New Flavours, Contests, and Vacation

Hello,
Lots of exciting things going, my wife is officially a game designer and has signed a contract for a sex-ed game. It’ll be a card game called Blush. If you have any sex questions she will answer some on the blog and use them as research for the game. Go ask anonymously here.

Coffee

I’ve been hard at work testing new flavours. Our first seasonal flavour available at all our fall events will be:

The Great Pumpkin

A dark roast with pumpkin flavouring
A dark roast with pumpkin flavouring

And the newest flavour in our continuous roster will be:

Jack CoCo’Neill

A light roast with coconut flavouring
A light roast with coconut flavouring

Coffee Poll

If you haven’t voted in our poll to decide what past flavours are going to be available at our three fall events, vote now! The poll closes September 2nd.

What flavours would you like us to sell at the fall conventions? (Pick 3)

  • Spiked Coffee: Butter Rum Light Roast (22%, 13 Votes)
  • Davroast: Chocolate Medium Roast (20%, 12 Votes)
  • Raktajino: Cinnamon Dark Roast (17%, 10 Votes)
  • Elvis: Peanut Butter Banana Mixed Roast (12%, 7 Votes)
  • Jabba the Peanut: Peanut Butter Medium Roast (10%, 6 Votes)
  • Minion Coffee: Banana Cream Light Roast (8%, 5 Votes)
  • Red Pill: Raspberry Medium Roast (8%, 5 Votes)
  • Key Lime PI: Key Lime Dark Roast (3%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 21

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Contest

We are still holding the contest to win a credit of $10 to anything in our store. All you have to do is like our Facebook page and enter the contest below.

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Vacation

My wife is a travel agent (Check out her blog), which means she’s travelled a little and the TARDIS travels a lot, but me, I haven’t travelled for anything but weddings in around four years. So we’re going to Disney World! Yay! I’m really excited.

Between my trip to Disney and needing to do a huge amount of editing on my books (A Study in Aether and Parasomnia), I’m going to take the next three weeks off from blogging.

Don’t worry; I’ll have a special treat for you while I’m away. Tune in next Tuesday for a brand new story.

See you around,
Éric

Fall 2015 CONTEST!

Hello Everyone!

It’s that time again, and with a lot of fall conventions coming up, it’s time to have a contest.

The winner of the contest will get a $10 credit towards anything we sell, either at an event or in our online store.

It’s really simple: like us on Facebook, and enter below:

[contesthopper contest=”2886″]

 

If we pass the 500 likes mark on Facebook, we’ll give out two $10 prizes.

Good Luck!

Coffee and CONs Fall 2015

Hello Coffee People,

Craft Fair By CON Creative Ottawa Nerds and CAPCON Plastic Scale Model Contest are both a month away. YAY!

That means I need to decide what flavours to make and bring to these events. I will have five flavours available; three classic flavours, one new flavour, and one seasonal flavour. They will be available in X-Large (250g) for $20, Large (100g) for $10, and Small (25g) $3 each or 2 for $5.

I need your help (those who may actually buy coffee) to decide which of our classic 8 flavours to bring.

What flavours would you like us to sell at the fall conventions? (Pick 3)

  • Spiked Coffee: Butter Rum Light Roast (22%, 13 Votes)
  • Davroast: Chocolate Medium Roast (20%, 12 Votes)
  • Raktajino: Cinnamon Dark Roast (17%, 10 Votes)
  • Elvis: Peanut Butter Banana Mixed Roast (12%, 7 Votes)
  • Jabba the Peanut: Peanut Butter Medium Roast (10%, 6 Votes)
  • Minion Coffee: Banana Cream Light Roast (8%, 5 Votes)
  • Red Pill: Raspberry Medium Roast (8%, 5 Votes)
  • Key Lime PI: Key Lime Dark Roast (3%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 21

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There is big news coming in coffee soon. I’ll let you know what the new and seasonal flavours are and what other convention you’ll be able to get them at.

As always, you can order coffee from our store.

It’s the ultimate flavour showdown, 8 flavours enter and only 3 will be sold!

Éric

Coffee Rebranding

Hello,
About a year ago I decided to research how to roast and flavour my own coffee. So far it’s been an awesome and fun road. I think it might be time to give it an official name and rebrand it to make it a little more distinct from the other Products in JenEric Designs.

For this I need your help. Please answer the following three questions:

What should be the name of our Coffee sub-business

  • JenEric Geeky Gourmet Coffee (38%, 8 Votes)
  • Gourmet Coffee by JenEric (24%, 5 Votes)
  • JenEric Gourmet Coffee (19%, 4 Votes)
  • JenEric Geeky Coffee (19%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 21

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What colours should represent the brand?

