dettsuart to celebrate 1000 Instagram followers! So make sure you follow me so you can join hehe. The post will be up by December 25, 2020 at 3:20pm GMT +8:00 around 9-10 hours from now. Just follow the guide in the caption of the post and you’re good to go 💖

As mentioned earlier on, the main store Lilium and the Etsy store will remain open during the Holidays and shipping will resume on January 2021. You can still check your order status here as I’ll be updating this file regularly!

It’s the 24th already where I am, and we’re doing prep for a small dinner at home to relax for the holidays. More updates will be posted at the end of the year but for the mean time, let’s chill for a bit.

 

Merry Christmas to all you lovely folks out there who celebrate it! And Hoppy Holidays for us who just need a well deserved break 🙏🏼✨

 

Love you lots, stay safe and healthy!!

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Black Friday 2020

Hello everyone!

A month has passed since the last blog update about the store. I thought I’d update again regarding some minute changes!!

Shipping Restrictions

I’ll be shipping orders via post office weekly now since our parents finally allowed us to go out. Being an at risk person with bad lungs, it was difficult to convince them! But the post office is just near our house so it’s easy to just drop stuff off and go home right after. One notable change though is our post office only accepts parcels from certain countries due to restrictions in other countries, mostly in Europe.

Here’s a list of accepted countries by the local post office:

  • USA
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
  • most Asian countries

For countries not listed above, I can only ship out via DHL Express, DHL eCommerce (postal), and Premium Postal (Sweden post). The prices will be available at the cart page at at checkout, so you can decide which is better for you 😀

New shipping schedule

Shipments will be done weekly:

  • Post office, every Friday
  • DHL eCommerce and Premium Postal, every Wednesday
  • DHL Express, every Monday

Check out directly with your card via PayMongo

Also added a new payment method for both local and overseas customers!

You can now check out via PayMongo with your credit/debit cards. You can now bypass PayPal checkout if you prefer to check out directly with your card. Also, all transactions done through PayMongo will go straight to my bank account. So that’s a huge weight off my shoulders since I’m paranoid PayPal might hold my funds someday 😭

I’m also preparing subscriptions for when I move out of Patreon! Please look forward to it 😀

Black Friday Sale

And, most importantly! Black Friday sale is up from Nov 26-28! Although, I might extend it a bit depending on the store activity this weekend ehe 😅

Free shipping — orders above PhP 3,600 ~ $70 USD

LILIUM1127 — 10% off discount code

For those who prefer shopping in Etsy:

LILIUMFS — free shipping code for orders above PhP 3,600 ~ $70 USD

10% off storewide except for Face Masks for Charity

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the store’s contact form, send me a question on CuriousCat (anon is on!), or dm me on twitter 😀

Please take care and stay safe!!!

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October 2020 Update

This is the first time I’ve closed down the store for more than a couple of hours for an update!! And I’m glad to announce that the store is back up and running 💕

New preorders for manjuu are now open, this will be the last batch for this year. Holidays are nearing, which means supplier-sans will take a little longer to respond and packages may be a little slower once they’re out in transit to you.

I’ve changed couriers finally! My experience with the previous one wasn’t really good, but it’s a learning experience. Perhaps they were just really understaffed, but I don’t want anyone’s packages handled poorly. So I’m happy I was able to find alternatives in the past couple of weeks.

The post office near us misses me, as I haven’t gone there since February!! But my parents aren’t allowing me to use public transportation to go around (only my dad can drive and he has work) so I can’t go to the post office personally. But artist friends here are helping each other out, so we’ll be helping each other out with each other’s packages haha! I’m happy that despite these problem-ridden times, we’re able to make do with whatever networks we have. Post office rates have been updated as mentioned earlier. I’ve just fixed how everything looks so it won’t be too hard on the eyes.

The new schedule for shipments for the rest of the year are as follows:

DHL Express (international)
Transit time: 2-5 working days
Ship out: as often as needed, when packaging materials are available

Private Postal Service (international)
Transit time: 7-12 working days (Asia), 15-20 working days (others)
Ship out: every other week or every 5 orders 

Regular Mail aka Post office (international)
Transit time: 18-25 working days
Ship out: Oct 30, Nov 30, Dec 11 

Local shipments (Philippines)
Transit time: 3-5 working days
Ship out: every other day

The store’s default currency has been changed to (PHP) Philippine Peso! You can still view the prices in USD by using the store’s currency switcher, but I will still receive your payments in my country’s currency. I’ve also added GBP, EUR, and JPY for those based in other countries as well. Conversion has been bad recently due to our struggling economy, hence this change. I hope you guys don’t mind 🙏🏼💦

Hoping the rest of the year goes well for everyone! We’re still kinda under quarantine. Though, not really much has changed for me personally since I can’t really go out due to my asthma and weak lungs in general ;O;)/

Please continue practicing good hygiene and stay safe out there!

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September 2020 Update

Hey, guys!

So most of the items in the store are already here, save for the dolls and the new batch of manjuu preorder batches. My problem with the dolls is the courier experiencing backlog due to Covid-19. They ship by sea and usually it takes 11 days for shipments to arrive, but recently it takes them up to a month. Hopefully, I get info soon if the dolls have arrived here in the Philippines! I’ll post asap when they’re finally home.

 

REGARDING SHIPPING FEES

The post office is functional again! Parcels are accepted for limited countries only, and a surcharge has been added for all shipping fees. Prices have been adjusted, and can be seen at checkout! But if you choose regular mail for your shipping, your order will be shipped out around end of October to mid November 2020.

List of accepted countries for regular mail via Philippine Post Office

  • Australia
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom / Great Britain
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • USA

If you have questions, feel free to drop me a message via the contact form or dm me on Twitter! Please take care everyone 🙂

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