Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

After yesterday's valiant effort to ship out all of the Trail of Painted Ponies 2007 Christmas figurines and all 2007 pre-ordered ornaments, we were left with about six orders left to ship. We were still labeling packages when our UPS truck pulled up. The remaining 6 packages will be shipped today. Tonight everyone should have order completion emails with UPS tracking numbers. Remember, Monday is a Holiday, so shipping may be delayed slightly. We're going to have a better Labor Day Holiday knowing that we got all of the orders shipped before the weekend. We hope your Labor Day weekend is a happy and restful one.

Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

I'm not really sure how this happens, but it seems like every time we're trying to get pre-orders out, our UPS truck shows up early. Anyway, we got a little over 1/2 of the Christmas ponies and ornaments shipped out yesterday. We're going to try to finish shipping all Painted Ponies pre-orders out today. We'll post tomorrow morning with the outcome.

Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

All of the Painted Ponies ornaments are in now and we've begun shipping Christmas ponies, and all the ornaments. We got an early start this morning and 1/2 of the orders are ready for UPS pick-up. We're going to break and ship today's orders now, and then get back to shipping pre-orders. How many more we are able to get out today depends on what time our UPS truck shows up. If we don't get them all out today, we'll certainly be able to get everything shipped out tomorrow. In our cataloging of the Christmas ponies, we found no twins, and no ponies without issue numbers. We'll post another update tomorrow.

Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

Late Friday we received word from Westland that they had shipped the ornaments we needed to begin shipping the last of the Summer 2007 Painted Ponies release. It wasn't until yesterday that we got a Quantum View from UPS letting us no that shipment should arrive today. So, we plan to begin shipping all the 2007 Christmas Ponies, and all the ornaments tomorrow, Wednesday August 29, 2007. The Quantum View we received from UPS last Tuesday was one of our regular Westland orders. Sorry, for the confusion. I guess we were just a little to anxious to get the new ornaments.

Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

Yesterday, we cataloged 37.5% of the new Christmas ponies. Today we are shipping out all of the orders that had only Christmas ornaments on them. We also received a Quantum View from UPS showing 12 cases that are to be arriving from Westland tomorrow. That shipment could possibly be the other summer 2007 ornaments. We'll see. If that is the ornaments, we'll try to finish cataloging the Christmas ponies tomorrow so we can begin shipping on Friday.

Painted Ponies - Christmas 2007!

We received our Trail of Painted Ponies Christmas 2007 herd yesterday, along with the Christmas ornaments. We began cataloging the ponies yesterday and will make substantial progress today. We probably won't post daily progress reports, as we did not receive the any of the ornaments other than Christmas. We can't ship until we receive the rest of the ornaments. We'll let you know as soon as those come in. Once they do, we should be able to begin shipping. We haven't heard any word yet on when to expect them.

Painted Ponies Summer 2007 Release Update!

We shipped all but about 15 pre-orders yesterday. We should have been able to get them all out but, again our UPS driver showed up early. The remaining 15 orders are sitting in the warehouse ready to ship and will go out Monday. "The best laid plans of mice and men". Anyway, we're glad that one is behind us and now were waiting for the 4 new Christmas figurines and 10 new ornaments. We haven't heard anything different than August 15th delivery yet, so we're hoping that's when we'll receive them. Watch for news on that delivery here.

Painted Ponies Summer 2007 Release Update!

Yesterday was a very good day! We shipped out about 66% of the remaining summer 2007 Painted Ponies orders. That's of the 8 ponies we've received. We should be in pretty good shape to get the rest of the orders out today, about 25% of the total pre-orders. We'll post an update tomorrow on today's progress.

Painted Ponies Summer 2007 Release Update!

With having to do inventory yesterday all we could do was get the rest of Tuesday's ponies, that had been picked, shipped. So, to reach our goal of having all the new ponies shipped by the end of the week, we'll have to ship about 37.5% today and that many again tomorrow. We're going to take a run at it. Hopefully tomorrow's post will be all good news.

Painted Ponies Summer 2007 Release Update!

After getting everything organized to start shipping new ponies yesterday, we were moving along pretty good. We got about 25% of the orders picked and were feeling pretty good about things until our UPS driver showed up about 2 hours early. So, in the end we actually shipped about half of what we had picked. We've got inventory today which may slow us down a little, but we're confident that we'll be able to get all the 8 summer 2007 release ponies out by the end of the week. Due to our warehouse space constraints we have decided to ship even partial orders. In other words, if you ordered some of the eight ponies along with some of the Christmas ponies and ornaments, we are shipping whatever you ordered of the 8 now instead of waiting until we receive the Christmas ponies and ornaments. We have been told that the Christmas ponies and ornaments should be in sometime in August. We'll be posting another update tomorrow.