  • JenEric Blue and Chocolate Brown (56%, 10 Votes)
  • Bright Yellow and Chocolate Brown (17%, 3 Votes)
  • Dark Brown and Light Brown (11%, 2 Votes)
  • Retro Orange and Light brown (11%, 2 Votes)
  • Chocolate Brown and Light Pink (6%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 18

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What do you think of the current branding of the flavours

  • Geeky Names are great. Don't change them! (89%, 17 Votes)
  • Geeky names are ok but maybe have a few regular for non-geeks (11%, 2 Votes)
  • I really don't care (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Geeky names are stupid and I'd rather have normal names (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 19

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All this will lead to us actually selling the coffee beans on the website (eventually) and maybe at more events.

It’s been a great ride and I’m looking forward to what happens next.
Éric

Thank You for a Great Weekend

Hello my imaginary friends,

I hope you’re having a great week. Mine’s been awesome!

ComicCon

This past weekend was Ottawa ComicCon. Roughly 40,000 people crammed into the convention centre and enjoyed all things geeky. It was amazing.

Jen and I had a booth. This meant that the past month has been spent preparing and stressing. Our house looks like a mini Godzilla has passed through and deposited yarn, button pieces, and coffee all over the place.

All our preparation was well worth it. I nearly sold out of coffee and Jen’s stock was at least halved. (She hasn’t been this low since we started selling.) We did really well, yay!

We also met all kinds of awesome people. Thank you for stopping by and talking with us, it was great to share my passion for coffee with so many others.

Important links

We talked about a lot of things. If you’re trying to find something specific, check here:

Awesome Kickstarter

A Match Made in Austen is a new Kickstarter for a card game based off the world of Jane Austen’s novels. If you’ve always wanted to see how Darcy and Emma would get along (probably terribly), this is the game for you.

The base game is $25 and you get a free ebook with it. You can’t beat that price.

Go check out the Kickstarter.

A Match Made in Austin

My Reading Quest

I’ve been going through my extensive library and reading the first in a bunch of series. The goal is to find out what I am keeping and what I’m getting rid of.

I read Tempest by Julie Cross and loved it. Here’s my review:

A rare book that doesn’t spend to much time on the mechanics of time travel. I love that the author is able to show us the same person in different stages of their lives and makes it believable. I look forward to reading the sequels.

I give it a 75%

 

What are you excited for right now?

Éric

Ottawa COMICCON 2015

Hey my imaginary friends,

Ottawa ComicCon

I’ve spent the last month completely revamping JenEric Designs booth set up for ComicCon and prepping stock.

This will be the first time we sell at a Con this big. We’ve done PopExpo, Geek Market, and Creative Ottawa Nerds Craft Fair, but they’re tiny in comparison to the amount of people that go to ComicCon.

I’ve been up late every day this week working on something and I’ll be staying up late tonight to roast more coffee for free samples. I’ll have brewed coffee for free (Crazy?)

I’m not going to lie, it’s stressful. I look forward to relaxing on Monday. I’m also ridiculously excited. So come see us at booth 2203!

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Throwback Thursday

This picture is of me and two of my good friends from way back in 2001. We were volunteering with the 2001 Francophonie Games in Ottawa. The games are like the Commonwealth games but for French speaking nations. It’s was a great time.

JF 2001

I’m the dorky one on the left. I think I still have that hat somewhere…

 

See you tomorrow.

Éric

7 Days Until Ottawa Comiccon

Hello,

It’s only a week before Ottawa Comiccon and I’m panicking a little. (It’s actually a lot AHHHHHHHHH!)

JenEric Designs will be selling this year for the first time and I can’t wait to see everyone. (And hide behind the table when the crowds get crazy.)

You can find us at table 2203. It’ll be awesome

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Coffee

I may have gone overboard with coffee this year. I will have 7 different flavours available in two different sizes. (100g for $10, and 33g for 3$ or buy two for $5)

The flavours are:

  • Chocolate: Davroast; (Now Nut Free)
  • Key Lime: Key Lime PI; (New)
  • Banana Cream and Peanut Butter: Elvis;
  • Banana Cream: Minion;
  • Cinnamon: Raktajino;
  • Peanut Butter: Jabba the Peanut;
  • Raspberry: Morpheus’s The Red Pill;

I look forward to see you all there.

 

What, or who, are you most excited for, for this Comiccon?

Éric

Recommendation Monday – Gloomies the Webcomic

My wife came back from Fan Expo last year with a fridge magnet of this comic:

This comic speaks to me
This comic speaks to me

I then searched out the comic and started devouring the archives whenever I’ve felt stressed. onpupose

They’re a lot of fun and very colourful. If you’re having a hard day go read some Gloomies and it’ll make you smile.

 

Enjoy!

Eric