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Almost Autumn

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Autumn is my absolute favorite season besides spring (but probably even better.) Summer is great, even now I don't live as close to the beach as I used to in San Diego (15-20 min drive to any beaches..sweet!) here in NYC, summer is still fun and inspiring. But it's just fall is so much more to me. The color deepens, the food tastes better, air is crisper, coffee feels more comforting and I feel more creative and productive. It's like the pigments of every colors I see outside become more vivid and it's almost too beautiful and I cannot take it. Luckily the fall in the northeast gives the best part of my favorite season compared to what it did in SoCal which was a lot more muted. I remember the colors of Nara in the fall when I visited last year.   Even though it was passed the best time of their leaf watching season, it was still magnificent. I've seen better time, but it is always lovely to see the beautiful parks in the fall in Japan. I th

Thank You 1000 Times

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August was the best month for Pigeon Dynamite . I finally have over a hundred sales on Etsy officially and August recorded the highest sales since I opened the shop. It was a busy month and a very very productive month. So thank you, thank you so so much.  I sincerely thank each one of Pigeon Dynamite supporters. Without you, I couldn't have done any of this.  Because of your support, I could start the ring collections of my own this year besides the upcycled jewelry pieces. Each one of your support made it possible for me to create my expanding collections. I still remember the excitement of the first sale I made on Etsy. The excitement and nerve racking experience to sell something I made to someone I've never met or know.   Ever since I launched the shop on Etsy in 2013, I was just trying to do as much as I could to push my business. But it was difficult, obviously. Not only because I was so naive about running my own business but also