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Next tangerine Sour drop will be Tomorrow (Tuesday October 5th)

Expect to see a post tomorrow morning as we open up the next round of orders. As of first thing tomorrow, all in house orders should be shipped or be ready to be picked up by the post office. We ar...

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Highlights of Greg's trip to NYC part 5

Ny public library collections including original Winnie the Pooh dolls that inspired the stories and the umbrella that inspired marry Poppins. The sheet music is the first printing of the nation an...

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Highlights of Greg's trip to NYC part 4

Water and food from Tomi jazz Club. Check their menu with the qr code. St. Patrick's cathedral. Gregorys coffee (no relation) serendipity 3 and their frozen hot chocolate and a dealer in central pa...

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Highlights of Greg's trip to NYC part 3

Most of this you can hear about on the latest podcast (#101)

An engraved knife in an upscale steak shop called quality Italian. One of the waterfalls in midtown we were only able to see one....

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Highlights of Greg's trip to NYC part 2

Visiting the Lexington avenue candy store, and having a night cream there with the owner. Cleopatra's needle, an obelisk that has it's made in Paris we saw that in 2019. The castle in central park....

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Highlights of Greg's trip to NYC part 1

Thought you'd like to see the trip.

Art from Rockefeller center, photos from the Russian tea room. And a foubtain that I like. Some folks showing off there lowrider motorcycles one night, an...

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You know it is a good day when ...

You are in a Museum and you realize you have a print of the painting you are looking at in your pocket.

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#101 Greg in NYC

Greg sets up at about 7:30 and watches the city wake up on his trip to NYC. He tells about what he's done so far.

The photo by the way, is of our waiter at the Jazz Club "Tomi Jazz" 

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On the way to nyc

Layover in ATL. 

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Early access to this weeks video short

Well I'm going on vacation this week and I ran out of time to finish this video, so I thought I'd make a teaser ... and show off our new (or old) candy maker. Trick or Treat eveyrone.

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Free stickers with this code

Don't forget to use coupon code UDS for a free unicorn sticker or PODSTICK for a podcast sticker. 

Sorry you do get to chose one or the other (hint, we have lots of podcast stickers, but...

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Next drop of Tangerine Sours

Please limit yourself to 10 tins. The computer won't limit you so please help by not ordering more than this.

We are a bit behind, this really won't ship for two weeks, unless we get faster (...

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#100 Sours - Things Breaking - Travel Plans - URi is back- Letters

Greg rambles a bit today, with sour updates and his travel plans. He is joined by Vanya the podcat and talks about new projects, about things breaking in the store, gives you a code for a free stic...

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New Sponsorship Levels

When I started this Patreon I thought I could do a monthly podcast for members, and it would be cool. Well that turned into a weekly one and I made it public. 

I've been re-hashing what ...

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New Patreon Members (Tangerine Sour order info)

Welcome new Patreon Members, and there are a lot of you. I know you joined here to get your hands on the Tangerine Sours first. Well congratulations, you are achieving that, just not today, buy you...

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Unicorn Dropping Stickers

As you may (or may not) know, at Lofty Pursuits we sell the Unicorn Droppings, the left over pieces from logs of candy in our store. They are impractical to ship, so they are all sold here.

W...

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I tweaked this shirt design for the store front again. Looking for more feedback.

I know this is not candy related but the projects I'm doing right now are store front related. You saw a previous draft of this. I cleaned up the text, bent the logo better, made it black for bette...

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Possible enameled keychain or pin design (draft 1)

I thought I shout out for feedback on this. I had to simply the label because this will be 1.5" to 2" on the top to bottom access. much smaller than this image that is larger that life size on my l...

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Our first YouTube short

Here is the link to it before it goes live.

At a certain point I will schedule it's public release. When that time is set, YouTube turns off this link until it becomes public, but until then,...

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Pre-orders coming down soon, for a while.

We sold a truly amazing amount of candy over the last 24 hours. Late tonight or early tomorrow morning I plan to take the link down until we catch up with orders.

When it goes back off you gu...

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The panning machine broke today

Well the breaker bars are bent. I dropped it off with a machinists to have them rebuilt this afternoon and I'm hoping to have them back by noon tomorrow. Sadly we lost today a production on the tan...

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#99 Scissors - Tangerine Sours and how to get them - Trip to Atlanta ... Calder ... Picasso ... Bansky.

Greg goes down a deep dive into the Scissors he uses for candy making, he talks about Tangerine Sours yet again, and he talks about his Trip to Atlanta and seeing the Calder/Picasso exhibit and the...

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Pre orders for Tangerine sours now re-opened (Please read)

Here is the secret URL https://www.pd.net/sour

Please don't share it. It will go down when about 500-600 tins are sold. It will...

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Tomorrow's tangerine sour drop.

There should be no reason to rush tomorrow. That's somewhere between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. eastern standard time I'm going to post the secret URL again so that you, our patreon subscribers can place ...

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Apparently we made the front page of Reddit again yesterday

Third time in two months. Neat. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/vid...

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Atlanta Bansky exhibit

First of all an amazing show, I think I'll talk about it on Tuesdays podcast. Underground Atlanta where it was is a covered area with restored store fronts that were abandoned in the 1940's. These ...

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Spoons shirt another try

I'm being driven back from Atlanta to Tallahassee by my lovely daughter who decided she wanted to do some more high speed driving, so I've been working to tightening up the design on this shirt. Sp...

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Tangerine Sours Feedback thread. The first of you got your sours.

Come on, shout out if we did it right? What about the packaging? Good and bad, we want to hear it!

Remember to take candy photos and post hashtag #LoftyPursuits so we can see. 

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If you don't listen to the postcast, you might not understand this

But I'm on a t-shirt kick here clearly, any feedback?

I'm thinking of making the spoon go up, so if you have it tucked in, the spoon will just be coming out of your pants.

-GReg

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28 years and counting.

Today is a milestone that marks the 28th anniversary of Lofty Pursuits serving Tallahassee. Thanks for all the years of letting us serve you and thanks for all the support this past year. We feel l...

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