07/27/2021
It has been a while…A long while it feels like lol. -Sigh- First off Hi Everyone. I hope everyone is doing well through this whole pandemic craziness. I have been MIA. Main reason was because I needed time to just….get my head on straight. As a mom of 2 very young boys who thankfully finalized my divorce last year and working almost every day (About 6 days a week right now) I have been trying to get my life together not only for myself but for my children. I know most don’t/wont understand and that’s fine. I am a mother first and a businesswoman second. I know there are a lot of questions about orders that haven’t been sent out yet, how I am doing, etc. I will try to give a brief update as best I can with this post in hopes it will help kind of get everyone on the same page.
First off I’m going to start with the questions about orders:
I want to first apologize for the lack of contacting, and the lack of updates. Everytime I gave an update about anything, something happened that caused a whole mess of stress I had to handle. I have been working on everything little by little and I will be in contact with everyone about what’s remanding of their orders as soon as I have something. With the start of the pandemic my biggest concern was that orders wouldn’t get out to people and with all the mess of getting others sick made my stress levels go through the roof. It was like taking a step forward and then getting shot back after I gave order updates and I decided to wait until I had something substantial before I contacted anyone and those who I haven‘t spoken to yet, please know I will, just bare with me I’m trying to get everything set up as we speak. I don’t normally work this way as many know. Also a side note I haven’t taken on new orders since so thankfully there isn’t much left to do. Anyone who hasn’t paid their order in full will receive their complete order at no extra charge. I also understand if I have lost customers over this mess and I hope all the best for them. My biggest issue was just the timing of everything. I will be reaching out to the few people who I have left on my list thankfully its not much about their orders as soon as I get a chance to so please keep an eye out for that. I can’t give you a time frame on when that will be but It will happen.
*How I am doin…..
Not good lol. I am alive yes, but it has been a living hell on my mental and physical health. I have been sick which scared me for a while because I wouldn’t even pick up anything until I was 10000000000% sure it wasn’t COVID related. I don’t want anything to spread to anyone. I have been working like a mad woman while trying to be a mom, work 6 days a week and go to school. Whats funny and I laugh about it is that my living room looks like a damn warehouse full of plushie bodies and parts and stuffing and just about everything lol. I have been pushing myself so hard to get things done business wise that most of things I make look like terrible quality and had to redo many things so many times I lost count. The best part of it all is that my apartment complex is in the process of being torn down and I also have to find a new home while dealing with my full time job, my business, and making sure that my children have everything they need and on top of it all I have barely had the time to take care of myself. I had to go a period of time without working on anything because it wasn’t up to the quality that I want to put out which really just shoved my mental state straight to hell. Also with trying to push myself to get things back up and going I have really just pushed myself past my breaking point. Many of you know I am fully transparent with my life because I rather not hide behind that curtain and run. I rather be straight up front and to the point about what is going on because its the right thing to do.
*Upcoming events, projects, what’s next, etc.
Sadly since the Indy toy and comic expo has not been running due to the pandemic I have had some back stock which I will be taking with me to raptor con which I’m very excited about. I have posted an event up on the page so those of you who don’t know about it now do lol. I also want to give my condolences to Indiana Toy and Comic Expo Billy who’s pup has passed away recently. Its never easy to loose a pet, nor someone who is part of your family. I know that its been hard for not only them but everyone else to not be able to attend the expo as well and I hope that next year if it does come back that I will get the pleasure of working with them again and seeing everyone. Pushing towards the new projects and ideas that I have in mind. After everything has been completed from orders, to Raptor con, and so on I will be opening up a new site with all ready to made items, behind the scenes of my work and new projects and so much more. My main focus right now business wise is just getting everything completed first before I push forward. I will continue to do custom orders but in very small quantities until I am back to up and running a lot better and more efficiently. I never want to have anything I make look like poor quality, and by making sure that everything looks good first is my top priority when it comes to my work and I want my customers to see quality over quantity. Right now its taking me a while to get to messages so keep in mind that I may not respond but I will get to it as soon as I can, I am in no way ignoring anyone lol.
Thank you for the support over the years. I am slowly coming back, just with babysteps.
-xoxo Rainbow
