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Thank you, it was wonderful reading this! 😀
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Gorgeous pack! Wow, you’ve got quite the crowd! 😀
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Good on you for rescuing that poor baby and good luck helping him feel better! 😀 Give him lotsa TLC!
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I’m very sorry for your loss Ciarnet. I unfortunately know how you feel as I had to deal with the loss of my Sunny-baby last year, which I am still reeling from from. He had had a stroke and we waited to see if he’d get better, but eventually my parents decided it was better to end him. I wasn’t there, but I’ve vowed than next time one of my animals go, I will be if I can be. At times like this, I wish there was something that we could say that could actually make the pain leave. Just remember your kitty and hold his memory close to your heart. Concentrate on the happy times. 🙂
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Wow, he’s super pretty! Love the combination of his colours, such a nice palette! 😀
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Wow, gorgeous oriental! Those eyes sure have sparkle, I didn’t notice that on the store picture. They look metallic! The lavender colour certainly looks lovely in the daylight against the grass. 🙂
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So warm and beautiful! 😀 Lovely simplicity!
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Happy Birthday!!
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Hi, welcome!! 😀 I’m a bit of a lurker too if it makes you feel any better haha.
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Voted! Good luck to all the finalists! 😀
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Happy Birthday Scathach! 😀
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Whoa, love that vanner! I love the way you smoothly blend the feathering into the sculpture!
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That photo is so neat! My Dad is huge into this stuff. 🙂
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Wow, that is totally bizarre, but cool! Kudos for rescuing the little guy in time! 😀
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*facedesk* .. I never thought I’d miss ebay, but is there a chance some nice pegs will make it to ebay? I held out on store Buckskins to get a shot at the nice ones.. but I can’t even fathom justifying $400 for a peg. At least on ebay I have a chance…
I won’t say the rest of what I’m thinking cause I’ll get jumped by the throng of diehard fans.. but as a customer, I don’t like the new special items feature, not in the slightest. I can ignore it if some of the nice things Melody does makes it to ebay though.. some ppl have the money to toss $400 at a peg.. I don’t. I don’t want to hear the lecture of ‘luxury items’ either when I’m willing to pay $250 for a nice piece, cause in reality, that is NOT being cheap.
As I tried before to explain, the special piece category is not intended to replace eBay and we will continue the eBay auction as usual. The intended purpose of the new category is to make things available to those who do not like auctions and who do not buy on eBay, and to show off extra special pieces. As we get used to this new area of the store and get it properly stocked you will find items for sale that almost nobody can afford, and other things that are closer to the more normal range of eBay prices. We are still thinking this through but I have a feeling that, as time goes by, more of the pieces that Melody paints will end up here rather than eBay. She needs time to sculpt new work and not be worked to death trying to cover both bases. We have made our best effort to keep Melody’s personal work available to all and maybe, if someone else can paint the grab-bags (we have an artist intraining for this), she will be able to keep ebay supplied for a while.
I don’t want to see everything we list in the special items category vanish within hours, I want some amount of special pieces to always be in the store and available to those who prefer to shop this way. I don’t like the idea of raising the prices to outlandish levels just to keep the category stocked, but that may be what needs to happen!
As to the question of profitability, it is true that everyone working here is underpaid, and we have personally covered the business losses for the last seven or eight years. The real estate bubble and other business related costs at the start of the recession, and then the lack of customers with disposable income, has put most of our wholesale customers out of business. As a result, we have had to reinvent the business with an emphasis on retailing, and that has been an excruciatingly difficult and costly process. I think that we are slowly turning the corner, but we still have a long way to go.
I also have to express here how grateful we are for the following and support that has been created on this forum. Without you guys we would have no reason to continue the struggle to exist in this economy. But, as we fight the battle to create better efficiency in the factory and resolve issues with material quality and the like, we also need to grow the sales. We need to reach more collectors and we need to broaden the product range and price structure to include a higher value line of Melody’s work. We do not intend to neglect the usual offerings. The normal product line will continue to build with the addition of pieces like the new little dragon that Melody has posted.
If anyone wants an in-depth rant, as I see it, about the struggles faced by small businesses such as ours let me know and maybe I will start a thread or add to the blog. These are interesting times and unlike any others in the forty-two years that I have had a business to run.
Thank you soo much for continuing to fight for Windstone! The world would be a poorer place without you guys!
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