Hello there, here is the first journal on this persona of mine. I've taken a long break from it but I am now returning to this little side gig of mine.

What is Fuzzy Forecast?

My online shop, currently hosted on The Dealers Den! It was originally on Etsy but I have decided to move to The Dealers Den to avoid fees and also be on a more furry fandom-oriented site rather than something so corporate as Etsy.

What do I make?

Currently, fursuit parts! In the past I've prided myself in being a "baby's first fursuit" shop. I make small, simple things that are not as fancy as professional work, meaning that my prices are lower and more accessible. Combining that with simple designs that could apply to a wide variety of characters, I like to imagine that I've been the introduction or a decent stepping stone into several people's IRL furry presentations.

Will that change?

I'll only be adding more. I will always be proud to be the low- to mid-quality maker that anyone can afford that makes parts that could fit any characters, but I'd love to do more than that as well. My main ideas are to expand to:

• More complex parts such as hand-paws and long tails.
• Partial fursuits.
• Fursuit sprays.

My ideal would be making more generic parts and then making more specific parts and partials with the idea of simply making a suit that I would want to own. Which sounds silly, but I spend a lot of time wondering if anyone would want the parts I make or if they're too specific, so 2024 is the year of throwing that to the wind and doing what I wanna do.

I also really want to expand into fursuit sprays! I got the idea of making fancier blends of more complex and nuanced scents. Not that they'd be better or more expensive than the usual lavender or peppermint scented sprays, but simply something different! I'll have to do a lot of testing, though. By fancy I'm thinking of woods, herbs, amber, bourbon, coffee, that sort of thing! Either on their own or combining to create a unique impression.

Closing Notes

I've done quite a bit of digging and have collected and now archived all of the fursuit work I've done through the past 5 or so years that I've been doing this. I believe I have literally all but 2 pieces, both of which very old and no longer appear to have photographs saved and no longer physically exist due to being scrapped. So I think I've done a more than decent job at collecting all my past work and getting it all saved to a hard drive and soon to be publicly sorted.

I'm excited to return to online selling after taking a long break from it, ready to return with a much more relaxed vibe now that I have another job. My relationship to art is much healthier when I don't rely on it monetarily.