update on the store

Hi everyone!!! well with christmas VERY quickly coming I am still not open like I hoped. I have not been able to make up my stock like I had hoped due to financial issues and moving issues. For those of you who dont know, I live with my father and make sure he has help when he needs it. My father suffers from diabetes, sciatic nerve and muscle pain,  and arthritis and is going to be 70 come March 2013. With our climate in the colder months he does have trouble moving some days and he does have other health issues. I mainly make sure he eats and takes his meds and just help him when he needs it.

Well we lost our old home, which was my childhood home, through a big mix up at the bank and it was never straightened out by the bank in time and they filed foreclosure on us.  We got the place we are in now and when we got it we went to move in and found mold was in the walls and had to delay our moving to gut basically every room to the bare studs. there was no insulation in the house and so now we are working on insulation and just found out tonight that we need to have the furnace fixed as the burner is not coming on.

So money has been going towards Christmas and buying my son winter clothing and the new house.  I am however going to be working as much as I can to get my stock done and everything redone and updated and photographed and such so I can reopen hopefully before a year passes. Right now a LOT of my supplies are in a storage unit and until the house is redone we cannot really bring any of it here unless I am specifically working on it as we just dont have the room at this time.

I have a few new colors of hats I am going to introduce during the reopening. One is a black, red and silver hat and the other is a pink, silver and black hat and I am trying to figure out if I want to do another line of winter hats as well in solid colors. So far the test one isnt bad but I am still a bit iffy on it.

I am also wanting to add in a line of squeeker dog toys and a line of cat toys with catnip in them.  I already have doggy tug toys so I feel the cat toys will be a good addition. I am also wanting to do what I call Dogganna's which are basically doggy bandannas. The design I have come up with so far is much safer then just tying a regular bandana around your dogs neck, which can pose a choking hazard should it get caught on something or be tied to tight.  The smallest dogganna could be used for a cat too as long as the cat has a collar. The test run for that my dad said it looked like a bib. LOL here is a pic of my toy Manchester terrier  mix wearing one for you to get an idea. This was at our old house and MAN do I miss that room!

I also have been working on a line of wineglass charms, they are turning out nice but were packed away in the move and I have to find them again. I AM considering discontinuing a couple of things, mainly my cards and my needle keepers/minders. Mainly due to lack of interest, and the extremely time consuming nature of making the needle keepers.

I am also looking at spreading out a bit and expanding where my products are available. to that end I am looking at a number of different places to extend myself and hope to be able to do that as well. I think that is about it.  If I think of anything else I will let you guys know!

Love Light and Stitchs!!!!