It's Been a Strange Week!

Anyone who visits my Etsy Shop

probably knows, by now, that I'm "on vacation!"

I Wished I were on vacation...just kicking back and relaxing.

Instead...I've been remaking/reprinting all of the

International orders that never reached their destinations,

as well as everything else that has been ordered since.

After getting so many notes about missing packages...

and with business as slow as it's been..

it just seemed like the best solution for me was

to just pull everything in the Shop and put it 'on vacation',

so I could get EVERYTHING printed,

made, packaged and shipped

all at once!

So...that's what I've been doing.

I won't reopen until ALL of my packages are

on their way to their respective owners.

In the meantime...

I've made some other decisions.

As per my last post...

all of my International packages will have to be

sent Priority mail from now on.

The first class International mailings were just too stressful, on so many levels.

There is really no good way to track those packages and

they are the only ones that I have to actually take to the post office.

Since I don't have a car...that has always been problematic for me.

Either I have to send them with someone else or get someone to take me

and the packages to the post office.

(It all worked fine until Ryan moved to North Dakota. Now I have to wait

until one of my other kids have some time in their own busy schedules

to do it for me.)

Can we see the timing issues in this arrangement???

Anyway....that problem solved...and I do apologize to my

International friends, as there are some items that won't be available

for International shipping (like the Tile pendants or mini prints)

Another decision I made...

I no longer offer bookmarks...

for reasons similar to shipping.

These have to be laminated 

(another thing Ryan did for me each week)

and so I have to wait until I get them from Jaime and then

find a way to get to Staples to get them laminated.

Just too much trouble for me at this time.

I'm cutting back on everything in the Etsy Shop...to make it a bit more

manageable.

I've put all of my 'non-character' paintings in my

CMZ Art Bonanza Shop

and I'll be giving a lot more attention to this shop and some

of the other shops that are really needing my attention,

which means that I won't be listing new items as frequently

in my Etsy Shop.

 Hopefully all of the work I've done this week will make my 

life...and my business...a lot easier to manage

when I reopen the Shop next week.