A few words about Buffalo's Tiny Hats. When I first began photographing these, I forgot to include a coin to indicate scale. Most of those photos ended up in the Tiny Hats gallery. When the store opened, I re-photographed a number of tiny hats on a tiny hatrack for the store pages. You can find those tiny hats for sale individually under Tiny Hats 1, Tiny Hats 2, Tiny Hats 3, Tiny Hats 4 and Tiny Hats 5.

Today we launched a Tiny Hats section in the Etsy store for tiny hats with tiny hat boxes. These are for sale as a hat with hatbox set. We may later put up listings for tiny hats without hatboxes here as well.

For those of you who already own full-size Buffalo Hats, Buffalo can make a tiny replica of your hat. Drop her a line if you would like to discuss it.
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We are still working on the product listings. Check back in a couple of days for tiny hats in tiny hat boxes and a stetson, which needs to be re-photographed. Maybe some felt hats too.

Buffalo Hats on Etsy

I segregated the felt, raffia and other hats into separate galleries. You'll find the new pages as sub-pages under Hats. I also separated the Wearables by category: Dresses, Shirts, Cowgirl Jackets and Pirate Coats. 

Hey folks,
I don't know about you, but the idea of getting up at 4am on Friday morning to go to a shopping center and fight with other people over discounted merchandise (after you fight with them for parking) sounds like the Seventh Circle of Hell. I do most of my Christmas shopping in my jammies in bed at 2:00am. Amazon is always open. Ditto ThinkGeek and Archie McPhee. Look!  A Krampus scarf!

Sorry... what was I saying? Oh yeah. The holidays are fast approaching. Why not make life easier and shop online? Because I am magnanimous, I will list places to shop besides the Buffalo Hats store.

• Barnes & Noble - the Criterion 50% off sale is on now. I'm not sure how long it lasts.
• Screen Archives - $10 off selected Twilight Time titles until December 13.
• Amazon - Black Friday deals have already started.
• ThinkGeek - toys for nerds
• Archie McPhee - toys for kitsch loving nerds
• Target - free shipping & returns through the holidays
• Pale Moon - one of Buffalo's faire friends, Christopher Miller makes handcrafted jewelry carved out of cow bone and stone cast mirrors and ornaments. Cool stuff! Check it out.

And if you want to buy your loved ones unique handmade raffia hats... [click me]

We have some ideas for other types of Buffalo merchandise but they are not ready for primetime yet. Watch this space.

Cartoon #5: Flowers, Strange Hats, Experimental Party Dresses

Cartoon #4: Buffalo Hats and other silly things (promotional card from 1994)

Cartoon #3: Shirts, dresses, odds & ends

Cartoon #2: Styles of Buffalo Hats

Howdy folks,
In honor of the recent launch of the Buffalo Hats retail store, I am going to post a Buffalo cartoon per day relating to her goods. Until I run out of cartoons relating to her goods. I have a pretty deep stack of Buffalo cartoons relating to other things. We'll get to those later.

Cartoon #1: History of Buffalo Hats (the short version)

At last! The Buffalo Hats store has gone live! Much blood was spilled and many tears were shed bringing Buffalo Hats into the world of ecommerce. 

A couple of points about the Buffalo Hat store: Buffalo Hats is hosted on weebly using their Starter plan. This means there is no mechanism for calculating tax or shipping (you have to subscribe to the top-tier Business plan for that). We had to adjust the prices of the merchandise to account for those costs. Look at it this way, there are no hidden expenses when you put something in your shopping cart. The price you see is the price you pay.

There is a 'Note to seller' field on the Secure Checkout page. You can ask for special requests here, which may or may not be fulfilled, based upon the artist's mood and temperament. ;-)

But seriously. If you see something in the store that is almost what you want but not quite, email Buffalo. She can make you a hat to order in different colors, or add flowers or humming birds or grape clusters or whatever. She might even entertain ideas of a more complicated nature, if they appeal to her. You will find examples of previous special orders in the gallery.

You may have noticed that there are no masks in the store. That's because Buffalo sold out her stock of masks at the last RenFaire. When she makes more, we will put them in the store.