ABOUT My WAit Lists

I usually hold back 3-5 kits in case of shipping losses etc.

and I hold on to those kits until the deadline for replacements is past, usually a month after the end of Mail Jail.

If there is a kit you wished for, email me by clicking on the button above and I will put you on a WAIT LIST.

If there are a number of you and if I have the supplies

(namely the beads) I may try and make more.

Scroll down to read about my WAIT LISTS

and with them, some future plans for my tiny business.

WAIT LIST PAGE

A Glance at My Business

I know many of you realize my tiny business isn't only about selling kits. I spend by far the greatest part of my time creating my designs. My favorite ever activity.

After I have created the design I have to do the business part: writing the instructions, making the kits and doing the webwork for each of my designs.

If you keep above in mind, you may well figure out why I sell the way I do and why my designs are not always for sale widely. Mine is indeed a tiny boutique business.

Looking Ahead

I would like to continue my little business for a while longer but it is inevitable I will start cutting back.

I will continue designing but likely I will have fewer kits of each design. With this in mind, it has occurred to me to stretch things out by selling a smaller number of kits to mail immediately, then take a Wait List and deliver a few more a month or two later.

For one thing this would spread out the intensity of Mail Jail and there is a second reason: PayPal has made it clear to me that I must try and sell something, even if a tiny number, each month.

Understanding My Future Plans

There is a reason I visited Henry VIII and his second wife this year: they are the parents of Elizibeth 1.

It has been 16 years since I first experimented with a Portrait of Elizabeth 1. When I began all those years ago, I looked through the many portraits of her and chose one I thought I could possibly stitch.

I followed her with three more Royal Portraits, then I retired from Queens.

And then, some five years later I was hit square on with an inspiration to try another portrait of Elizabeth 1, one I passed over years ago as way too overwhelming and now undoubtedly my most ambitious attempt at anything.

I am 77 stitching days of at least 2 hours a day and often as many as six.

so how far have I traveled?  I think I am about 33% of the way there. I have some of the most difficult parts behind me, but I definitely have more than a few to go.

If I am one third of the way, I need another 154 days to finish. Do I want to try? You bet!  But maybe now you will understand why I don't have a big big distribution of my kits and patterns: I simply would not have time for the challenges I treasure.