No, this is not subliminal Princeton University Ad, published by Jess or Nikki…. this is the limiting factor to product shipments in the next 3 weeks.

Today marked the start of the chinese new year.  With that, Quirky and all of our Chinese Partners wanted to say “Gong Xi Fa Cai”, which translates roughly into… “May prosperity be with you”

As you know, we’re waiting on Scratch & Scroll,  Beamer & Cordies (and recently bobble brush) to be finished up at our factories.  All 3 are VERY close, and we hope to get them all out in March, as soon as our factory returns back to work.

Chinese new year has historically been a loss of time for consumer product brands and all companies that work out there.   This is like their December.   Lots of workers heading home to visit their families, etc.

We are lucky to have great manufacturing partnerships in place, and I am excited about the pace and quality we have been able to keep up.   Rest assured, as soon as our partners return from holiday, we’ll have the next few products shipping within a few weeks.

Next week I am going to chronicle some of the challenges we’ve had to overcome with the production of things like scratch & scroll, and beamer.   These have been challenging engineering projects, but we are happy to report the wait is almost over.

….If only Tony the Tiger wasn’t holding up production for a few weeks

GONG Xi Fa CAI everyone!