Time to get wet and wild! Every year in the middle of April Thailand erupts in a gigantic water fight. Nowhere is safe from the armies of marauding water gun revelers who take to the streets with wild and wooly abandon. Although Songkran, a three day period marking the Thai new year, is officially April 13, 14 and 15, there is hardly a spot to stay dry in the country from about the eleventh to the eighteenth. Chiang Mai, the ancient northern city known as the capital of the north, can’t be outdone for rambunctious water festivities. The town center which was originally the entire old city some hundreds of years ago, is surrounded on all four sides by a 30 foot wide moat, so there is never a shortage of water to be flung. Water balloons, super-soakers, buckets, hoses, nothing is off limits and no one, not businessmen, tourists, policeman, or little old ladies can expect to remain outdoors more than 30 seconds without being drenched from head to foot.

As you can imagine, making and transporting custom artwork under the circumstances can be a bit of a challenge, so we tried to avoid sending custom orders during the week of Songkran. Rest assured that all normal orders are shipped from our safe and dry stateside location and that special care is taken during this time to keep all custom art work made in Thailand in perfect shape.