Long story short: the mug supplier we'd worked with for years and years shut down, and I've spent the whole winter looking for a new one. Googling, emailing around, asking for quotes. In February I got up at about 3 in the morning on a Friday, flew down to Frankfurt, walked 27,000 steps around a trade fair and prayed to God for help finding the right supplier (with blisters and skin flaking off me in little curls, like wafer rolls ...), found a supplier and flew home the same evening. Absolutely wrecked, tired and aching all over, but still a little bit pleased with myself - mission accomplished!
Now the mugs have arrived and they're so pretty! They're more or less the same as the old ones, and in different boxes, but basically the same. What I did do, though, was mess up the proof of the print on this favourite, so the text didn't land quite in the middle where I want it. A bit of a letdown after all that work, haha! So we're selling this particular mug at a little discount, but it really is lovely anyway.
Now we hope and believe we've found a supplier we can work with for a long time, because even though I like Germany, I'm happy to skip seriously gruelling day trips there :)
